2011's 10 Most Wanted Out Of Print Books

Bookfinder.com keeps track of the most looked for out-of-print books in the United States. The following is a list of the 10 most sought after books from the past 12 months, listed with what they are currently being sold for (if we could find them). For the full top hundred, click here!

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"Sex" by Madonna

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$359.00, Amazon.com A coffee table erotic photo book released by Madonna as an accompaniment to her fifth album, "Erotica."

8 Ways Humans Could Cause Our Own Extinction

14 Ambitious Amateurs Who Made It Big (PHOTOS)

The First Athletes Ever And 7 Other Moments In Sports History

7 Things You Need To Know Before You Get Married

11 People You Don't Want To Be Friends With

The 13 Of The Weirdest Short Stories Ever Written

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A coffee table erotic photo book released by Madonna as an accompaniment to her fifth album, "Erotica."

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Why would ANYONE want this? Argh! I want this too!

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[mose joseph workman]

10:38 AM on 09/20/2011

11. "Pompons to Porn: The Gail Palmer Story"
12. "Who Killed Elvis Presley?" by Dr. George Nicholpoulos with Murray Silver

[Edward Goodwin]

05:57 AM on 09/16/2011

I got my copy of "sex" through Book of the Month Club. Seriously. I carefully put it back in the metalized vinyl package it came in, set it on top of my bookshelf and forgot about it till I packed it away when I moved. In 2005 I found it again, went on e-bay to check the prices, and couldn't find a copy for less than 200 bucks, with the ones in their vinyl sleeves going for a premium.

I'm not going to sell mine unless the prices get really outrageous. As far as I'm concerned, It's a great art book that just happens to be collectable. I've got it on my bookcase now with all my other art books.

[Anne Mccormick]

09:47 PM on 09/06/2011

i know my mother still has a copy of "Mandingo" in a box up in the attic. i've seen it. but why anyone would bend over backwards to get a copy i'll never know

[2question]

04:22 PM on 09/06/2011

Count Bruga, by Ben Hecht. I used to have an ancient, dog eared copy of this book but unfortunately it was lost to the vagaries of time and movement. This book is quite hard to find. It's not a particularly valuable out of print book, but it was a smashing read and I'd love to have it back in my possession.

[Fahrenheit 451 usedbooks]

07:39 PM on 09/05/2011

What are you talking about bookfinder.com only lists books sold by middlemen, and you actually have to know the title of the book or ispn # your looking for you can't search by subject or interest that's what the middle person does collects books of specific interest.

[Erewhon7]

02:31 AM on 09/05/2011

"Yellow Peril: The Adventures of Sir John Weymouth-Smythe" by Richard Jaccoma. Great campy read. I still have a well-worn copy.

[jmpurser]

11:13 PM on 09/04/2011

Sir MacHinery by Tom McGowan.  LOVED that book growing up.

I've never understood the attraction of Steven King.  But I didn't get MTV or how "Three's Company" made it to a second week never mind 7 years either.

[deepintheheartoftejas]

11:09 PM on 09/02/2011

I have no opinions on most of these... but "Codex Seraphinianus" is an interesting one. It's one of the ultimate book-geek books to own. I have a copy I bought of eBay in the late 90s, for about $140. It's more for the bragging rights than anything else. I keep it in my "cool books" bookshelf, alongside my kelmscott chaucer facsimile and some other nifty facsimiles (omifacsimiles.com is a GREAT resource if you love antique books but can't possibly afford real copies). I don't see any appeal for most of the rest of these.

[Edward Goodwin]

06:00 AM on 09/16/2011

I have a Kelmscott Chaucer! The facsimile. Way cool.

[concertina8]

06:27 AM on 09/01/2011

Guess I should hold on to my (German, as of now unread) copy of Mailer's Marilyn biography & Stephen King's/Richard Bachman's Rage, huh?

[Susan Marlowe CPA]

12:48 AM on 09/01/2011

Wow. Pretty random list here. My personal out-of-print wish: Amanda McKittrick Ros. Anything by her. Any author that made both CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien collapse into laughter, albeit unintentionally, is worth reading.

[Mr Anonymous]

09:44 PM on 08/31/2011

I'm half suprised they didn't put Disco Bloodbath on there.

[RedDogBear]

01:52 PM on 08/31/2011

One book I'm curios to read again, not because it was so good but because it was so awful was something by Robert Heinlein. It was one of the most homophobic books I've ever read. One of the main parts of the plot was that women couldn't go into space because if a woman got pregnant in space the baby was deformed. (As if its impossible to have women in space without them having sex or using birth control) As a result there were only men in space and they all ended up going gay and hence becoming warped and psychotic. I know that sounds like some kind of satire but it was 100% serious. I've never been able to find the title of the book although I've looked through Heinlein's work. If that plot rings a bell with anyone please reply back.

[M4dwoman]

09:22 PM on 08/31/2011

I've read a lot of Heinlein and I don't recall that one, but it wouldn't surprise me.

[jmpurser]

11:09 PM on 09/04/2011

Heinlein?  Homophobic?  Then you're not talking about R. A. Heinlein.  I've read everything I could get my hands on and that doesn't come close to anything I've seen.

[RedDogBear]

01:47 PM on 08/31/2011

Judging by other works by Mailer I'm betting that his "biography" of Marilyn ends up being more about why Norman Mailer is the greatest and must under appreciated writer and lover of all time.

[Tom Sutpen]

12:10 PM on 09/01/2011

There are a few 'Why did she go for Arthur Miller and not me??' passages in there.

[RedDogBear]

01:13 PM on 09/01/2011

Its funny I tried so hard to like Mailer. I love people who were influenced by him such as Hunter Thompson and many of the subjects he writes on both fiction and non-fiction are interesting but after picking up and not finishing around five of his books I just gave up. The only books I ever finished were his first novel The Naked and the Dead and The Prisoner of Sex which I had to read for a college course. The Prisoner was really painful to finish.

[Isabella Caldwell]

01:36 PM on 08/31/2011

Ask any historical costumer, and this book is the one everyone tries to get their hands on:
http://www.amazon.com/Renaissance-dress-Italy-1400-1500-History/dp/0713512946

[rkenney170]

01:25 PM on 08/31/2011

Do a web search for a 1950's Juvenile Science Fiction book titled 'Starship on Saddle Mountain'. It knocks me out! Probably cost less than $1.00 new.