Whats on your Bookshelf?

[Miranda]

Originally posted by Grey_Wolf
It was quite good. No, not really a fan (just minor collector).
Not thinking much of the pre-Star Wars novels I concentrated my collecting to post-SW ones.

The Han Solo trilogy was ok but nothing much to shout about, was a bit cheesy too when he goes to Alderaan and sees Leia on the screen as a little girl. What's your favourite- I think there's a lot to be said about Crystal Star, that was one of the best for me.

[Grey_Wolf]

Originally posted by Miranda
The Han Solo trilogy was ok but nothing much to shout about, was a bit cheesy too when he goes to Alderaan and sees Leia on the screen as a little girl. What's your favourite- I think there's a lot to be said about Crystal Star, that was one of the best for me.

(SW-novel list is listed according to the timeline the NJO-novels)Having only read as far as Darksaber, my favourites so far is the Thrawn-trilogy. (I'm taking a break from SW-reading for a while. Being halfway in my collection now and reading the novels according to the timeline.)

[hectorberlioz]

i have had the pleasure of adding, to my beautiful collection....


the idiot
ben hur
don quixote
red badge of courage
around the wrld in eighty days

[hectorberlioz]

i wasnt too impressed with "the courtship of p. leia". the best for me was the jedi acdemy trilogy and of course the thrawn omnibus.
rest of the novels were between "ok" and "bad". except maybe the crystal star, that was pretty good.
the ones i hated the most were
truce at bakura
children of the jedi (yes, because of callista, what a moron she is. i cant beleive luke liked her. what a dork. lol).
courtship of princess leia
all the new jedi order novels

[Mercutio]

What books do I have? In our entire house there are a few thousand...really...hmm... I could more easily list books of specific genres. My dad has a phD in philosophy, that explains a good many of the books.

Hectorberlioz--you mentioned you have Notes from Underground. Is it good? Have you read it? It is sitting somewhere in our house.

[hectorberlioz]

I havent read it yet.
but then, what written by Dostoyevsky is not good? everything of his is great as far as I'm concerned. that goes for Dickens as well.

Argh! I cant beleive my stupidity! I had this chance to get Dosty's "the eternal husband" at hastings, which is the only place I'v ever seen it at (and I'm too lazt right now to order from amazon.com...), but now its gone! its been bought.

[Mercutio]

so sad when you lose a book, its like losing....um...hmm....i'll get back to you on this one.

[Grey_Wolf]

The latest additions to my nautical library is the following:

The Story of Sail by John Harland
Ships And Seamanship In the Ancient World.
by Lionel Casson
War at sea in the age of sail 1650 - 1850 by Andrew Lambert

It also contains:

About sailing ships and sailing boats:

The Last of the Windjammers Volumes One and Two.
(by Basil Lubbock. A complete guide to all things about sailors and sailingships. Numerous drawings, pictures and blue-prints)

The History of the American Sailing Navy
(by Howard Chapelle. Well-defined with numerous drawings, pictures and blue-prints)

American Sailing ships
(by Howard Chapelle. Well-defined with numerous drawings, pictures and blue-prints)

Sailing boats Around the World: the classic 1906 treatise
(by Henry Coleman Folkard. A well-defined book with sections about ancient vessels and onwards about early 20th century sailing boats)

Sailing boats of the World: All the classes.

About the Royal Navy:

Wooden Fighting ships of the Royal Navy
(by E H H Archibald. Tells the story of wooden vessels from ancient history to the late 19th century)

Metal Fighting ships of the Royal Navy
(by E H H Archibald. Tells the story of metalled and metal vessels from mid-19th century to the present)

Task Force: the inside story of the ships and heroes of the Royal Navy
(by John Parker)

The Royal Navy Handbook
(A guide to the modern Royal Navy)

The Royal Marines
(By Richard Brooks. The 300 year history of United Kingdom's most prestigous fighting force)

About the German Navy of WWII:

The German Navy Handbook: 1939 - 1945
(by Jak P Mallman-Showell. Tells the complete history of the German Navy from the time before the First World War until the Second World War.)

Menace: The Life and death of the Tirpitz
(by Ludovic Kennedy. A fascinating expose of shipboard life and the Atlantic Campaign.)

Pursuit: The Sinking of the Bismark
(by Ludovic Kennedy. Tells the story of the break-out of the German Navy's fastest battleship and the Royal Navy's vengeful chase of it after the sinking of the Hood.)

James Cameron's The discovery of the Bismark
(A comprehensive telling of the finding of the ship and History of it's eight day journey in the Atlantic.)

BISMARK
(by Michael Tamander and Niklas Zetterling. A wider look on the whole Atlantic Campaign with a more detailed telling of the other ships of the German Navy at the time as well the story of the Bismark.)

The Atlantic Campaign: From 1939 to 1945
(by Dan van der Vat. Mostly about the submarine war and the sinkings of allied shipping.)

[Menelvagor]

Impressive collections! I aspire to the libraries of HB and Azalea. I'll post mine, even though very few of you probably remember me.

This what I've got at school, more at home though:

Russian Fairy Tales
Picnic, Lightening - Billy Collins
1984
Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, and Macbeth
The Stranger - Camus
The Rebel - Camus
Candide - Voltaire
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Night - Elie Weisel
Slaughterhouse Five - Vonnegut
Wall of Words - Tim Kennemore
Dante
Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Plato
Sophocles
Pirandello - "Liola," "It is so! (If you think so)," "Henry IV," "Six characters in search of an author," and "each in his own way"
Sartre - Of Human Freedom
Krapp's Last Tape, with some other smaller works by Beckett
T.S. Eliot - Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Don Quixote (unfortunately unread as of yet)
Chekov - The Seagull and other plays
The Bible (probably the smallest bible you've ever seen, pt. 8 font, two columns a page, gold page edges, printed in 1860, I like it)
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury
Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw
A Faulkner collection
Sartoris - Faulkner
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

And my current books for class (the interesting ones at least):
More Shakespeare
collected short stories of Eudora Welty
very, very large short story anthology
James Joyce - Dubliners
another Chekov anthology
Complete stories of Flannery O'Connor
Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges
Three psych textbooks, one philosophy, some boring stuff from last semester
and some research materials for the paper on Achebe I'm writing - Beware Soul Brother, Girls at War, Hopes and Impediments...

edit: I missed "The Osbick Bird" by Edward Gorey, how could I?

[BeardofPants]

Menelvagor!! *huggles* You're back!

[Menelvagor]

I am! Thanks BoP! I'm trying to make some time for the moot again, although I'll probably be staying in gen. lit. most of the time. Ooh, you remember me, I feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

[Earniel]

So you did return! I was half thinking I was seeing older posts of you in threads that were dug up for some reason. Good to see you and your kitty-avatar again, Menelvagor.

EDIT: Ooh lookatit, 5000 posts, spammy little me....

[Menelvagor]

Thanks Earniel!

[b.banner]

By C.S. Lewis
the lion the witch and the wardrobe
the horse and his boy
the voyage of the dawn treader
the last battle

By Frank peretti
Hangmans curse
Nightmare academy
Cooper kids the legend of annie murphy
Cooper kids escape from island of aqaurias

By Jack london
Call of the wild
White fang

By Lloyd alexander
the book of three
the black cauldron
the castle of lyre
taran wanderer
the high king

By Sharon creech
Chasing redbird

By Niel hancock
circle of light #1 greyfax grimwald
circle of light #3 calix stay

By Jules verne
journey to the center of the earth

By Franklin w. dixon
hardy boys casefiles choke hold

By Gail carson levine
Ella Enchanted

Movie books
the day after tommrow
home alone
indiana jones and the temple of doom
spy kids 3D game over
spy kids 2 the island of lost dreams
starwars return of the jedi

[crickhollow]

Menelvagor -- nice to see you back. Last year I lived next door to a girl from Ukraine. I used your signature quote a lot, because it was the only bit of Russian I knew! So thanks for your quote!

[Stephen]

I wont bore you with a list. It's mostly philosophy. Quite a few mushroom field guides. Some Comparative Religion and anthropology. Some Mathematics and Logic. Not much fiction besides Huxley, Hemmingway, Vonnegut, and Tolkien.

[Melko Belcha]

Tolkien
The Silmarillion - First Edition
The Silmarillion - Second Edition (All-time favorite book)
The Hobbit
The Annotated Hobbit (Douglas Anderson)
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
Unfinished Tales
The 12 History of Middle-earth Books
The Letters of Jrr Tolkien
JRR Tolkien: Biography
The Atlas of Middle-earth
The Tolkien Reader
Smith of Wooten Major/ Farmer Giles of Ham
Sir Gaiwan and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo
JRR Tolkien: Author of the Century (Shippey, Tom)
JRR Tolkien: Artist and Illustratrator
The Complete Guide to Middle-earth

Terry Brooks
* The Shannara Trilogy
1. The Sword of Shannara
2. The Elfstones of Shannara
3. The Wishsong of Shannara
* The Heritage of Shannara
1. The Scions of Shannara
2. The Druid of Shannara
3. The Elfqueen of Shannara
4. The Tailsmans of Shannara
First King of Shannara
* The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara
1. The Isle Witch
2. Antrax
3. Morgawr
* Magic Kingdom
1. Magic Kingdom For Sale: Sold
2. The Black unicorn
* World and Void
1. Running with the Demon
Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom menace

Terry Goodkind
*The Sword of Truth
1. Wizard's First Rule
2. The Stone of Tears

Robert Jordan
* The Wheel of Time
1. The Eye of the World
2. The Great Hunt
3. The Dragon Reborn
4. The Shadow Rising
5. The Fires from Heaven
6. Lord of Chaos

Michael Ende
The Neverending Story

George RR Martin
* A Song of Ice and Fire
1. A Game of Thrones
2. A Clash of Kings
3. A Storm of Swords

Tad Williams
* Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn (All-time favorite Trilogy)
1. The Dragonbone Chair
2. Stone of Farewell
3. To Green Angel Tower

RA Salvatore
* The Icewind Dale Trilogy
1. The Crystal Shard
2. Streams of Silver
3. The Halflings Gem
* The Dark Elf Trilogy
1. Homeland
2. Exile
3. Sojourn
* The Legacy of the Drow
1. The Legacy
2. Starless Nights
3. Siege of Darkness
4. Passage to Dawn
* The Cleric Quintet
1. Canticle
2. In Sylvan Shadows
3. Night Masks
4. The Forsaken Fortress
5. The Chaos Curse
* Demon Wars Saga
1. The Demon Awakens
2. The Demon Spirit
3. The Demon Apostle
4. Mortals
5. Ascendance
6. Transcendence
7. Immortalis

Homer
The Iliad
The Odyssey

This is about half of the books I have, it would take to long to list them all.

[Grey_Wolf]

Of the 604 English novels on my bookshelfs 55 is SW ones.

The complete list can be found on my site's booklist.

[hectorberlioz]

added:

Around the World in eighty days
To kill a mocking bird
Moby Dick
Captains Courageous
Red Rabbit (by Tom Clancy)

[Lalaith_Elf]

At the moment my Bookshelf isn't in any order. It's actually over flowing and books are piled on the floor as well... I think I need a bigger bookshelf.

I'll try and put this into some sort of order.

Reference
The Greek Stones Speak - Paul Mackendrick
Who Murdered Chaucer? - Terry Jones
England in the Seventeenth Century - Maurice Ashley
The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde - Oscar Wilde
Shakespearean Tragedy - A.C Bradley
Eats, Shoots and Leaves - Lynne Truss
Botticelli - Alberto Busignani
Palm Reading - Dennis Fairchild
A Hard Days Write - Steve Turner
The Oxford English Dictionary - ...
Latin Dictionary - Collins Gem Version
The Book of Spells - Green
The Book of Spells 2 - Green
The Book of Nod - White Wolf
Encyclopedia of World Mythyology - ... (Foreward by Rex Warner)
History of Supernatural - Karen Farnington
The Definite Illustrated Guide To Fantasy - ... (Forward by Terry Prachett)
The Art of The Fellowship of the Ring - Gary Russel
100 Ways for a Cat to train it's Human - Celia Haddon
The Completely Misleading Guide to School - Jim Eldridge
A Concise History of Painting - Michael Levey
Bart Simpsons Guide To Life - Matt Groening
The Wicked Wit of William Shakespeare - Dominique Enright
Myths and Legends of the Middle Ages - Guerber
Painting in the 20th Century - Werner Haftmann
Atlas of Magical Britain - Janet and Colin Bord
Journeys of Frodo - Barbara Strachey
Shakespeare on Doctors and Lawyers - Katherin and Elizabeth O'Mahorey
Homer and the Heroic Age - J.V Luce
Ghost Hunters Guide to Britain - Edward Grey
The Phantom World - Augustin Calmet
Romance and the Legend of Chivalry - A.R Hope Moncrieff
Celtic Bards and Celtic Druids - R.J Stewart and Robin Williamson
An Introduction to Viking Mythology - John Grant
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Tolkien - David Day
Pageant and Panorama: The Elegant World of Canaletto - Potterton

Fiction
Tolkien
The Hobbit
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
The Unfininshed Tales
The Silmarillion
Father Giles of Ham/Adventures of Tom Bombadil

Philip Pulman
Northern Lights
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass
Lyra's Oxford

Ursula Le Guin
Earthsea Trilogy
Tehanu
Tales from Earthsea
The Other Wind

Anne Rice
Interview with a Vampire
The Vampire Lestat
The Queen of the Dammed
The Tale of the Body Thief
Memnoch the Devil
The Vampire Armand
Merrick
Blood and Gold
Blackwood Farm

J.K Rowling
H.P and the Philosphers Stone
H.P and the Chamber of Secrets
H.P and the Prisoner of Azkaban
H.P and the Goblet of Fire
H.P and the Order of the Pheonix
Quidditch through the Ages
Fantastic Beasts and where to Find Them.
Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis (Translation by Peter Needham)

Lemony Snicket
Books 1-6.....
The Unauthorized Autobiography

Robert Jordan
Books 1-4 of The Wheel of Time Series

Beth Webb
Fleabag and the Ring Fire
Fleabag and the Fire Cat

Lian Hearn
Across the Nightingale Floor
Grass for his Pillow

C.S Lewis
The Narnia Collection

Tamora Pierce
Song of the Lioness Quartet

Eoin Colfer
Artemis Fowl
The Arctic Incident

Sabriel - Gareth Nix
Faerie Wars - Herbie Brennan
The King Beyond the Gate - David Gemmel
The Hounds of the Morrigan - Pat O'Shea
The Great Redwall Feast - Brian Jacques
The Last Vampire - Willis Hall
A Time of War - Katherin Kerr
King Arthur Stories - Rosemary Sutcliff
Forest Faries - Margaret W. Tarrant
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Pygmalion - Bernard Shaw
Charmed Life - Diana Wynne Jones
The Whitby Witches - Robin Jarvis
Blade Runner - Philip K. Dick
The Omnibus - Nick Hornby
The Complete Stories - Edgar Allen Poe
Gormenghast Trilogy - Meryvn Peake
The Queens Fool - Phillipa Greggory
Emma - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Merchants Tale - Chaucer

Plays
Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
Othello - Shakespeare
Time and the Conways and Other Plays - J.B Priestly
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
The Cruicble - Arthur Miller

The Wasps/The Poet and the Women/The Frogs - Aristophanes
The Birds and Other Plays - Aristophanes
Lysistrata and Other Plays - Aristophanes
The Odyssey - Homer
The Odyssey - Homer (2nd Copy)
The Iliad - Homer
Electra - Sophocles
The Three Theban Plays - Sophocles
The Orestia - Aeschylus
The Oresteian Trilogy - Aeschylus

And some other books that I have not yet found... though I think they might be under my mountain of clothes... or downstairs.