Field Notes · July 12, 2026

Introducing the collection

A short note from the shop on this week's arrivals.

Having been collected for over a decade, the collection presented by Vagabound Books reflects a wide variety of authors, approaches. Read by the Vagabound and ready for re-entry into circulation, we feature some of the best-loved books from the collection, namely: 

  • Our Man in Havana, Graham Greene
  • The Pinch Runner Memorandum, Kenzaburo Oe
  • Mason & Dixon, Thomas Pynchon
  • The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton
  • Hopscotch, Julio Cortazar
  • Silence, Shusaku Endo

While not necessarily comprehensive, we hope that this small preview of the range of books that the Vagabound collects offers a glimpse into the kinds of titles you will herein. Updated weekly, the full library features nearly 2000+ individual titles, most of which will be added incrementally. However, this first drop contains over 500 works of fiction. We hope that visitors browse the shelves and discover something new or old to add to their own growing library.

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