Whats on your Bookshelf?

[hectorberlioz]

I divide my bookshelf into genres....

sci-fic
ok, Star Wars first...
hardback editions of the original star wars novels
hardback aotc
Darth Maul:shadow hunter
the Han Solo adventures
a couple of jadi app. books my little brother likes to read.
Rogue Planet
the adven. of Lando Calrissian
the Heir to the Empire trilogy
the Jedi Academy trilogy


now fantasy...
all 5 of the 'Archives of Anthropos' books

by lloyd alexander....
The Arcadians
The remarkable journey of prince Jen
The iron Ring
the chronicles of prydain

redwall series...
Redwall
Taggerung
Martin the Warrior
legend of luke
the outcast of redwall
bellmaker
salamandastron
marial of redwall
redwall(again)
mattimeo
pearls of lutra
the long patrol
marlfox
redwall(yet again)
mossflower

by stephen lawhead...
merlin
taliesin
arthur
the paradise war
the silver hand

by tolkien...
The Lord of the Rings-delrey version
The fellowship of the ring-ballantine books version
The Two Towers-bb version
Fellowship of the Ring-another different version from ballantine
Unfinished Tales
The shaping of middle-earth

all of the Narnia series

Emerald city of oz


thats it for fantasy, now for a mix of miscelaneous and classic literature.

100 great Operas
The Great Houdini
The Gulag Archipeligo
Les Miserables
War and Peace
Anderson's fairy tales
The Iliad
The once and future King
Ben-Hur
The Idiot
Captains Courageous
Persuasion
Agnes Grey(by Anne Bronte!)
Taras Bulba
The Invisible Man
The Scarlet Letter
The Jungle Books
Hamlet
Robinson Crusoe
The Three Musketeers
The Good Earth
Mysterious Island
Journey to the center of the Earth
Michael Strogoff
Animal Farm
Lord of the Flies
Island of the Blue Dolphins
David Copperfield
Great Expectations
2 copies of 'Crime and Punishment'
adventures of Huckleberry Finn
adventures of Tom Sawyer
Prince and the Pauper
The Devils(aka 'the possessed')
Berlioz: a selection from his letters
Evenings with the Orchestra
How Opera Grew
Arabian Nights
t.m.o.Robin Hood

by clancy,grisham, and chrichton

clear and present danger
the hunt for red october
patriot games

the client
the testament
the brethren
the firm

jurassic park
timeline
the andromeda strain
congo
sphere


and a couple of 'Brother Cadfael' mysteries by Ellis Peters.

[Grey_Wolf]

Well, I've got...

For thrillers:

All of Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt-books
Most of Dale Brown's excellent military techno-thrillers
All of P D James' excellently written "who-dunits"
All of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple-books
Harold Coyle military techno-thrillers
Peter O'Donnell's cool Modesty Blaise-books
Ian Fleming's James Bond-books
John Gardner's James Bond-books
Larry Bond's Vortex
LB's Red Phoenix
LB's Cauldron
Tom Clancy's The Hunt For Red October
TC's Red Storm Rising

For Fantasy:

J R R Tolkien's Hardback Illustrated The Lord of the Rings
Paperback the LOTR
Paperback the Silmarillion
Paperback the Hobbit
Terry Brook's Shannara-series:
...First King
...trilogy
...Scions
...Journey
A A Attanasio's King Arthur Quartet
Stephen R Lawhead's KA Quintet
Mary Stewart's KA Trilogy (Quintet really, but I haven't got 4 & 5)
Roger Lancely Green's KA & his knight of the round table
RLG's The Adventures of Robin Hood
RLG's Tales of Greek Heroes
Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle books
Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality
Jean M Auel's Earth Children's Quartet
C S Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia
Kenneth Graham's The Wind In the Willows
Michael Moorcock's Corum-books
Robert Jordan's Wheel of time-series (as far as it's gone)
Stephen King's Dark Tower-series (as far as that's gone)
A R Lloyd's Kine
Whitley Strieber's The Wild

Sci-fi:

Arthur C Clarke's Rama-series
ACC's Odyssey-series
John Barnes' Time Line Wars-trilogy
Steve Perry's Alien vs Predator
SP's Predator-books
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars-trilogy
Buzz Aldrin's Encounter With Tiber
James P Hogan's Code of the Life-maker
JPH's The Immortality Option
JPH's The Proteus Operation
L Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth
Ian Slater's WWIII-Octology
Patrick Tilley's The Amtrack Wars
Harry Turtledove's World War-quartet
HT's Colonisation-trilogy
A whole batch of Star Wars books (55 really)

Fiction:

Robert Graves' I, Claudius & Claudius the God-duology
Colleen McCulloghs' Rome-series
Edward Rutherfurd's Sarum
ER's London
ER's The Forest
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
Nevil Shute's A Town Like Alice
Walter Scott's Ivanhoe
Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers
James Clavell's Shogun
Frances H Burnett's A Little Princess
FHB's The Secret Garden
Jack London's The Call of the Wild
James A Michener's Centennial
J A M's Space
Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny
Anton Myrer's The Last Convertible
All of Arthur Haley's novels

Non-fiction:

Winston Churchill's History of English-Speaking Peoples-Quartet
Michael Baigent's Holy Blood, Holy Grail
MB's The Messianic Legacy
L Sprague De Camp's The Ancient Engineers
Max Hasting's The Battle of the Falklands
Admiral Sandy Woodward's One Hundred Days
MH's Overlord
Len Deighton's Figther
Richard Hough's Battle of Britain
J E Johnson's The Story of Air Fighting
David Day's A Tolkien Bestiary
DD's A Guide To Tolkien

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)

Seamanship and ships in the age of sail.
(info will be added later)

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.

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 - 1664 to the present
(by Richard Brooks. Presents the entire 300 year history of Britain's most prestigious fighting men)

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.)





...a sample of my collection.

[cee2lee2]

Well, there's no way I could list everything, but here's a sampling...

leftovers from college and grad school:
classic literature
psychology texts
foreign language texts

theology and bible commentaries

science fiction and fantasy:
most of MacCaaffrey's Pern series
Madeline L'Engle's books
LOTR, SIL, The Hobbit
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars series
the first Thomas Covenant trilogy
a bunch of Star Wars books
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Lewis' Narnia series and the space trilogy
the Harry Potter series
a few Xanth books
Alexander's Prydain series
Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising series
His Dark Materials
and a bunch of other stuff

about 2 dozen of my old Trixie Belden books

all of the Jane Austen novels

all of Dorothy Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey novels

several of the large format Doonesbury collections

a few of the Aubrey/Maturin books

all of Jan Karon's Father Tim novels

all of Ann Ross' Miss Julia series

a couple of the Richard Sharpe books

some of Miss Read's books


to name a few

[Aden]

Originally posted by Grey_Wolf


Terry Brook's Shannara-series:
...First King
...trilogy
...Scions
...Journey
.

Are these good. I saw them in a book store some days ago and I was wondering

[Grey_Wolf]

Originally posted by Aden
Are these good. I saw them in a book store some days ago and I was wondering

They are very good. A recommended read.

[Aden]

Ok I'm away from home. But as far as I can remember:

Les Miserables
The winter's tale
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Antony and Cleopatra
The name of the rose
The winter king
Harlequin
The alchemist
Salvatores Dei (by Nikos Kazantzakis, a greek author)

Science fiction
Isaac Asimov:
The end of eternity
I robot
The robots of dawn
Nemesis
The stars like dust
Naked sun
Arthur Clarke:
Imperial Earth
Expedition to Earth
Sands of Mars
2001: A space odyssey

Fantasy:
JRRT:
LOTR
Hobbit
Unfinished tales
Silmarillion
Les langues elfiques vol1
RA Salvatore:
Homeland
Exile
Sojourn
The chrystal shard
Streams of silver
The Halfling's gem
Starless night
Siege of darkness
Passage to dawn
The silent blade
Spine of the world
Servant of the shard
Sea of swords
The thousand orcs

I don't remember anything else right now..

[Aden]

Originally posted by Grey_Wolf
They are very good. A recommended read.

...Just when I was wondering which books to buy for xmas Thanks!

[hectorberlioz]

hey! i added a new book to my shelf!

'Evenings with the Orchestra'
written by....guess who...

































Hector Berlioz!

[Grey_Wolf]

Originally posted by hectorberlioz
hey! i added a new book to my shelf!

'Evenings with the Orchestra'
written by....guess who...

Oh, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know....

who could it possibly be?????

*puts the right forehand to his forehead*

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssss!!

Now i know:























Hector Berlioz!

[Shadowfax]

I'm not in my room right now, so this isn't everything, but from memory:

Language books:
-German for College Students
-501 French Verbs
-French/English Dictionary (actually I have 2)
-French Verb Chart book
-French Synonyms book
-Baltic Phrasebook (includes Estonian, Latvian, & Lithuanian)

Tolkien's books:
-The Hobbit
-FotR
-TTT
-RotK
-The Sil
-Unfinished Tales
-Tales from the Perilous Realm
-Book of Lost Tales 1
-Book of Lost Tales 2
-Shaping of Middle-earth
-Return of the Shadow
-Treason of Isengard
-War of the Ring
-History of Middle-earth index
-Bilbo's Last Song
-Letters of JRR Tolkien

Books about Tolkien/Middle-earth/LotR movies:
-The Road to Middle-earth
-JRR Tolkien: A Biography
-The Art of the Fellowship of the Ring

Classics:
-The Canterbury Tales
-The Picture of Dorian Gray
-Crime and Punishment
-"Sir Gawain & the Green Knight," "Pearl," and "Sir Orfeo"
-Beowulf

Miscellaneous:
-Dressage from A to X
-The Complete Book of the Horse
-5 of my yearbooks (grades 7-11) (hehe!)
-lots of binders of schoolwork, like French, English, and Medieval History in Socials (I'm not a packrat, I just like to keep my work...)
-more stuff, but I can't think right now!

[jellyfishannah]

Wow, Shadowfax! That is quite a collection of JRRT books ya got there.

[zinnite]

Hmmm... Here's my brief summary (by author rather than title, since I tend to have several books by each):

Fiction:
JRRT: LORT, Silmarillion, Hobbit, UT, Letters, War of the Jewels, Morgoth's Ring, Lost Tales I...
Lots of Philip K. Dick
most of Kurt Vonnegut
William Gibson
Jack Womack
Neal Stephenson
Rudy Rucker
Ray Bradbury
Thomas Disch
Jonathan Lethem
J.G. Ballard
Theodore Sturgeon
John Brunner
Michael Swanwick
Thomas Pynchon
Joe Haldemann
Ken MacLeod
Joseph Heller
China Mieville
George Orwell
Don DeLillo
Orson Scott Card
Plato
Dostoevsky
James Joyce
Mark Twain
Willa Cather
Upton Sinclair

Nonfiction:
US History
Chinese history
Russian history
Balkans history
military history
labor history
political science
cultural geography
urban geography
climatology
geopolitics/political geography
astronomy/cosmology

lots of stuff. I have a book fetish of sorts.

[Elf Girl]

Woah, you can list what's on your bookshelf? There's 18 bookshelves and and 5000 books in my house!

I guess I'll comply by listing my Tolkien bookshelf:
4 different editions of LotR (some one-volume, some three)
The Sil
2 editions of the Hobbit,
The Letters
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
UT
The Lays of Beleriand
The End of the Third Age
The Shaping of Middle-Earth
BoLT
BoLT 2
The Lost Road
The Road Goes Ever On
A Biography (It's too buried right now to check the author)

And probably five-ish others floating around not on my bookshelf proper.

What, me obsessed? I don't know what gives you that idea!

[All Bran]

Not very many, but I'm still young. Starts off with a boxed set of the 13 Inspector Morse novels by Colin Dexter. Then boxed sets of the Lord of the Rings and Philip Pullman's Dark Materials trilogy. The Green Mile, Dreamcatcher, Night Shift, Hearts in Atlantis, From a Buick 8, and Salem's Lot, all by Stephen King, finish off the first shelf.

Then come a few factual hardback books including Dude Where's My Country by Michael Moore (as yet, unread). The second shelf is completed by Nos. 1-13 of the New Jedi Order Star Wars series.

Shelf number three contains only Star Wars books (Corellian trilogy, Thrawn trilogy, Jedi Academy trilogy, Specter of the Past duology, the Han Solo trilogy, the Black Fleet Crisis trilogy, the Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy, and four 'Tales From' books).

I have a few more Star Wars books on the bottom shelf along with a row of uninteresting boxfiles and some DVDs.

[dawningoftime]

By C.S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia
Mere Christianity

Tolkien
Lord of the Rings
The Hobbit
The Silmerillian
Unfinished Tales

Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Emma
Mansfield Park
Sense and Senseability
Persuassion

Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre

Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities
David Copperfield
Christmas Carol
Great Expectations
Nicholas Nickleby

Leo Tolstey
Anna Karinnina

Elizabeth Gaskell
Wives and Daughters

L.M. Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables Series
Emily of New Moon Series

Janette Oke
The Meeting Place
The Sacred Shore
The Birthright
The Distant Becon
The Beloved Land
Gown of Spanish Lace
Roses for Mama
They Called Her Mrs. Doc
The Bluebird and the Sparrow
When Calls the Heart
When Calls the Spring
When Breaks the Dawn
When Hope Springs New

Victor Hugo
Les Miserables

Lousia May Alcott
Little Women

Alexander Dumas
The Three Musketeers
The Vicomte du Burlognne
Louise de la Valliere
The Man in the Iron Mask

Lee Stobal
The Case for Christ
The Case for Faith

Steven Curtis Chapman
Speechless

Jim Cymbala
Fresh wind, fresh Faith

Mark Lowry
Mouth in Motion

Martha Bolton
When the going Gets tough, the tough start Laughing
The Cafeteria lady

Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye
The Left Behind Series
I'm sure there are others, but this is all I can remember off the top of my head

[Elfhelm]

Originally posted by jellyfishannah
Wow, Shadowfax! That is quite a collection of JRRT books ya got there.

And I bet that's Tolkien's modernization of Sir Gawain and the reen Knight down there in the classics. Nice bit of Christmas reading, that.

I can't list my library. It takes up 7 bookcases. In terms of shelf space, at 2 3/4 feet per shelf, the poetry alone takes up about 25 feet.

[katya]

My bookshelf has mostly kiddie stuff. That is because I ran out of room on it so all the good stuff is basically on my floor. I have like a million Animorphs books, half a million Dear America books, and a bunch of other young adult fiction, I guess you could say. There's also a book about ice skating that's really old. I can't quite explain it's origins. There's also a trashy romance novel that my mom won for free; don't ask me how it got on my bookshelf. Also, a book of greek/roman mythology. That's about it, on the shelf.

Where's all the Tolkien? Well don't worry for my collection is vast. LotR is on my beside table that is also a cupboard, and The Hobbit is inside the cupboard. And that's all, because I am completely and totally broke. (Thank heavens for libraries)

On my floor, in stacks behind my bed, or in my closet...you know...around...:
Crime and Punishment
Johnny Got His Gun
Anna Karenina
Les Miserables (actually that's a library book)
a couple dictionaries (French/English, Japanese/English, English)
Watership Down
Walden (and Civil Disobedience)
Stick and Rudder (according to my late grandfather, the pilot's bible)
a couple bibles (one of which I got from Gideons on a public school field trip. What's up with that?)
The Scarlett Letter
Slaughterhouse 5
The Little Prince
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
the script from By The Skin of Our Teeth (I was Gladys Antrobus in it)
and not to mention a big pile of manga (but to tell the truth, it's rather neatly organized)

As I said, I'm poor so I don't buy too many books. It's not that I don't like reading.

EDIT: also on the shelf: my CD collection (about 90-100, alphabetized) and my playstation 2 and my CD player, and The Hobbit book on tape.

[hectorberlioz]

come on, is there nobody else who wants to tell whats on their bookshelf?
btw katya-i alphabetize my cd's too.

[Earniel]

Originally posted by hectorberlioz
come on, is there nobody else who wants to tell whats on their bookshelf?

Nehheh, I wouldn't mind telling you but considering I got two bookcases on my room and a library downstairs.... and then on some shelves the books are not just put but stacked up to the top, sometimes even in two rows.... suffice to say, it would take too much time to write it all down.

[hectorberlioz]

at least give us a ngeneral idea of what you have on there...