Whats on your Bookshelf?

[Serenoli]

Originally Posted by Tamuril Sirfalas

quite a nice selection

Thats probably one of the best things anyone ever said to me. I don't know a single person who appreciates books like I do, except my brother, and fellow mooters.

Originally Posted by E, LoR

Dealing with dragon's series 1,2, and 4

Are these the ones written by Anne Macaffrey? I think I saw a few of those books, but I didn't know if they were very good. Do you think I should read them?

[littleadanel]

Originally Posted by Serenoli

Thats probably one of the best things anyone ever said to me. I don't know a single person who appreciates books like I do, except my brother, and fellow mooters.

Funny thing, same case with me. Not so many people around me, and my brother definitely not. My granny does, though. And my mum. Maybe it comes down from the women's side in my family

[hectorberlioz]

One of these days I'll have to update my list of books...

[The Telcontarion]

sci-fiction

hyperion saga
Dune series
Isaac asimov's foundation series (the mule was an awesome villian)
some star wars series'(never was impressed with them)
Illium Saga by Dan "the man" Simmons
Octavia Butler(awesome author)
...a little more

Fantasy (alot)

David Eddings books
Terry Goodkind
George RR Martin
Robert Jordan
Tolkien
Tad Williams
...I am sure there is more.

[Arien the Maia]

oh my...this might take a while...

Lord of the Rings
The silmarillion
The Hobbit
Unfinished Tales
Morgoth's Ring,
The Lost Road
The Shaping of Middle Earth
The Lays of Beleriand
The Book of Lost Tales
The Tolkien Illustrated Encyclopedia
Harry Potter books 1-6
Artemis Fowl books 3 and 4
Interview with the Vampire
The Vampire Lestat
The Queen of the Damned
The Tale of the Body Theif
The Memoiors of Cleopatra
The Autobiography of Henry VIII
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe
Where the Hear Is
Quo Vadis
Walter Payton (Never Die Easy)
The Catechism of the Catholic Church
2 cookbooks (I don't feel like going over to the book shelf and actually reading their real names!)
Chronicle of the Pharohs
Chronicle of the Roman Emperors
Growing up Brady
REbecca
The Simpsons Guide
A dictionary
the Bible

I know I've left out a few oh well

[Gwaimir Windgem]

Hmm...

Well, first of all, see the curriculum for freshman and sophomore years at TAC. I'm missing a few sophomore books, but otherwise, I got all that.

Jerusalem Bible
CCC
Evangelical is Not Enough
Rome Sweet Home
Surprised by Truth
Born Fundamentalist, Born Again Catholic
Orthodoxy
Everlasting Man
St. Thomas Aquinas (by Chesterton)
The Man Who Was Thursday
Dracula
1870 pocket-copy of the Book of Common Prayer
Divine Liturgy
1965 Missal
Baronius Press Tridentine Missal
A Russian Missalette
Shorter Christian Prayer
Malleus Malleficarum
Mysteriorum Libri Quinque (by John Dee)
The Complete Stories of Oscar Wilde
The Complete Stories, Poems, and Plays of Oscar Wilde (not as attractive a volume as the above)
De Profundis (again, Wilde)
A book of Sherlock Holmes Mysteries
An Augustine Synthesis
C. S. Lewis, a Biography
C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
The Weight of Glory
The Chronicles of Narnia (sadly, in a single volume)
The Lord of the Rings (happily, in a single volume)
The Hobbit
Silmarillion
Unfinished Tales
HoMe 1-12
J. R. R. Tolkien: The Man and the Myth
J. R. R. Tolkien: A Celebration
Foster's Guide to ME
Noel's little red book of horrors
The J. R. R. Tolkien handbook
Humphrey's Biography of Tollers
The Letters of Tollers
Literary Converts
The Hawk and the Dove
The Call of the Phoenix
Children of the Night
Shining Face
Decipher's LotR RPG book
MERP
DND: Player's Handbook, DMG, Monster Manual, Quintessential Elf, Quint. Paladin, Quint Dwarf, Quint Cleric
Changeling: the Dreaming + the Player's Handbook for it (or whatever the proper name is)
Brideshead Revisited
Descent into Hell (Williams)
Umm...that's all off the top of my head...but I have a lot more. On my laptop, there is a catalog; I'll upload that later.

[Gwaimir Windgem]

Originally Posted by Arien the Maia

oh my...this might take a while...

Lord of the Rings
The silmarillion
The Hobbit
Unfinished Tales
Morgoth's Ring,
The Lost Road
The Shaping of Middle Earth
The Lays of Beleriand
The Book of Lost Tales
The Tolkien Illustrated Encyclopedia
Harry Potter books 1-6
Artemis Fowl books 3 and 4
Interview with the Vampire
The Vampire Lestat
The Queen of the Damned
The Tale of the Body Theif
The Memoiors of Cleopatra
The Autobiography of Henry VIII
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe
Where the Hear Is
Quo Vadis
Walter Payton (Never Die Easy)
The Catechism of the Catholic Church
2 cookbooks (I don't feel like going over to the book shelf and actually reading their real names!)
Chronicle of the Pharohs
Chronicle of the Roman Emperors
Growing up Brady
REbecca
The Simpsons Guide
A dictionary
the Bible

I know I've left out a few oh well

Oooo, Complete Poe! Me wants it!

Is Rice good? I've developed an interest in her, but haven't yet gotten around to reading her books.

[trolls' bane]

The Space Elevator - Dr. Bradely Edwards

Wow, whatever happened to this thread?

[littleadanel]

Originally Posted by Gwaimir Windgem

HoMe 1-12

*jealous*

The Letters of Tollers

*even more jealous*

Uhm, yes.

Recent addition to my bookshelf...
Carlos Ruiz Zafón: The Shadow of the Wind

[Arien the Maia]

Originally Posted by Gwaimir Windgem

Oooo, Complete Poe! Me wants it!

Is Rice good? I've developed an interest in her, but haven't yet gotten around to reading her books.

The Poe book belongs to my hubby but I've read a few of his works. Rice is a great author. Sadly though i've had those books for 8 years now, I've only read The Vampire Lestat. AGain, my hubby has read them all and found them intriguing to say the least. I think what deters me fropm her books is the fact that her Vampires have lost all their humanity about them...with the exception of Louis.

[Gwaimir Windgem]

That's the way Vampyres should be portrayed. Traditionally, they are inhuman monsters, and it's good when they remain such, IMO.

[Arien the Maia]

Originally Posted by Gwaimir Windgem

That's the way Vampyres should be portrayed. Traditionally, they are inhuman monsters, and it's good when they remain such, IMO.

I guess I just can't relate to a creature that has no similarites to humanity. I guess I picture Vampires to be quite different from the typical perception.

[Gwaimir Windgem]

All right, here's a sorta complete and semi-systematic list of my books:

Topica:
Language; Mathematics; Philosophy; Natural Science; Poetry; Tolkien: Opera; Tolkien; Middle-earth; Chesterton; Lewis; Victorian/Post Victorian English Language Classics; Religion: Comparative; Religion: Non-Christian; Religion: Catholic; Religion: Spirituality; Religion: Conversion; Religion: Christian; Religion: Doctrine; Religion: Non-Catholic Christian; Religion: Inter-religious Relations; Liturgy; Liturgical Texts; History; History: Ecclesiastical; Historical; Drama; Fiction; Historical Fiction; Fantastic Fiction; Humour


To conserve space, certain titles are abbreviated. Those in which more than articles etc. are removed are marked with an asterisk (*).



(Language)
Webster’s Dictionary and Roget’s Thesaurus (Abridged Edition)
The Norton Reader ed. Arthur M. Eastman et alia
Wheelock’s Latin by Frederic M. Wheelock
Aid to the Study & Comp. of English* by Nesfield
Thirty-eight Latin Stories by Anne H. Groton and James M. May
Two or three books entitled some variant of "A Simplified Russian Grammar"
A Latin Dictionary
A humourous English textbook published in Soviet Russia. The sentence examples are quite funny.

(Mathematics)
Elements by Euclid
Bones: Companion to Elements*
Vol. 15 of the Great Books, with Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Kepler

(Philosophy)
Plato: Complete Works by Plato
Categories, De Interpretatione, Prior Analytics by Aristotle
Collectio Textuum Studenorum Primum Philosophiae Anno
Ethics by Aristotle
Rhetoric and Poetics by Aristotle
The Decline of Pleasure by Walter Kerr
The Basic Works of Aristotle
Physics by Aristotle
Two copies of On the Nature of Things by Lucretius, and a Latin commentary on book VI thereof


(Natural Science)
Motion of Heart & Blood in Animals* by William Harvey
Freshman Lab Manual I
Freshman Lab Manual II
Measurement Manual

(Poetry)
Iliad by Homer
Odyssey by Homer
Aeneid by Virgil
Inferno by Dante
Divine Comedy by Dante

(Tolkien: Opera)
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien, ed. Christopher Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (Out)
Unfinished Tales by J. R. R. Tolkien, ed. Christopher Tolkien
The Book of Lost Tales I by J. R. R. Tolkien, ed. Christopher Tolkien
The Book of Lost Tales II by J. R. R. Tolkien, ed. Christopher Tolkien
The Lays of Beleriand by J. R. R. Tolkien, ed. Christopher Tolkien
The Shaping of Middle-earth by J. R. R. Tolkien, ed. Christopher Tolkien
The Lost Road and Other Writings by J. R. R. Tolkien, ed. Christopher Tolkien
The Return of the Shadow by J. R. R. Tolkien, ed. Christopher Tolkien
The Treason of Isengard by J. R. R. Tolkien, ed. Christopher Tolkien
The War of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien, ed. Christopher Tolkien
The End of the Third Age by J. R. R. Tolkien, ed. Christopher Tolkien
Morgoth’s Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien, ed. Christopher Tolkien
The War of the Jewels by J. R. R. Tolkien, ed. Christopher Tolkien
The Peoples of Middle-earth by J. R. R. Tolkien, ed. Christopher Tolkien

(Tolkien)
Tolkien’s Ordinary Virtues by Mark Eddy Smith
Finding God in L. of the R. by Bruner Ware
Tolkien: Man and Myth by Joseph Pearce
Tolkien: A Celebration ed. Joseph Pearce
J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter
J.R.R.T. Myth, Morality, & Religion*by Richard Purtill

(Middle-earth)
Comp. Guide to Middle-earth* by Robert Foster
J. R. R. Tolkien Handbook by Colin Duriez
Languages of Tolkien’s M.E.* by Ruth S. Noel
A Tolkien Bestiary by David Day

(Chesterton)
The Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton
Saint Thomas Aquinas by G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton

(Lewis)
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
The Weight of Glory by C. S. Lewis
Comp. C.S.Lewis Signature Classics*by C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis: A Biography by Roger Lancelyn Green & Walter Hooper

(Victorian/Post Victorian English Language Classics)
Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft
Descent into Hell by Charles Williams
Creed or Chaos? by Dorothy L. Sayers
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Orestes Brownson: Selected Essays by Orestes Brownson
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Stories by Oscar Wilde
Complete Stories, Poems, and Plays by the same
De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

(Religion)
Magic, Science, and Religion by Bronislaw Malinowski
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism by R. H. Tawney

(Religion: Comparative)
Introduction to the Great Religions by Jean Danielou, S. J., et al
Religions of the World: Volume Two by. John A. Hardon, S. J.

(Religion: Non-Christian)
The Teachings of the Compassionate Buddha
The Meaning of the Glorious Koran
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
The Way of Life by Lao Tzu
Bhavagad-Gita As It Is by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The Teachings of the Essenes * by Edmond Bordeaux Szekely
The Book of Enoch by R. H. Charles
Enoch: A Man for All Generations by James C. VanderKam
Fallen Angels & the Origins of Evil by Elizabeth Clare Prophet


(Religion: Catholic)
Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
Cathechism of the Catholic Church
Mysterium Ecclesiae Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
Christ Denied by Rev. Paul A Wickens
Catholic Church and Homosexuality by Atila Sinke Guimarães
Catholicism and Modernity by James Hitchcock
Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory by Stephen A.Foglein, MS
The Splendour of the Church by Henri de Lubac, S. J.
Position of Catholics in America* by James Hitchcock
Athanasius and Church of Our Time by Rt. Rev. Rudolf Graber, Bishop of Regensburg
Jesus, Peter, and the Keys by Scott Butler, Norman Dahlgren, Rev. Mr. David Hess
Goodbye Good Men by Michael S. Rose
Lord, Have Mercy by Scott Hahn
The Lamb’s Supper by Scott Hahn
Hail, Holy Queen by Scott Hahn

(Religion: Spirituality)
Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
The Power of the Cross by Raniero Cantalamessa, O. F. M. Cap.
From Death to Life by Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, O. P.
The Way of Life by Lao Tzu
Wisdom from Mount Athos by Archimandrite Sophrony
The Ascetical Life by Pascal P. Parente

(Religion: Spiritual Classics)
Confessions by St. Augustine
The Secret of the Rosary by St. Louis-Marie de Montfort
Practice of the Presence of God Brother Lawrence, O. Carm.

(Religion: Conversion)
The Pillar of Fire by Karl Stern
Fleeing the Whore of Babylon by James Thompson, Jr.
Evangelical is Not Enough by Thomas Howard
Born Fund., Born Again Catholic by David B. Currie
Catholic for a Reason ed. Scott Hahn, Ph.D, and Leon J. Suprenant, Jr.
Surprised By Truth ed. Patrick Madrid
Rome Sweet Home by Scott Hahn

(Religion: Christian)
An Augustine Synthesis by Erich Przywara
City of God by St. Augustine
Evangelical is Not Enough by Thomas Howard
Every Young Man’s Battle by Stephen Arterburn, et alia
Fallen Angels & the Origins of Evil by Elizabeth Clare Prophet
Jerusalem Bible

(Religion: Doctrine)
Cathechism of the Catholic Church
Mysterium Ecclesiae Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
The Catholic Church and Homosexuality by Atila Sinke Guimarães
Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory by Stephen A.Foglein, MS
Lord, Have Mercy by Scott Hahn
The Lamb’s Supper by Scott Hahn
Hail, Holy Queen by Scott Hahn

(Roleplaying: Dungeons and Dragons)
Dungeons and Dragons: Monster Manual 3.5
Dungeons and Dragons: Monster Manual
Dungeons and Dragons: Dungeon Master’s Guide
Dungeons and Dragons: Player’s Handbook
Dungeons and Dragons: Book of Challenges (Supplemental)
Hammer and Helm: A Guidebook to Dwarves (DND Supplemental)
The Quintessential Dwarf (DND Supplemental)
The Quintessential Dwarf (DND Supplemental)
The Quintessential Paladin (DND Supplemental)
The Quintessential Elf (DND Supplemental)
The Quintessential Cleric (DND Supplemental)
Bastards and Bloodlines: A Guidebook to Half-Breeds (DND Supplemental)

(Roleplaying: Other)
Changeling: the Dreaming
Player’s Guide for Changeling: the Dreaming
Middle-earth Role Playing (MERP)
The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game

(Religion: Non-Catholic Christian)
This is My Body by Hermann Sasse

(Religion: Inter-religious Relations)
This Jew by Rev. Arthur B. Klyber, Redemptorist
A Tale of Two Churches by George Carey

(Liturgy)
Problems with the Prayers of the Modern Mass by Rev. Anthony Cekada
The Mass by Lucien Deiss, C. S. Sp.
Come, Let Us Worship by Godfrey Diekman, O. S. B.

(Liturgical Texts)
The English Ritual
The Roman Missal (1962)
Antiphonale Monasticum I
Saint Joseph “Continuous Sunday Missal and Hymnal (1966)
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Byzantine Book of Prayer Byzantine Seminary Press
Divine Liturgy
Book of Common Prayer
Shorter Christian Prayer

(History)
Histories by Herodotus
History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
Lost Atlantis by J. V. Luce
Eyewitness Travel Guide to London Eyewitness Travel Guides
Plutarch’s Lives Vol I & II by Plutarch

(History: Ecclesiastical)
The Pope and the Jesuits by James Hitchcock
The World’s Most Orphaned Nation by Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty
The Rise of Benedict XVI John Allen, Jr.
The Holy Land as Jesus Knew It David K. O’Rourke, O. P.
Churches the Apostles Left Behind Raymond E. Brown, S. S.

(Historical)
Medieval People by Eileen Power
Medieval Essays by Christopher Dawson
Malleus Maleficarum by Heinrich Kramer, O. P., and James Sprenger, O. P.
The Portable Medieval Reader ed. James Bruce Ross & Mary Martin McLaughlin
Medieval Europe ed. by William H. McNeil & Schuyler O. Houser

(Drama)
Comp. Works of Shakespeare:Vol.IV by William Shakespeare
The Birds by Aristophanes
Clouds by Aristophanes
Greek Tragedies Vol. I, II, & III

(Fiction)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

(Historical Fiction)
The Call of the Green Bird by Alberta Hawse
Byzantium by Stephen R. Lawhead
The Hawk and the Dove by Penelope Wilcock

(Speculative Fiction)
Oneprince by Bill Hand
Earthquake Weather by Tim Powers
The Green Mile by Stephen King
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
The Shining Face by Harold Myra
Ring of the Dark Elves by Victoria Randall
Redwall by Brian Jacques
Mattimeo by Brian Jacques
Triss by Brian Jacques
Outcast of Redwall by Brian Jacques
Watership Down by Richard Adams

(Humour)
Congratulations Now What? by Bill Cosby
Holy Humor by Cal and Rose Samra

[Gwaimir Windgem]

This really is quite unsatisfactory; my catalogue needs updating...

Originally Posted by Arien the Maia

I guess I just can't relate to a creature that has no similarites to humanity. I guess I picture Vampires to be quite different from the typical perception.

Well, from the traditional PoV, one wouldn't relate to a vampire, although I suppose that's more in keeping with Rice's works. I really must read them eventually; they are on my list, relatively near the top.

[Elfmaster XK]

GW that is an impressive list! I wish I had that many books.

My bookshelf spans two houses (Not because it's so huge...but because I go between places) Half my books are in Manchester, half in Swansea.

Books I can't remember who they're by because they're in Manchester:

What, When, Where, Why and How it Happened. (Covers major world events from ancient times, up to 2000)
The Big Book of Facts (Divided into sections, arts, science, geography etc.)
Egypt: A travellers Guide
Chinese Quisine
Indian Quisine
The entire 26 Volume Encyclopaedia Brittanica (From about 1920 - is all leather bound and cool! )
The little book of cocktails
The Origins of Everyday Things (This book is Awesome.)

A book about writing for publication, how to lay out manuscripts, all that technical stuff. I think I might have to give up on the ones at home because I can't remember them all.

Language/Reference:

Collins Dictionary
Collins Thesaurus
Chambers Dictionary
The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the English Language / David Crystal
Egyptian Grammar / Alan Gardiner
Ancient Egyptian: A linguistic Introduction / A. Loprieno
How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A step by step guide / Mark Collier and Bill Manley
Ancient Egyptian Literature Volume 1: The Old and Middle Kingdoms / Miriam lichtheim
Ancient Egyptian Literature Volume 2: The New Kingdom / Miriam Lichtheim
The Literature of Ancient Egypt: An Anthology / Edited by W. K. Simpson
Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian / R. O. Faulkner
The Writer's and Artist's Yearbook 2006 / A&C Books


History

The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt / I. Shaw
The British Museum Dictionary of Ancient Egypt / I. Shaw and P. Nicholson
Akhenaten: Egypt's False Prophet / Nicholas Reeves
Egypt of the Pharaohs / A. Gardiner
Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt / E. Hornung
Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife / E. Hornung
Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt / J. H. Taylor
Religion and Magic in Ancient Egypt / R. David
Egyptian Gods and Goddesses / G. Hart
Ancient Egypt / B. Kemp
History of Ancient Egypt / N. Grimal
The Complete Pyramids / M. Lehner
The Ancient Egyptians / Brewer and Teeter
Egyptian Ideas of the Afterlife / W. Budge
The Secret of the Incas: Myth, Astronomy and the War Against Time / William Sullivan
Black Barty: The Real Pirate of the Caribbean / Aubrey Burl
Histories / Herodotus

And about a million copies of single chapters or articles I needed on Egyptology for my dissertation.

Some History subjects in my books at home so you don't think I only read about Egypt : Exploration, WWI, WWII, History of Medicine, Mythology (world), Ancient Greece, History of Art.

Classics

Iliad; Oddessy / Homer
The Satyricon / Petronius (I hate this book with much much hatred.)
Catullus: The Complete Poems / Catullus
The Aenied / Virgil
The Golden Ass (Also called Metamophoses) / Apuleius

Drama
Hamlet; Macbeth; Twelfth Night / Shakespeare

Fiction:

Harry Potter 1-6 JK. Rowling
[b]Lord of the Rings (3 volume version); The Silmarillion; The Hobbit / Tolkien
The Silver Crown / R. Brian
An Instance of the Fingerpost / I. Pears
The Portrait / I. Pears
All Fall Down; Dead Run; Shocking Pink; See Jane Die; Red; In Silence / Erica Spindler
Tale of Two Cities / Dickens
Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility / J. Austen
Jane Eyre / C. Bronte
The Girl with the Pearl Earring / Tracy Chevalier
Tipping the Velvet / Sarah Waters
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night / Mark Haddon
Good Omens / T. Pratchett
Stonehenge / B. Cornwell

I also have books about the Natural world (Covering the Ocean to the Desert), science (The science of Star wars is awesome!) and lots of other stuff.

Yeah. There's a few. There's too many to remember to list, I need to be looking at them. I have to do some work now. But will add to my list when I remember more! It's a bit of a random selection.

GW: I have this book: The Man Who was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
: but have never read it, is it any good?

[Gwaimir Windgem]

It's been a while since I read it, but I recall finding it to be hard but good. I remember clearing seeing that there was a LOT more depth and meaning on various levels to the story than I got out of it.

[Beren3000]

Originally Posted by Gwaimir Windgem

Categories, De Interpret., Prior Anal. by Aristotle

J/K
Very interesting list there, GW. But I think you should read more poetry.

Originally Posted by Elfmaster XK

Egypt: A travellers Guide

From this title (and the ones on your history list) I gather you've been to Egypt? How did you like it there? I'm an Egyptian, btw.

[Gwaimir Windgem]

That's De Interpretatione, and Prior ANALYTICS to you, good sir!

Definitely right about poetry, though. I've read all of Wilde's, but want to expand to Chesterton, Shelley, Keats, etc.

[hectorberlioz]

Originally Posted by Gwaimir Windgem

...Shelley...

Shelley's poetry, now isn't his just SO scary?

[Gwaimir Windgem]

Also Poe.