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If I were to list everything bought/ordered over the past month or so, I'd be listing over 20 books. But here's what I received/shall receive this week:

Patricia McKillip, Od Magic

Graciela Montes, Ema Wolf, El turno del escriba

Hal Duncan, Ink

Nalo Hopkinson, The New Moon's Arms

Ngugi wa Thiong'o, The Wizard of the Crow

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Purchased and waiting for me to get through the Warlord Chronicles...

Vellum - Hal Duncan

The Darkness That Comes Before - R Scott Bakker

American Gods - Neil Gaiman

Good Omens - Gaiman and Prachett

plus... waiting on Feast of Souls, which I scored over on pat5150's blog... :thumbsup:

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This was all February, IIRC:

Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman

The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson

The Confusion - Neal Stephenson

The System of the World - Neal Stephenson

The Stand - Stephen King

The Prestige - Christopher Priest

Wild Cards 1,2,&3 - George RR Martin et al

The Jack Vance Treasury - Jack Vance (Vance Refrigeration?)

The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson

The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie

And I won Scar Night by Alan Campbell from Pat (Thanks again!)

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Well, the last two months would be a very long list that I haven't committed to memory, so I'll just mention what I bought today.

I went to get Ink by Hal Duncan and the local store hadn't gotten it's shipment in yet, so I ordered it for next week. I did go ahead and get the following since I was there.

Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

Collected Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges (English translation)

The Double - Jose Saramago (English translation)

Bangkok Tattoo - John Burdett

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Had a bit of a splashout in David's Bargain Bookshop at the weekend and picked up:

Wild Cards 2 (hoping I don't need to have read the first one...)

Knight Moves - Walter Jon Williams

The Squares of the City - John Brunner

The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge - Harry Harrison

and, of course, Soul of the Fire - The Yeardi Himself :sick:

...all of which set me back £5.50 (total). I should buy second-hand more often!

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2 Good Omens, there's a surprise. Did it get reprinted?

It may have. There were a bunch of copies at a few different Borders&Nobles in recent months. Some with a white cover, others with black. I picked mine up on a whim, along w/ Vellum and American Gods, at a Waldonbooks that was going out of business and had everything 40% off. Slim pickings, but was happy to find what I did!

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I just did the 3 for 2 deal at Waterstones

I bought:

Notes On A Scandal by Zoe Heller

We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Looking forward to a bit of spare time to get stuck into them.

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Just made an Amazon UK purchase:

-Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie

-Ink by Hal Duncan

-Un Lun Dun by China Mieville (Need the UK version too.)

-Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock (reprint hardcover of a fantasy classic)

-The Stormcaller by Tom Lloyd

-Brasyl by Ian McDonald

-The second and third Temeraire books, because, for whatever reason, I want them in hardcover.

-The complete Chronicles of Conan: The Centenary Edition by Robert E. Howard (leatherbound collection)

-The Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe (Hardcover collection from Gollancz that I never knew existed before)

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Since the New Year:

Fiction/Fantasy

Three Days to Never/Powers

Scar Night/Campbell

A Shadow in Summer/Abraham (haven't read yet)

Crystal Rain/Buckell

Canticle for Liebowitz/Miller (haven't read yet)

Lord of the Silent Kingdom/Cook

Trial of Flowers/Lake

Spirit Gate/Elliott

Tower of Shadows/Bowling (won from Pat)

Traitor's Knot/Wurts (haven't read yet)

The Jennifer Morgue/Stross

an HP Lovecraft collection (haven't read yet)

Fiction/Straight

The Alienist/Caleb Carr

Devil in the White City/Larson

Non-Fiction

Stealing Elections/Fund

A Commonwealth of Thieves/Thomas Keneally (haven't read yet)

Parents In Charge: Setting Healthy, Loving Boundaries for You and Your Child (haven't read yet)

What to Expect in the First Year (haven't read yet)

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Way way too much, I should be buying clothes to keep me warm and food to make me strong;

But then I just think, no

Fantasy

The Damned (La-bas) by Huysmans, J-.K.; Hale, T

Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart

The Dragon Waiting: A Masque of History by John M Ford

Anima: Signs of Life - Course of the Heart by M John Harrison

The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers

Fevre Dream by George RR Martin

Dreamsongs by George RR Martin

Shriek: An Afterword by Jeff VanderMeer

The Tyranny of the Night by Glen Cook

The White Rose by Glen Cook

Moonheart by Charles De Lint

The Book of the Damned by Tanith Lee

The Dark Domain by Stefan Grabinski

Une Semaine De Bonté by Max Ernst

Veniss Underground by Vandermeer

Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

Science Fiction

The Snow by Adam Roberts

Ringworld by Larry Niven

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein

Cities in Flight by James Blish

The Man in a High Castle by Philip K Dick

All Tommorows Parties by William Gibson

Anima by M John Harrison

General & History

The Master and the Margerita by Bulgakov

The Collector by John Fowles

Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

A History of my Times by Xenophon

On Sparta by Plutarch

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I'm also having a bizarre nostalgia trip and buying up all the Sheila K McCullagh books I can find on eBay, from Billy Blue Hat up to the Hummingbird books... I could get em new for about the same price, but that's not quite the same, I want the proper 70's editions.

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I just went on a book buying spree (yay!), based on writers I have enjoyed in the past and recommendations from friends:

The Blind Assassin, Margret Atwood ( I loved The Handmaids Tale)

Underworld, Don DeLillo (loved White Noise)

Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson (recommended by the guy who introduced me to AsoiF)

Seeing, Jose Saramago (Blindness was AMAZING)

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, Jose Saramago (see above)

The Great Fire, Shirley Hazzard (Won National Book Award)

The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck (severly lacking in classics, worship East of Eden)

The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco (loved Shadow of the Wind, critical comparisons)

I'm kind of freaking out...I have no idea where to start! I guess it depends what I am in the mood for...

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Just added:

The Stand-Stephen King (massive 1,200 page hardcover, looks like a great story, have been thinking of buying this for years).

The Etched City- KJ Bishop ( after Jay Lake's Trail of Flowers my second somewhat New Weird buy). Seems like a great tale though so I hope to be surprised.

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