Selling books to Chapter Two

Chapter Two Books believe, in order to provide the best selection of books for our customers, we must adhere to very strict selection criteria when purchasing.

Please understand this process is time-consuming and it is unlikely we will be able to process your books immediately. You will be issued with a receipt for your books and we will attend to them ASAP.

We select books that we deem to be in excellent condition and, due to limited storage space, we ask that you make every effort to promptly collect those books that we don’t select for our shop.

Chapter Two Books does not accept:

• Encyclopaedias
• Textbooks
• Readers Digest Condensed books
• Magazines
• Ex-Library

It is likely some of your books won’t meet our selection criteria. In this instance, we suggest offering them to charity shops, such as the Book Shed, or we may accept donated books in some circumstances*.

Areas of particular interest include; architecture, art, photography, Indigenous, South Australiana, military, respected literature (modern and classic), crime fiction, childrens and gardening. However, we don’t discriminate on genre and will welcome contributions from all areas. Having said that, if you have any of the following, we’d love to hear from you!

Please click here for a pdf version of our current 101 Most Wanted Books

The Most Wanted List 2011

1984: George Orwell

A Fine Balance: Rohinton Mistry

A Thousand Splendid Suns: Khaled Hosseini

Adventures of Tintin: Herge

Alice in Wonderland: Lewis Carroll

American Psycho: Bret Easton Ellis

Animal Farm: George Orwell

Anna Karenina: Leo Tolstoy

Anne of Green Gables: LM Montgomery

Any 2011 Booker Prize Shortlist

Any Aboriginal

Any Adelaide Hills History

Any Australian Military

Any Bill Bryson

Any Cormac McCarthy

Any Dr Suess

Any Edgar Allan Poe

Any Edward de Bono

Any Ernest Hemingway

Any Haruki Murakami

Any Hunter S Thompson

Any JM Coetzee

Any JRR Tolkien

Any Kate Morton

Any Maggie Beer

Any Nordic Crime

Any Roald Dahl

Any Salman Rushdie

Any Shaun Tan

Any Stephanie Alexander

Any Terry Pratchett

Any Tim Winton

Any Truman Capote

Any Japanese Art

Atonement: Ian McEwan

Birdsong: Sebastian Faulks

Blind Watchmaker: Richard Dawkins

Brave New World: Aldous Huxley

Catch-22: Joseph Heller

Catcher in the Rye: JD Salinger

Charlotte?s Web: EB White

Cloud Atlas: David Mitchell

Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Diary Of Anne Frank: Anne Frank

Dracula: Bram Stoker

Eucalyptus: Murray Bail

Frankenstein: Mary Shelley

Germinal: Emile Zola

Gone With The Wind: Margaret Mitchell

Grapes of Wrath: John Steinbeck

Harry Potter: JK Rowling

Heart of Darkness: Joseph Conrad

A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian: Marina Lewycka

It’s Blue with Five Petals: Ann Prescott

Jane Eyre: Charlotte Bronte

Les Miserables: Victor Hugo

Life of Pi: Yann Martel

Lolita : Vladimir Nabokov

Longitude: Dava Sobel

Love In The Time Of Cholera: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert

Maus Art: Spiegelman

Moby Dick: Herman Melville

My Sister’s Keeper: Jodi Picoult

Of Mice and Men: John Steinbeck

On The Road: Jack Kerouac

One Day: David Nicholls

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Ken Kesey

One Hundred Years of Solitude: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Origin of Species: Charles Darwin

Percy Jackson: Rick Riordan

Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen

Shantaram: Gregory David Roberts

Tales of Peter Rabbit: Beatrix Potter

Tarzan: Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Alchemist: Paulo Coelho

The Boat: Nam Le

The Book Thief: Markus Zusak

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: Mark Haddon

The Faraway Tree Collection: Enid Blyton

The Gruffalo: Julia Donaldson

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society: Mary Ann Shaffer

The Hitch Hiker?s Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams

The Divine Comedy: Dante

The Kite Runner: Khaled Hosseini

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe series: CS Lewis

The Little Prince: Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The Lovely Bones: Alice Sebold

The Remains of the Day: Kazuo Ishiguro

The Secret Garden: Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Shadow of the Wind: Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Three Musketeers: Alexandre Dumas

Time Traveller?s Wife: Audrey Niffenegger

The Wind in the Willows: Kenneth Grahame

To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee

Truth: Peter Temple

Tuesdays with Morrie: Mitch Albom

Ulysses: James Joyce

War and Peace: Leo Tolstoy

White Tiger: Aravind Adiga

Winnie the Pooh (not Disney): AA Milne

*Donated books become the property of Chapter Two Books and cannot be accepted if customers wish to place conditions or restrictions on their use.

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.” – Logan Pearsall Smith