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