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!

'The Moon's a Balloon' (David Bleeding Niven's smug memoir) was ubiquitous throughoult late 80s and early 90s.I would regularly check out charity shops to confirm suspicion that each was accessorised by at least one copy.

Hard cover autobiographies/ biographies of obscure (to me anyway) football players. Usually proudly displayed in the window as a star product.

all the richard and judy books

dandy annuals

old encyclopaedias

All the Dan Browns
Sophie Kinsellas
Catherine Alliot
Tony Parsons

NEVER see now:
Georgette Heyer (too many collectors)
Janet Evanovich later ones
Christopher Brookmyre

You used to see loads of Doctor Who paperbacks, but again the collectors have now got wise to this and snapped them up...

I read Dale wintons biog from Oxfam
rather interesting tbh

My dp and DW were brought up in the same showbiz circle.All kids were treated a bit like him all the parents were v glitzy

Really?
v tragic about his mum.
although he was very cagey about his gay ness - a fact that let the whole book down tbh

He adored her she was v glam as they all were.Dps was ultra glam too but mostly pissed as were the rest of them(allegedly).He has always been camp I don't know why he is so cagey.

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

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

a jane asher cake decorating book

Angela's Ashes

I always see The Da Vinci Code!!

Saw numerous copies of 'On Chesil Beach' today.

You never see any Alan Bennet do you?

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

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

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

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.

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....

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.

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.

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....

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.

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?!