We take in books for store credit, but unfortunately we can’t take everything! Here is a detailed list of the books and authors we are currently looking for. We can do a trade for store credit, or we can do cash. For more information about our trade policy, check out the page “Books to Sell?” Please note these lists are not updated daily! We do our best to keep them current, but we have so much stock moving in and out it is impossible to keep them 100% accurate.
If you are looking for cash only for your books, or if you have records to sell, please call ahead before stopping by to ensure we can look at your collection that day.
Fiction Best-Sellers
- The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
- Us Against You by Fredrick Backman
- Women Talking by Miriam Toews
- The Clockmaker’s Daughter by Kate Morton
- A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult
- The Break by Katherena Vermette
- Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
- The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
- Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
- The Kept Woman by Karin Slaughter
- Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson
- The Stranger in the House by Shari Lapena
- The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
- Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
- Never Let You Go by Chevy Stevens
- Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
Non-Fiction Best-Sellers
- Educated by Tara Westover
- The 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson
- Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
- The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- Run, Hide, Repeat by Pauline Dakin
- You Are A Badass – Jen Sincero
- Not That Bad by Roxane Gay
- The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
- Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown
- Quiet by Susan Cain
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck by Mark Manson
- The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel
Youth/Teen Authors
- Any Teen New Releases (2017+)
- Becky Albertalli (Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda)
- Victoria Aveyard (Red Queen)
- Leigh Bardugo (Six of Crows)
- Cassandra Clare (newer titles, select Infernal Devices and Mortal Instruments)
- Chris Colfer (The Land of Stories)
- S.E. Hinton (The Outsiders)
- Erin Hunter (Warriors, Seekers, etc.)
- Marie Lu (Legend, Young Elites)
- Sarah J. Maas (Throne of Glass series)
- Marissa Meyer (Lunar Chronicles)
- Patrick Ness (Chaos Walking Trilogy, More Than This)
- R.J. Palacio (Wonder, Auggie & Me)
- Rick Riordan (Percy Jackson, Heroes of Olympus)
- Rainbow Rowell (Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, etc.)
- J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter)
- Neal Shusterman (Unwind)
- Adam Silvera (More Happy Than Not)
- Nicola Yoon (The Sun is Also a Star, Everything, Everything)
- Jeff Zentner (The Serpent King)
Comics/Manga/Graphic Novels
- Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta, etc.)
- Asterix and Obelix
- Batman & other DC Superheroes
- Black Butler Manga
- Blue Exorcist manga
- Bone by Jeff Smith
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Calvin & Hobbes
- Deathnote manga
- Fairy Tail manga
- Inu Yasha manga
- Legend of Zelda manga
- Locke & Key by Joe Hill
- Lumberjanes
- March by John Lewis
- Marvel graphic novels
- Ms Marvel series
- Maus by Art Spiegelman
- Naruto manga
- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
- Pokemon manga
- Preacher series by Garth Ennis
- Saga by Brian K. Vaughan
- Sandman series by Neil Gaiman
- Sex Criminals
- Raina Telgemeier (Smile, Drama, etc.)
- Tintin comics (English or French)
- Walking Dead
- Y: the Last Man by Brian K Vaughan
Science Fiction/Fantasy Authors
- Joe Abercrombie
- Douglas Adams
- Isaac Asimov
- Ray Bradbury
- Terry Brooks
- Jim Butcher
- Orson Scott Card
- David Eddings
- Steven Erickson
- Neil Gaiman
- Terry Goodkind
- Markus Heitz (Dwarves series)
- Frank Herbert
- Robin Hobb (Assassin’s Apprentice)
- Robert Jordan
- CS Lewis (Space Trilogy)
- Scott Lynch (Gentlemen Bastard series)
- George R R Martin
- China Mieville
- Terry Pratchett
- Patrick Rothfuss
- Brandon Sanderson
- J.R.R. Tolkien (Particularly nice omnibus editions!)
- Brent Weeks
- Forgotten Realms (select titles)
- Warhammer
Kids’ Novels
- Nick Bruel (Bad Kitty)
- Choose Your Own Adventure books
- Jeff Kinney (Diary of a Wimpy Kid)
- George MacDonald (The Princess and the Goblin, etc.)
- Megan McDonald (Judy Moody)
- Ellen Miles (Puppy Place)
- Mary Pope Osborne (Magic Treehouse)
- Lincoln Peirce (Big Nate series)
- Dav Pilkey (Captain Underpants, Ricky Ricotta)
- Pokemon novels
- Rachel Renee Russell (Dork Diaries)
- Geronimo Stilton
- R.L. Stine (Goosebumps Horrorland)
- Lauren Tarshis (I Survived)
Kids’ Picture Books
- Graeme Base (Animalia)
- Berenstain Bears
- Sandra Boynton
- Jan Brett
- Alyssa Satin Capucilli (Biscuit books)
- Eric Carle
- Julia Donaldson (The Gruffalo & any other titles)
- Marie-Louise Gay (Stella, Queen of the Snow, etc)
- Phoebe Gilman (Jillian Jiggs, Something from Nothing, etc)
- Roger Hargreaves (Little Miss/Mr. Men)
- Kevin Henkes (Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse)
- I Spy and Where’s Waldo
- Munro Leaf (The Story of Ferdinand)
- Lego & Ninjago books
- Arnold Lobel (Frog & Toad)
- Bill Martin (Chicka Chicka Boom Boom)
- Mercer Mayer (Little Critter)
- Robert Munsch
- Laura Numeroff (If you Give a Pig a Pancake, etc.)
- Bill Peet
- H.A. Rey (Curious George)
- Rob Scotton (Splat Cat)
- Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are)
- Dr. Seuss (select titles)
- Shel Silverstein (Giving Tree, Falling Up, etc.)
- Star Wars (picture books)
- Superhero books (Avengers, Spider-Man, Batman)
- Transformers
- Melanie Watt (Scaredy Squirrel, Chester, etc.)
- Mo Willems (Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, etc.)
- Margery Williams (The Velveteen Rabbit)
General Fiction
- Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie
- Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid’s Tale, Oryx and Crake)
- Alan Bradley (newer titles)
- Roald Dahl (adult books)
- Anthony Doerr (About Grace, Memory Wall)
- Elena Ferrante (Neopolitan Novels)
- William Goldman (The Princess Bride)
- Khaled Hosseini (A Thousand Splendid Suns)
- John Irving (Prayer for Owen Meany)
- Cormac McCarthy (Suttree, The Border Trilogy Omnibus)
- Christopher Moore (Lamb)
- Toni Morrison (Sula, Beloved)
- Kate Morton (The Secret Keeper)
- Jojo Moyes (The Last Letter from Your Lover)
- Haruki Murakami
- Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)
- Maria Semple (Where’d You Go, Bernadette)
- Patrick Taylor (Select Titles)
- Richard Wagamese
- Alice Walker (The Color Purple)
- David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest)
Classic Literature
- Jane Austen (select titles)
- The Bronte Sisters (Wuthering Heights, Villette)
- Charles Bukowski
- Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange)
- Albert Camus (The Stranger, The Plague)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Alexandre Dumas (The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo)
- William Faulkner
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise)
- Joseph Heller (Catch-22)
- Ernest Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises)
- Jack Kerouac (On the Road)
- Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita)
- George Orwell (1984, Animal Farm)
- Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)
- Edgar Allan Poe (Collected Works)
- John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row)
- Leo Tolstoy
- Kurt Vonnegut
- John Wyndham
British Mystery Authors
- Kate Atkinson
- Agatha Christie (Murder on the Orient Express, And Then There Were None)
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Tana French (In the Woods)
- Robert Galbraith (The Cuckoo’s Calling)
- Reginald Hill
- P.D. James
- Quintin Jardine
- Stuart MacBride
- Peter Lovesey
- Val McDermid
- Ian Rankin
- Peter Robinson
- R.D. Wingfield
European Mystery Authors
- Jussi Adler-Olsen
- Andrea Camilleri
- Anne Holt
- Camilla Lackberg
- Henning Mankell
- Jo Nesbo
- Lars Keplar
- Fred Vargas
- Arnaldur Indridason
North American Mystery Authors (Select Titles)
- Louise Penny
- James Lee Burke
- Raymond Chandler
- Harlan Coben
- Michael Connelly
- Robert Crais
- Lisa Gardner
- Kerry Greenwood
- J.A. Jance
- Laurie R. King
- John Lescroart
- Robert B. Parker
- Louise Penny
- Jacqueline Winspear
Thriller Authors (Select Titles)
- Jeffrey Archer
- Ted Bell
- Steve Berry
- Alex Berenson
- Lee Child
- Michael Crichton
- Clive Cussler
- Nelson DeMille
- Ian Fleming
- Vince Flynn
- Ken Follett
- Thomas Harris
- Greg Iles
- Douglas Preston
- James Rollins
- Daniel Silva
- Wilbur Smith
- Brad Thor
Military Fiction
- G.S. Beard (Mr Midshipman Fury, etc.)
- Bernard Cornwell (The Last Kingdom series, etc.)
- W.E.B. Griffin (select titles)
- Conn Iggulden (Rome Series, etc)
- William Johnstone (Ashes)
- Robert Low (The Lion at Bay)
- Patrick O’Brian
- Chris Ryan
- Simon Scarrow (Brothers in Blood)
- Tim Severin (Viking Trilogy)
- Jack Whyte
Western (select titles, we already have many!)
- Literary Westerns (ie. True Grit)
- William Johnstone
- Dana Fuller Ross
- Louis L’amour
- Ralph Compton
- John Jakes
- Zane Grey
- Jon Sharpe
- Jake Loga
Horror Authors
- Classic Horror (Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Shirley Jackson, etc.)
- M.R. Carey (The Girl With All the Gifts)
- Nick Cutter
- Mark Z. Danielewski (House of Leaves)
- Mira Grant (Newsflesh Trilogy)
- Joe Hill (NOS4A2, Heart-Shaped Box, etc.)
- Stephen King (The Shining, It, Dark Tower series)
- Dean Koontz (select titles)
- John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let the Right One In)
- H.P. Lovecraft
- Jonathan Maberry (Joe Ledger novels)
- Anne Rice
Paranormal Authors
- Kelley Armstrong
- Jayne Castle
- Christine Feehan
- Diana Gabaldon
- Laurell K. Hamilton
- Kim Harrison
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
- Jayne Ann Krentz
- Karen Marie Moning
- J.R. Ward
Contemporary Romance Authors
- Robyn Carr
- Kristin Hannah
- Marian Keyes
- Debbie Macomber (select titles)
- Fern Michaels
- Nora Roberts (newer titles)
- Nicholas Sparks (newer paperback titles)
- Sherryl Woods
Romantic Suspense Authors
- Maya Banks
- Sandra Brown
- Lisa Jackson
- Brenda Novak
Poetry
- Keats
- Wordsworth
- Robert Frost
- Shelley
- Coleridge
- Emily Dickinson
- Allen Ginsberg
- Charles Bukowski
- Rumi
Christian Fiction (Select titles only)
- Francine Rivers
- Karen Kingsbury
- Ted Dekker
Theology/Spirituality/Metaphysical
- C. S. Lewis
- Thomas Merton
- Wayne Dyer
- Joyce Meyer
- Eckhart Tolle
- Zechariah Sitchin
- Graham Hancock
- Anything on Meditation
- Healing properties of crystals
- Gnostic writings
- Atheist writing (Dawkins, Hitchens, etc)
- Early Christian writing
- Jewish theology
- Early Protestant histories
- Mennonite histories
- Rob Bell
- N.T. Wright
- Francis Chan
- Mark Driscoll
Philosophy
- Soren Kierkegaard
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
- Henry David Thoreau
- Ayn Rand
- Plato
- Other classic philosophers
Self Help
- Robin Sharma
- Louise Hay
- Melodie Beattie
- Gabor Mate
Cook Books
- Julia Child Cookbooks
- Cookbooks by Jamie Oliver, Anna Olson, Gordon Ramsay, etc.
- Celebrity Chefs/Food Network tie-ins
- Vegan/Raw foods/Whole Foods Books
- Gluten-Free Cookbooks
- Joy of Cooking by Rombauer
- Anything on preserving: smoking, pickling, canning, etc.
- Indian Cookbooks
- Ethnic Cookbooks
General Non-fiction
- John Vaillant
- Malcolm Gladwell
- Hunter S. Thompson
- Cesar Millan
- Cryptozoology
- A.J. Jacobs
Outdoors
- B.C./West Coast Field guides for birds, plants, mushrooms, etc.
- Anything on edible or medicinal uses for plants
- Outdoor survival guides (Les Stroud, SAS stuff, etc)
- Organic Gardening
- Backroads map books for B.C.
- Gold panning, gem sites, etc
- Farming, homesteading
- Animal/Fish/Bird husbandry
- Alternative Energy (solar, wind, geothermal)
- Hunting guides for B.C. species
- Fishing in B.C.
- Rocks and Minerals
Military
- Nazi History
- WWII Eastern Front
- Military Unit Histories
- Ancient conflicts (Biblical era to Boer War)
- Mein Kampf
- World War 1
History
- Ancient History
- Gold rush history
- Local/West Coast first nations history, art books
- Early settlement/homesteading
- N. L. Barlee
- Garnet Basque
- Abbotsford History
Fine Bindings
- Franklin Library books
- Easton Press
- Folio Society
Vinyl
For information on selling vinyl, click here, and for information on what we have in stock, click here.
REMEMBER! We are open 7 days a week, 363 days a year (everyday except Christmas and New Year’s Day). We have convenient parking at the back of the store. Just come down the lane off of Montrose Ave. and walk up the back steps; the door is always unlocked!
Store hours Monday- Sunday: 10:00am to 6:00 pm
Stat. Holidays Hours: 12:00am to 4:00pm (May vary)
Hemingway’s New & Used Books 33765 Essendene Ave Abbotsford, BC V2S 2H1 604-855-1894 hemibooks@yahoo.com