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[james_schwartz]

...Now, I don't mean your whole book collection...we'd be in trouble then ~grin~....
Below are some highlights from my bookcase....by the way, in case your wondering, I'm asking to see what other people are reading and think enough of to own... if you want to know a person don't listen to their music...look at their books! Ready to peek at my shelves now? O.K.
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A CAPOTE READER by Truman Capote
CAPOTE: A BIOGRAPHY by Gerald Clark
A LOST LADY by Willa Cather
THE JUDGMENT OF PARIS by Gore Vidal
OUT OF AFRICA by Isak Dineson
JOURNALS by Andre Gide
THE COMPLETE WRITINGS by Oscar Wilde
THE COMPLETE PLAYS by William Shakespeare
ENOUGH ROPE by Dorothy Parker
TAKE IT LIKE A MAN by Boy George (the best bio ever! tooo funny)
FLESH AND BLOOD by Michael Cunningham
MYSTERIOUS SKIN by Scott Heim
SOUTHERN DISCOMFORT by Rita Mae Brown
A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED by Agatha Christie
MAUGHAM: A BOIGRAPHY
THE PAINTED VIEL by W. Somerset Maugham
THE BEATIFUL AND THE DAMNED by F. Scott Fitzgerald
THE ANDY WARHOL DIARIES by Andy Warhol
"short stories" by Colette

[Dick Diver]

My bookcase has CDs in it.

[azmuse]

i keep donating books these are a few that reside with me permanently
the far pavilions By m.m.kaye
angela's ashes & tis By frank mccourt
the complete works of w. shakespeare
knee deep in thunder By sheila moon
alice's adventures...& through the looking glass and what alice saw there By carroll
the killer angels By michael shaara
bridget jones: the edge of reason By helen fielding
russian fairy tales Collected by aleksandr afanastev
be the hu By harold klemp
silencing the past By michel-rolf trouillot
legacy of luna By julia butterfly hill
anthology of children's lit (started to read when i was 5-ish)
the world guide to gnomes, fairies, elves and other little people
tolkien...and more tolkien
gray's anatomy
let those who appear (poetry of kazuko shiraishi, saw her in s.f. with my brother, winner of the emperor's purple ribbon)
the giant jam sandwich
autobiography of malcom x
baum's 14 "oz" books, and queen zixi of ix, + some of ruth plumly thompson's "oz" books
the farthest shore By ursula leguin
tombs of atuan " "
gnomes By huygen
the sketch book By washington irving
the wise woman and other fantasy stories By george mcdonald (yeah george!!!!)

[james_schwartz]

~stares enviously at your irving sketch book~

[azmuse]

ah, it is in much loved tatters, do read it soon!!!

[Isagel]

Mm - I think our bookshelf are relatives.

I adore Capote! I have a book with short stories by him - I don´t know the original titel , but the Swedish title means "Music for chameleonts" That is one of my favorite books. Have you read it?

THE COMPLETE WRITINGS by Oscar Wilde - I have that as well. And The happy prince in an old print. I also have the complete plays by Wilde.

THE COMPLETE PLAYS by William Shakespeare - me too.
I also have modern "all works in one volume" collections of Poe, Donne and Blake.

SOUTHERN DISCOMFORT by Rita Mae Brown - I have Ruby fruit jungle
A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED by Agatha Christie . I do not have that one , but I have And then there where none.

THE PAINTED VIEL by W. Somerset Maugham -I have an old copy in white calfleather, set with gold.

I´ve read Vidal and Gide, but I don´t have any books by them.

[IWilKikU]

Ok, I live in a dorm in England, a long way from home. There's a charity shop (thrift store) called Oxfam here that does 5 paperbacks for 99p. So my shelves here are full of classics and such that I got from there. Very few new titles. Here goes.

Chekov - Plays
Conrad - Heart of Darkness and other Stories
Bernard Cornwell - Harlequin
Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
Umberto Eco - Foucault's Pendulum
Dickens - The Pickwick Papers
Nicholas Nicklby
Oliver Twist
Bleak House
Hard Times
Tale of Two Cities
T.S. Eliot - The Confidential Clerk
Dostoyevski - Crime and Punishment
Faulkner - As I lay Dieing
Gaskell - North and South
The Complete Illustrated Grimm's Fairy Tales
Hardy - Far from the Madding Crowd
Jude the Obscure
Robert Harris - Archangel
O. Henry - Short Stories
M.R. James - Collected Ghost Stories
Joyce - Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
Stephen King - Night Shift
Different Seasons
The Talisman
Four Past Midnight
The Green Mile
Thinner
On Writing
Hemmingway - The Old Man and the Sea
Robert Jordan - The Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World
The Wheel of Time: The Great Hunt
Kipling - The Jungle Book
Melville - Moby Dick
Arther Miller - The Crucible
Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Complete Unexpugated Scripts of the Original TV Series, Except for the Animation Bits
Mario Puzo - The Godfather
Kevin Sampson - Powder
Sir Walter Scott - Rob Roy
Ivanhoe
Salinger - Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare - Complete Works
Harold Bloom - Shakespeare, Invention of the Human
Shakespearian Insults
Stevenson - Treasure Island
The Black Arrow
Chuck Palahniuk - Choke
Heller - Catch-22
Swift - Gulliver's Travels
Twain - Prince and the Pauper
Pudd'nhead Wilson
Verne - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Whew, sorry, my bookshelf looks very small, but that took alot longer than I thought it would.

[faith]

Inersting. Actually I dont own so many of the books I like. Actually I dont own many books at all. (Excluding a lotta childrensbooks a row of Nancy Drews, Baby Sitter Clubs, Sweel Valley Highs, well, 4 shelves of similiar kinda books that I collected as younger.)

Here comes a list of my "great" books:

All the Harry Potter -books
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt (stolen from my mum when I discovered she owned it)
Autobiographies by the Spice Girls
A lotta books by LM Montgomery
Anne Frank biography (still unread)
The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit by Tolkien (my best frind loves them and has given me them thou Im not a big fan of them)
A lotta english classics that I have stolen from my mum and going to read this summer (includes Orwell, Salinger, Lawrence, Bronte, Golding and some other les famous ones)

That was about everything woth to mention. Can someone tell from this what kinda person I am?

[emily655321]

The only books I own personally are either those I couldn't find in my dad's crazy huge collection, or that someone's given me. Which till now has been fine...except dad's books can't come with me to school, so I'm kind of up the creek. A lot of it isn't literature, just those little 6x6in. novelty books people give for presents -- photos of cats, "How to be a Villain" (hilarious), etc. And half a dozen antique books, including a geography primer circa. 1840 (my pride and joy -- I know, it's nerdly). Also a couple textbooks I found at the dump but haven't attempted yet, including high school Russian 1. Other than that, not much, but here are the good ones...

Five of the Calvin & Hobbes books
Several poetry anthologies of varying themes
a book of Salvador Dali's stuff
The Jungle -- Upton Sinclair
Momo -- Michael Ende
Jude the Obscure -- Thomas Hardy
Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things (very cool. Go find it.)
Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky and Other Poems
A Clockwork Orange -- Anthony Burgess
Animal Farm -- George Orwell (1st Ed. )
Amphigorey Also -- Edward Gorey
The Hobbit; Lord of the Rings -- Tolkien
The Triangle Strike and Fire -- John F. McClymer (a collection of news articles from the event)

And that's about that. [edit: McClymer vs. MacClymer]

[Helga]

these are a few of my fave books in my bookcase...

the Shakespeare collection
Oscar Wilde collection
selected works by Edgar Allan Poe
two collections of Icelandic poets
lord of the rings by Tolkien
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
the Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald
short stories by Woody Allen
all books written by the Dalai Lama
The first epic poem, the story of Gilgamesh
animal farm by George Orwell
a farewell to arms by Hemingway
true at first light by Hemingway
the killer inside me by jim Thompson
mice and men by John Steinbeck
the color purple by Alice Walker
Dune by Frank Herbert
La valse aux adieux (the goodbye walts) by Milan Kundera
the mirror of her dreams by Stephen R. Donaldsson
The Ripley books by Patricia Highsmith
plays by Arthur Miller
The tenth man by Graham Greene
the complete works by H.C. Andersen


these my fave books like I said but I could write a lot more if I had more time.

[trismegistus]

Helga's onto a good thing. These are best-loved, stuff that I never tire of reading:

The Silmarillion - Tolkien
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
Little, Big - Crowley
Paradise Lost - Milton
King Lear - Shakespeare
Ender's Game - Card
The Crucible - Miller
Transformations of Myth Through Time - Campbell
Billy Budd - Melville
Cry, The Beloved Country - Paton
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - Ellison
Perceval - de Troyes
The Power of Myth - Campbell/Moyers
Huck Finn - Twain
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - Blake

... and then various poets to whom I keep turning - Keats, Doty, Clifton, Wordsworth, Rumi, Herrick, Yeats, Collins

[simon]

"Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Complete Unexpugated Scripts of the Original TV Series, Except for the Animation Bits"

Where did you find that kik?

As for my bookshelves I don't think it would be wise to list the contents of it as there are 3 bookcases in my room, three boxes in storage at my university and a few stacks lost under clutter and clothing. Lets just say that I have everything from picture books to Anne of Green Gables to Dickens and Shakespeare, to Another Roadside Attraction to biographies, westerns, sci-fi, very few romances, fantasy, and classics, and to name a few authors:
John Steinbeck
Roald Dahl
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Anne Mcaffery
Margaret Atwood
Mark Twain
William Faulkner,
and there are no more that I can see form this angle of the computer and I seem to be too lazy to get up and look.

[CBW]

I have so many books that I still have some in boxes from when we moved to our new house three years ago. I don't have enough book shelves here. And then I just keep adding more to those already on the shelves so that all my shelves have books on top and in front of books. I did try to keep them in categories: school books, sci-fi, historical, romance, horror, etc... But I just have way too many to keep doing that. My goal is to have half of my formal living room turned into a library with floor to ceiling book shelves.

[crisaor]

Nice thread. Here's my own:

The General Theory of Employmenyt, Interest,and Money (John Maynard Keynes)
Pirates and Emperors (Noam Chomsky)
On Television (Pierre Bourdieu)
Thought and Action (Pierre Bourdieu)
Economy and Society (Max Weber)
Microeconomic Theory (John Gould & Edward Lazear)
The Prince (Nicholas Machiavelli)
The Dumas Club (Arturo Pérez Reverte)
Happiness TM (Will Ferguson)
Ulysses (James Joyce)
1984 (George Orwell)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)
La Morte D'Arthur (Thomas Mallory)
Bushido (Inazo Nitobe)
The Complete Father Brown (G.K. Chesterton)
The Man Who Was Thursday (G.K. Chesterton)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Ends and Means (Aldous Huxley)
Analects (Confucius)
Das Nibelungenlied (Anonymus)
Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus (Mary Shelley)
Eneid (Virgil)
The Book of the Dead (Anonymus)
The Code of the Samurai (Daidoji Yuzan)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (R.L. Stevenson)
Utopia (Thomas Moore)
The Divine Comedy (Dante Allighieri)
Hamlet, Macbeth, and Other Plays (William Shakespeare)
A Midsummer's Night Dream (William Shakespeare)
King Lear (William Shakespeare)
Othello (William Shakespeare)
The Tempest (William Shakespeare)
Dialogs (Jorge Luis Borges)
The Book of Sand (Jorge Luis Borges)
Fictions (Jorge Luis Borges)
The Aleph (Jorge Luis Borges)
Poetic Play (Jorge Luis Borges)
Theogony (Hesiod)
The Iliad (Homer)
The Odyssey (Homer)
Abel Sánchez (Miguel de Unamuno)
The Silmarillion (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Lord of The Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Complete Tragedies (Aeschylus)
The Metamorphosis and Other Tales (Franz Kafka)
Faust (J. W. von Goethe)
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
The Paradise Lost (John Milton)
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Art of War (Sun Tzu)
Don Quijote de la Mancha (Miguel de Cervantes)
Arabian nights (Anonymus)
The Forty Seven Ronin (Anonymus)
Ancient Irish Poems (Anonymus)
Don Juan Tenorio (José Zorrilla)
Major Edda (Anonymus)
Minor Edda (Snorri Sturluson)
Beowulf and Other Anglo-saxon Poems (Anonymus)
The Volsunga Saga (Anonymus)
The Name of The Rose (Umberto Eco)
Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)
Egypt (Lewis Spence)
The Quest for the Holy Grail (Anonymus)
Cronic of an Anounced Death (Gabriel García Márquez)
The Golden Fleece (Robert Graves)
The Sandman Series (Neil Gaiman)
Swamp Thing (Alan Moore)
Watchmen (Alan Moore)
The Dark Knight Returns (Frank Miller)
The Asterix Series (Goscinny and Uderzo)
The Tintin Series (Hergé)

There's more than that, but I'm not listing photocopied books/texts and books on mathematics for space reasons.

[simon]

Well guys I counted all my books and discovered that I have 89 picture books, 267 books, 5 dictionaries and three boxes of books in storage, then also in my room are 6 library books and 4 loaned books, so I think I shall save you and myself from listing them all out.