So silly, but we invariably wonder what folks are reading in their old photos.  This woman in Eastern Kentucky's 1975 yearbook is reading what appears to be quite a scarce book today: the horse and girl novel Taffy's Foal by Elisa Bialk.  The novel was already decades old in 1975, and we suspect that it wasn't required reading for a class.  Perhaps it reflects something about this dorm student adjusting to her new life?  The book tells of one Nancy Irwin, who lives in Kentucky with her grandmother on a horse farm until her father in Chicago remarries.  Nancy is forced to leave behind her beloved mare Taffy, who is in foal.  Nancy must adapt to living in the city, make new friends, love her mare from a distance, and learn to love her stepmother.  Note that this student is using her stuffed animal as a pillow and is flanked by more literature.

The Fireside Magician by Thomas Picton, 1879.

Fairy Tales by Édouard René Lefebvre Laboulaye, 1887.

La Vellma's Vaudeville Budget for Magicians, Mind Readers, and Ventriloquists by David J. Lustig, 1921.

From Jack Frost, Or, God's Finger in the Winter by Ina Hervey, 1870.

My Lady Vaudeville and Her White Rats by George Fuller Golden, 1909.

By "A Mere Phantom."  The Magic Lantern, How to Buy and How to Use It, Also How to Raise a Ghost, 1866.

You've heard of May/December marriages, but unmarried life is measured in afternoons, not months or seasons.  (We like how someone named Penny gives her two cents on all this.)  The Afternoon of Unmarried Life by Anne Judith Penny, 1859.   See also The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

"How to get into this book."  From English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, 1890.  See Machinarium Verbosus: A Curiosity Cabinet of Gadgets to Transform Any Book & Reader, To Be Sure.

Magic, White and Black by Franz Hartmann, 1890.  See The Young Wizard's Hexopedia.

"Fresh Finds, too late for room in their proper place."  From Handbook of the Old-Northern Runic Monuments of Scandinavia and England by George Stephens, 1884.

Two London Fairies by George Robert Sims, 1906.

Courtesy of the Library and Archives Canada.

Being in the title isn't necessarily all it's cracked up to be.  Peter, A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero by Francis Hopkinson Smith, 1912.

Continuous Vaudeville by Will Martin Cressy, 1914.

Sir W. Scott's Demonology and Witchcraft, via the University of Glasgow Library.