The good people at BookFinder.com came out with an interesting book-related list earlier this week called the “Top 100 Most Sought-After Out-of-Print Books of 2011.”
This year marks the ninth year in which BookFinder.com has released such a list, which it compiles annually based on searches on its Web site during the previous 12 months.
Before I get to the list, allow me a few words about out-of-print books. In essence, an out-of-print book is a book that is no longer available for sale or distribution or is a book that is difficult to find because the only copies remaining exist in libraries, private collections or archives. In other words, these books are rare and difficult to get your hands on.
BookFinder.com, which was founed in 1997, comes into play because it mainly serves as a search engine of over 150 million books that are for sale, including used, rare and out-of-print books held by booksellers in over 50 countries.
Without further ado, here is BookFinder.com’s “Top 100 Most Sought-After Out-of-Print Books in 2011” list.
1. Sex by Madonna
2. Promise Me Tomorrow by Nora Roberts
3. Rage by Stephen King (written as Richard Bachman)
4. My Pretty Pony by Stephen King
5. In a Dark Place: The Story of a True Haunting by Ray Garton
6. Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Serafini
7. Man in Black by Johnny Cash
8. Marilyn: A Biography by Norman Mailer
9. Arithmetic Progress Papers by H. Henry Thomas
10. Mandingo by Kyle Onstott
11. Eve of the End by Allan D. Richter
12. Dark Carnival by Ray Bradbury
13. The Torch is Passed: The Associated Press Story of The Death of a President
14. The Centurions by Jean Larteguy
15. Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record by Carl Sagan
16. Fast Times at Ridgemont High by Cameron Crowe
17. Fly Fishing: Memories of Angling Days by J.R. Hartley
18. Ticket to Ride by Dennis Potter
19. A Treasury of Great Recipes by Mary and Vincent Price
20. The Pink Dress by Anne Alexander
21. Sisters by Lynne Cheney
22. The Road We Are Traveling, 1914-1942 by Stuart Chase
23. Creative Illustration by Andrew Loomis
24. Second Sight by David Williams
25. Little Witch by Anne Elizabeth Bennett
26. 365 Bedtime Stories by Nan Gilbert
27. Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
28. The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition by C.S. Lewis
29. Endgame Artillery by Alex Angos
30. Gather Yourselves Together by Philip K. Dick
31. Labyrinth: A Novel by A.C.H. Smith
32. The Jerusalem Bible, illustrated by Salvador Dali
33. Hell, I Was There! By Elmer Keith
34. Cards As Weapons by Ricky Jay
35. Ilsa by Madeleine L’Engle
36. The Casket and the Sword by Norman Denny
37. World Without Men by Charles Eric Maine
38. Jennie by Paul Gallico
39. The Bishop’s Wife by Robert Nathan
40. The Star Conquerors by Ben Bova
41. I Go Pogo by Walt Kelly
42. Halloween by Curtis Richards
43. The Black Deeds of the Kremlin: A White Book by S.O. Pidhainy
44. The Book of Indians by Clancy Holling
45. The King Ranch by Tom Lea
46. The Magic Talisman by John Blaine
47. Footnote to Youth by Jose Garcia Villa
48. Currier & Ives: Printmakers to the American People by Harry Twyford Peters
49. ERIC: The Encyclopedia of Roman Imperial Coins by Rasiel Suarez
50. Tudor Roses by Alice Starmore
51. Too Good to be Threw by Kate Holmes
52. The Blood Star by Nicholas Guild
53. Good Medicine by Charles M. Russell
54. The Big Country by Donald Hamilton
55. William Burges and the High Victorian Dream by J. Mordaunt Crook
56. A Payroll to Meet: A Story of Greed, Corruption and Football at SMU by David Whitford
57. On Damascus Steel by Leo S. Figiel
58. Pancakes A to Z by Marie Simmons
59. Tellers of Tales by W. Somerset Maugham
60. The Act of Creation by Arthur Koestler
61. The Septuagint Bible by Charles Thomson
62. A Treasury of Grand Opera by Henry W. Simon
63. War in the Modern Great Power System, 1495-1975 by Jack S. Levy
64. The Lovely Reed: An Enthusiasts Guide to Building Bamboo Fly Rods by Jack Howell
65. Covenant With Death by John Harris
66. Empty Cloud: The Autobiography of the Chinese Zen Master, Hsu Yun
67. Turkish Delight by Jan Wolkers
68. The Bumper Book: A Harvest of Stories and Verses by Watt Piper
69. Platonism by John Burnet
70. The Nature of Political Theory by David Miller
71. The Wonderful Fashion Doll by Laura Bannon
72. Birds of Britain by John D. Green
73. She Is The Darkness by Glen Cook
74. The Reluctant King by Sarah Bradford
75. The Golden Book of the Civil War by Charles Flato
76. The Modern Gunsmith by James Virgil Howe
77. House of Bondage by Ernest Cole
78. ABC’s of Long Arm Quilting by Patricia C. Barry
79. Wall St. Under Oath: The Story of Our Modern Money Changers by Ferdinand Pecora
80. The Ideal Communist City by A.E. Gutnov and A. Baburov
81. The Lure of the Bush, aka, The Barrakee Mystery by Arthur Upfield
82. Carriage Entrance by Polan Banks
83. The House Without Windows by Barbara Newhall Follett
84. Stuart: A History of the American Light Tank by R.P. Hunnicutt
85. Notations by John Cage
86. German Coastal Forces of World War Two by M.J. Whitley
87. Chemical and Determinative Tables of Mineralogy by Roland Pierrot
88. VLF Radio Engineering by Arthur Watt
89. The Columbia Historical Portrait of New York by John Atlee Kouwenhoven
90. The Glass of Fashion by Cecil Beaton
91. Pleased, But Not Satisfied by David Sokol
92. USS New Jersey BB-62 by Steve Wiper
93. The Windflower by Laura London
94. Practical Gunsmithing by Edward Matunas
95. A Treasury of American Prints by Thomas Craven
96. To Drop a Dime by Paul Hoffman
97. British Campaign Furniture: Elegance Under Canvas, 1740-1914 by Nicholas Brawer
98. Swami and Mantra by Sam Dalal
99. British Battleships of World War Two by Alan Raven and John Roberts
100. Basic Building Data: 10,000 Timeless Construction Facts by Don Graff
In the end, how many of these books have you read? How many of these books do you happen to own? Which did you like or dislike? Which would you recommend and why? Let us know in the comments section below.
(To learn more about the books mentioned above or to see earlier rare books lists, visit BookFinder.com’s Web site at www.bookfinder.com.)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High? Really? Wow.
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