Whats on your bookcase?

[chrisw87]

Assuming you are all literate as you are reading and typing in a forum, if you read physical books too, what does your bookcase look like?

Better yet, what types of books do you read ! I personally head straight to Thriller/horror/mystery/ sometimes scifi and fantasy, and just pick a book out at random that has a fancy name, is on special or looks nice. I NEVER read blurbs because it gives the mystery away ! the best reads I have had were from the bargain bin!

I just started attempting to organise my books, and yes I know the bookshelf next to them is bigger, but it has to be cleaned, and organised with more books, as well as certain other things like my humidor blah blah etc blah.



Anyways, I managed to squeeze my current fiction novels into 2 shelves, with the majority of a third kept empty for future purchases.

And then finally the bottom two shelves, the bottom shelf contains 2 rows of textbooks I have devoured in the past, and will probably read again as I want to touch up on my HR stuff. Also contains the usual thesaurus, dictionary and a bible!

The second from bottom is a mishmash of non-fiction, everything from garfield to the I-ching crammed in there.

All my cooking books are in one of my kitchen cupboards, along with some home medicine books. the best thing about this though... I found like 16 million cufflinks that I had lost before, mostly without partners though

I need to buy some more suits, ties, and clothes. So I might buy some nice cufflinks to go with them.

 

[barnbuddy]

my reading liist is all over the place.

right now, I'm in a non- fiction phase:

Just finished The Chief: the Life of William Randolph Hearst, and The Pattons the story of the family of the WWII General, which was written by his grandson.

Over the winter, I read many of the Lanny Budd Series, by Upton Sinclair (he also wrote The Jungle ,) an out of print series of 11 books, centered on Europe after WWI through the 20's and 30's to WWII and the cold war.

Frank Herbert's Dune series is probably my most influential reading.

 

[braex27]

Jasper Fforde, JK Rowling, JR Tolkien, Phillip Pullman, Old Hollywood biographies...etc.

 

[medic1]

The Dune series takes pride of place also have all JK.Rowlings books as well great escapism plus she wrote the very 1st Harry Potter novel in a little cafe which is
5 mins from door to door.
Alas the rest is just really crammed with medical book,s like Greys Anatomy .
Communicable Diseases and all the medical books that you just seem to acquire
as you go along .

 

[teadrinker]

I've got books all over the place: bookshelves everywhere and boxes of books in storage. And I have a wall of books in my office at work. There's fiction and non-fiction, but probably more of the latter, including science, education, natural history, medicine, geography, history, philosophy, comparative religion etc...

-T.

 

[oakpope]

Books








sorry.

 

[borg69unimatrix]

Far left case is full of books on Ancient Civilizations and (mostly) Greece.

Other two are Home improvement, painting techniques, helpful hints/home remedies, herbs/gardening, Brian Lumley and Ann Rice Vampire series, Sci-Fi tech manuals, ...


I buy more reference material then fictional enjoyment reading I guess.

(No laughing at my Jeannie bottle collection on top, either!)

*sorry about the crappy phone cam pic.

 

[G-Lexington]

We got rid of our bookcases, with the intent to get new ones. Due to various reasons, we haven't gotten around to that yet, so there's books in mailtubs and boxes in several places.

What's on them? Tons of stuff. When I walk into a bookstore, I literally have no idea what I'm going to walk out with. I've found I haven't been into much fiction the last few years, and the few attempts to get into a fiction book have failed. But other than that, I'm pretty all-over-the-map.

Last few books I got:

* the Andy Williams autobiography
* How to Draw Anything
* A book on the various rooms in Victorian houses, and what they were mainly used for
* 101 Best Jazz Albums of All Time
* A history of the Constitutional Congress of the 18th century
* A book on ninjas (ended up being more juvenile than I expected, but still very well written)
* A book on digital photography hints

Lex

 

[ShavedBare87]

Currently reading Keith Richards' autobiography, Life. It's uhh....interesting...

Ronnie Wood's autobiography is a good read too.

 

[PepaeMango]

I must have over 1000 books, everything from Dickens to Richard Feynman. one of my dear favorites is The Surrender.

 

[ChickenGuy]

G-Lex, you MUST surely have at least ONE book about gargoyles.



The bookcases in the upstairs hall at home are filled with dusty old stuff from the 1950s and 1960s that have never been cleared or sorted. They've been around from the previous owners of our house over 30 years ago. There's an old ten-volume children's encyclopedia from 1940 and an even older cookery book, and god knows what else - there must be well over 200 books there.

As for myself, I have mostly books on astronomy, geology, prehistoric life, earth science, chronologies, world history, atlases, plus my old comic annuals and role-playing books.

Very little has been bought in recent years, however.

 

[unloadonme]

The bookcase next to me as I type includes the following:

Borradaile's Manual of Elementary Zoology - Yapp
Lowson's Botany - Simon, Dormer & Hartshorne
The Physiology of Nematodes - Lee & Atkinson
The David & Charles Book of Castles - Plantagenet Somerset Fry
The Golden Age of English Manuscript Painting - Marks & Morgan
Rose Windows - Painton Cowen
Collected Poems - Sir John Betjeman
Collins Guide to Parish Churches - Betjeman again

and tons more.

 

[borg69unimatrix]

The bookcases in the upstairs hall at home are filled with dusty old stuff from the 1950s and 1960s that have never been cleared or sorted. They've been around from the previous owners of our house over 30 years ago. There's an old ten-volume children's encyclopedia from 1940 and an even older cookery book, and god knows what else - there must be well over 200 books there.
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I found this fascinating!!!! Untouched by them, or YOU for so long! Very cool, and haunting.

 

[castoono]

Typically gay. I wish some would have spared a couple minutes to share some names.

Samuel Beckett & Jean Genet (everything about them, that I come across I buy it)
Biographies- Nureyev, Pasolini, Fassbinder, Bacall, Caballé
Don Quixote - the Largest Edition I found.
Dictionaries - Mostly English-Spanish and German-Spanish
Psychology - Too many.
Shakespeare - Complete works in a Luxurious edition (my favourite book)
Poetry - Whitman - Cernuda - Lorca - Cavafis - others
Classic Art, Painters
Homosexuality (How to be a good lesbian and so on)
Wines
Alta Cocina
Music - Operas
Cinema (Hollywood directors but Hollywood Babylon too)
Comics - Ralph König, Edika
DVD complete series OZ - FRIENDS - NIPTUCK - NOAH'S ARK
Movies - Some...

 

[ChickenGuy]

I see from the last picture that someone is very fond of dragons.

What are the large set of three books top left - a mythical adventure trilogy?

What authors would you recommend for someone wanting to get started on that whole fantasy genre?

I found this fascinating!!!! Untouched by them, or YOU for so long! Very cool, and haunting.

lol, I really haven't a clue what they're all about, they have that musty old booky smell, you know? I think some are about botany, and others are about engineering, some poems, a lot of fiction, but that's only describing a bit. I so rarely open them, and neither does my dad. They've sat around for decades.

Maybe there could be a secret note or something inside one of them, waiting to fall out....

 

[justsimon]

Sorry for the poor quality.

Fiction:

Art, Writing, Comics/Graphic Novels, Children's, Poetry, WWII

Biography/Memoir, Essays, Drama, Food, Economics/Marketing, Media, Religion, Science:

I have more books in the closet.

 

[geloge]

Most of them university stuff for my thesis (about 80%), a lot of manga and comic (about 15%) some art (about 4 %) and some fiction (about 1%)

 

[G-Lexington]

Not a single book on gargoyles. Or any other mythical creature, unless ninjas count, or the Narnia books count.

This is the shelf that's getting the most work recently...

Lex

 

[borg69unimatrix]

^^^

You should WRITE a book!

Teenage Mutant Ninja GARGOYLES !

 

[EwanSF]

Most of the books in my house are my boyfriends. So largely horror, Clive Barker, shit loads of vampire stuff, books on witchcraft. My books are yet more horror and non-fiction historical stuff, poliitics and a couple on Buddhism I think..