I was going so well, I didn’t buy anything at all during the week. Then I decided to visit the Federation Square Book Market on Saturday. It had always been on my radar, but for the past couple of years I’ve worked every Saturday so I’ve never been able to go. Oh, my! Cheap books. Good cheap books. Friendly stall-holders. Relaxed atmosphere. Cheap books bears repeating. I’m hooked. I won’t be able to afford to go every week, but I am definitely going to make it a somewhat regular book shopping treat.

Book Loot: Week Ending 6th September 2009

The score:

• Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
• Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg by Carolyn Cassady
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
• Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Of Mice and Men/Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
• Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
• We by Yevgeny Zamyatin