Books and CDs ordered, September 2026

Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (gift for sister)

Nicholas Boyle, Goethe: The Poet and the Age: Volume I: The Poetry of Desire (1749-1790)

Albert Cossery, A Splendid Conspiracy

Lydia Davis, Collected Stories

Mavis Gallant, Selected Stories (Canadian edition of Collected Stories)

Martin Gardner, The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener

William H. Gass, Life Sentences: Literary Judgments and Accounts

James Gleick, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

E.H. Gombrich, A Little History of the World

Gustaw Herling, Volcano and Miracle: A Selection of Fiction and Nonfiction from the Journal Written at Night

Tove Jansson, Moominsummer Madness (gift for sister)

John Keats, Selected Letters (Oxford World's Classics)

Maria Konnikova, The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It ... Every Time (gift for parents)

Bo Lidegaard, Countrymen: The Untold Story of How Denmark's Jews Escaped the Nazis

Flannery O'Connor, Complete Stories

Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis (gift for sister)

Joe Simpson, Touching the Void: The Harrowing First Person Account of One Man's Miracous Survival

Tzvetan Todorov, Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps

Tatyana Tolstaya, Pushkin's Children: Writings on Russia and Russians

Tatyana Tolstaya, Sleepwalker in a Fog: Stories

William Trevor, Collected Stories

William Trevor, Selected Stories

Steven Vogel, Life's Devices: The Physical World of Plants and Animals

Emmy Werner, A Conspiracy of Decency: The Rescue of the Danish Jews During WWII

Emmy Werner, Through the Eyes of Innocents: Children Witness World War II

Sofka Zinovieff, Eurydice Street: A Place in Athens (gift for sister from July)

CDs:

Doris Day, Golden Greats (3 CDs, 72 tracks, c. 1945-1950)

Doris Day, Icons (2 CDs, 50 tracks, c. 1945-1950)


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