I don't just buy books, I read them too...

... and sometimes they are even library books. A couple examples worth noting:
Dreams of the Sea by Elisabeth Vonarburg
A couple years ago I picked up a copy of The Silent City, also by Elisabeth Vonarburg at a thrift store. I read the first 90 or so pages and was very into it. Then I discovered that the book was bound incorrectly and pages 92-120 or so were missing and 120-135 were included twice. I looked and the CPL didn't have a copy, I looked in used book stores to no avail. Today I finally found a copy at a book sale. Hurrah! In the mean time I noticed that the library had the first two books in a series by Vonarburg and I meant to read those books. I finally got around to reading the first: Dreams of the Sea. Wow! What a book. A haunting tale of human colonization of a Planet that was inhabited by a fairly advance civilization. The first colonists are haunted by the lingering presence of "the others", as they call them. As with most fiction proably the less I say the better. Vonarburg is perhaps the finest Canadian SciFi writer. She collaborated with Howard Scott to translate this from the french and they did a wonderful job. I can't wait to read A Game of Perfection, the second book in the series.

Voices by Ursula K. LeGuin
This is the second book in the new YA series by LeGuin, The Annals of the Western Shore. The first book, Gifts, was good but I think Voices is even better. Its all about secret libraries and story telling and occupation and cultural survival and resistance. Pretty heavy stuff for a young adult novel but Ursula has a gift for such things. I'm excited for the next book!