Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Linda from Silly Little Mischief that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link it using the Mr. Linky any time during the week. And of course check out what other participants are getting from their libraries.
The Darkest Hour by Barbara Erskine
Seize the Fire by Adam Nicolson
Tangled Lives by Hilary Boyd
The Sun and Other Stars by Brigid Pasulka
The Wild Wyndhams by Claudia Renton
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Savage Continent by Keith Lowe
Marrying Anita by Anita Jain
The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
Death in the Stocks by Georgette Heyer
Footsteps in the Dark by Georgette Heyer
John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Mulock Craik
What did you pick up this week?
The Captive Reader 
Just picked up The Luminaries. 🙂
Nice. I have to admit, I have it sitting on my bookshelf (my brother’s in laws gave it to me last Christmas) but still haven’t cracked it. Loved Catton’s first book though, so looking forward to this one too.
I’m not sure what my problem is this morning, but I want to check out every single book from your loot! And I haven’t really heard of any of them (except for Code Name Verity, which is amazing, and the Georgette Heyer). Have you read any yet? I’ll be interested in your recommendations…
I added my post to the linky. I have a lot of nonfiction this week… I’m still trying to read down my “owned” TBR in fiction.
That’s not a problem, just a sign of good taste! I’ve only read Tangled Lives so far and it was nothing special. I started The Empathy Exams today and so far, so good.
I REALLY want to read The Empathy Exams but it isn’t in my library. Would love to hear what you think!
Started it today and the first few pages are very promising!
Right now I am in the middle of “An Unnecessary Woman” by Rabih Alameddine and it is excellent! I love your collection of books! Some enticing titles there. Happy reading!
I just saw that on NPR’s Best Books of 2014 list. It sounds great so I’m glad to hear you’re enjoying it.
Great big stack of loot! Enjoy!
Thanks!
So many good book sin your loot! I keep meaning to read Code Name Verity but have yet to get around to it. Happy reading!
Thanks, Kay!
I have the Wild Wyndhams out too! And the Georgette Heyer mysteries are fun (in a vintage sort of way). Enjoy!
I’d never heard of it before it won the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize (what a good title/prize to award) but am so excited to start it. That’s my planned reading for this weekend sorted. And, despite adoring Heyer’s Regency novels, I’ve never read her mysteries and am looking forward to trying these.
I would just like to say this is an exceptional collection of covers. Not a dud in the bunch! Looks like you’ll be having some good reading with these.
They are pretty, aren’t they?
Have to say the covers really took my eye too. Hope what is inside is as good as they suggest. Enjoy!
I hope the same!
The Savage Continent looks like an interesting read. I read the synopsis on Goodreads and it reminds me of a memoir I read, where a couple survived WWII by joining a partisan group in the Belorussian forest. When they returned to their hometown in Eastern Europe (forget which country specifically), they found that their neighbors were hostile to their return and of course had taken possession of all of their things. So they went to America. Not that there was complete welcome there either – people would write to the newspapers complaining about all the refugees coming into the country.
Savage Continent is a terrific book! In case anyone wants to learn more, here’s a link to my review from earlier this year….
http://maphead.wordpress.com/2014/04/17/savage-continent-europe-in-the-aftermath-of-world-war-ii-by-keith-lowe/
We picked up Spirit Animals book 5, Wings of Fire, Goddess Girls, and the last in The Underland Chronicles. Fun reading!
Excellent Sheep – The Miseducation of the American Elite.
Snarky, but accurate, analysis of the downside of an Ivy League Education.
Jody