A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and other books that keep appearing in charity shops.

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This past month I've seen multiple copies of A Tree Grows In Brooklyn. It's a book that I'd never seen in a charity shop before but lately I've seen so many copies of it. I was in the Lake District recently and bought a copy there plus saw a few other copes there. I was looking around local charity shops and saw 2 copies there and walked into another charity shop and there was a third.

Does anyone know if it's been promoted on Tik Tok or Booktube lately? It seems odd to suddenly see so many copies of it.

It reminds me of the time when you could always find 50 SOG and The Island by Victoria Hislop in a charity shop.

Haha where I live it’s Marie Kindo.
Quack nutrition books multiple eat this get thin
The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read Phillipa Perry
lots of joe wicks

I remember when charity shops had to tell people to stop bringing in The Da Vinci Code.

The Richard Osman Thursday Murder Club ones can always be found in a charity shop.

YES that’s well represented

I'm a frequent charity shop book-hunter and can't say I've seen a copy of that (because I do loosely want one and so would have picked it up!)

I know what you mean though, I see the same things a lot. Around here I constantly see copies of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Sally Rooney's Normal People and Thursday Murder Club - presumably because they're popular so there are numerous copies in the either and they're being gifted (but not wanted) but they're not really my type of thing.

Lots of Jamie in mine today, I was quite tempted.

It's generally popular books that people realise are crap and not worth keeping that get taken to charity shops I've found.

Eleanor oliphant is a delightful read, I recommend it
cant stand sally rooney, the thin but beautiful,complex but ordinary girl has a convoluted personal life whilst remaining enigmatic and fraught. It’s a formula

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is one of my favourite coming of age novels. It is a wonderful book. It is an American classic. Not so well known in this country. I do hope it gains a wider audience in the uk.
If someone wants a warm, cosy book this is a great one to read.

Always shitloads of Kate Mosse in ours. And I think Billy Connolly’s autobiography must be breeding.

Books that are ok to read once and you might recommend to friends as a holiday read but they don’t make your permanent collection

The tree refers to the large tree outside a young girl's tenement building in NewYork. It is where she hides on Saturday to read her library books and eat her pocket money sweets.
I want a tree like that. Somewhere safe to hide and read books and to eat sweets.

I'm nodding along to so many of these replies. I'm constantly in charity shops and I have seen multiple copies of most of the books mentioned.

I don't have Tik Tok but I googled it together with ATGIB and it looks as though it may be responsible for the influx of copies as it seems to have received quite a lot of attention over the past 3-4 months.

Oh bliss. Me too. I want to recline in a tree eating sweeties

There was a large window display in one of my local charity shops featuring Spare.
I wondered if it was a piss take I live in windsor

I bought a copy of ATGiB fairly recently because it was featured quite heavily on some Facebook book groups I'm in, just people recommending it. Haven't seen it on BookTok though.

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn is one of my favourite books ever, and I've never seen it in a charity shop, how odd.

Shop I go to always has proofs of books,plain cover publisher copy marked NFS. Someone must work in publishing

Shop I go to always has proofs of books,plain cover publisher copy marked NFS. Someone must work in publishing

Interesting, i've found 2 or 3 proof copies over the years but no more than that. I get strangely excited when I find one.

I've found a lot of U,S books locally. Books printed for the U.S market that are rare or non existent here. I suspect that most, especially the NFL related books, come from the same person but I don't know exactly who.

Sounds like the makings of a Richard Curtis film

@Zone2NorthLondon Me too, loved Elinor Oliphant book, best book I've read for years. Actually saw in local charity shop on Saturday and recommended it to a lady looking at it. Used to be stacks of Dan Brown books, not seen them recently. Got Lessons in Chemistry for 50 p today.

There were 4 copies of Lessons in Chemistry in my local charity shop recently. I also seem to see This is Going to Hurt a fair bit, and yes the Thursday Murder club ones.

It was my favourite book as a teenager but I’ve never seen it in a charity shop. I have three copies (the original fell apart with re-reading).

'Gone Girl' and 'Girl On A Train' are still in the chazzer top ten round here.

Was thrilled to find Adam Kay's 'Undoctored' on a hotel bookshelf last week when all I've seen are endless copies of 'This Is Going To Hurt'.

If you ever move on to CD's, OP , 'Glamour Hits' is mandatory stock. Mandatory I say 👺