12-25-2003, 11:52 PM | #1 |
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Whats on your Bookshelf?
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.
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12-26-2003, 05:33 AM | #2 |
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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. Last edited by Grey_Wolf : 12-27-2003 at 06:27 AM. |
12-26-2003, 08:48 AM | #3 |
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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 |
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12-26-2003, 10:18 AM | #6 |
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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.. |
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12-26-2003, 01:18 PM | #8 |
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hey! i added a new book to my shelf!
'Evenings with the Orchestra' written by....guess who... Hector Berlioz!
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12-26-2003, 01:42 PM | #9 | |
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12-26-2003, 06:01 PM | #10 |
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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!
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12-26-2003, 07:01 PM | #11 |
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Wow, Shadowfax! That is quite a collection of JRRT books ya got there.
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12-26-2003, 07:17 PM | #12 |
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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.
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12-26-2003, 07:33 PM | #13 |
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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!
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12-28-2003, 12:17 PM | #14 |
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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.
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12-28-2003, 03:34 PM | #15 |
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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 |
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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.
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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. Last edited by katya : 01-01-2004 at 03:35 PM. |
01-24-2004, 02:36 AM | #18 |
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come on, is there nobody else who wants to tell whats on their bookshelf?
btw katya-i alphabetize my cd's too.
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at least give us a ngeneral idea of what you have on there...
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