AbeBooks Most In-Demand Out-of-print Books for 2016

Today AbeBooks, where I get most of my reading material, published its annual list of the “Most In-Demand Out-of-Print Books”. I have vague recollections of such a list form previous years, but after having had other things to besides post here I decided to do my familiar thing and post the list:

1. Westworld by Michael Crichton
2. Sex by Madonna
3. Permaculture: A Designers’ Manual by Bill Mollison
4. Unintended Consequences by John Ross
5. Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns by Barbara Brackman
6. Finding the Winning Edge by Bill Walsh
7. Mastering Atmosphere and Mood in Watercolor by Joseph Zbukvic
8. Fast Times at Ridgemont High by Cameron Crowe
9. Margin of Risk: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor by Seth Klarman.
10. Alla Prima: Everything I Know about Painting by Richard Schmid
11. Rage by Richard Bachman/Stephen King
12. The Vision and Beyond, Prophecies Fulfilled and Still to Come by David Wilkerson
13. Sled Driver: Flying the World’s Fastest Jet by Brian Shul
14. Bandit Country: The IRA and South Armagh by Toby Harnden
15. Snake by Ken Stabler
16. Halloween by Curtis Richards
17. Parts Work: An Illustrated Guide to Your Inner Life by Tom Holmes
18. Promise Me Tomorrow by Nora Roberts
19. Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper – Case Closed by Patricia Cornwell
20. Down Through the Years by Jean Shepard
21. The Sisters: Babe Mortimer Paley, Betsy Roosevelt Whitney, Minnie Astor Fosburgh: The Lives and Times of the Fabulous Cushing Sisters by David Grafton
22. Me and My Likker by Popcorn Sutton
23. Monte Walsh by Jack Schaefer
24. Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by James Lovell
25. The Making of Star Trek by Stephen E. Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry
26. The Last Course: The Desserts of the Gramercy Tavern by Claudia Fleming
27. A Life Worth Living by Lady Colin Campbell
28. The Essential Woodworker: Skills, Tools and Methods by Robert Wearing
29. Women and Men by Joseph McElroy
30. The Art of Holly Hobbie by Holly Hobbie

Most if not all of these books are books of no interest to me. Many are sexually explicit or so violent their authors do not want them in print, for example Sex and Rage. My main interest in out-of-print books are in old hardback poetry titles, which a mere glance will show as never listed, or in old, specialised books on sport.