Condensing my book collection was so cathartic last summer that I decided to kick off 2012 by marking a dozen more volumes for removal. I found all of the following works interesting when I read them, but I can't see myself ever cracking their spines again and there's no sense in them sitting on my shelves collecting dust. I plan to donate them to goodwill.
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
Political Ideas in the Romantic Age by Isaiah Berlin
[Berlin & Arendt, together at last!]
Slouching towards Bethlehem, The White Album, and Political Fictions by Joan Didion [I now have We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live, a single-volume collection of seven of Didion's nonfiction books, so I no longer need these individual copies]
Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America by Alma Guillermoprieto
Star Island by Carl Hiaasen
Temptations of the West by Pankaj Mishra
Bech: A Book and Bech Is Back by John Updike
The Robber Bridegroom by Eudora Welty
Home at Grasmere by Dorothy and William Wordsworth
I hereby release them back into the wild.
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