Books We Tend To Buy |
Books We Tend NOT To Buy |
zoology |
american heritage |
entymologly |
LIFE magazines |
typography & printing |
stolen books |
california bookselling |
textbooks |
california history |
magazines |
librarianship |
stinky / moldy / damaged |
scripts and handwriting |
book club editions |
dictionaries |
encyclopedias |
graphic novels |
audio books |
comic anthologies |
records or CDs |
children's books |
videos or DVDs |
cartoon books |
computer books |
art and photography |
software manuals |
graffiti books |
programming books |
well-illustrated books |
books about the internet |
symbols & codes |
business/mgmt. books |
language and philosophy |
investment guides |
advanced math |
paperback almanacs |
chess and go |
desk references |
games of the world |
self-help books |
pranks and hoaxes |
romance novels |
hustling and fraud |
clinical psychology |
outlaws & rogues |
vague gardening |
cult heroes |
diet books |
secret societies |
crappy memoirs |
murder & suicide |
travel lit |
authoritarianism |
travel guides |
surveillance and privacy |
beefy poop paperbacks |
legal perversions & show trials |
dummies & idiots guides |
prison culture |
model-specific car repair guides |
books about zoos |
career guides |
propaganda / advertising |
college or test guides |
gambling and vice |
legal guides |
beer/wine/booze |
routine political science |
strange human behavior |
boring ologies |
esoterica & occult |
uninspired lit crit |
mythology and fairy tales |
popular biographies |
communal living |
celebrity crap |
utopia / dystopia |
reader's digest books |
survival and evolution |
national geographic |
growing food / permaculture |
time-life books |
how-to / D.I.Y. |
barnes & noble |
simple machinery |
iuniverse & print-on-demand |
building from scratch |
sierra club books |
vegetarian cooking |
education & parenting |
marijuana and tobacco |
preachy lifestyle guides |
mushrooms / mycelium |
anything too churchy |
psychedelics and hallucinogens |
franklin / easton press |
sleep and dreaming |
heritage press |
experimental art |
folio society |
music and film |
gilt-edged sets of any type |
alchemy |
other "deluxe" editions |
quaballah |
family bibles |
gold & money |
hymnals / prayer books |
japanese fiction |
fiction or poetry anthologies |
european fiction |
art genre surveys |
aliens and ufo-logy |
teevee tie-in books |
excellent genre fiction |
disney & its bloated ilk |
fringe thought |
pocket classroom fiction |
conspiracy and beyond |
christian science |
birth and death |
soupy religious titles |
color/sound/perception |
hardcover pop fiction |
sex and genitals |
political hardcovers |
radical education |
george bushiana |
human ingenuity |
so-called "current events" |
suns & moons |
cliff's notes, etc. |
deep space |
orange penguin books |
nostalgia |
comb / spiral bindings |
jokes and riddles |
xeroxed copies of books |
concrete and visual poetry |
incomplete sets |
wacky california |
contemporary pocketbooks |
abcderies |
hi-lited / underlined |
anatomy |
dungy fiction |
bike culture |
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older medical books |
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unusual science |
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obscure scholarly & technical |
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foreign poetry translated |
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kids books in spanish |
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radical & foreign thought |
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ant & bee culture |
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alien culture |
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cultural alienation |
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schizophrenia & melancholia |
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martial arts / weapons |
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whales and cetaceans |
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bestiaries |
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government documents of merit |
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yearbooks and genealogy |
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handwriting analysis |
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funny or puffy books |
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books prominently featuring nipples |
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east bay history |
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maps and posters |
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paper ephemera |
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pamphlets and postcards |
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knots and ropework |
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small presses |
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zines and little magazines |
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subversive thought |
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miscellaneous oddities |
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bks abt precious fluids or animals |
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pop-up books |
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vintage paperbacks/pulp fiction |
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california history |
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car culture |
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sustainability |
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earth/nature |
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literary fiction |
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smut |
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good poetry |
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other cultures |
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black/asian/hispanic america |
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natural disasters |
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science/physics |
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brain and consciousness |
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robotics |
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botany |
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