You can't take them with you.

So this is my bookshelf.

Not a huge shelf, of course, but I've accumulated enough books over the last few years that it looks trashy. I've enjoyed a lot of them but have no plan to read them again any day soon, so I'm wondering, why hold onto them?

Instead of taking them to a used book shop and pocketing a few quid, I've decided to let you, my friends and Fish, have any of them you want. Pick only as many as you'd actually read in the near future. This whole project is to discourage my hoarding. Claim 'em in the comments and send an e-mail with your address to dan at cineme dot net. I'll pay for shipping and everything.

If you want to know anything about them, ask in the comments or click on through for an Amazon description.

[Disclaimer: I didn't necessarily like all of these books and, in at least a few cases, did not buy them.]

• Coaching Youth Football, American Sport Education Program [Not gonna need this one ever again.]
  
• Big Trouble, Barry
  
• Dave Barry in Cyberspace, Barry
  
• Dave Barry Talks Back, Barry
  
• 10 Minute Guide to Upping Your SAT Scores, Bartl, et al [only included in case Bro wants it]
  
• America: To Pray or Not to Pray, Barton [from the days when I thought mandatory school prayer could save us all]
  
• The Howling Man, Beaumont
  
• The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook, Borgenicht [Frodo]
  
• If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor, Campbell
  
• Short Cuts, Carver [Bruin]
  
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Chbosky [Chilly]
  
• The Sum of all Fears, Clancy
  
• Letters to a Young Conservative, D'Souza [Frodo]
  
• Selected Stories, Dubus [contains the short story for In the Bedroom, if that turns your crank] [Chilly]
  
• Ebert's Bigger Little Movie Glossary, Ebert
  
• I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie, Ebert [I've read this book more times than any on this list.][Jav]
  
• The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002, Eggers ed.
  
• The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005, Eggers ed. [Fish]
  
• McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, Eggers ed.
  
• You Shall Know Our Velocity, Eggers [Fish]
  
• Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive ScrabblePlayers, Fatsis [Aqua]
  
• Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence, Feig [Frodo]
  
• On Bullshit, Frankfurt [Sushi]
  
• Cold Mountain, Frazier [Lark]
  
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Gladwell [Spiff]
  
• The Princess Bride, Goldman [Hula]
  
• The Partner, Grisham [Daff]
  
• Deeper Thoughts, Handey
  
• Seabiscuit: An American Legend, Hillenbrand [Actually way way better than the movie. Read during my freshman DC summer]
  
• How to Be Good, Hornby [Chilly]
  
• Teaching with Fire: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Teach, Intrator [My graduation present from the dean. Never read it. For you see, I teach with iiiiiice.]
  
• Different Seasons, King [contains the short story for The Shawshank Redemption, if that turns your crank.]
  
• Dreamcatcher, King
  
• Rum Punch, Leonard [a/k/a Jackie Brown] [Jav]
  
• Tishomingo Blues, Leonard [Frodo]
  
• The Ragamuffin Gospel, Manning [Lark]
  
• Bringing Down The House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions, Mezrich [Fish tested, Gator approved.] [Sushi]
  
• Autobiography of John Stuart Mill, Mill [j/k Fish]
  
• Blue Like Jazz, Miller [Bruin]
  
• Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About: A Novel, Millington [Inspired an inappropriate burst of laughter during Stochastic Processes senior year.] [Frodo]
  
• Nothing's Impossible, Monroe [Daff]
  
• Sideways, Pickett Chilly
  
• Fraud: Essays, Rakoff
  
• Alvin's Secret Code, Sokol
  
• How to Kiss with Confidence, Terry [Lark]
  
• Braveheart, Wallace [Daff]
  
• The Purpose-driven Life, Warren

I've got a bunch of poetry [Jav] & fiction compilations from my college years that I didn't list. Anyone interested in those, just comment.

Gator