Adopting a book from The London Library is the perfect way to share in and support our rich collection. With 1 million volumes to choose from, let us help you with some ideas for books to adopt. All funds go towards the care of the collection.
Adopt a Book: Campus novels
To celebrate the start of a new academic year, why not Adopt a Book from the campus novel genre? Our stacks are full of novels about the lives of students, professors and their spouses, an ideal gift for the incoming student or returning teacher in your life. You’ll receive a personalised certificate, as well as the adoptee’s name written on a permanent bookplate inside the book.
You might want to consider:
· Philip Roth, The Human Stain
· J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace
· Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
· Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim
· Fleur Jaeggy, Sweet Days of Discipline
· Elif Batuman, The Idiot and Either/Or
· Joshua Cohen, The Netanyahus
· John Williams, Stoner
· David Lodge, Changing Places, Small World and Nice Work
· Brandon Taylor, Real Life
· Mary McCarthy, The Groves of Academe
· Donna Tartt, The Secret History
· Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding
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Adopt a Book: Faber & Faber
Founded 96 years ago in April 1929, Faber & Faber is one of the world’s best-known independent publishers. Published authors include notable Library members T S Eliot (who was both London Library President and an editor at Faber), Kazuo Ishiguro, Edna O’Brien and Harold Pinter.
To celebrate the Library’s connection with Faber & Faber, why not Adopt a Book written by a Faber writer from our collections? You’ll receive a personalised certificate, as well as your name written on a permanent bookplate inside the book.
You might want to consider:
· Plays One by Harold Pinter, including The Birthday Party and A Slight Ache
· The Collected Prose by TS Eliot
· Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
· Leopoldstadt by Tom Stoppard
· Country Girl by Edna O’Brien
· Thinking Again by Jan Morris
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