These are the books bought for the time period listed. Note that just because I bought them doesn’t mean I have read them, unfortunately. Some were bought as gifts. Some were books bought for my “to read” pile. Others may be as reference. And it doesn’t include books I may read but did not buy – such as those I get from the library. If you want to see what I have actually read please take a look over at GoodReads. This list is simply of book purchases, partly to prove to Andra Watkins that I do indeed support the publishing industry and authors, and partly, well, to prove it to myself. Because, in the end, you just have to love books.
2015
December
- Jeff Guinn – The Autobiography of Santa Claus
- Jeff Guinn – How Mrs. Claus Saved Christmas
- Neil Gaiman – The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains (signed limited)
- Stephen King – Danse Macabre
- Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean – Signal to Noise
- Ron Hollander – All Aboard! The Story of Joshua Lionel Cowen & His Lionel Train Company
- Roland Fuller – The Bassett-Lowke Story
November
- Robert Schleicher – The Big Book of Lionel
- Robert Schleicher – The Lionel FasTrack Book
- Shirley Jackson – We Always Lived In The Castle
- Thomas Fetters – Logging Railroads Blue Ridge Smokey Mountains (Volumes I & II)
- Hank Wagner, Christopher Golden, and Stephen R. Bissette – Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman (2015, signed limited)
- James Taylor – BMC 1100 and 1300
October
- Graham Robson – The A-Series Engine: Its First Sixty Years
- Andrew Martin – The Necropolis Railway
- Andrew Martin – The Blackpool Highflyer
- Andrew Martin – The Lost Luggage Porter
- Basil Copper – Necropolis
- Catherine Arnold – Necropolis: London and Its Dead
September
- Waiting …
August
- Waiting …
July
- Waiting …
June
- Waiting …
May
- Waiting …
April
- David Culshaw – The Complete Catalogue of British Cars
- Jeff Daniels – British Leyland: The Truth About the Cars
- Priscilla Shumway & Kathleen Hurley – Real Women, Real Leaders: Surviving and Succeeding in the Business World
- Jeff Daniels – Classic British Cars
- Facts on File – Top Careers for History Graduates
- Neil Gaiman – American Gods & Anansi Boys (B&N Collectible Edition)
- Neil Gaiman – Smoke and Mirrors
- Kazuo Ishiguro – The Buried Giant: A Novel
March
- Michael Allen – British Family Cars of the Fifties
- Richard Newton – Illustrated Triumph Buyer’s Guide
- Gregory Maguire – Egg and Spoon
(audiobook)
- Neil Gaiman – M is for Magic
- Tracy L. Bealer – Neil Gaiman and Philosophy: Gods Gone Wild!
February
- Anne Rice, writing as A. N. Roquelaure – Beauty’s Kingdom (preorder, signed)
- Michael Cook – Illustrated Jaguar Buyer’s Guide
- Andrew Whyte – Jaguar: The Definitive History of a Great British Car
- Andrew Lorenz – End of the Road: BMW and Rover – A Brand Too Far
- Hayley Campbell – The Art of Neil Gaiman
- Henry Kuttner – The Hogben Chronicles (Signed Ltd Ed)
- Nancy Horan – Loving Frank: A Novel
(audio book)
- Carrie Anne Noble – The Mermaid’s Sister
- Kate Shrewsday – The Ilyasov Reflection: A Ghost Story (audio book)
- Andra Watkins – Not Without My Father: One Woman’s 444-Mile Walk of the Natchez Trace (gift for a friend)
- Neil Gaiman – Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
January
- Landon C. Burns – Pat Conroy: A Critical Companion
- Aida Rogers, Pat Conroy – State of the Heart: South Carolina Writers on the Places They Love
- Winston Churchill – My Early Life
- Pat Conroy – The Water Is Wide
- Pat Conroy – My Reading Life
(signed)
- Josephine Pinckney – Three O’Clock Dinner
- Andra Watkins – Not Without My Father: One Woman’s 444-Mile Walk of the Natchez Trace
- H. Roger Grant – Getting Around: Exploring Transportation History
- Pasi Ilmari Jaaskelainen – The Rabbit Back Literature Society
- Various Authors – Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2014: A Tor.Com Original
- Neil Gaiman (editor) – Stories: All-New Tales
2014
December
- Just a note – I got a bunch of fantastic new books from family and friends for Christmas. They are not listed here because I did not purchase them, they were gifts to me.
- Ben Pogue – In the Shadow of the Songbird
- Bernie Kempinski – Model Railroads Go to War
- Robert K. Durham – The Seaboard Air Line Railway
- Paul Faulk – Seaboard Air Line in Color, Vol. 1: Motive Power and Memories
November
- Amanda Palmer – The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
- Anne Rice – Prince Lestat: The Vampire Chronicles
- James H Wade – Greenwood County and Its Railroads, 1852-1992
- Neil Gaiman – Good Omens
October
- Neil Gaiman – The Sleeper and the Spindle
- Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass
- Anne Rice – Vittorio the Vampire
- Anne Rice – Blackwood Farm
- Anne Rice – Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana
- Michael Pollan – A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams
- Elizabeth Yon – Blackfern Girls
- John Glenn – John Glenn – A Memoir (Signed Ltd First Edition)
September
- Anne Lamott – Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
- George MacDonald – At the Back of the North Wind
- Charlie Lovett – Everybody’s Guide to Book Collecting
- Colleen Gleason – The Clockwork Scarab
- Charlie Lovett – The Bookman’s Tale: A Novel of Obsession
- Graham Joyce – Requiem
- Rachel Aaron – 2k to 10k: Writing Faster, Writing Better, and Writing More of What You Love
- Christopher Golden & Tim Lebbon – The Map of Moments: A Novel of the Hidden Cities
- Martin Miller – The Good Fairies of New York
- Iain Banks – The Crow Road by Banks. Iain ( 2013 ) Paperback
- Neil Gaiman – Neverwhere: A Novel
- Cherie Priest – Maplecroft: The Borden Dispatches
August
- Neil Gaiman – Coraline
- Anne Rice, Ashley Marie Witter (Illustrator) – Interview with the Vampire: Claudia’s Story
- Graham Joyce – Dark Sister
- Jack Thomson – Charleston at War
- William Gibson – Zero History
- Jerry A. Pinkepank – West Florida Rails In Color: Color Photography of ACL & SAL, 1957-67
- Maria Dahvana Headley and Kat Howard – The End of the Sentence
July
- Richard C. Borkowski – Norfolk Southern Railway
- Dawn Langley Simmons – Dawn: A Charleston Legend
- Stephen E. Massengill – Richmond County, Seaboard Air Line Railway
- Norfolk Southern Railroad – Eat Steel & Spit Rivets: 30 Years of Change
- H. Roger Grant – The Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail Road: Dreams of Linking North and South (Railroads Past and Present)
- Steven Pressfield – The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
- Mary Beth D’Alonzo – Streetcars Of Chatham County, GA
- Brandon Sanderson, et al – Shadows Beneath: The Writing Excuses Anthology
June
- Ben Aaronovitch – Rivers of London
- Larry Niven – Limits
- Joseph P. Schwieterman – When the Railroad Leaves Town: American Communities in the Age of Rail Line Abandonment, Eastern United States
- Paul Kennedy – Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned The Tide in the Second World War
- Alyson Noël – Night Star (Immortals)
- Alyson Noël – Dark Flame (The Immortals)
- Pat Conroy – The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son
- Jody Meacham – Through the Heart of the South
May
- Warren L. Calloway – Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company Motive Power
- McCammon, Robert – The River of Souls
- Edwin A. Abbott – Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
- Neal Stephenson – REAMDE: A Novel
- Jimmy Carter – A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
April
- Istvan Novak – Unraveling HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript with Visual Studio 2013 (Unraveling Series)
- Andra Watkins – To Live Forever: An Afterlife Journey of Meriwether Lewis
- Eudora Welty – One Writer’s Beginnings
- Shelley Klein – The Most Evil Women in History
- Carson McCullers – Collected Stories of Carson McCullers, including The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
- Phillip Pullman – The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, Book 3)
- Charles de Lint – The Blue Girl
- John Gunnell – Standard Guide to British Sports Cars
- Albert M. Langley – Seaboard Air Line Railway Album
March
- William L Withuhn – Rails Across America: A History of Railroads in North America
- Todd Henry – Die Empty: Unleash Your Best Work Every Day
- Forrest Church – Freedom from Fear: Finding the Courage to Act, Love, and Be
- Forrest Church – The American Creed: A Spiritual and Patriotic Primer
- Flora Annie Webster Steel – India Through the Ages A Popular and Picturesque History of Hindustan
- Dan Harris – 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works–A True Story
- Catherine McKenzie – Hidden
February
- Susan Cain – Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón – The Prisoner of Heaven: A Novel
- Andra Watkins – To Live Forever: An Afterlife Journey of Meriwether Lewis
- David C. Bailey, Joseph M. Canfield, Harold E. Cox – Trolleys in the Land of the Sky: Street Railways of Asheville, N. C. and Vicinity
- Will Hill – Department 19
(a gift)
January
- Robert McCammon – Speaks the Nightbird
- Anthony Chibbaro – Charleston Exposition (SC) (Images of America)
- Kathryn Stockett – The Help
(a gift)
- James A. Rogers and Dolores J. Miller – Quantum Leap: A Story of Three Colleges
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón – The Shadow of the Wind
- Gene Wolf – Peace
- Kelli Bickman (author and photographer) – What I Thought I Saw: New York – London
2013
December
- Mette Ivie Harrison – 21 Reasons You Think You Don’t Have Time to Write
- Neil Gaiman – Fragile Things
- Dan Conover – Bokur
- Magnus Flyte – City of Dark Magic: A Novel (a gift)
- Will Hill – The Rising: A Department 19 Novel (a gift)
- Turner Publishing – Lionel Trains: A Pictorial History of Trains and Their Collectors
- Southern Railway Historical Association – Southern Railway Charleston: Railroad Buildings and Structures from Charleston to Branchville, S.C.
- Orson Scott Card – The Ender’s Shadow Series Box Set: Ender’s Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Giant (a gift)
November (a slow month for buying!)
- Tim Powers – Hide Me Among the Graves: A Novel
- Hunter S. Jones – Fables of the Reconstruction
- Pat Conroy – The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son (a signed physical hardback copy for for me to read)
October
- Pat Conroy – The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son (a kindle copy, for Nancy to read)
- Angela Amman, Mandy Dawson, Cameron D. Garriepy, Roxanne Piskel, Andra Watkins, et al … – Precipice (The Literary Anthology of Write on Edge)
- Angela Amman, Mandy Dawson, Cameron D Garriepy, Kameko Murakami, Kate Shrewsday, Andra Watkins, Elizabeth Yon – Echoes In Dark
- Twitter Marketing Guide for Smart Business Owners
- Anders Ditlev Clausager – Original MGB: The Restorer’s Guide to All Roadster and GT Models 1962-80
September
- Mark Jones – Wicked Charleston Volume Two: Prostitutes, Politics and Prohibition
- Karen Abbott – Sin in the Second City : Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America’s Soul
- Charlie Lovett – The Bookman’s Tale
- Roy Locock – Not In That Car
- Rick Astley – MGB Electrical Systems
- Writer’s Digest – 2014 Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market
- Kenneth Grahame – Wind in the Willows
- Anne Rice – The Wolf Gift
- Darrell Pitt- Secrets of Successful Writers
- Scott Nicholson – Write Good or Die
- Regina Puckett – Ramblings and Dreams
August
- Julian Barnes – The Sense of an Ending
- Andrew Roden – Flying Scotsman: The Extraordinary Story of the World’s Most Famous Train
- Riley O’Connor – Greenberg’s Model Railroading with Marklin Z Scale
- C.J. Box – The Highway
- James Howe – Bunnicula: Nighty-Nightmare
- Neil Gaiman – Fortunately The Milk (pre-order, publication date is Sept 17, 2013)
July
- Terry Pratchett – The Unadulterated Cat
- Gregg F. Turner – Plant System Of Railroads, Steamships And Hotels: The South’s First Great Industrial Enterprise
- Larry Goolsby – Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast RR
- Ian McEwan – Atonement
June
- Neil Gaiman – Adventures in the Dream Trade
- Neil Gaiman – Creatures Of The Night
- Neil Gaiman – Harlequin Valentine
- Scott Holliday – Stonefly (the Jacob Duke series)
- Alexander McCall Smith – Trains and Lovers
- Neil Gaiman – Ocean at the End of the Lane
- Neil Gaiman – The Dangerous Alphabet
- Neil Gaiman (editor) – Unnatural Creatures: Stories Selected
- Neil Gaiman – God & Tulips
- Matthew J. Bruccolli – The Romantic Egoists/a Pictorial Autobiography from the Scrapbooks and Albums of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
- Stephen Harding – The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe
- John Dolan – Everyone Burns
- Jostein Gaarder – Sophie’s World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy
May
- Simon Armitage – Walking Home
- AA of Britain – llustrated Guide to Britain (AA Guides)
- Neil Gaiman – How to Talk to Girls at Parties
- D.W. Willoughby – Trams in South East London
- John K. Brown – The Baldwin Locomotive Works 1831 -1915
- Fred Westing – The Locomotives That Baldwin Built