Books

[rareboy]

This just about sums it up. I could open this bookstore. Any other categories? Do you have some or all of these books?

Sections in the Bookstore
By Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

• Books You Haven't Read
• Books You Needn't Read
• Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading
• Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written
• Books That If You had More Time Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered
• Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First
• Books Too Expensive Now and You'll Wait 'Til They're Remaindered
• Books--Ditto--When They Come Out in Paperback
• Books You Can Borrow From Somebody
• Books That Everybody's Read So It's As If You Had Read Them, Too
• Books You've Been Planning to Read for Ages
• Books You've Been Hunting for Years Without Success
• Books Dealing With Something You're Working on at the Moment
• Books You Want to Own So They'll Be Handy Just in Case
• Books You Could Put Aside Maybe to Read This Summer
• Books You Need to Go with Other Books on Your Shelves
• Books That Fill You with Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity. Not Easily Justified
• Books Read Long Ago Which It's Now Time to Reread
• Books You've Always Pretended to Have Read and Now It's Time to Sit Down and Really Read Them

 

[Peloso]

Books that take forever to finish because you don't want them to end.
Books you're afraid to read or finish.
Books that contain passages or dialogue that you carry around in your head forever.
Books you hide when certain people visit.
Books you keep (kept) with your porn.
Books you come across that you either forgot about or haven't seen in decades, and upon seeing them you get a woozy, floating feeling.
Books you tried to write.

 

[purina]

Boos good for propping things up.

 

[Peloso]

Books you use to kill.

 

[smokeshadow]

Books referencing or explaining aspects of your profession.
Books that make you giggle or laugh.
Books that make you physically ill while reading; but, you can't put them down because thay are from one of your favorite authors.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

Hands down, the strangest book in my parents house - printed 1903.

 

[unloadonme]

^ That reminds me. How about ...

Books that won the Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year

Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[NotHardUp1]

Books with clever titles.

 

[pigface]

Books other people said were great, but turned out to be unbearably boring.

 

[HoodedRat]

Books that changed my life.

But, in a sense, that's pretty much every book I've ever read, for good or ill.

 

[unloadonme]

Books that changed my life.

The Book of Mormon do you mean?

 

[PalacePaul]

Books so old they don't have modern editions
Excellent little books that go unnoticed by the media and the public
Adult graphic novels

 

[NotHardUp1]

Books of Lifesavers.

 

[rareboy]

Books of magical thinking would cover religions.

 

[Latimer]

Books by a friend but you can't get past the first three pages and you're going to be having lunch with her in a week.

 

[Peloso]

Books that attack.

 

[Alistair]

Books that were never written

 

[NotHardUp1]

Picture books.