What's on your bookshelf?
Posted: Nov 25th 2002, 1:05 am
I was sitting here staring at my bookcase, trying to figure out what I was in the mood to read (a perpetual issue with me), and it made me think -- I wonder what everyone around here likes to read...we've done so much discussing movies and tv that I'm curious about books (and I currently run a used bookstore, so books are typically on my mind).
It's weird how many different things I have on my bookshelf. I'm very anal about how they're arranged, and I've got them all categoried and in numerical order and such (I know, I'm a dork). Here's just a general idea of the books I currently have displayed (by author or series):
-Barbara Michaels (a new favorite)
-Elizabeth Peters (who happens to be another pseudonym of the above, and is therefore on the same shelf)
-Frank Peretti
-C.S. Lewis
-Harry Potter (the British editions -- I'm a purist)
-John Bellairs (creepy kids books with Edward Gorey illustrations)
-Little House on the Prairie (faves since I was like 10)
-Roald Dahl (just the Charlie books)
-Louis Sachar (Sideways Stories series)
-Animorphs (have them all, have read through book 32 of 54)
-Everworld (read the first 2 -- need to start them over now that I finally have all 12)
-Jane Austen
-various other classics (a few by Milton, Poe, Dumas, Wilde etc)
-shelf of books recommended by customers (Philip Pullman, Maggie Shane, Greg Iles, Shannon Drake, Laurell K. Hamilton, Kathy Reichs etc)
-Stephen King (I'm collecting them all in hardback, I have 18 plus a few paperbacks)
-Star Wars (the 5 by Timothy Zahn and some Young Jedi Knights)
-MSCL novels (even though the 2nd SUCKED)
-Madeleine L'Engle
-Tolkien (LOTR and a few others)
-King Arthur and Robin Hood (pretty much anything I can find)
-Buffy/Angel (I have all of the novels/novelizations and the official reference books, plus 2 books of essays -- one done by a professor at my alma mater)
-Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys (old hardbacks, a few of the more recent paperbacks, mid 90s)
-Oz (all the Baum paperbacks, 6 early 1900s hardbacks, and several books in the series by other authors)
-nonfiction (about thirty books, most on writing, some on filmmaking and music)
And those are just the books I keep.
So what do you guys read?
Tracey
It's weird how many different things I have on my bookshelf. I'm very anal about how they're arranged, and I've got them all categoried and in numerical order and such (I know, I'm a dork). Here's just a general idea of the books I currently have displayed (by author or series):
-Barbara Michaels (a new favorite)
-Elizabeth Peters (who happens to be another pseudonym of the above, and is therefore on the same shelf)
-Frank Peretti
-C.S. Lewis
-Harry Potter (the British editions -- I'm a purist)
-John Bellairs (creepy kids books with Edward Gorey illustrations)
-Little House on the Prairie (faves since I was like 10)
-Roald Dahl (just the Charlie books)
-Louis Sachar (Sideways Stories series)
-Animorphs (have them all, have read through book 32 of 54)
-Everworld (read the first 2 -- need to start them over now that I finally have all 12)
-Jane Austen
-various other classics (a few by Milton, Poe, Dumas, Wilde etc)
-shelf of books recommended by customers (Philip Pullman, Maggie Shane, Greg Iles, Shannon Drake, Laurell K. Hamilton, Kathy Reichs etc)
-Stephen King (I'm collecting them all in hardback, I have 18 plus a few paperbacks)
-Star Wars (the 5 by Timothy Zahn and some Young Jedi Knights)
-MSCL novels (even though the 2nd SUCKED)
-Madeleine L'Engle
-Tolkien (LOTR and a few others)
-King Arthur and Robin Hood (pretty much anything I can find)
-Buffy/Angel (I have all of the novels/novelizations and the official reference books, plus 2 books of essays -- one done by a professor at my alma mater)
-Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys (old hardbacks, a few of the more recent paperbacks, mid 90s)
-Oz (all the Baum paperbacks, 6 early 1900s hardbacks, and several books in the series by other authors)
-nonfiction (about thirty books, most on writing, some on filmmaking and music)
And those are just the books I keep.
So what do you guys read?
Tracey