list your BOOKCASE here

[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.:confused:

[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. :D)
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.

[verybaddmom]

as my books are all packed and i have thirty six boxes of them, i am going to skip contributing too much to this thread except to say that i have many books and still dont feel i have enough.
*dreams aloud*
one day i intend to have a library in my home, complete with the ladder that runs along the room to reach the high ones and many comfy chairs with perfect lighting. of course, in my dream home, there is also a tim hortons franchise in my library with a smiling dude always ready to hand me a cup of fresh hot coffee fixed precisely how i want it, thoroughly stirred.
*sigh*
back to packing....

[Love to Read]

I have four boxes of books, not including books- novels and school books, that I have to read for school that are in other bins. That also doesn't include the children books I own and the entire wall of books my parents have with boxes still in the attic and three other shelves full. I also weekly go the library and check out 10-12 books. But authors I own and love:

Georgette Heyer
Emilie Loring
Alexander Dumas
Jane Austin
Tolkein
C.S. Lewis
David Eddings
Tamora Pierce
Patricia Wrede
Linda Chaikin
Charles Dickens
Angela Elwell-Hunt
Mercedes Lackey

And lots more. I read practically anything I can get my hands on.

[Dunpeal]

What are your thoughts on The Three Musketeers?
I plan on reading that one...

[Love to Read]

I liked the book. My favorite by Dumas is THe Count of Monte Cristo, but I like the 3 Musketeers and Man in the Iron Mask as well. For that matter I liked all the movies for these as well. Some more than others but still.

[Dunpeal]

well... not really a book case...
I guess you could call it a work in progress...

titles with a # indicate that I have not started reading said title

- Dune (Frank Herbert)
- "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (Robert Louis Stevenson)
- [I]'Salem's Lot (Stephen King)
- Road To Perdition (Max Allan Collins and Richard Piers Rayner)
- Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
- First King of Shannara (Terry Brooks)
- The Golden Compass (Philip Pullman)#
- Dracula (Bram Stoker)#
- Dune Messiah (Frank Herbert)#
- The Amazing Spider-Man Essential vol. 1 (Stan Lee, Steve Ditko and friends)
- The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
- The Tomb and Other Tales (H.P. Lovecraft)
- your own suggestion(s) here

anyone out there read Sword of Shannara? Caves of Steel?


"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another." (Ambrose Bierce)

[Art]

Here is a selection of my favourites from my bookcase:

The Drowned and the Saved, The Periodic Table - Primo Levi
The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall, The Outsider - Albert Camus
Ancient Wisdom, Modern World - The Dalai Lama
Roads to Freedom Trilogy, Nausea, Being and Nothingness - Jean-Paul Sartre
Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
The Illiad, The Odyssey - Homer
Confessions of a Mask, Forbiddon Colours - Yukio Mishima
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Siddartha - Hermann Hesse
Utopia - Thomas More

[jesse sutton]

Writings of Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius
Rafael Sabatini - Bellarion
Voltaire - Candide and other writings
William Faulkner - Selected Short Stories
Joseph Conrad - Typhoon
- Youth
Sir Walter Scott - Ivanhoe
R.L Stevenson - Treasure Island
Hemingway - Islands in the Stream
- The Old Man And The Sea
- For Whom The Bell Tolls
- A moveable Feast
- A Farewell To Arms
J.R.R Tolkien - Lord of the Rings trilogy
- Silmarillion
- Hobbit
- Unfinished Tales
Anne Rice - Complete Vampire Chronicles
James Joyce - Ulysses
Homer - Iliad
- Odyssey
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground
- Crime And Punishment
Hagakure - The Way of the Samurai
Sun Tzu - The Art Of War
C.S Lewis - Complete Chronicles of Narnia
Dan Brown - Da Vinci Code
George Orwell - Animal Farm
- 1984
H.G Wells - Complete Works
Shakespeare - Complete Works
Nostradamus - Various Writings
Friedrich Nietzche - The Antichrist
Harry Potter - Five Books
R.A Salvatore - Dark Elf Trilogy
- Icewind Dale Trilogy
Robert Jordan - Wheel of Time Books (10)
Jack Kerouac - On The Road
James Clavell - Shogun
Aldous Huxley - Doors of Perception
- Brave New World
Robert Ludlum - Bourne Trilogy
Orson Scott Card - Atlantis
- Ender Saga (6 books)
J.D Salinger - Catcher In The Rye
Alexandre Dumas - Count Of Monte Cristo
Oscar Wilde - Picture Of Dorian Gray
William Gibson - Bridge Trilogy
Miyamoto Mushashi - Go Rin no Sho (A book Of Five Rings)
BEOWULF
GILGAMESH
Jonathon Swift - Gullivers Travels
John Milton - Paradise Lost
Herman Hesse - Siddhartha
Kurt Vonnegut - Sirens of Titan
- Slaughterhouse-five
Virgil - The Aenied
Jack London - Call Of The Wild
Sophocles - Oedipus Trilogy
Tim Leary - Tibetan Book Of The Dead
Thomas More - Utopia
Stephen King - It
- Carrie
- The SHining
John Steinbeck - Cup Of Gold
- Of Mice And Men
- Grapes Of Wrath
William Golding - Lord Of The Flies
Joseph Heywood - The Berkut

I have lots more, but those are the highlights.

[EAP]

I have around 100-150 books in my bookshelf.

Some of the important ones [Atleast for me] are,

It
Lord of the Rings
Hobbit
Tom Jones
The Long Walk
The Woven Path
Lord of the Flies
To Kill a Mockingbird
Godfather
Dark Zone
Heidi
Swiss Family Robinson
Birdsong
Mill on the Floss
Jude the Obscure
The Return of the Native
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Noble winning book [Forgot the name]
Chaos in the Solar System
Framley Parsonage
Four Past Midnight
Catch-22
The Three Muskeeters
Kane and Abel
As the Crow Flies
The Rainmaker
The Firm



And then there are books which I have on my computer. [Project Guntenberg and others] and they number atleast 200.

[Sirius]

Listing my whole bookcase would be rediculous.. Some of the books worth mentioning...

Leslie Silko - Ceremony
N. Scott Momaday - The Way To Rainy Mountain, House Made Of Dawn
James Welch - Winter In The Blood, Fools Crow
Neihardt, Black Elk - Black Elk Speaks
Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet, Broken Wings, Wisdom Of Gibran
Hemingway - A Farewell To Arms, The Sun Also Rises, Old Man And The Sea, For Whom The Bell Tolls, Green Hills Of Africa, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Winner Take Nothing, In Our Time
Kerouac - On The Road, The Dharma Bums
Hesse - Demian, Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, Reflections
Joseph Campbell - Power Of Myth, Myths To Live By, Inner Reaches Of Outer Space
Jacobus - A World Of Ideas
Norton Intro To Poetry
American Literary Thought
Poe - Complete Tales And Poems
T.S. Elliot - The Wasteland & Other Poems
Campbell - Portable Jung
The Holy Bible
Easwaren - The Upanishads, The Bhagavad Gita, The Dhammapada
Secrets of The Lotus
Lao Tzu - Tao Te-Ching
D.T. Suzuki - Awakening OF Zen
Shunryu Suzuki - Zen Mind, Beginners Mind
Kapleau - Straight To The Heart Of Zen
Wilhelm - Change (Eight Lectures On The I Ching)
Salinger - Catcher In The Rye
Machiavelli - The Prince
Tolkein - Lord of The Rings
Mark Twain - Huckleberry Finn
Hoyles Rules Of Games
Huxley - Brave New World
Kafka - Basic Kafka
Heller - Franz Kafka
Camus - The Stranger, Myth of Sisyphus
Dostoevsky - Crime And Punishment, The Brothers Karamozov
Homer - Iliad/Odyssey
Ellison - Invisible Man
Faulkner - The Sound And The Fury
Fitzgerald - Tender Is The Night, The Great Gatsby
Charles Dickens - A Tale Of Two Cities
William Hughes - A High Wind In Jamaica
James Joyce - Ulysses, Dubliners, Portrain Of The Artist As A Young Man
Thomas Mann - Confessions Of Felix Krull, Six Early Stories, The Magic Mountain, Death In Venice
Nobokov - Bend Sinister
Yann Martel - Life Of Pi
Huxley - Brave New World
Burgess - A Clockwork Orange

wow, that was more than I thought...

[Love to Read]

[QUOTE=Dunpeal]

anyone out there read Sword of Shannara? [


I read all of Terry Brooks books except the last three new ones he has just come out with. I loved all of them. Kind of Tolkeinish but different enough. I liked the ones after the first one in the Shannara series like the Elfstones of Shannara. I also liked his other series that have nothing to do with Shannara. I can't remember the names, but do recommend them all.

[Capnplank]

Couldn't tell you what all is on my bookshelves, but I can tell you what I got at Half-Price books for something like $10.24 on one of my last visits:

Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
The Sketch Book, by Washington Irving
Of Human Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham
Strait is the Gate, by Andre Gide
The Magician of Lublin, by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Rembrandt's Hat, by Bernard Malamud
Deliverence, by James Dickey
The Executioner's Song, by Norman Mailer
The Plague, by Albert Camus
Victory, by Joseph Conrad
Travels With Charley, by John Steinbeck
The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Go Down, Moses, by William Faulkner
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Reflections in a Golden Eye, by Carson McCullers

Went again yesterday but I don't recall all of what I got... A Happy Death by Camus, um, a collection of Roald Dahl short stories... other stuff I can't think of.

Anyhoo

[Kiwi Shelf]

Capnplank: I am so envious, how come I can never find good books at the cheap stores? :(

[Monica]

i love buying books but sometimes the prizes are way too high. for me, at least. that's why i borrow books from about 10 libraries at the same time. anyhow, when i love some book i just have to have it... i generally like to have a lot of books around me and my room is full of them, of course. some of them are

The Catcher in the Rye
Clockwork Orange
Tales and Poems by EA Poe
The Name of The Rose
Foucault's Pendulum
a lot of Shakespeare
Heart of Darkness
Nostromo
Bridge to Terabithia
Three Men in a Boat
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Around the World in 80 Days

[atreides]

Well since I moved to another country, I was unable to take my beloved book collection with me, because it equalled 3 boxes, lol. Anyway I will try remember what I had in there, I started it from about the age of 8, so there are a few kids books.

I am David-Anne Holm (possibly my favourite kids book)
The Neverending Story-Micheal End (close second)
Little Women-Loiuse May Alcott
The Jungle Book-Rudyard Kipling
Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer-Mark Twain
Gullivars Travels
Treasure Island
Heidi
Moobli
The Thief of Always-Clive Barker
To Kill a Mockingbird
Journey into the centre of the Earth-Verne
The Narnia collection (I bought this 6 months ago, lol)
+ some fantasy/sci fi kids books like the Redwall series, some Paul Jennings, Isabelle Carmody and Victor Kelleher (my favourite authors as a kid)

Then I have my year 11 and 12 literature books, my favourites are
Hamlet
Othello-Shakespeare
Heart of Darkness-Joseph Conrad (the horror, the horror!)
A Streetcar Named Desire (Stelllaaaaaaa!)

And then there are some others I bought out of my own interest later
Great Expectations, Hard Times, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two cities, Oliver Twist-Charles Dickens (half of these unread, Dickens is a handful)
The Gulag Archipelego, the Brothers Karmokov-Dochovesty? havnet read either yet.
War And Peace (unread)
Catch 22 (everyone must read this!)
Catcher in the Rye (same with this)-Salinger
A Farewell to Arms-Hemingway
The Grapes of Wrath
The Greats Gatsby
Wuthering Heights-Bronte
Lord of the Flies
A large collection of the Chronicles of Thomas Convenent (6-8 books)
Angelas Ashes and 'Tis (first one has to be one of the saddest books of all time)

I think thats it, of my personal collection. I had to look at some other lists to jog my memory, lol. The reason I havent read many of the literature books is because I got too much into computers, lol and never had the time. That and work and my final year of university last year, then I moved and had to leave them all behind *cries*

most of those books I bought second hand as well.

[atreides]

oh yes, I see many people have A Clockwork Orange. I read it just recently and besides struggling through the first chapter trying to understand his weird language, I thought it was a pretty weird book and I didnt quite get the ending.

[subterranean]

Orwell's 1984
Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
Sartre's Age of Reason
Bram Stoker's Draculla
Dostoevsky's Poor People
Tolkien's Lord Of the Rings
Hellar's Catch 22
Twain's The Diary of Adam And Eve
Verne's JOurney to the Center of the Earth, Leagues under the Sea, Around the World
Lao Tzu's Tao Teh Ching
The Bhegavad Githa
The Bible
Hardy's The choosen Stories of Thomas Hardy
Elliot's Silas Marner
Shely's Frankenstein
Damon Knight's 100 years of Science Fiction
Kipling's Jungle Book
Sophie's World
Doyle's The return of sherlock Holmes
Kissinger's Does America Needs Foreign Policy
Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men
Wilde's Dorian Gray, De Profoundis, The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Eco's Five Pieces of Moral

[emily655321]

Az -- did you read the American or English version? That is, originally back in 1960 Burgess could only get a New York publisher to take it, and only on the condition that they could cut the 21st chapter, which goes all Disney and awful and totally unnecessary. That was the version Kubrick read when he made the movie, so that's how the movie ended ("I was cured, all right.") Later, when it was popular, a London publisher released the full, original version, complete with cally old chapter 21.

I didn't think it was really great as literature, but Burgess' ability to twist the reader's own gut "moral" reaction to the violence I found really wonderful. Basically, it's a really well-thought-out and carefully-crafted mind-****. :D I didn't like it at first, then halfway through I realized I wanted it to go on forever, no matter where the plot went.

That, and the language was just so dang fun. :D

[edit] Sorry, I'm off on my pet subject again.

[amuse]

um :confused:

[emily655321]

Sorry, Az. :D I was reading too fast - thought "atreides" said "amuse." :p *bonk*
SO, readdressing the above comments to ATREIDES. :D

[atreides]

Um Im not sure, because I got it out at the library and dont have it anymore. What was chapter 21 about?

I think I didnt like it because the main character is such an awful person who wrecks so many lives, I wanted some justice, and there never was any.

[emily655321]

;) I think you missed the point of the book... oh well, guess it's not for everybody. (Well, I mean, obviously.) Maybe it only works if you have repressed-anger issues. :p In life I'm virtually allergic to any type of conflict, but in books and movies I *always* root for the bad guy; "justice" -- or *especially* repentence on the villain's part -- ruins a story for me.

Which is why I hate Chapter 21. Chapter 20 ends with, "I was cured, all right." Then 21 is a recap of what's been going on in the weeks since, and Alex starts to grow weary of the baddiwad life and carries around a newspaper clipping of a little baby (his "son"). :eek: :confused: :mad: Then he meets up with Pete and Pete's new wife in the Korova, while drinking *chai* instead of a milkplus, and then they leave and he looks at the pic of "his son" all longingly. It's supposed to represent how the State's attempts to "reform" only corrupt further, while when left to one's own an individual can eventually just straighten out of due course. Or something like that. God knows.

Damn, I hate that chapter.

[atreides]

oh right, that was the final chapter. Yes I read that, I thought it didnt follow in with the story very well.

I have a lot of repressed anger issues. Actually that defines my personality very well. I still didnt identify with Alex, I wanted to kill him instead. A character I identify much more with (though probably everyone does) is the boy in Catcher of the Rye (forgot his name).

[emily655321]

Holden Caulfield. That's funny, I couldn't stand him. I thought he was such a bratty hypocrite (no offense).

P.S. Talking to myself again; was it the Korova in the last chapter? Gah, I hate forgetting details. Looks like I'll have to read the whole book again. :p

[Edzabeen]

It would be hard to mention all the books I like, there are many writers which are popular only in my country but of course I also like giants like Duma, Verne, Orvel, London, Twain, Dickens, Shakespeare, Tolkien and many others. Recently found how amazing the stories of Jorge Luis Borges are, like Library of Babel and others.

[Capnplank]

Holden Caulfield. That's funny, I couldn't stand him. I thought he was such a bratty hypocrite (no offense).

I always thought that was the point, and why I liked him -- every kid that age is a giant bumbling hypocrisy of ideals.

[emily655321]

Oh, okay. I guess I get it. But those kids always annoyed the heck out of me. :p

[simon]

Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway


Somebody recently did a spinoff of that book called Mr. Dalloway, wrote about their lives from his point of view. I think the author is Robin Lippincott, incase anybody is interested.

[baddad]

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.

......sweet...lots of great stuff there!

[SleepyWitch]

ok.. i'm from Germany but living in England right now.. so in Germany i've got(they're all in English unless otherwise indicated ; ) ):
- reference books (about trees, astronomy, religions, politics..)
- text books and uni stuff (Linguistics, Brit Lit, English Language, Geography)
- Illiad and Ulysee (19th c. prose translation, German)
- 3 vols of "Brother Cadfael" (read), a handful of Terry Pratchett's discworld novels (read)
- Brave New World (read it in German at school.. ages and ages ago)
- The Great Gatsby (read it at school :rage: )
- A Prayer for Owen Meany
- Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion :banana:
- lots of English classics I bought as special offers or at Oxfam and can't be bothered to read :confused:
- a handful of German books
- some books that don't really fit any category

in England i've got:
- The Norton Shakespeare :banana:
- lots of 17/18/19th c. novels i had to read for "The European Novel" ( i think i finished 3 out of ...lots): Emma, Middlemarch, Madam Bovary (finished :) ), The Princess de Cleves (finished :) ), The Sorrows of Young Werther (dito), Anna Karenina (uh.. i think got started on that one :) ), Crime and Punishment (got started), Tom Jones (160/800), The thingy and the wossname :) the one about Julien Sorel.. The Scarlet and the Black,......
- The Mists of Avalon
- 3 vols of Darkover omnibus
- I,Claudius and Claudius the God
- Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
- Foundation, Second Foundation, Foundation and Empire by Asimov
- vol 2 of the Mission Gamma Series (Star Trek DS9)
- some assorted odds and bits :)

[frozenlight]

to be honest, i don't own any books, except for those i used to read as a kid :D
of course, my parents have this huge book shelf that covers a whole wall in the living room and that no one really knows what's on (there are at some places 3 rows of books placed one in front of the other... gee, we really should move to a bigger place :rolleyes: ). so when i want to read a book i'd rather borrow it then try to look for it in there. and when i really want to buy one... i wait for mum or dad's birthday :D

[shortysweetp]

My shelf-
Jane Austen-Sense and Sensibility; Persuasion; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Emma; Lady Susan, the Watsons, and Sanditon

Stephen King-Four Past Midnight; From a Buick 8; Dreamcatcher; Everything is Eventual; Hearts in Atlantis
Charlotte Bronte- Jane Eyre, Villette
Emily Bronte- Wurthering Heights
Alcott-Little Women
Chaucer-Canterbury Tales
Swift-Gulliver's Travels
Grimm Brothers- Grimm's Fairy Tales
William Golding- Lord of the Flies
Harper Lee- To Kill a Mockingbird
Gustave Flaubert- Madame Bovary
Milne-Winnie the Pooh
Field guide of north american trees
4 different Bibles
Wilkinson-The Dream Giver
Louis Torres-Destined for Hell
Dictionary, spanish-english dictionary

husband's shelf-
Charles Bukowski-Women, Hollywood, Post Office, Tales of Ordinary Madness
George Orwell- 1984, Animal Farm
Ken Kesey-One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
William S. Burroughs-Naked Lunch
Vonnegut- God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater; Cat's Cradle; Breakfast of Champions; Slaughter-house Five

[mister_noel_y2k]

you know i would probably be like many of you here and have around 500 odd books that ive collected over the years and kept since childhood to adolescence to adulthood but my philosophy is that if you dont like a book then you ought to give it to charity and thus allow someone else to read it who might enjoy it. so i have about 175 books and though i would have more, these are the only ones i really enjoyed and will probably re-read later on in life. as for the others, i pass them on so that charity shops can make some money and because books are meant to be read and so why keep books one will never read again?

[IWilKikU]

to be honest, i don't own any books, except for those i used to read as a kid
of course, my parents have this huge book shelf that covers a whole wall in the living room and that no one really knows what's on (there are at some places 3 rows of books placed one in front of the other... gee, we really should move to a bigger place ). so when i want to read a book i'd rather borrow it then try to look for it in there. and when i really want to buy one... i wait for mum or dad's birthday

You should dig through those books, and pick one that looks interesting. You can find some gems in your parents bookcases.

[Scheherazade]

So it seems like I am the only one who avoids buying books... On my books shelves, there are reference books (Science, IT, Philosophy, Psychology, Dictionaries) and the books I borrow from the library.

[lhaeber]

I have about one thousand, always buying, though now I like the larger softcover, cheaper than the hard. I don't have as many classics as I should, but lots of reference material like scheh. I tried to give away a bunch last year, no one would take them, seems there's an overload where I live of people like mister noel. Maybe if I had more popular books, current authors, etc...What was sad, though, went to women's shelter with lots and they said no thanks, but do you have any romance?
I have moved alot in the last few years and it's overwhelming to box them up and they're heavyyyy. Things will change for me, now there's audiobooks, the online thing and no more room on my shelves.

[mono]

so i have about 175 books and though i would have more, these are the only ones i really enjoyed and will probably re-read later on in life.
My bookshelf probably contains an equivalent amount. I kept most of my books from childhood, then kept building and building to my collection; now I have a shelf taller than I stand, and almost just as wide, containing everything from Dante Alighieri to W.B. Yeats.

[subterranean]

True Kik,

I went to my cousin's house sometime ago and found this collections of books from her dad (my uncle, who passsed away years ago ( bless his soul). There are lots of great books and expensive encyclopedias. Too bad that many of the books have been ruin by fungus and bookworms :(. I asked my cousin few books which I found very interesting and conditions are still good, but she refused to give them. I also told her to donate some of the books to public library. I understand that she wants to keep his dad's belongings but it such a waste if she doesn't take care of them as well.. And she doesn't like to read either...Now those books would just rotten there in the shelves without other people having the chance to search the treasures in them.


You should dig through those books, and pick one that looks interesting. You can find some gems in your parents bookcases.


I havent bought any new books in almost 2 months cause I still have some pending books in my shelves which I havent got the time to read.

[amuse]

my folks gave away my childhood books to my nephew, which is all very well and good, but after we'd grew somewhat older, i asked for them back - and my sister had given them to goodwill! like my disney collections - i don't even remember the names of, but they were white and had stories and pictures of peter pan, alice in wonderland, dumbo, pinnochio, and snow white that you could find nowhere else!!!!! :bawling:

she returned my copy of the giant jam sandwich, though.

i miss my national geographic world and cricket (http://www.cricketmag.com/ProductDetail.asp?pid=2) magazines, too...cricket was the Best. must see if i can get back issues from the 70's.

[subterranean]

Well personally, I never gave away my book....No Way...But I DO take a good care of all of them :nod:

[NoRegrets]

Tough question, since I own so many. But here's a few of my most favorite.

The World According to Garp--John Irving
The Hotel New Hampshire
A Prayer for Owen Meaney
The Princess Bride--William Goldman
Watership Down--Richard Adams
Shardik
The Once and Future King--T.H. White
The Neverending Story--Michael Ende
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy--Douglas Adams
Ender's Game--Orson Scott Card
A Canticle for Leibowitz--Walter Miller

I love all of these and have read each of them many times. I hope this helped.

[Miss Darcy]

Okay, here are some which I can remember, therefore which are noteworthy. In alphabetical order:

Austen, Jane: Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility
Bronte, Charlotte: Jane Eyre (twice...I liked the cover of the Penguin edition so I bought it ;)), Shirley, The Professor, Villette (after Jane Eyre, my favourite is Shirley)
Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights
[I've got some Anne Bronte too, Agnes Grey, that is, but I didn't find that so noteworthy so I'm leaving it out]
Conan Doyle: The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, The Best of Sherlock Holmes, Te Lost World and Other Stories
Chekhov, Anton: The Kiss and Other Stories (Penguin), Selected Stories (Wordsworth)
Dickens, Charles: Now where do I start. Probably with David Copperfield, that's a D...Great Expectations...Nicholas Nickleby...Oliver Twist...that's about it, I think.
Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo (my favourite), The Three Musketeers, and The Man in the Iron Mask (I want to get Twenty Years After as well).
Eliot, George: Middlemarch
F...can't remember anybody from F! Skipping down...though there's definitely somebody noteworthy I'm missing on...
Hardy, Thomas: Far From the Madding Crowd, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, The Mayor of Casterbridge
Hugo, Victor: Why is it I love the name Victor. Les Miserables (absolutely thrilling apart from the dull part at the beginning) and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (I was so sad about the e...well I don't want to ruin it for anybody who hasn't read it).
Leroux, Gaston: The Phantom of the Opera
Montgomery, L.M.: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, Anne of Windy Willows, Anne's House of Dreams, Anne of Ingleside
Nietszche, Friedrich: A Nietszche Reader
Pushkin, Alexandre: Eugene Onegin
Shakespeare, William (at last!): All's Well that Ends Well, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, King Lear, Much Ado about Nothing, Twelfth Night...will buy more in time
Virgil: The Aeneid
Wilde: An Ideal Husband, Lady Windemere's Fan,The Importance of Being Earnest, and others.

Must go now, but you get the general idea. I agree about the not being able to post the whole bookshelf, I'd be here for years (if I was including my parents' as well...)!

Darcy

[mister_noel_y2k]

miss darcy, you missed out fitzgerald for f

:banana:

gatsby the man!

[lhaeber]

I wonder,how does everyone organize their books? And what does everyone think if there were a fire or something and they lost them? What book would be the first replacement book? What one book would you miss the most? And do you lend your books out? And do I really need to know all this, hmmmmmmmmmm???

[mono]

I wonder,how does everyone organize their books? And what does everyone think if there were a fire or something and they lost them? What book would be the first replacement book? What one book would you miss the most? And do you lend your books out? And do I really need to know all this, hmmmmmmmmmm???
Interesting questions, lhaeber.
I sort mine by alphabetical order, according to the author's last name.
If all of my books burned in a fire, or some similar disaster, I think I would miss most the following books: firstly, all of my school books, The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow), The Complete Essays and Poems of Emerson, Walden and other Essays by Henry David Thoreau, Sonnets from the Portugeuse by Elizabeth Barrett-Browning (a handmade copy, due to sentimental value), The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence, The Novels of Charlotte and Emily Brontë (also due to sentimental value), Poems and Letters by Emily Dickinson, The Alphabet Vs. the Goddess and Art and Physics by Leonard Shlain, Markings by Dag Hammarskjöld, and The Complete Poems (first edition) by Robert Frost.
As the final question, I rarely lend my books - only to people I trust, which, even to them, I have lost some of my favorite books, such as Breakfast at the Victory: The Mysticism in Ordinary Experiences by James Carse.

[shortysweetp]

i would miss all my Jane Austen books and they would be the first replaced which would be hard considering some are hardback barnes and noble classics which i havent seen in awhile. i never lend my books out, my husband has and now is a few short. plus i borrowed one from a friend and lost it and felt horrible about it. i had the whole little house on the praire series, some vc andrews books, more stephen king, and like 30 goosebump books that were mine until i moved out and they were given away i guess. i was not happy i would have loved to be able to pass my little house books to my daughter. some people have no respect for books

[bobthejeep]

I wonder,how does everyone organize their books? And what does everyone think if there were a fire or something and they lost them? What book would be the first replacement book? What one book would you miss the most? And do you lend your books out? And do I really need to know all this, hmmmmmmmmmm???

1) I go by author. If there is more than one book by the same author, then by title-- unless it's a series, then it's chronological. :)

2) If there was a fire and I lost all my books, I'd probably move into the library.

3) The first book to replace would be the Bible (of course). Second would be Ordinary People by Judith Guest or Hamlet.

4) I DO NOT lend out my books. I will only let one of my friends touch my books because I know she is just as crazy about them as me.

[bobthejeep]

Here are the highlights (and it was hard to cut the list down):

Catch Me if You Can
Fahrenheit 451
The Secret Garden
A Clockwork Orange
Ender's Game
Ender's Shadow
Walk Two Moons
Count of Monte Cristo
The Yellow Wallpaper
The Princess Bride
Ordinary People
Stephen King (Dark Tower series and other non-horror)
Bourne Identity
Bourne Supremacy
Bourne Ulitmatum
Harry Potter
Holes
Love Story
Shakespeare
Huckleberry Finn
Roswell High series
Brave New World
The Importance of Being Earnest

[IWilKikU]

I do alpha by author, then chronological by publication if there's more than one per author, unless there's a sequal published out of chronology (like King's Black House).

If I lost all my books I would miss my sexy leatherbound classics. I have nice editions of Shakespeare's complete, Notre Dame de Peris, and a collection of writings by Voltaire. The first ones to be replaced would be the first ones I found in a used book-shop for cheep. You can find some treasures there.

I lend out, give away, and lose books all the time. Usually it makes me sad, because I love my books, but then I think about the person who finds it and reads it and has thier entire life reformed and becomes famous all because of a book they found on a parkbench. Then I become insanely jelous because that was my book dammit!

[dumptruckrabbit]

wow you sound super organised, mine has vague sections along the lines of philosophy, art, french lit., german lit, russian lit., american lit. feminist, psychology, but mostly is potluck if i happen to find anything in it.
here are my speciall favorites on the bookshelf of my heart ( and also, less metaphorically, on my shelf made of wood)
alice in wonderland
the portable Nietzche (portable if youre in the habit of carrying around a wheelburrow wherever you go)
my vladimir Nabakov collection
Dostoyevsky collection (house of the dead, rime and punishment, bros. Karamazov, the village of stepanchikovo...)
kathy acker collection
nathalie sarraute
encyclopedia of philosophy
Satre, camus, beauvoir collection
chuck palanuihk- choke+ fight club
borges- labrynths
coupland-generation x
bs johnson- christie malries own double entry
Arthur Koestler- the act of creation, the ghost in the machine
well, thats some of them, i didnt realise there were as many...

[mtpspur]

Shelf 1: The Shadow paperback reprints, Rafael Sabatini paperbacks, Edgar Rice Burroughs Venus series plus The Mad King, Fu Manchu series, Zorro paperbacks, Godzilla novels

Shelf 2: Donald Hamilton's Matt Helm series, Adam Hall's Quiller series, H. Rider Haggard paperbacks (Alland Quaterman/She series), Murphy's Law books (humor)

Shelf 3: The Lester Del Ray Oz reprints--all of Baum and a good start on Thompson's run (stopped at #29), Highlander novels (TV series), Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series, 24 TV series novels, John Mortimer's Rumpole of the Bailey series

Shelf 4: Rafael Sabatini/Haggard hardcovers

Shelf 5: Haggard contnued, Talbot Mundy's Jimgrim novels, Shadow hardcovers by Gibsonwith 2of his Norgil the Magician series, Red Ryder/Dick Tracy Whitman editions, Complete Brigadier Gerard by A. Conan Doyle, misc OZ modern novels (HungaryTiger Press ediitons)

Shelf 6: Pollyanna hardcovers (7 of them), Batman material-numerous, Pulp facsimiles and reprint material--numeroud HighAdventure magazines

Shelf 7: Dashiell Hammet and numerous pulp detective anthologies including the Hardboiled Detectives

[bootyqueen]

Oliver Twist
Nicholas Nickleby
Bleak House
Little Dorritt
Great Expectations
Story of O
The Complete Works-Virginia Woolf
The Complete Works-Oscar Wilde
The Mists of Avalon
Hamlet
King Lear
Macbeth
The Great Gatsby
Madame Bovary
Jane Eyre
Dubliners
A few Harry Potter books
Little Women
Goddess-About Marilyn Monroe
The Sexual Life of Catherine M
She's Come Undone
Last of the Mohicans
The Satanic Verses
The Scarlet Letter
Women in Love
Anna Karenina
The Color Purple
Sula
Le Morte D'Arthur

I can't remember any more....:(

[Jarndyce]

Hmmmmm.

I think my favorite book at home is my first American edition of All Quiet on the Western Front. I'm a bit of a WWI freak.

Dickens, Hemingway, Garcia Marquez, etc., etc.

[Jarndyce]

Arthur Koestler- the act of creation, the ghost in the machine


I bought Ghost in the Machine at a used shop in Charleston a few years ago, but I've not read it yet. It sort of sits there, haunting me.

Darkness at Noon was one of those books that I'd call formative for me.

[Bookworm Cris]

Dunpeal said:

anyone out there read Sword of Shannara? Caves of Steel?

I´ve read Caves of Steel (Asimov) and loved it! I´m a big Asimov fan, and if you read Caves of Steel, continue reading the robot series, empire series and the foundation series (it´s a big story told in many books). Well, I loved it.

About the bookshelf... I usually borrow books from my brother, who has an entire room in his house full of books (and CDs and DVDs...) and does´nt like to lend them... except for me (hi hi..) ;) . Most of my favourites are his.
In my house, we have lots of technical books (from me, my husband and daughters), reference books, spiritual books (not only the Bible, but books about spiritualism, yoga, etc..). I also have my collection of childhood classics that I kept and gave to my daughters (they actually read some of them), full of good stuff. Not to mention some books I really like and have:
East of Eden (Steinbeck)
Ordinary People (Judith Guest)
The Prophet (Gibran Kahlil Gibran)
Illusions (Richard Bach)
The Thorn Birds (Colleen Mc Cullough)
A Way of Being (Carl R Rogers)

And many books in my computer, some still unread...

[ladykate]

So... wow... I'm so impressed at the copious number of books listed here... I organize my books by topic (well sort-of) and by ideas/ authors/ subjects I usually clump together in the deep recesses of my OCD mind... there is a method to my madness but it would be difficult for me to articulate. :-)

Here are some samples from my bookshelves: (in no particular order- It would be horrific to have to choose favorites... I already feel a little nauseus about choosing one on my profile)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
A Confederacy of Dounces by ... O'toole
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
All the Harry Potter Books!!!!
The Prophet by Kahil Gibran... I have a whole shelf for Gibran
The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice... an whole other shelf
C.S. Lewis- Till we have faces, The Naria Series, Mere Christianity, A Grief Observed... another shelf
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Dracula by Bram Stoker
A whole shelf of Thomas Merton books
Jesus' third way by Walter Wink
Jesus: A revolutionary biography by John Crossan
Who wrote the Bible by... Friedman
Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
The Bible
Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury
Portait of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
Catcher in the Rye- J.D. Salinger
there is too much... I'm too tired to continue

I also have a ton of text books/ research books etc... I dread moving... why can't I collect something light weight... like stamps? :-)

No, No, No! I would never abandon my books... they are like pocketsize friends to can carry with you...
oh ... books how they have changed my life...

Thank you for reading this....

Long Live Literature!

[valvaljean]

Here's a few from one shelf

Ship of Fools - Katherine Anne Porter
Victor Hugo - Graham Robb
The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway
One Hundred Best Poems for Boys and Girls
A Book of Famous Poems
The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Vinegar Puss - S.J. Perelman (hilarious)
Nouveau Larousse Elementaire (french dictionary totally in french that I would recommend to anyone who wants to make a tremendous improvement in french)

[Schokokeks]

I organise the books in my shelves chronologically according to the time they have come into my hands :), that is bottom shelf left contains my first books ever (laaarge writing and looots of drawings and pictures ;)), followed by teenager school books and so forth. As I have never changed the order, I can easily trace back what I have read five years ago, which is very interesting to see and smile at :). The last book I bought, now residing on the top shelf first from the right, is Antigone by Jean Anouilh. I'm already dreading the moment when I will move to university flat, having to leave all these books behind...

[grace86]

I thought I was the only one who dreamed of creating a library from one of the rooms in my house! But I, sadly, also have most of my books in boxes in the garage (AAAHH). So naturally they are not too organized. But here are some of my favorites:

Dracula - Bram Stoker
Precious Bane - Mary Webb
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
The Divine Comedy - Dante
Paradise Lost - John Milton
She - H.R. Haggard
King Soloman's Mines - H.R. Haggard
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings - Tolkein
Don Quixote - Cervantes
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
The Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Emma - Jane Austen
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant
The Life of Pi - Yann Martel

I have tons more, now they are going to rebel on me because they are not listed!!

[rachel]

Since we have over a thousand literary and reference books plus language books I will just do one shelf.
Pride and Prejudice_Jane Austen
Rebecca_ Daphne du Maurier
Sherlock Holmes_special edition -all original drawings by Paget-A.C.Doyle
law dictionary
legal reasoning
English Grammar for Students of French-jacqueline Morton
Celtic Myths and legends-Peter Berresford Ellis
Robinhood
Fellowship of the Ring-Tolkien
Two Towers-Tolkien
Return of the King-Tolkien
Illuminata-Maianne Williamson

[superunknown]

I've only been actively pursuing books in the past two months or so and I'm only 17 anyway, so there isn't too much. I've got some stuff in English, some in Spanish, some in French. This is just what I know from memory, so I may be missing out a few things. This is just my book shelf though, there's tons of others all around the house that are my parents'. The list is rather messy with no order whatsoever:

My intellectual shelf:
Shakespeare - "Hamlet," "The Merchant of Venice," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "Othello," "King Lear," "King Henry IV Part 1"
Dave Eggers - "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" and "You Shall Know Our Velocity"
Johnathan Safran Foer - "Everything Is Illuminated"
Mark Twain - "Tom Sawyer," "Huck Finn," and "The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories"
Milan Kundera - "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"
F. Scott Fitzgerald - "This Side of Paradise," "The Great Gatsby," "Tender is the Night"
George Orwell - "Animal Farm," "1984"
John Steinbeck - "Of Mice and Men"
Aldous Huxley - "Brave New World," "Eyeless in Gaza," "The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell"
William Golding - "Lord of the Flies"
J.D. Salinger - "The Catcher in the Rye"
Oscar Wilde - "The Complete Works"
Alexandre Dumas - "The Three Musketeers" (present from my grandmother, though I don't think I'll ever get round to reading this particular version, as I'd rather read it in the original French and anyway if I'm going to be reading anything by Dumas any time soon it'll be "The Count of Monte Cristo")
Jack Kerouac - "On the Road"
Ernest Hemingway - "The Essential Hemingway"
Arthur Miller - "Death of a Salesman"
William Faulkner - "As I Lay Dying"
Franz Kafka - "Metamorphosis"
Homer - "The Iliad," "The Odyssey"
James Joyce - "Dubliners"
Harper Lee - "To Kill a Mockingbird"
Toni Morrison - "The Bluest Eye"
Haruki Murakami - "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World"
Mikhail Bulgakov - "The Heart of a Dog"
Vladimir Nabokov - "Lolita"
Joseph Conrad - "Heart of Darkness and Other Stories"
H.P. Lovecraft - "The Call of Ctuhluh and Other Weird Stories"
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - "Cien años de soledad" and "Cronica de una muerte anunciada"
Mario Vargas Llosa - "La guerra del fin del mundo"
Jorge Luis Borges - "Ficciones"
Julio Cortazar - "Las armas secretas"
Ernesto Sábato - "Informe sobre ciegos"
Voltaire - "Candide"
Moliere - "L'ecole des femmes"
Guy de Maupassant - "Pierre et Jean"
Carama Laye - "L'enfant noir"
Jean Giraudoux - "La guerre de troie n'aura pas lieu"
Henri Alain-Fournier - "Le grand meaulnes"

Non-intellectual shelf:
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter books 1-6
J.R.R. Tolkien - "The Hobbit," "The Lord of the Rings"
Dan Brown - "Angels and Demons," "The Da Vinci Code"
Ben Elton - "High Society"
Stephen King - "Salem's Lot"
David Henderson - "'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: The Life of Jimi Hendrix"

And, on the very day I learn to speak Russian fluently, I'm gonna fill my shelves up with Dostoevsky first and foremost, then Tolstoy, then Bulgakov and Chekov and Gogol and all the rest. Till that day, I'd rather not go too much into Russian lit, as I prefer to read it the way it was meant to be read and, with a country that has such an amazing history of literature as Russia, it's well worth taking a few years learning the language to reap its bounty.

[superunknown]

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Noble winning book [Forgot the name]
Well, the Nobel prize is never awarded for any single book, but rather for an author's entire body of work and contributions to literature in general. But you're probably thinking of "100 Years of Solitude" ("Cien años de soledad") which is by far his most famous book.

[superunknown]

Two new additions: Herman Hesse's "Steppenwolf" and Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist."

[metal134]

I have maybe 125 books, but about a third of those haven't been read yet. The problem is that I buy them faster than I can read them and I buy books with the intention of building a huge back catolg of books for me to look forward to. I think I'm doing a marvelous job on that!
Anyway, here's some of my favorites that I have read:
Catch 22
Les Miserables
The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
Hammer of the Gods
It
The Sound and the Fury
Lord of the Flies

Here are some unread books that are on my short list:
The Count of Monte Cristo (though I need to get a new copy)
War and Peace
Atlas Shrugged (I know, a lot of LONG novels, lol!)
A Tale of Two Cities
Crime and Punishment
Paradise Lost

[bouquin]

I have books by: Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Paul Auster, Honoré de Balzac, John Banville, Samuel Beckett, Saul Bellow, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Karen Blixen, Mikhail Boulgakov, TC Boyle, Pearl S. Buck, Albert Camus, Truman Capote, Willa Cather, Miguel Cervantes, Michael Chabon, Bella Chagall, John Cheever, Agatha Christie, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, Roald Dahl, Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Maupassant, Kiran Desai, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, E.L. Doctorow, Alexandre Dumas, Marguerite Duras, Umberto Eco, TS Eliot, Jeffrey Eugenides, F Scott Fitzgerald, Gustave Flaubert, Richard Ford, Anne Frank, Michael Frayn, Jostein Gaarder, Damon Galgut, Gao Xingjian, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Erle Stanley Gardner, André Gide, Nicolai Gogol, Nadine Gordimer, Kenneth Grahame, Gunter Grass, Mark Haddon, Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Joseph Heller, Ernest Hemingway, Herman Hesse, Victor Hugo, Aldous Huxley, Henry James, Jerome K Jerome, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Rudyard Kipling, DH Lawrence, Jhumpa Lahiri, Thomas Mann, François Mauriac, Naguib Mahfouz, André Malraux, Yann Martel, Frank McCourt, Arthur Miller, Margaret Mitchell, Molière, Toni Morrison, Alfred de Musset, Vladimir Nabokov, VS Naipaul, Pablo Neruda, Joyce Carol Oates, George Orwell, Marcel Pagnol, DBC Pierre, Edgar Allan Poe, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson, Philip Roth, Arundhati Roy, Richard Russo, JD Salinger, Salman Rushdie, Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Alice Walker, Jonathan Franzen, Walter Mosley, Jose Saramago, Jean-Paul Sartre, David Sedaris, Dai Sijie, Mary Shelley, Isaac Singer, Jane Smiley, Ali Smith, Susan Sontag, John Steinbeck, Shakespeare, Jonathan Swift, Rabindranath Tagore, Amy Tan, Anton Chekov, William Trevor, John Updike, Voltaire, HG Wells, Edith Wharton, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, Stephen Crane, Ann Patchett, Harper Lee, Imri Kertesz, George Eliott, JM Coetzee, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, John Milton, Kazuo Ishiguro, John Kennedy Toole, Carson McCullers, Luigi Pirandello, Emile Zola

[Cien]

I own two entire rooms of books, but I don't have access to most of them at the time. I was put in a position where I had to throw some things in a few bags and GO, and that included only the books I needed to study from for academic reasons. The books I've immediately had to re-buy so as not to suffer too much:

One Hundred Years of Solitude: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: James Joyce
Disgrace: J. M. Coetzee

[Shalot]

The Bob Dylan Scrapbook
LOTR
Harbrace
The American Woman's Cookbook
Divided By A Common Language
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Women and Writing by Virginia Woolf
Photoshop Classic Effects
Comma Sutra
HTML
Edit Yourself
DHTML and CSS
Manual for Writers and Editors
Sixties - Years of Hope Days of Rage
The Art of Drawing and Creating Manga Women
The Secret Life of Bees
The No Ladies Detective Agency
The Wave in the Mind
Everything is Illuminated
Visual Basic.Net Programmers Cookbook
The Fifties - David Halberstam
A Brief History of Time -Stephen Hawking
The Chicago Manual of Style
On Writing - Stephen King
On Writing Well - William Zinser
Eats Shoots & Leaves
Mrs. Dalloway
Dress Your Family in Denim and Corduroy - David Sedaris
Financial and Managerial Accounting
SQL - A Beginners Guide



--- alright this is tiring ---- the rest of the shelves on this bookcase and the other one continue in much the same way (...coffee table book, novel, reference, cookbook, textbook, reference guide, novel, novel, textbook, reference, coffee table book, textbook, textbook, reference, novel, novel, textbook...)

Maybe one day I could go in and organize according to type.

:)

[F.Emerald]

Some of my favourites:

Plays - Shakespeare
Plays - Wilde
Lolita and Pale Fire - Nabokov
1984 - Orwell
Clockwork Orange - Burgess
Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
Norwegian Wood - Murakami
Trainspotting - Welsh
For Esme - with Love and Squalor and other stories - Salinger

[Alexei]

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Memorial do convento - José Saramago
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Kinkakuji - Yukio Mishima
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
Birdy - William Wharton
The Black Book - Orhan Pamuk
etc.

[Niamh]

Okay these are some of the books on my book shelves,

Terry Brooks-Sword of Shannara Trilogy-Heritage series-First king of Shannara -Voyage of the Jarle Shannara Series-High Druid Series
Word and the Void Series
Philip Pulman-His dark meterials trilogy
Trudi Canavan-The Bladk Magicians trilogy-Priestess of the White-Last of the Wilds
Brothers Grimm-Complete Fairytales
Bram Stoker-Dracula-The snakes Pass-The Lair of the Whitre Worm
Dominic Barker-Blart
Mart Stewart-The Merlin Trilogy<2-The wicked Day
M.Z.Bradley-mists of avalon
Helen Hollick-Pendragons Banner
Sue townsend-Adrian Mole Series-No.Ten
A.Macall Smith-No.1 Ladies detective agency series
Bronte-Bronte Omnibus
Jane Austen- Persuasion<2-P&P-S&S-Emma-Northanger Abbey-Mansfield park
Paulo Coelho-The Alchemist- The Zahir
John Steinback-East of Eden- Of mice and men
Michelle Magorian- Goodnoght Mr Tom
Donal Ruane- Tales in a rear View Mirror
Paul Fennell-Haunted
J.R.R.Tolkin-The Silmarillion-The Hobbit- Lotr Trilogy-Map of Middle Earth
Nick Horby-High Fidelity
Eoin Colfer-Artemis Fowl Series-The Wish List
Christopher Poalini-The Inheritance books(So Far)
Herbie Brennan- Faerie Wars Books
Gareth Nix-the Abhorsen books
Raymond E.Fiest-Riftwar saga-Prince of the Blood-The Kings Buccaneer
J.K.Rowling-Harry Potter series
Brian froud-Faeries-Good Faeries/Bad Faeries-Goblins-The Goblins of Labyrinth-The Faery Oracle-The Runes of Elfland
Mia Gallagher-Hellfire


To name a few. still loads piled on shelf, on top on bookcase, on floor, under bed, in bag etc.:D

[Niamh]

Ok am a little bored so heres a list of my antiquarian books that are on my bookshelf;

-1910 Thoms Directory
-1943 Thoms Directory
-1918 Stormonths English Dictionary library Edition
-c1900's Poetical works of Thomas Moore with sig of Count John Francis MaCormack (Has been Valued at €200-€300)
-1806 Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope by Joseph Warden
-1969 Jean in the Morning by Janet Sandison
-1921 Highroads of Geography forth book Royal school series by Thomas Nelson and sons
-1926 beginners Ancient history by J.B.Newman
-1941 Plays, Poems and Prose of J.M.Synge
-1912 Deirdre of the Sorrows, a Play by J.M.Synge
-1912 Shadow of the Glen, A pLay by J.M.Synge
-1938 plays by Christopher Marlowe
-1824 Paradise regained by John Milton
-1822 Fables from Boccaccio and Chaucer By John Dryden
-1802 Rural tale, Ballads and songs by Robert Bloomfield
-1878 Idylls to the King By Alfred Lord Tennyson vols 1,2,3
-1836 Popes Poetical works with notes about the Authors life
-1806 The Illiad of Homer translated by Alexander Pope
Collection of ten works from 1963;
The master of Balantree by R.L.Stevenson
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Robbery under Arms by Boldrewood
The warden by Anthony Trollope
Hans Andersons Fairytales
Wurthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
THe vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
Modern English Short Stories first series
A book of Narritive verse by Collins

Thats about it at the moment. am Slowly Exspanding it!:D

[Eufrosyne]

Except for the one in my room I have my private little bookshelf that noone knows about:) My bookshelf is my precious, I want to keep it for myself!
I'm working on getting the whole Bront&#235;-sisters collection, right now lacking the professor and the tenant of Wildfell hall. Some other beloved books are: waiting for Godot by Beckett, l'assomoir by Zola, the neverending story, the Narnia books, Huxley's brave new world, Frankenstein, Anna Karenina, fried green tomatoes by Fannie Flagg, a book of collected writings by Lenin standing next to Machiavelli's prince to give that intellectual touch (!), a portrait of the artist, the foundation thrilogy and a really cute mathbook that made me reluctantly interested in math some years ago.
Though I don't really have that many now, the ambition is to get me a whole library some day:P

[emveedub]

Collected Poems, Robert Lowell
Notebook 1967-1968, Robert Lowell
Notebook, Robert Lowell
Near the Ocean, Robert Lowell
Phaedra, Robert Lowell
Prometheus Bound, Robert Lowell
The Old Glory, Robert Lowell
The Oresteia of Aeschylus, trans. Robert Lowell
Robert Lowell: A Biography, Ian Hamilton
The Dream Songs, John Berryman
Selected Poems, William Carlos Williams
The Seven Lively Arts, Gilbert Seldes
Complete Shakespeare
Works of Chaucer
The Divine Comedy, trans. by Allen Mandelbaum, John Ciardi and Laurence Binyon
Poems and Prose, Wallace Stevens
Selected Poems, Mark Strand
Reasons for Moving, Darker and the Sargentville Notebook, Mark Strand
The Continuous Life, Mark Strand
Blizzard of One, Mark Strand
Collected Poems, James Wright
The Cantos of Ezra Pound
Personae, Ezra Pound
Poems and Plays, TS Eliot
The Iliad of Homer, trans. Richmond Lattimore
The Odyssey of Homer, trans. Robert Fagles
The Aeneid of Virgil, trans. Robert Fagles
Plays of Chekhov
Peer Gynt, Brand, Complete Prose Plays, Henrik Ibsen
Exposed by the Mask, Sir Peter Hall
Seven Plays, Sam Shepard
The Unseen Hand and Other Plays, Sam Shepard
The Bible
Summer Knowledge, Delmore Schwartz
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities, Delmore Schwartz
Delmore Schwartz: Life of an American Poet, Irving Howe
Collected Poems, Theodore Roethke
Collected Poems, Philip Larkin

[andave_ya]

*blushes* I have over 300 books in my bookshelf...My book collection is always growing...I'll just list some authors

Dorothy L. Sayers
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Charles Dickens
Agatha Christie (also her Mary Westmacott books)
Edgar Allan Poe
Conan Doyle
The Bronte Sisters
Emily Dickinson
Jack London
Frederick Douglass
J.R.R. Tolkien
C.S. Lewis

LOTS MORE!!!! But I think that gives an idea of my general tastes.

[Annamariah]

I think I have ~250 books on my bookcase and I buy/get a lot of new books every year. I'm going to be in trouble with finding enough space for all my books when I move away from my parents' house :D

So, here's some of my favourite authors and/or books:
L. M. Alcott
Jane Austen
Charlotte Brontë
Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
Ted Dekker
Sergeanne Golon
C. S. Lewis
Michelle Magorian (A Little Love Song)
L. M. Montgomery
J. K. Rowling
Anya Seton
Bodie Thoene
Laura Ingalls Wilder

I probably forgot many... But I think that the most important ones are listed. :)

[papayahed]

Since I have the time:

The handbook of Chemistry and Physics (1936)
Lange's Handbook of Chemistry
World History - A dictionary of important people, places, and events
Precalculus textbook
9 steps to financial freedom
The Motley Fool investment guide
The Deluxe Transitive Vampire
The New Well-Tempered Sentence
The Detroit Almanac
Insider's guide to Kansas City
Kansas Curiosities
Curly Girl - It's more than just hair
Spanish-English dictionary
Etiqutte for women (from the fifties - pretty funny)
The Lord of the rings trilogy
The Wizard of Oz
The Sun Also rises
A Dashiell Hammett 3 pack (The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, and Red Harvest)
On the Road
Madam Secretary
Companero - The life and time of Che Guevara
Microverse
America the book
old Path, White Cloud
Love in the tiime of Cholera
The Return of the Native
Absalom, Absalom
The Zombie Survival Guide
Le Morte d'arthur
Waiting for Godot
Solaris
Myster of numbers
The Art of Happiness
The Good war
The Metaphysical Club
The Mathematical Tourist
The book of tai chi
Starduct
The Italian secretary
Blood and Gold
Off the Mangrove Coast
Naked Lunch
The Pleasure of finding things out
Lolita
Middlesex
Wicked
Haunted Kansas
In the Casa Azul
War and rememberance (I can't seem to find my Winds of War..)
One hundred years of solitude
Titus andronicus
the curious incdent of the dog in the night
The Snakebite survivors club
the wish list
Otherland
Roots
The Way of the Pilgrim
Bicycle - basic maintenance and repair
the Three Muskateers
Blindness
The more than complete hitchikers guide
Pride and Predjudice


That's what is currently in my book case.

[grace86]

"Since I have the time..." unfortunately and fortunately you do I guess Papaya.

I like all these libraries. I am at work so let me see if I can do this...

Robinson Crusoe
Dracula
Count of Monte Cristo
The War of the Worlds
Heart of Darkness and Other Stories
Lord Jim
Walden and Civil Disobedience
Inferno
The Prince
Sense and Sensibility
Wuthering Heights
The Moonstone
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Lady Chatterly's Lover
Emma
Age of Innocence
King Soloman's Mines
She
Crime and Punishment
Anna Karenina
Paradise Lost
The Orestia
Hamlet
Something Wicked this Way Comes
Martian Chronicles
Harry Potter 1-6
Chronicles of Narnia
The Hobbit
Fellowship of the Ring
Shadow of the Wind
Thirteenth Tale
Book of Lost Things
Dante Club
Life of Pi
Birth of Venus
Little Black Sambo
Time Traveller's Wife
Dear John
Norton World Literature Vol. A, B, C

Many many others...and textbooks and two dictionaries (Webster and American Standard)

[mS_?]

Ok, listing every book i have would be extremely difficult and also nearly impossible, I have one book case and the rest of my some 600 or 700 books are stacked in corners or in my closet, but I'll list my most notable ones.

The Complete Works- William Shakespeare
The Complete Works- Anton Chekhov
The Complete Works- Edgar Allan Poe
Don Quixote- Miguel de Cervantes
Moby Dick- Herman Melville
Ulysses- James Joyce
In Search of Lost Time- Marcel Proust( The entire set)
The Tale of Genji- Murasaki Shikibu
Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy
Absalom, Absalom!- William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury- William Faulkner
As I Lay Dieing- William Faulkner
Everything Dostoevsky ever wrote
Tess of the D'Urbervilles- Thomas Hardy
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man- James Joyce
Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov
Robinson Crusoe- Daniel Defoe
The Hound of Baskervilles- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Republic- Plato
About 5 different dictonaries of Philosphy
and finalle A Clockwork Orange.


Besides those i have probably about 50 book on serial murder, 100 on different things medical, and a whole bunch of other books that I've collected over the last 8 years.

[Matrim Cuathon]

i read a lot. i mean like sometimes a book a day and maybe 2 although sometimes it takes me multiple days to finish one. i think ia verage one every 2 days though some are repeats due to my fast consumption. i cant possibly remember even the very best but i could pratically tell you the entire story if you mentioned a book i had read. i will give a short list of what i can remember at the moment though:

Emma by Jane Austen
Crime and Punishment
Robinson Crusoe
Gulliver's Travels
ugh recently ive been reading repeats of my Scifi/Fantasy so i cant list the ones appropriate to the forum. I enjoy many of the SF/F books as much as the classics because whjile the classics exhibit more technical skill the SF/F are often series and have fun and interesting if not terribly deep characters. Sadly becuase SF/F is not as much about characters there is more or less a standard list. Although sometimes i can be surprised. Sometimes my reading so voraciously is actually a detriment...

[Tournesol]

impossible!!!
just impossible!!!
They're too many..they come awake at night, the characters, and make me dream queer things...Aragon danced with Tess Durbeyfield, and made Angel jealous. Macbeth and Hamlet teamed up and got rid of Keats [they hate his work...too much detail they claim] And the Wife of Bath and Mrs Bennet had a good laugh over a cup of tea!
But, as always, Elizabeth and Darcy remained together!

[grace86]

impossible!!!
just impossible!!!
They're too many..they come awake at night, the characters, and make me dream queer things...Aragon danced with Tess Durbeyfield, and made Angel jealous. Macbeth and Hamlet teamed up and got rid of Keats [they hate his work...too much detail they claim] And the Wife of Bath and Mrs Bennet had a good laugh over a cup of tea!
But, as always, Elizabeth and Darcy remained together!

That's too cute!!! :p Unfortunately, all my characters are socializing in boxes in the garage, I don't get to dream and partake in the festivities...hmmm...:)

[Matrim Cuathon]

somtimes i dream about characters as well, although mostly its random stuff that could have been in a book if not for the fact that it isnt. but i do spend lots of time conversng with book characters. i guess you could call somes parts fantasizing but mostly its not of that nature. so many books read and way too many to go. i fear that i will always feel that i fell short of reading all that i could have wished. but i suppose i could actually live off what ive read now. cause some of those could keep me occupied for months at a stretch.

[andave_ya]

Yeah, I can relate. Books are nice people to talk to. :p But I can't say I've dreamt anything bookish. Once I dreamed Aragorn was talking absolute nonsense to me but then my alarm rang, and instead of words, bird whistling and water sounds came out of Aragorn's mouth. Talk about deflating! I do, though, hold conversations with my favorite characters. One time I was shopping with my family at a boring mall and my Mom was looking around for some clothes for herself. I was bored stiff, so I decided to "dream up" Aragorn to walk beside my and talk to me. Of course, right away I started sputtering with laughter, because really! A grimy, dirty Ranger in dark ragged clothes was such a contrast to the pastel, carpeted, silent mall! :lol:

[Matrim Cuathon]

i do similar things quite a bit, but im careful never to accidently voice anything out loud. very embrarrassing the one time i did it.

[Martian Poet]

I have one shelf were I keep all of my favorite books. I shall list that one:

Ulysees - Joyce
The Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy - Robert Anton Wilson
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Pontius Pilate: The Biography of an Invented Man - Ann Wroe
Music for Chameleons - Truman Capote
The Awakening and Other Selected Tales - Kate Chopin
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Scarlett Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorn
Your Brain Is God - Timothy Leary
The Odyssey - Homer
War and Peace - Tolstoy
The Complete Poems of Robert Frorst - Frost
The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe - Poe
The Satanic Bible - LaVey
The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
The Communist Manifesto - K

[shortysweetp]

i recently put all of my books in order and put that list on the computer i am up to like 90 not a whole lot but i love every one of them dearly and it continues to grow. i try to get at least a new book a week. People know I love books so much that they give me gift card to Barnes and Nobles. lol

[Weisinheimer]

Here's my list of some of my favorites. Alot of these I don't actually own; they belong to other fam members, but I "borrow" them a whole lot.
To Kill a Mocking Bird; Harper Lee
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes; Bill Waterson
Jane Eyre; Charlotte Bronte
Eight Cousins; Lousa May Alcott
Little Women; Louisa May Alcott
LOTR and The Hobbit; JRR Tolkein
The Holy War; John Bunyan
The Minister's Restoration and several others by George MacDonald
Vanya; Myrna Grant
The Chosen; Chaim Potok
Webter's Third New International Dictionary (it's HUGE)

[ennison]

My house is made of books not gingerbread.

[*Classic*Charm*]

My house is made of books not gingerbread.

If only!! Then no matter where you were, or what you were doing, there's always something to read. I do hope, though, that you have a fire alarm in every room!!:idea:

And what with all this talk of dreams...I read Shakespeare every night before I go to sleep to relax my mind, and I often find that I dream the plays (not in its entirety, just select scenes), and I'm usually playing a character whom I wish would act differently then is dictated in the actual play.

It's quite odd when I dream I'm one of the male characters, like last week when I was reading Taming of the Shrew, I dreamed I was Lucentio and I realized that Bianca was really a coniving so-and-so and didn' love her by the end. Before that, I was reading Macbeth and I dreamed that I was Macbeth and during that fabulous soliloquy when he's hallucinating the dagger in front of him, it led him to kill Lady Macbeth instead of him going crazy. It was awesome. I'm currently re-reading Romeo and Juliet, and for the last two nights I've been dreaming that at the end, Juliet wakes up before Romeo kills himself and all ends well. I suppose that defeats the point of it being a tragedy...I wonder if anything will change when I finish the play tonight. haha.

Wow, sorry for hijacking for a bit.

BTW, it would take far too long to list every title in my library. So let's just say I have a little bit of everything.

[starbuck]

Some highlights from me bookshelf:

A Clockwork Orange by Burgess
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne
The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald
Beowulf
The Arden edition of Hamlet
Lots of Shakespeare
A Series of Unfortunate Events
From Hell (graphic novel)
Nature by Emerson
Harry Potter series
Pride and Prejudice
Mansfield Park
Man in the high Castle by Dick
Science Fiction: An Anthology
The Curious Researcher
Norton Anthology of English Literature: British Lit: Middle Ages to The Victorians
The Rise of Silas Lapham by Howells
The Wayfarer Redemption 1-3 by Sara douglass

......to name just a few :D :D

[Jetxa]

American Sign Language Dictionary
The American Sign Language Phrase Book
Spanish Grammer
The Pagan Bible, Pagan Reality by M. Gorham
Wiccan SpellCraft for Men
Pagan Ways
The Wiccan Warrior, Full Contact Magick
Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells
Encyclopedia of Mediations
Encyclopedia of Spells, The Wiccan Bible
Grimoire for the Green Witch, Green Magic II
Candle Therapy
Practical Solitary Magic by Nancy B. Watson
Confessions of a Pagan Nun, The Changling by Kate Horsely
The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall
Jesus of Nazareth, The Search for God, The End of the Search by Marchette Chute
Memoires of Henry the VIII, Memoires of Cleopatra, Helen of Troy, Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles, Mary Called Magdalene by Margaret George
Ishmael, My Ishmael, Beyond Civilization, The Story of B, After Dachau, The Holly by Danierl Quinn
The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram
Original Wisdom by Robert Wolff
Earthly Joys, The Virgin Earth, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheretance, The Queen's Fool,
The Wise Woman by Philippa Carr
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Last Kingdom, The Pale Horseman, Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell
Christ the Lord by Anne Rice
The Passion of Artemesia by Susan Vreeland
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min
Just about everything by Pearl Buck and Taylor Caldwell and Mary Renault and Mary Stewart
All the Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell Mystery books plus others by Laurie R. King
The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin
The Case for Christ, The Case for Faith, Lee Strobel
Wish You Well, Saving Faith, David Baldacci
A Calvin & Hobbes and Peanuts collection
Every Readers' Digest Condensed Books from 1951 to present

[brainstrain]

Mmm...My one bookshelf is bursting with my favorites, I'll try and shorten the list:

HARRY POTTER - I have the entire series in hardback, and number 7 is ordered on Amazon

ERAGON - I have the sequel as well, but I like the first much better. Eldest just has too many words >_<

ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL - oh, I love these heartwarming books. I read a chapter a night for about a month, it was just wonderful. I'm reading the next one right now, it's of the same quality.

THE WELL-WISHERS - A charming old fantasy book, it really appeals to my imagination.

SEVEN DAY MAGIC - By the same author as the above, it is one of my all-time favorites. It's about these kids who check out a magical library book. I LOVE it, always have.

That's all I can think of without actually looking at my bookcase.

[Weisinheimer]

ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL - oh, I love these heartwarming books. I read a chapter a night for about a month, it was just wonderful. I'm reading the next one right now, it's of the same quality.


I absolutely adore the James Herriot books. I always feel so warm and cuddly while I'm reading them. They're hilarious too. It's definitely quality writing. I feel like I'm right there with all the animals and everything. Herriot has great descriptions of everything.

[NickAdams]

Except for the one in my room I have my private little bookshelf that noone knows about:) My bookshelf is my precious, I want to keep it for myself!


Yes! Yes! Precious ... I'm glad I'm not the only one. I started a thread, awhile ago, about secret libraries. I was waiting to see who else kept their best books from "pickers and stealers".

I have too many to list. I keep a few in a lock-box: The Marble Faun and A Green Bough, Early Edition of Sanctuary both by William Faulkner; First Edition of A Farewell to Arms, First Edition of Islands in the Stream, First Edition of A Moveable Feast all three by Ernest Hemingway.

Collected short stories:
Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabrial Garcia-Marquez, Stig Dagerman, Anton Chekov, Vladimir Nabokov, Jean-Paul Sartre, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Thomas Pynchon, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Raymond Carver and Woody Allen.

Plays:
All the Greeks, Lorca, Beckett, Williams, Shaw, Sartre, Shakespeare and Isben.

Poetry:
Dickinson, Whitman, Frost, Blake, Shakespeare and Lorca.

and so much more ...

[quasimodo1]

My collection is mostly in storage, have two databases, nothing wrong with these writers. Trying to wade through Schopenhauer. Anyway, if you like the authors mentioned so far...you have to try Rainer Maria Rilke, E.M.Cioran, and for sure Victor Hugo.

[kenikki]

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/Kenikki

here's some of them...

[The Ol' Man]

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[Dark Muse]

This was a near impossible task but I tried not to make the list too long but it was really hard, I kept thinking of more books I wanted to add and it was difficult having to censor myself and finally just stop.

The Sea Wolf-Jack London
The American-Henry James
The Last September-Elizabeth Bowen
Under Westren Eyes -Conrad
Mansfield Park-Jane Austen
The Possesd-Dostoevsky
Dead Souls-Nikolai Gogol
Main Street-Sinclair Lewis
The Decameron-Giovanni Boccaccio
The Beet Queen-Louise Erdrich
The Crying Lot of 49-Thomas Pynchon
The Red and the Black-Stendhal
The Mysteries of Udolpho-Ann Radcliffe
Ulysses-James Joyce
The Mills and the Floss-Geroge Elliot
Battle Royale- Koushun Takami
Atlas Shrugged-Ayn Rand
Master and Comander-Patrick O'Brian
Oyrx and Crake-Margaret Atwood
Alias Grace-Margaret Atwood
Surfacing-Margaret Atwood
Bel Canto-Ann Patchett
Cloudsplitter-Russell Banks
Cloud Atlas-David Mitchell
Half-Asleep in Frog Pajamas-Tom Robbins
The Vicar of Wakefiled-Oliver Goldsmith
Robinson Crusoe-Daniel Defoe
Wide Sargasso Sea-Jean Rhys

[Emmy Castrol]

oooh I've always loved the library, my place of refuge during the hard years of high school...the favourites from my personal library below:

Acts of Worship and Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima
The Wandering Jew by Stefan Heym
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
A Rabbit Omnibus by John Updike
All the Deverry books by Katharine Kerr
All the Wheel of Time books by Robert Jordan
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Highways to a War by Christopher Koch
Lilian's Story by Kate Grenville
Omnibus 1 & 3 of H.P. Lovecraft
The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories by D.H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers, Women in Love and Kangaroo by D.H. Lawrence
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
In a Glass Darkly by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Collected Ghost Stories by M.R. James
Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson
Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust
Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner
Harp in the South by Ruth Park
The Three Investigators (#1-9) by Robert Arthur
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham
Friday's Child by Georgette Heyer

hmmm... this list is starting to get long...and I still have many more favourites...

[ChicagoReader]

Some highlights would be:
Dostoyevsky's The Idiot, Brothers, Notes from the Underground, and C&R
McCarthy's The Road and Blood Meridian
Complete Stories of Kafka
The Great Gatsby
and several collections of Bukowski's poetry and short stories

[Desolation]

Most of my books are packed away in a box about 1100 miles away in my grandfather's warehouse, because I couldn't take everything with me when I relocated. Currently, my very small bookshelf contains the following:

In Search of Lost Time (Modern Library edition) by Marcel Proust
Ulysses by James Joyce
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Essential Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Journal of Albion Moonlight by Kenneth Patchen
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Death on the Installment Plan by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Sexus by Henry Miller

EDIT, Added some:
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

[pinkglove]

I've decided to say hello this way, giving the idea of what I like and keep on my bookcase.

Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time and Jean Santeuil
Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
Guillaume Apollinaire, The Complete Works
Stéphane Mallarmé, Selected Poems
Honoré de Balzac, Illusions perdues
Witold Gombrowicz, Kosmos
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, The Possesed, The House of the Dead
Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain and Doctor Faustus
Barbey d'Aurevilly, Les Diaboliques
Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against the Grain
Giovanni Verga, I Malavoglia and The Complete Novels
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Stories
James Joyce, Ulysses
Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint
Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Insatiability
Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved

(I study graphic design, so books about art, design and photography are equally important part of my collection, but there's probably no point in listing them.)

[LizzzyBF]

I am the cheese - Robert Cormier
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays - George Orwell
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Road to Wigan Pier - George Orwell
Hamlet - Shakespeare
The Comedies - Shakespeare
The Tragedies - Shakespeare
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet - Reif Spivet

Apart from that mostly kid's series (Narnia, Artemis Fowl, Alex Rider, Cherub, Harry Potter) and physics textbooks.

[larryF]

I only started reading and collecting books in early 2010. But my collection is already up to 170 books. some highlights and favs of mine....

Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises (first edition)
David Foster Wallace's entire bibliography
William S. Burroughs' bibliography
Aldous Huxley - Point Counterpoint(first edition)
Kurt Vonnegut's bibliography
and am currently halfway through acquiring Don DeLillo's bibliography

[dwdean]

stoker:
the mystery of the sea
dracula (multiple copies)
dracula's guest and other weird stories
the jewel of seven stars

shelley:
frankenstein (multiple copies)
transformation
the mortal immortal
the evil eye

jack london:
sea wolf
great short works (call of the wild, white fang, etc)

hawthorne:
the house of seven gables
great short works

golding:
lord of the flies
the inheritors
the hot gates

wilde:
the picture of dorian gray
the works of oscar wilde (poetry)

twain:
the adventures of tom sawyer
the adventures of huckleberry finn
humorous stories and sketches

conrad:
heart of darkness
the secret sharer

tolkien:
the lord of the rings trilogy
the silmarillion
the hobbit

cs lewis:
chronicles of narnia
out of the silent planet
perelandra (current read)
that hideous strength

brian jacques:
redwall series, possibly in its entirety

ee cummings, collected poems
le fanu, carmilla
milton paradise lost
hemingway, the old man and the sea
fitzgerald, the great gatsby
bronte, jane eyre
steinbeck, of mice and men
poe, the fall of the house of usher
eddison, the worm ouroboros
stevenson, dr jekyll and mr hyde
lord, day of infamy
sledge, with the old breed
macdonald, company commander
wells, war of the worlds
descartes, meditations on first philosophy
nagel, what doe it all mean?
white, the once and future king
remarque, all quiet on the western front
potok, the chosen
eliot, murder in the cathedral
defoe, robinson crusoe
da chen, sounds of the river
emerson, self reliance and other essays
palahniuk, fight club
knowles, a separate peace
krakauer, into thin air

after taking stock of my library, i realize that i have more copies of Dracula than one man should own... same story with Frankenstein.

[dwdean]

The Sea Wolf-Jack London


how epic is that story?
one of the first times i have honestly felt unable to put down a book.
when it ended, i almost wept.

[Jascha]

Like others, I have way too many to list here. One of the highlights of my collection though is the complete set of the Harvard Classics - all 51 volumes, but I don't have the 'shelf of fiction', which would be another 20 volumes. I know there's a lot of great literature and other writings in that, but I haven't gotten around to reading most of it. The set I have is basically something I had inherited from my grandmother :).

If anyone's curious, here's what's included:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics

Besides that, I have everything from history books (which was my major in college) to the classics.

Dracula, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, War and Peace, The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Silas Marner, etc.

I also like more contemporary authors, and I really enjoy the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher.