Collection Development: Amazon books
In recent years I've kept track of my Amazon book acquisitions, which reflect the twists and turns of my explorations and discoveries. I have no noticeable shame in this progress/process.
and 2026:
Portraits of Men: An Image Archive and Reference Book for Artists & Designers Kale James (2023) 1i26The Trope Thesaurus: Fantasy and Science Fiction Jennifer Hilt (2024) 1i26 Kindle
The Day the Universe Changed James Burke (2009) 2i26 Kindle
Useless Etymology: Offbeat Word Origins for Curious Minds Jess Zafarris (2025) 2i26 Kindle
Traversal Maria Popova (2026) Kindle
The Small House at Allington Anthony Trollope (2016) 3i26 Kindle
New Topographics Britt Salvesen (2026) 10i26
The Four Chinese Classics: Tao Te Ching, Analects, Chuang Tzu, Mencius David Hinton (2013) 10i26 Kindle
China Root: Taoism, Ch'an, and Original Zen David Hinton (2020) 10i26 Kindle
Trains of Thought: A Natural History of the Mind James Brennan (2025) 11i26
ARROW: The Power and Poison of Story William Gadea (2025) 11i26 Kindle
Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl Ballads: A Graphic Novel Nick Hayes 13i26 Kindle
The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope (2022) 18i26 Kindle
Zounds!: A Browser's Dictionary of Interjections Mark Dunn and Sergio Aragonés (2013) 18i26 Kindle
The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now Hilke Schellmann (2024) 19i26
Maintenance of Everything: Part One Stewart Brand (2026) 19i26 Kindle
Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde Bernard Gendron (2023) 19i26 Kindle
High Rising Angela Thirkell (1934) 20i26 Kindle
The Chronicler of Barsetshire: A Life of Anthony Trollope RH Super (1991) 21i26
An Autobiography Anthony Trollope (188?) 21i26
The Changing World of Anthony Trollope Robert Polhemus (1968) 21i26
The Kurds: The History of the Middle Eastern Ethnic Group and Their Quest for Kurdistan Charles River Editions (2017) 23i26
NO FRIENDS BUT THE MOUNTAINS: The Tragic History of The Kurds John Bulloch and Harvey Morris (2024) 23i26 Kindle
Irving Harper: Works in Paper Michael Maharam (2013) 27i26
Radical Cartography: How Changing Our Maps Can Change Our World William Rankin (2026) 27i26 Audible
A Guide to Trollope Winifred Gregory Gerould and James Thayer Gerould (1987) 28i26
The Steppenwolf Hermann Hesse (2023) 1ii26 Kindle
The Birthday of the World: And Other Stories Ursula K Le Guin (2009) 1ii26 Kindle
Surrealpolitik: Surreality and the National Security State John Schoneboom (2022) [copies for JFB and John McIlwain; Kindle] 2ii26
The Great Acceleration Edward Burtynsky (2025) 2ii26
A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness Michael Pollan (2026) 3ii26 Kindle
The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025 Dwarkesh Patel (2025) 3ii26 Kindle
Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (2nd Edition) Timothy Morton (2025) 4ii26
The Hospital at the End of the World Justin C Key (2026) 4ii26 Kindle
Encyclopedia of World Writing Systems: Alphabets, Abjads, Abugidas, and Syllabaries of All Languages Living and Dead Daniel Dinkelman (2024) 6ii26
Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Barge Ian Kumekawa (2025) 6ii26
Amazônia Sebastião Salgado (2022) 10ii26
Ducks, Newburyport Lucy Ellmann (2020) 13ii26 Audible
National Endonyms: What Countries Call Themselves: The Quest to Stop Deadnaming Nations Once and For All! The Hidden Real Names and True Meanings Daniel Dinkelman 16ii26 Kindle
Liquid Gold: The Lore and Logic of Using Urine to Grow Plants Carol Steinfeld (2007) 16ii26
A Sea Dyak Dictionary, in Alphabetical Parts, With Examples and Quotations Shewing the Use and Meaning of Words William Howell and Burnett (1900/2018) 18ii25
Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark Cecelia Watson (2019) 22ii26 Kindle
Schott's Significa: A Miscellany of Secret Languages Ben Schott (2025) 22ii26 Kindle
A Natural History of the Senses Diane Ackerman (2011) 25ii26 Kindle
The People of Alor Cora DuBois (1951) 5iii26
Between the Acts Virginia Woolf (1940/2020) 8iii26 Audible
The Waste Books John Aubrey (2000) 9iii26
The Social History of an Indonesian Town Clifford Geertz (1965) 9iii26
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World Virginia I Postrel (2020) 10iii26 Kindle
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World Mark Kurlansky (1998) 13iii26 Kindle
A Cultural History of Physics Karoly Simonyi (2025) 16iii26 Kindle
Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects John Aubrey (2011) 16iii26 Kindle
Aubrey's Brief Lives John Aubrey (2017) 16iii26 Kindle and Audible
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization Neil deGrasse Tyson (2022) 18iii26
The White Bone Barbara Gowdy 18iii26 Kindle and Audible
The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence—Before It's Too Late Cory Doctorow (2026) 19iii26 Kindle
A New History of Photography Michel Frizot (1998) 22iii26
Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census danah boyd (2026) 23iii26
High Spirits Robertson Davies (1984) 23iii26 Kindle
Monsoon Asia: A Geographical Survey Harry Robinson (1970) 24iii26
Mesopotamia: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Mesopotamian History and Civilizations, Including the Sumerians and Sumerian Mythology, Gilgamesh, Ur, ... Persian Empire Captivating History 24iii26 Kindle
Symbolist Art Edward Lucie-Smith (12972) 25iii26
The Death of the Heart Elizabeth Bowen 25iii26 Kindle
The Far Edges of the Known World: Life Beyond the Borders of Ancient Civilization Owewn Rees 26iii26 Kindle
The Hungry Tide Amitav Ghosh 27iii26 Kindle
The DNA of Orphan Black Abbie Bernstein (2017) 31iii26
Radical Cartography: How Changing Our Maps Can Change Our World William Rankin (2025) 1iv26
Historical Atlas of the United States National Geographic (1994) 4iv26
Orphan Black: Deviations Heli Kennedy (2018) 4iv26
Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash Alexander Clapp 5iv26 Kindle
Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine Thomas Dekeyser 8iv26 Kindle
American Tongue and Cheek: A Populist Guide to Our Language Jim Quinn (1980) 9iv26
The Long Way Home: A Personal History of Nova Scotia John Demont 9iv26 Kindle
Machnes of Loving Grace John Markoff (2016) 10iv26
The Ultimate Book of Mind Maps Tony Buzan (2006) 11iv26
Passport Photo Service: An Unexpected Archive of Celebrity Portraits Philip Sharkey (2026) 17iv26
Word Wizard: Super Bloopers, Rich Reflections, and Other Acts of Word Magic Richard Lederer 17iv26 Kindle
The City Below James Carroll 17iv26 Kindle
Nova Scotia: Shaped by the sea : a living history Lesley Choyce (1996) 18iv26
The Digressions of Dr Sanscravat: Gastronomical Ramblings & Other Diversions Gary Allen 18iv26 Kindle
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning Eli Burnstein (2024) 21iv26
Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History Michel-Rolph Trouilliot 22iv26 Kindle
The Tennis Partner: A Doctor's Story of Friendship and Loss Abraham Verghese 22ive26 Kindle
True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color--from Azure to Zinc Pink Kory Stamper (2026) 24iv26
The Dark Frontier: Unlocking the Secrets of the Deep Sea Jeffrey Marlow 24iv26 Kindle
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages Guy Deutscher 24iv26 Kindle
Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age Ada Palmer 25iv26 Audible
The Vegan Creamery: Plant-Based Cheese, Milk, Ice Cream, and More Miyoko Schinner (2025) 26iv26
The Glass Palace Amitav Ghosh (2001) 26iv26
The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World Vicky Osterweil 28iv26 Kindle
The Lexicologist's Handbook: A Dictionary of Unusual Words Dane Cobain 28iv26 Kindle and Audible
Dictionary of the Rare, Creative, and Beautiful: Words for Writers, Poets & Dreamers Robin Devoe 28iv26 Kindle
The Legend of Gladee's Canteen: Down Home on a Nova Scotia Beach David Mossman 1v26 Kindle
Thesaurus of the Senses Linda Hart 1v26 Kindle
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera 3v26 Kindle
The Collected Novels Volume One: The Long View, The Sea Change, The Beautiful Visit, and After Julius Elizabeth Jane Howard 3v26 Kindle
Dialogue Peter Womack 3v26 Kindle
Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World Patrick Wyman 4v26 Kindle
The Real World of Technology Ursula Franklin (12989) 6v26 Kindle
Cannon Kee Lai 9v26
The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East Barnaby Rogerson 14v26
Killing Time: The Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend Paul Feyerabend 16v26
Lent: A Novel of Many Returns Jo Walton 16v26 Kindle
Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age Ada Palmer 17v26 Kindle
The Haunted Tea-Cosy: A Dispirited and Distasteful Diversion for Christmas Edward Gorey 20v26
Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution Amanda Vaill 20v26 Kindle
The Domestication of Horses: A Captivating Guide to the History and Impact of Horses from Ancient Times to Modern Day 21v26 Kindle
Apotheosis: The Age of Awakening Patrick Gear 28v26 Kindle
The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon 31v26 Kindle and Audible
Exploring Calvin and Hobbes: An Exhibition Catalogue Bill Watterson 2vi26
Correct Your French Blunders Véronique Mazet 4vi26
The Selfish Gene: 50th Anniversary Edition Richard Dawkins 5vi26
A Short History of the World According to Sheep Sally Coulthard 5vi26 Audible
Distrust That Particular Flavor William Gibson 5vi26 Audible
Shifting Sands: A Human History of the Sahara Judith Scheele 6vi26
The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Ursula K. Le Guin 7vi26 Kindle
We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland by Fintan O'Toole 10vi26
The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss Robert Macfarlane 11vi26 and Audible
The Quiet American Graham Greene 11vi26 Kindle
The Europeans Henry James 11vi26 Kindle
Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff 12vi26 Kindle
Daisy Miller Henry James 13vi26 Kindle
1491 Charles C Mann 19vi26 Kindle and Audible
History of North America Map by Map 24vi26
A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps Jonn Elledge 24vi26
At the Ocean's Edge: A History of Nova Scotia to Confederation Margaret Conrad 24vi26 Kindle
River of Smoke Amitav Ghosh 25vi26 Audible
We Were Not the Savages: A Micmac Perspective on the Collision of European and Aboriginal Civilizations Daniel N. Paul (1993) 26vi26
We Were Not The Savages, First Nations History, 4th Edition: Collision Between European and Native American Civilizations Daniel N Paul 26vi26 Kindle
The Sartorialist Scott Schuman 30vi26
Everybody's Perfect Jo Walton 30vi26 Kindle Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip's War Lisa Brooks 3vii26
A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland John Mack Faragher 3vii26
Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island HG Wells 3vii26 Kindle
Women of the Dawn Bunny McBride 3vii26 Kindle
Quartet for the End of Time Johanna Skibsrud 5vii26 Kindle
Hidden Creatures: Luscious Leeches, Bashful Botflies, and the Wondrous, History-Shaping World of Parasites Dino Martins 6vii26 Kindle
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England William Cronon 6vii26 Kindle and Audible
Indian Baskets Sarah Turnbaugh 8vii26
Basketry: A World Guide to Traditional Techniques Bryan Sentance 8vii26
If On A Winter's Night A Traveler: A dazzling postmodern puzzle of ten interrupted novels, following two readers chasing story and each other Italo Calvino 11vii26 Kindle and Audible
Words from Hell: Unearthing the Darkest Secrets of English Etymology Jess Zafarris 16vii26 Kindle
Persians: The Age of the Great Kings Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 18vii26
Contested Continent: The Struggle for North America, c. 1000-1680 Peter Mancall 19vii26 Kindle
The Forgotten Teachers: How Nature Wrote the Story of Life Brian Isett 20vii26
Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions AL Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn 20vii26
A Miscellany of Weird and Wonderful Facts for Curious Humans Who Have Nothing Better to Do Than Read: (You know who you are.) Jess Zafarris 20vii26 Kindle
The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory Emily Eakin 21vii26 Kindle
Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast Christine M MeLucia 24vii26
Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England Jean M O'Brien 24vii26
Anthropocene: A Very Short Introduction Erle C Ellis 29vii26 Kindle
Anthropocene NOW!: How the whole of human history supports the idea that we are living in the Anthropocene, literally meaning 'age of humans' Neil Pitts 29vii26 Kindle
Interpreting Clifford Geertz: Cultural Investigation in the Social Sciences Jeffrey C Alexander et al. 30vii26 Kindle
The Interpretation of Cultures Clifford Geertz 30vii26 Audible
The Libraries of Thought & Imagination: An Anthology of Books and Bookshelves Alec Finlay 31vii26
The Library of Unwritten Books: The Voices of the Eternal Potential Parag Paul 31vii26 Kindle
The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco 1viii26
Stock Photo People: Echoes from the Latent Space Parag Paul 1viii26 Kindle
The Spy Coast Tess Gerritsen 11viii26 Kindle
A History of Canada in Ten Maps: Epic Stories of Charting a Mysterious Land Adam Shoalts 13viii26
Flood of Fire Amitav Ghosh 15viii26 Audible
The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things George Kubler (1962) 16viii26 Kindle
Moonglow Michael Chabon 18viii26 Kindle
Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance Richard Powers 19viii26 Kindle
String Theory: The Parents Ashkenazi Dara Horn 19viii26 Kindle
Don't Panic: Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Neil Gaiman (2009) 20viii26
The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin, Volume One: Where on Earth 20viii26 Audible
A Voice from the Attic Robertson Davies 20viii26 Kindle
Dawn of Art: The Chauvet Cave ( Jean-Marie Chauvet et al. (1996) 27viii26
Night Thoughts Wallace Shawn 27viii26 Kindle and Audible
The Things We Never Say Elizabeth Strout 30viii26 Audible
Ghoset Eye Amitav Ghosh 30viii26 Audible
Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential Tiago Forte 1ix26
Empire of the Winds: The Global Role of Asia's Great Archipelago Philip Bowring 2ix26