Whats on your Bookshelf?

[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.

[Falagar]

Nice list, Lal This is what is on my bookshelf, currently (only taking my own as my parents have a much, much larger one)

Fiction

John R.R. Tolkien
Lord of the Rings
The Silm
Unfinished Tales
The Hobbit
The Book of Lost Tales 1
The Book of Lost Tales 2
The Lays of Beleriand
The Lost Road
The War of the Ring
Sauron Defeated
Morgoth's Ring
The War of the Jewels
The Peoples of Middle-earth
JRRTolkien: The Monsters and the Critics
Adventures of Tom Bombadil
Leaf by Niggle
Smith of Woodon Major
Farmer Giles of Ham
Rhoverandom
The Road Goes Ever On

George R.R. Martin
A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
A Storm of Swords

Frank Herbert
Dune

Steven Erikson
Gardens of the Moon
Deadhouse Gates

Robert Jordan
The Eye of the World
The Great Hunt
The Dragon Reborn
The Fires of Heaven
[borrowed the rest up until book 7]

Terry Pratchett
The Colour of Magic
The Light Fantastic
Equal Rites
Mort
Sourcery
Wyrd Sisters
Pyramids
Guards! Guards!
Reaper Man
Witches Abroad
Small Gods
Lords and Ladies
Men at Arms
Soul Music
Interesting Times
Maskerade
Feet of Clay
Hogfather
Jingo
The Last Continent
Carpe Jugulum
The Fifth Elephant
Night Watch
Good Omens (with Gaiman)

Neil Gaiman
American Gods
Coraline
Good Omen (with Pratchett)

Phillip Pullman
The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass
Lyra's Oxeford

Douglas Adams
The Ultimate Hitch-hikers guide
The Meaning of Liff

J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Philosphers Stone
...and the Chamber of Secrets
...and the Prisoner of Azkaban
...and the Goblet of Fire
...and the Order of the Pheonix
Quidditch through the Ages
Fantastic Beasts and where to find them

Eoin Colfer
Artemis Fowl
The Artic Incident
The Eternity Code

Agatha Christie
Poirot Investigates
The Big Four
Murder on the Orient Express
Three Act Tragedy
Murder in Mesopotamia
Death on the Nile
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Evil Under the Sun
Five Little Pigs
The Labours of Hercules
Taken at the Flood
The Clocks
Curtain: Poirot's Last Case
They Do It with Mirrors
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Sir A. Conan Doyle
Lots of books.

K.A. Applegate
All of her Animorphs-books up till book 30

C.S. Lewis
Most of the Narnia books

Jack London
Lots and lots of his books, including Call of the Wild and Cape Horn Diary

Lewis Carrol
Alice in Wonderland
Through the Looking glass

Jane Austen
Pride and Prejustice
Sense and Sensibility
Emma

Tove Janson
Lots of her Mummi troll-books

Roal Dahl
Quite a few of his books

Hector Malot
Friendless

Knut Hamsun
Hunger
Mysteries

Lots of Hardyboys-books
A few Robin Hodd-books
Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer

Misc.
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Roman Mythology - Stewart something
Nordic Mythology
Greek Mythology
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
The Complete Works of William Shakespear
Snorre's Kongesagaer
Gods and Myths of Northern Europe
Tolkien: Mytenes Mann (Man of the Myths) - Nils Ivar Agøy
Lots of books on/with fairytales like the Grim-brothers
Lots of lexicons...

These are the ones I've got time to write down.

[Earniel]

Originally posted by Lalaith_Elf
Charmed Life - Diana Wynne Jones

I read a book 'the Year of the Griffin' by Diana Wynne Jones. It was about a school of magic, totally hilarious. Is 'Charmed Life' any good?

[Mercutio]

Originally posted by Falagar
Nice list, Lal This is what is on my bookshelf, currently (only taking my own as my parents have a much, much larger one)

Fiction
Agatha Christie
Poirot Investigates
The Big Four
Murder on the Orient Express
Three Act Tragedy
Murder in Mesopotamia
Death on the Nile
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Evil Under the Sun
Five Little Pigs
The Labours of Hercules
Taken at the Flood
The Clocks
Curtain: Poirot's Last Case
They Do It with Mirrors
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Sir A. Conan Doyle
Lots of books.

btw--wonderful list. If you like ^books, please try Dorothy Sayers mysteries. Quite similar to Christie, but a little "deeper" (in my opinion), and they are completely from the detectives p.o.v. I started a thread on them in the Lit. forum.

[Lalaith_Elf]

Originally posted by Eärniel
I read a book 'the Year of the Griffin' by Diana Wynne Jones. It was about a school of magic, totally hilarious. Is 'Charmed Life' any good?

Charmed Life is okay. I can't really remember much about it. It must have been over a year ago when I last read it. But from what I can remember, it's quite good.

[katya]

OK, most of my books I have put away for now. That, or they're on my floor/table/bed/etc. On my bookshelf:

videogames, CDs, DVDs, VHS tapes, and a The Hobbit book on tape.

Stick and Rudder, Wolfgang Langewiesche. It's a book on the physics of airplanes. It has my dad's name and address in it from when he still lived with his parents. Copyright 1944.

Strange Universe, Bob Behrman. A book of interesting tidbits about the nature of the universe, physics, chemistry, things like that.

Hawksong, Amerila Atwater-Rhodes. A novel by a teenage author about shapeshifters. She's my motivation to write. It's a funny book, though it's not supposed to be. You can just feel her sexual tension.

Dracula, Bram Stoker. It's the school library's copy. I feel a little bad about still having it.

The Godfather, Mario Puzzo. This book is in three segments and held together by a rubber band.

A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking. I think that while this book was a best-seller, a lot of people didn't finish it. I did though. I'm not sure how much I retained though. Must read again when I get a chance.

Instruction booklet for a TI-83 plus calculator. I don't use the guide much, as I pretty much can figure everything out on my own. The book is easily over 200 pages long.

Cut, Patricia McCormick. I wanted to write books aimed at teenagers. I wanted to know what kind of treatment was acceptable for such touchy subjects as self-injury, eating disorders, etc.

The Diary of Murasaki Shikibu. An amazing lady. I've been meaning to read the Tale of Genji, but I don't really have the time. I'll have to finish Saiyuuki first, and who knows when that will be.

Also scattered around my room: Unfinished Tales, from the library; Dante's Divine Comedy, from the library; Trigun volume 2; The Hobbit, LotR, the Silmarillion; Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

[Lotesse]

Originally Posted by katya

The Godfather, Mario Puzzo. This book is in three segments and held together by a rubber band.

A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking. I think that while this book was a best-seller, a lot of people didn't finish it. I did though. I'm not sure how much I retained though. Must read again when I get a chance..

Fantastic taste, Katya!

[hectorberlioz]

Added:

Macbeth
Merlyn (unfinished sequel to "the once and future king")
Roget's thesaurus
Taras Bulba (gogol)

[Andúril]

Mine was reshuffled by someone the other day, but anyway.

Top shelf
Shiny trophies! Pic, because shiny!

Middle shelf
Many old rubbish CDs
The Silmarillion
LOTR:ROTK(EE)
Introduction to the Old Testament, Dillard & Longman
LOTR:TT(EE)
Phone software
Hard drive
Digicam manual
Buffy (Seasons 1-4)
Digicam damaged by burning bus.

Bottom Shelf
An Introduction to the Old Testament, Edward J. Young.
LOTR (Collectors Edition)
Anchor Bible Dictionary (vol 2) (where the hell did the rest go? )
Biblical Errancy, C. Dennis McKinsey
Colins Pocket English Thesaurus
Support technician tool kit bag, lol.
File
Essential Guide to Race Driving, Carrol Smith.
Road map book
Going Faster! Mastering the Art of Race Driving, Skip Barber
Motoring and IT industry publications.
Multiplug
Scissors
230W Power supply, haha
ID
IDE cable
Philips screwdriver

Damn. Someone needs to clean this place up.