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 Hstory 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