What assortment of books do you guys have on your shelves? Here's mine: Top shelf (reference guides and Churchy stuff): My Sophomore high school year book ('03-'04), "The Holocaust Chronicle", "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Russian", "Slovak-English/English-Slovak Dictionary", "The Book of Mormon/Doctrine and Covenants/Pearl of Great Price", The Holy Bible, The Book of Mormon (in Russian), Webster's Dictionary, Spelling & Grammar Usage, Gospel Principles (Church book: goes into our beliefs), Family Home Evening: Reference Guide (Church book: suggestions for fun things to do on family night), "Stitch n' B***h: A Knitter's Guide". Middle Shelf (classic literature & some semi-contemporary stuff): "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test"; "Soul Music", "Lords and Ladies", and "The Colour of Magick" (all by Terry Pratchett--very mild science fiction), "Pride and Prejudice", "Emma", "The Idiot", "Crime and Punishment", "The Brothers Karamazov", "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl", "War and Peace", "Anna Karenina", "The Gulag Archipelago Vol. 1", "The Master Butcher's Singing Club", "Wuthering Heights", "Romeo and Juliet", "Fathers and Sons". Bottom Shelf (classic rock bios/misc.): "Moon: The Life and Death of a Rock Legend" (biography on my favourite drummer), "The Who: Maximum R&B" (my favourite band), three huge picture books of the Rolling Stones, "Horse's Neck" (by Pete Townshend), "The Beatles Anthology", "Eyewitness: The Who: The Day-by-Day Story", two mini picture books on the Beatles, "It Happened in Monterey", two of my sketch books, "Audrey Style" (a book on how to mimic the makeup, clothes, and mannerisms of Audrey Hepburn ), another copy of the Book of Mormon, "Swingin' Chicks of the '60s", a book of pictures of Audrey Hepburn, and a few magazines with articles on Neil Young, Santana, The Who, and Swingin' London. Oh yes, and I'm currently reading: For fun: "Nikolas and Aleksandra" Robert K Massie (a really good book on the last of the Romanov Dynasty) For school: "Dune" by Frank Herbert (TERRIBLE book...except for maybe 3 books by Terry Pratchett, I cannot stand science fiction and Pratchett's are very mild and have understandable plots).
Haha, I wouldn't be able to do that if I still lived in Finland, coz in my apartment there I have HUUUUGE bookshelves FILLED with books. Here in my dorm room I only have a fewbooks. But at least they're easy to list. Investigating Culture, by DeLaney Anthropological Theory, by McGee and Warms Poverty And Development Into The 21st Century, by Allen and Thomas Visions Of Culture, by Moore Social And Cultural Anthropology - The Key Concepts, by Nigel Rapport and Joanna Overing What Is Anthropology, by Thomas Hylland Eriksen Small Places, Large Issues, by Thomas Hylland Eriksen Ethnicity And Nationalism, by Thomas Hylland Eriksen Purity And Danger, by Mary Douglas The Gift, by Marcell Mauss Savage Girls And Wild Boys, by Michael Newton Expectations Of Modernity, by James Ferguson The Globalization Myth, by Alan Shipman Orientalism, by Edward Said Social Mobility In Kerala, by Filippo and Caroline Osella (Can you already guess what I'm studying? ) Walden and Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau Heart Of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad The Beach, by Alex Garland The Alchemist and Veronika Decides To Die, both by Paulo Coelho Finnish - English dictionary English - Finnish dictionary Oxford Dictionary Thesaurus Dictionary of Idioms English Slang Dictionary Writing at University - Phyllis Creme and Mary Lea Lots of library books Currently reading: Orientalism Homo Hierarchicus, by Louis Dumont The Beach *sigh* I miss my lovely books I wanted to take them all with me when I moved but it would have been kinda pointless as there's no room in my tiny room here. Maybe next year when I'll find another flat...
This was a really good idea for a thread. On the top shelf: Webster's American Dictionary Standard Math Tables:18th edition Dumbing Down Properties of Steam and Ammonia Wild Animus Roget's College thesaurus Super Mario World Game Secrets The Roswell Incident 2010:Odyssey Two Steal this Book American Gods Prometheans The Waste Lands:The Dark Tower III The Wisdom of Insecurity Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Through the looking glass Christine Pet Sematary Cat's Cradle Breakfast of Champions The Drifters SeinLanuage The Skies of Pern The Fifth Elephant Ziegfeld(biography) The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay The Seinfeld Scripts I'll do the next shelf later I'm not really reading anything now, I'm busy with WoW
Top shelf left: 40 Sci Fi books 6th shelf left: 32 Sci fi bboks 5th shelf left: 3 martial arts, 3 auto/motorcycles, Herodotus, The Middle ages, World History, Helolise, 4 cat books, 1 health book 4th left: 44 books on strange stuff, Charles Fort, America BC, Ancient Inventions, The Druids, the Great Pyramid, etc. 3rd left: 44 Research books like Seamanship, Tech Drawing, Book of Quotes, Webster, Frisbee Handbook, Word Histories, Landscaping, etc. 2nd Left: Computor books and game manuels, too many to count as some are very thin. 1st left: How to play Guitar books (none of which work!), bicycle trips, misc ramblings, binders full of unknown stuff. Top row right: 44 classic and old books, such as the almost complete collection of Poe printed around 1900 I think, Lots of Sherlok Holmes, the bible, Aesop's Fables, Aristotle, Grimm's fairy Tales, Ivanhoe, The Little Red Book, etc. 6th right: 37 books like Wounded Knee, Carlos Castenada, Kerouac, Zen and the Art of Motorcycles, Seven arrows, Krishnamurti, etc. 5th R: 62 mostly Buddhist books 4th: 51 other mind trip type books, Hill's Theory of Consciousness, Buckminster Fuller, Ken Wilbur, T'ai Hsuan Ching, Vendanta, Cabalah, the Hermitica, etc. 3rd: 47 misc and philosophy, Plato, Toffler, Walden, Myhtology, R.D. Laing, etc. 2nd: 37 More of this stuff, the Holotropic mind, Schrodingers Cat, Secret Life of Plants, Wu Li Masters, World Religions, Timewarps, etc. 1st: 7 Sears Catalogs from 1957 to 1969, puzzle books, bunches of old chopper magazines, 17th annual Report on Western Indians 1895-two volumes, two boxes of 45 RPM records, Two bottles of India ink. 4 books on my dresser, two on the night stand, 3 sitting here beside me, a bunch at work, about 20 in the garage. I used to have a lot more books but my wife made me donate about five boxes to the local library.
Awesome! That's cool that there's a lot of readers on here. And I wish I had room for all my books too. I don't have nearly as many as everyone else does on here, but I have a couple boxes out in the garage.
my husband and i are currently living with my dad and most of our stuff is in storage. so our bookself and most of our books are there...but are few possessions are on the floor: Summer of Love by Lisa Mason (my fave read) The Jungle by Upton Sinclair Calculus 3 (all the math and science books are my husbands) Linear Algebra Pure Mathematics The Golden Ratio Vurt The Psychadelic Experience by Timothy Leary Sixties Portable Reader The Hippie Handbook by Chelsea Cain Hippie (huge book got from Barnes and Noble) and that is all for now till x-mas.
1. Dharma Bums - Jack kerouac 2. Junky - William S. Burroughs 3. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 4. Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers 5. French Impressionist - Diane Kelder 6. Mexico City Blues - Jack Kerouac 7. The Philosophy of Punk - Craig O'Hara 8. With William Burroughs: a report from the bunker - Victor Bockris 9. Expressionist - Pocket Library of Great Art, text by Will Grohman 10. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho 11. By The Piedra, I sat down and wept - Paulo Coelho 12. The Valkerys - Paulo Coelho 13. Cosmic Trigger The Final Secret of The Illuminati - Anton Wilson 14. Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana - Michael Azzerad 15. Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Other Tales - Mark Twain 16. Punks, Poets, and Poseurs - Eric S. Caruncho 17. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe 18. Noli Me Tangere - Jose Rizal 19. El Filibusterismo - Jose Rizal 20. Heavier than Heaven - Charles R. Cross 21. The Newbury House Dictionary of American English 22. The New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary of the English Language. 23. Max - Howard Fast 24. The Autobiography Of Malcolm X - Alex Haley 25. Tao Of Jeet Kune Do - Bruce Lee 26. Down the Highway - Howard Soune 27. Oscar Wilde: an exquisite life - Stephen Calloway and David Colvin 28. The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros 29. The World According to Garp - John Irving 30. A Widow For One Year - John Irving 31. Anarchism: argument for and against - Albert Meltzer 31. Fear of Flying - Erica Jong 32. Journals - Kurt Cobain 33. The Last Filipino Head Hunters - David Howard 34. Filipino Martial Culture - Wiley 35. Masters of Kali, Escrima, Arnis - Edgar Sulite 36. Cobain - Rolling Stone Editors 37. The Love You Make - Peter Brown 38. The Teachings of Buddha - Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai 39. Slavery in the Spanish Philippines - William Henry Scott 40. The Holy Bible - King James Version 41. Bonifacio's Unfinished Revolution - Alejo L. Villanueva Jr. 42. Love Invent Us - Amy Bloom 43. ABC's of the Human Mind - Reader's Digest 44. The Brand New Testament - Rabbi Moonlight 45. Tagalog Dictionary - Teresita V. Ramon 46. Concise English-Tagalog Dictionary - Jose Villa Panganiban 47. I'm OK, You're OK - Thomas A. Harris, M.D. 48. Israel - Fred Lawrence 49. Punk 77 - James Stark 50. KGB/CIA - Celina Bledowska and Jonathan Bloch 51. America in the 20th Century - George Donelson Moss 52. The Challenge of Democracy - Kenneth Janda, Jeffrey M. Berry, Jerry Goldman 53. Norman Rockwell: pictures for the american people - High Museum of Art 54. Contemporary Moral Issues: diversity and consensus - Lawrence M. Hinman 55. Dead Kennedys: the unathorized version - Marian Kester, 1-stop Fitzgerald That's all I keep in there.
I too am in college and havent been able to keep all my books here, i am envious of anyone with a second shelf but here goes: Lord of the Flies Trainspotting Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy and Restaruant at the End of the Universe Heart of Darkness Electric Koolaid acid tests Desolation Angels, on the Road, Vanity of Dulouz, and Book of Blues Fear and Loathing in Las vegas WAY OF THE PEACEFUL WARRIOR, check this out (dan Millman) No Great Mischief Unpublished, unknown, &/or unbelievable 12 Requiem for a Dream Trinity A.H.W.O.S.G. Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit, vice versa Dictionary A confederacy of Dunces, The Crazed, Ha jin Interpreter of Maladies, Lahiri Going after Cacciato A midsummer nights dream! Julius Ceaser Factotum and Post Office and Pulp, Bukowski Thesaurus Rex The Lost Steps Kindred Ferdydike The Global Soul A writers reference that is unfortunately it.
