Library Book Sale Haul

Three weeks ago (Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon day, actually), I went to a library book sale. My goal was to find lots of books for my Little Free Library. I opened my LFL in August, and there's definitely more books going out than coming in at this point. I had almost depleted my stash of books to put in it, so I thought that the $5-a-bag day at the library book sale was perfect to replenish it.

And it was. I came home with nine bags of books. The book sale volunteers said I won the prize for taking the most books home with me. They had a place to leave the bags as I filled them, and after a while, they would see me coming with a full bag and already have the next empty bag ready for me, complete with my name written on it. They were good!

I promised I would share my goodies here on the blog once I finally unpacked all of the bags. It took me several naptimes' worth, but here are the glorious books I found!

This is the stack of children's/young adult. By the time $5-a-bag day rolls around, these sections are already extremely picked over, so I didn't expect to find too much.

This is nonfiction. I honestly didn't even touch the main nonfiction table, sticking more to the memoir-ish books. I thought those would probably be more popular in my LFL.

And these two glorious pictures show what I found in the fiction section. There were so many good books! I kept telling myself, "I'll make it to the end of this table, and then get another bag," but I couldn't make it that far. The bags would be overflowing, and I'd end up with an additional armful to add to the next empty bag. Such a wonderful selection!

And here's the stack I got for myself. Some of these will eventually go into the LFL piles, but I wanted to read them first (How can you pass up a book called The Pope's Rhinoceros?).

Altogether, I ended up buying 167 books, which works out to 27 cents a book. How can you beat that??