Which books do you always see in charity shops?

[KingRolo]

I went in five charity shops today and I saw Tony Parson's 'Man and Boy' in every single one!

[StealthPolarBear]

Gorky Park

[BikeRunSki]

Bridget Jones's Diary

[nkf]

Something by Dan Brown. Mills and Boon. Rosamund Pilcher.

[Antdamm]

have been into six charity shops today and came across: (in all 6 or thereabouts)

Smoothie recipe books
Roddy Doyle - The Snapper
This charming man - Marian Keyes
the secret life of bees
on chesil beach
s is for.... sue grafton

very random

[NorbertDentressangle]

Late 1970s/early 1980s Microwave Cook Books

[pollywobbledoodle]

[KingRolo]

He probably starts the "oxo tower" threads

[pollywobbledoodle]

he only looks at the "oxo tower" threads

[stleger]

i got my Mavis Cheeks in Oxfam (which sounds like a disease). And I now wonder if Frank Skinner mumsnets...

[tillyfernackerpants]

The Ukranian Tractor one is always in my local charity shops, as are books by Dan Brown & Patricia Cornwell books

Terpsichore, your post made me lol, might try that one day! I wonder if anyone else has picked up on the connections?!

[AnarchyAunt]

Da Vinci Code

That Year of the Cornflake book that I don't understand the cornflake connection with.

Eve Green.

I think you get a flurry of the same book a few months after it comes free with a magazine.

[Terpsichore]

Here I am once again trying to revive a thread that is, ahem, resting (to put it politely) but as I spend a lot of time browsing for books in charity shops, this thread made me in recognition...

Dh and I went through a phase of thinking it must be the law for every charity-shop to have a copy of Philippa Gregory's 'The Little House', because I swear it was in every single one we ever stepped into. And whenever you see those old Book Club hardbacks, there's always a copy of Enid Bagnold's 'The Loved and the Envied'.

I confess to a bad habit of re-arranging charity-shop books so that adjacent titles make amusing conjunctions. I still have to at the recollection of pairing 'Eating People is Wrong' by Malcolm Bradbury next to a cookbook called 'Make a Meal of Cheese'. Pathetic, I know, but it amused me....

[KingRolo]

Talking of arrogant... I keep seeing Jeremy Clarkson's appalling books too.

What is ti with Frank Skinner and bumsex? He brings it up in every interview I read too.

[TsarChasm]

I keep seeing Frank Skinner's (awful) biog in charity shops.

I know it's awful cos (thinking I liked him) I bought it. But he doesn't sound v nice after all, so back it went. I keep seeing other copies though.

He's terribly arrogant and seems overly interested in bumsex...just to summarise.

[pollywobbledoodle]

kingrolo....theres lots of alan bennett here...mainly the first (more untruthful to spare the parents) autobiography

shedloads of mills and boon
anything with a "girly" cover involving shoes, handbags, hearts or flowers
macrame books
anything you've just bought off amazon....

[KingRolo]

The Handmaid's Tale has been on the A Level Lit spec for years so there are always several thousands copies flooding the charity shops come June.

[troutpout]

Captain corelli's mandolin
Any Anita shreve book
The handmaids tale
weight watchers cook books

[Pyrocanthus]

John Galsworthy - I'd feel very unsettled if I failed to spot a Galsworthy in a collection of second hand books.

[LightShinesInTheDarkness]

Oh, and that 'Jane Austen Book Club' and Nick Hornby's 'Fever Pitch'. And Anne Tyler 'The Amateur Marriage'.

[KingRolo]

Saw numerous copies of 'On Chesil Beach' today.

You never see any Alan Bennet do you?

[lottiejenkins]

I always see The Da Vinci Code!!

[LightShinesInTheDarkness]

Angela's Ashes

[pointydog]

a jane asher cake decorating book

[GentleOtter]

The M & S Guide to Houseplants (circa late 1970's)

[Molesworth]

Cloud Atlas
The Time Traveller's Wife
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Hardback biogs/autobiogs of people such as Richard Hammond