book haul May 2026

I almost never buy physical books anymore. The only exception: they are not available as ebooks, which mostly concerns literature in my mothertongue. What's more, some of those books are written and published by "enemies of the state". In this case, I never think twice:

And, as a rule of thumb, it is preferable to buy indie, so I order such precious paper bricks at Babel Books Berlin. The hand-written card is always there and it makes me believe in humanity again, such small and nice gesture!

The book on the left is the second updated edition of a non-fiction by an iranist about Iran. I read the first one a couple of years ago and want to see how much has changed. The one on the right is about British fantasy, once my special interest at high school. This book is visually absolutely stunning, no regrets that it has no ebook format.

This "haul" stands no comparison with those done on booktok and booktube, but it has indescribable value.