A small sample of things we always need-
and this gives you an idea of our inventory.
Updated 11/13/06

AUTHORS-
Ernest Hemingway
Vladimir Nabokov
John Steinbeck
Truman Capote
Ayn Rand
J.D. Salinger
Kurt Vonnegut
Mike Royko
Studs Terkel
Nelson Algren, Dawn Powell
Martin Luther King,
David Sedaris, Annie Dillard
Charles Bukowsi, Richard Brautigan
Chuck Palahniuk, John Fante
Cormac McCarthy, Tom Robbins
James Ellroy, Salman Rushdie
Saul Bellow, Jack Kerouac
Mark Twain, Marcel Proust
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Hunter S. Thompson
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, James Joyce
Herman Melville, Derida, Lacan, etc.
Douglas Coupland, Edward Gorey
William Gibson, John Betjeman, poems
Orson Scott Card , Philip K. Dick
Neal Stephenson, Haruki Murakami
James Baldwin
Martin Luther
Patricia Highsmith, John Calvin
A.A. Milne, Thomas Merton
Beatrix Potter
Walt Whitman
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Emily Dickenson
Robert Caro, Virginia Wolfe
James T. Farrell, Gertrude Stein
Joseph Campbell
Bertrand Russell, Augusten Burroughs
C.S. Lewis
Edward Said
Kahlil Gibran, Sylvia Plath
Jack Kerouac, John Irving
George Orwell, Aldous Huxley
Philip Roth
Jose Luis Borges
Pushkin, Gogol, Kafka, Camus, Collette,
de Beauvoir, Sartre, Tolstoy, Dumas
Tom Wolfe
Edward Abbey
Paul Theroux
Ian Fleming, Rex Stout
Shel Silverstein, Maurice Sendak
Noam Chomsky, Barbara Tuchman
Dashiell Hammett
Raymond Chandler
Patrick O’Brian
Ray Bradbury
BOOKS-
In Cold Blood
Lolita, Lenin’s Tomb, Krakatoa
Devil in the White City
The Sun Also Rises
The Kite Runner, Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
The Fountainhead
Atlas Shrugged, My Book House series for kids
The Power Broker, Bobbsie Twins , Nancy Drew
Division Street America
The Master and Margarita
Helter Skelter, Paris to the Moon (Gopnik)
The Joy of Cooking and any Julia Child
The Monk, Boss, Clout
Unsafe at Any Speed
Silent Spring, Making of the Atomic Bomb
A Sand County Almanac
1984, Encyclopedia of Chicago
Brave New World, Amazing Adventures/Cavalier/Clay
Duveen, North Shore Houses
Watership Down , Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Patriotic Gore, Chicago High Rises
Narnia books, Chicago Apartments
Harry Potter books
Catch 22, A Confederacy of Dunces
To Kill a Mockingbird
Red, Blue, Green Mars
SUBJECTS
Architecture
Chess, Illustrated kids books, fairy tales, etc.
Elvis
Rock and Roll, folk, opera, classical, country western
Swords and Guns
Books -repair, restoration
Writing
Magic
Gambling- horses, cards, games
Hitler, Stalin, other dictators and villians
Nazism, Fascism
History of South and Central America
Colonial histories in general- world wide
Histories about all countries
Korean War, Vietnam War, WW One
True crime Sci Fi
Astrology
Martial Arts
Artists: biographies, shows, catalogues, monographs
The Beat Generation
Poetry and dance
Chicago and vicinity
Zen and all world religions, sects, cults

A brief welcome note:
Without getting into some bloggy musings about October, the weather, politics ( see our sister site ), any of which may appear in a later posting, allow me to welcome you to look in the window at a pile of Halloween related material- spooks, magic, myth, and other so-called occultishness.
The window, by the way, will soon undergo a larger transformation. Gone will be the Marshall Fields bag, for one, as well as the fabulous old porcelain sink pedestal supporting it. That stuff has been there since late last January, but people still stop to say, "gee, I just noticed your cute commentary on the late Marshall Fields". Yeah, we go, like REAL late.
A somewhat sad note: Last Sunday a customer came to the desk and, while actually buying a book, made an angry complaint about the volume on the stereo, on which multiple James Brown discs had been spinning for several hours. Such comments are welcome and encouraged, and we will even try to fill your request for specific music programs. There is no irony, sarcasm, or other implicit eyebrow raising in this statement. But hey, wait... CDs don't acutally spin, do they? If we had a larger store we would offer thousands of spinnable vinyls at $3.00 each. Audiophilic realtors take note.
A final note: a comment tab has recently been added to our blogs. It is spam proofed by the use of a sign-in program, but this does not require the entry of any personal information, email address, age, sex, or religious preference.
See you in the store