In My Mailbox? 28 Books!

       In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi of The Story Siren. This won't be a full week of books, but more like in the past few weeks/month, hence why this is going to be a long list.

       Like many people, my local Borders store has closed, leaving a large section of the local mall vacant.  This actually leaves me without a major bookseller in the immediate area as our Barnes & Nobel closed at the beginning of the year.  So, the question is, what did I get with their liquidation deals and what have I gotten recently from other sources, including the book store at the library?  A fair bit, to be honest!  However, before I get to that, a quick update on what I read this week and what I'm currently reading.

What I read this week

The Honored Dead : a Story of Friendship, Murder, and the Search for Truth in the Arab World - Joseph Braude  (Review will be up in mid-July to correspond with a blog tour)

What I'm currently reading

The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington - Jennet Conant 

A Novel Bookstore - Laurence Cossé (Au bon roman)

Prep - Curtis Sittenfeld (audio book/re-read)

          And now for what I've bought/received recently.  This is more so over a few months, so it's not like I got all of these this week, but 28 books is quite a bit.  Enough to make a tower of books.

The Non-Leaning Tower of Books

       And, since I doubt you can make out all of the titles from the spines in the picture, in order from top to bottom as they appear in the photograph.

The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux

The Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff

The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington - Jennet Conant

K-On! (volume 2) - Kakifly

The Honored Dead : a Story of Friendship, Murder, and the Search for Truth in the Arab World - Joseph Braude

The Character of Cats: The Origins, Intelligence, Behavior, and Stratagems of  Felis silvestris catus - Stephen Budiansky

Kingdom of Shadows - Alan Furst

Isaac's Storm: a Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History - Erik Larson

God on the Rocks - Jane Gardam

A Novel Bookstore - Laurence Cossé

Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad - Forugh Farrakhzad

Life of Chopin - Franz Liszt

Hep Remembered: Memories of Terry Hoeppner From Those Who Knew Him Best - Terry Hutchens

Undress me in the Temple of Heaven - Susan Jane Gilman

Finding Frances - Janice M. Van Dyck

The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance - Elna Baker

The Distant Land of My Father - Bo Caldwell

Two Symphonies: Isabelle & The Pastoral Symphony - André Gide

Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel

The Likeness - Tana French

Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson

The Jewel of St. Petersburg - Kate Furnivall

Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier

Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys and the battle for America's Soul - Karen Abbott

All Clear - Connie Willis

Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger

The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco

       Out of that we have the 2009 Man Booker Prize (Wolf Hall,) the winning author of the 1947 Nobel Prize (André Gide), plus a few books I've already read (Her Fearful Symmetry, Tao of Pooh, Undress me in the Temple of Heaven, The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance, The Distant Land of My Father), a handful of former best-sellers, a few books/ARCs sent to me by publishers, and a even one or two books I've had on my to-read list for a long time (Snow Crash).  Its a fairly good selection of fiction, non-fiction, and even a dash of poetry.

       All and all, I think I'll be having a very busy reading summer if I can knock down this lingering cold and get back to reading more often.  What bookish acquisitions have you gotten recently?