I paid $2 for a used paperback at a library sale in Ann Arbor and it beat every new book I bought this year

Stella Nelson · 2026-09-15T07:15:03.730859+00:00

Back in the 90s I would blow $30 at Borders without even thinking, and half those books sat unread on my shelf. Now I mostly swap paperbacks with folks at my local library sale in Ann Arbor, and a $2 copy of a worn spy novel from 1988 kept me up two nights straight. There is something about a book with someone else's name scribbled inside that makes it feel passed down instead of just bought. What is the cheapest book you ever picked up that turned out to be a keeper?

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