There are books in the bookcase that were either left off midway or untouched, including a few of mother’s that have seen the world longer than I have, priced at just 35pence each then in the UK.
To start off the list, short stories written by Roald Dahl:- The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
- Completely Unexpected Tales
- More Tales of the Unexpected
- Happy Deathday!
- Stories to Stay Awake By (Book Two)
- Blind Assassin
- Cat’s Eye
- Alias Grace
- Mary Anne
- Rebecca
- The Trouble with Tuck by Theodore Taylor
- The Burn Journals by Brent Runyon
- Switch by Kevin McColley
- Sing to the Dawn by Mingfong Ho
- The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery ✓
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (A peculiar palm-sized book with gold-rimmed pages.)
- Bergdorf Blondes by Plum Sykes
- The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
- The Wonder Spot by Melissa Bank
- Perfect Strangers by Robyn Sisman
- Elegance by Kathleen Tessaro
- Citizen Girl by Nicola Praus & Emma McLaughlin
- The Diary of Anne Frank
- Memories of a Nonya by Queeny Chang
- Marley & Me by John Grogan
- Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Goldman
- The L-Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks
- Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck
- Benjamin & Jon by Mary Ellen Heath
- Mandarin by Robert Elegant
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Puppet on a Chain by Alistair MacLean
- True at First Light by Ernest Hemingway
- Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
- Journey’s End by R.C. Sherriff
- The Crucible by Arthur Miller
- Let There Be Reign by Brant Parler & Johnny Hart
- Kampung Boy (Yesterday & Today) by WAT
- Orson’s Farm (Annual 1991) by Jim Davis
- The Adventures of TinTin – The Calculus Affair by Herge
- The 1974 Topper Book
- Mad Magazine No.312
- Mad Magazine No.376
- Archie Comics No.479
A total of 45 spines to crack altogether.
