The Endless Library24 Aug 2023

Library book sale bookstravaganza

"Don't join the book burners. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book..."
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

Aurelien digs out from under a pile of library sale books and catalogs her unread gems. Tune in for hot takes on old books!

Ranging from "the most unusual mystery novel ever written", to neurological non-fiction, to the YA of our nightmares, and short story collections from famous writers, plus all the various genre adventures, and a random secret gift, the gang's all here.

Shade of the Tree by Piers Anthony
Condominium by John D. MacDonald
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
Dawn by Octavia Butler
The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring by John Bellairs
The Man who Mistook his wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart
The Nine Lives of Chloe King by Celia Thompson
Wicked Witch Murder by Leslie Meier
Bluebeard's Egg and other stories by Margaret Atwood
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by e.l. konigsburg
Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
Shade's Children by Garth Nix
The Floating Admiral by Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, G.K. Chesterton

What to read first, spooky friends?? Weigh in and support the show at https://www.patreon.com/spookyaurelien

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