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:D Thanks!:)

[hectorberlioz]

hey! i added a new book to my shelf!

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

































Hector Berlioz!:D

[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!:D

[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]

:eek: 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
:eek: 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. :p

[hectorberlioz]

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

[Lady Ravyn]

oh, god, on my bookshelf? i gotta go look...

okay, besides a bunch of picture books, animorph book, dear america books, nancy drew and little house on the prairie books, i have:

Non-Fiction

a couple Vatechisms
a Bible
Book of Saints
Who's Who in Mythology


General Literature

Anne of Green Gables
The Time Machine
O'Henry's Short Stories (you know, the gift of the magi, etc.?)
Ruby in the Smoke
Secret Garden
Little Princess
Huckleberry Finn
Black Beauty
King of the Wind
Visions of Sugar Plums
Darcula
Frankenstein


Tolkien

LotR
The Hobbit
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Pearl
Sir Orfeo
Languages of Middle-earth
Guide to Middle-earth


Fantasy that i've read

The Wayfarer Redemption, Starman, and Hades Daughter by Sara Douglass
Rhapsody,Prophecy, Destiny and Requiem of the Sun by Elizabeth Haydon
Veil of a Thousand Tears by Eric Lustbader
Squire by Tamora Pierce (i used to have Wild Magic too, but I lent it to a friend and never got it back :mad: )
Sword Dancer, Sword-Singer, Sword-Maker, Sword-Breaker,Sword-Born, and Sword-Sworn by Jennifer Roberson
Demon in my View by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Dragons of Winter Night, and Dragons of Spring Dawning by Margret Weis and Tracy Hickman


Fantasy that i haven't read

The Adept by Katherine Kurtz
Green Rider by Kristin Britain
Mirror of Dreams by Stephen Donald
The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams
The Demon Awakens by RA Salvatore
Sorcery Rising by Judith Fisher
Dragons of a Vanishing Moon
Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey

[Earniel]

Originally posted by hectorberlioz
at least give us a ngeneral idea of what you have on there...:D

Alright then. :)

This is about what I could fit in my own bookcases, the rest I had to move downstairs.

Tolkien-related:
- LoTR
-The Hobbit
- HoME (complete-woohoo!)
- Finn and Hengest
- Roverandom
- Letters
- Silmarillion
- UT
- Bored of the Rings
- Hildebrandt brothers: the Tolkien-years
- David day's Tolkien's Bestiary

Cats:
- Cat world (Desmond Morris)
- 8 other cat books on behaviour, race and keeping

Terry Pratchett:
- Near complete Discworld-series (missing: Last Hero, Maurice and his educated rodents & Wee Free Men)
- Discworld companion
- Bromeliad trilogy
- Johny Maxwell trilogy
- Strata
- Carpet People

Sci-fi:
- 4 books on Star Trek: guides and captain's logs
- around 12 Star Trek-novels
- Starwars: the making of Episode 1 & the Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels
- around 15 Star Wars novels
- Seaquest: official publication of the series
- Creating Babylon 5
- Farscape guide

Fantasy:
- Earthsea quartet - Ursula Leguin
- Wild Roads & The Golden Cat - Gabriel King (got them in Dutch, unsure of English title)
- 20 000 miles under sea, The center of the Earth - Jules Verne

Mythology:
- 10 books on Celtic mythology
- Scandinavian mythology encyclopedia: From Aegir to Ymir
- The Edda
- 1 book on norse myths
- Iliad and Odessey
- The journey of the 10 000 - Xenofon
- Mythology encyclopedia
- Myths and legends: Aborigine- Pre-columbian - Celtic- British- Middle Ages
- North-american folktales
- Russian fairy-tales
- book of werewolves

History:
- 3 books on Celtic art
- 2 books on King Arthur
- 1 book on Aztecs: culture and history
- 1 book on Pre-columbian art
- 9 books on the prehistory and dinosaurs
- 1 book on egyptian hieroglyphs
- 2 books on fossils and minerals

Other:
- 4 books on drawing (and painting) animals
- 2 books on origami
- 5 books on nature and animal behaviour
- Robin Hood
- Beowulf- Seamus Heaney
- 2 Sherlock Holmes-books
- 2 Garfield books
- around 20 Indiana Jones-novels
- my WWF-stamp-collection
- my post-card collection
- my maps of drawings
- 8 dictionaries (Dutch-French-English-Spanish)
- 2 filosofical books
- American gargolyes
- schoolbooks
- at least a dozen other novels and books

If you want to know a category in detail, ask me but I'm not going to type every title out now.

[hectorberlioz]

- Bored of the Rings
SGH was just telling me about that.
sounds good.:p

btw-I got a book called "Agnes Grey" by Anne Bronte!

[Earniel]

It's amusing enough. Though it didn't have me rolling over the floor laughing as I had hoped.

[sun-star]

Originally posted by Eärniel
It's amusing enough. Though it didn't have me rolling over the floor laughing as I had hoped.

Agnes Grey?!

;)

[hectorberlioz]

Lol, I think Earniel was referring to "bored of the rings".

I try not to spam. but sometimes, I just dont have much to say, but I do have something to say, so I post it, and it ends up looking like spam.

[Linaewen]

HB, I think Sun-star realised that. See smiley? ;)
Originally posted by Eärniel
Alright then. :)

This is about what I could fit in my own bookcases, the rest I had to move downstairs.
....

Cats:
- Cat world (Desmond Morris)
- 8 other cat books on behaviour, race and keeping

If you want to know a category in detail, ask me but I'm not going to type every title out now.
Is that the enthralling Cat Encyclopaedia? :D

I'd love to have as many mythology books as you. I don't have any as yet. :(

[Earniel]

Originally posted by Linaewen:
Is that the enthralling Cat Encyclopaedia? :D
That's the one. :D
Originally posted by Linaewen:
I'd love to have as many mythology books as you. I don't have any as yet. :(
It took me at least some 6 to 7 years of going to bookfairs and to the back shelves of bookstores to collect them all. And they're not all that good mind you, some overlap and only have the most famous myths, others go a little too much to the side of the fairy tales or christianised myths for my taste. Some have some very pretty drawings too. Yet without the sudden surge of general interest in celtic myths, I never would have found so much. But I'm pretty proud of my collection. :)

[Linaewen]

Originally posted by Eärniel

It took me at least some 6 to 7 years of going to bookfairs and to the back shelves of bookstores to collect them all. ... But I'm pretty proud of my collection. :)

Yeah, I'm just dying to see those lovely Norse myth pics. :)

I'm more proud of my Language book collection.

- 2 x Indonesian dictionaries
- Some Chinese dictionaries, and a tonne of textbooks
- 1 mini Swedish dictionary, a better one and a Swedish course on its way
- Colloquial Spanish Book
- Deutsch Heute ('German today')
-European phrasebook
- Greek-English dictionary
- Italian basic textbook
-Muslihat dengan cermin ('Tricked with a mirror'- Indonesian translation of Agatha Christie's 'They did it with a mirror')

And my Classic books:
-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
-To Kill a Mockingbird
-Pride & Prejudice
-Jane Eyre
-Wuthering Heights
-Great Expectations
-Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth
-Medea
(I must have lost some, I know I have more)

-Plus 8 Tolkien books, some fantasy books (Including His Dark Materials) and a few non-fiction titles such as
-Children of the Storm'- Children's memories of WWII
-Angkor Wat

[Earniel]

Originally posted by Linaewen
Yeah, I'm just dying to see those lovely Norse myth pics. :)

I'm more proud of my Language book collection.
[...]
-Angkor Wat

The pictures are from celtic myths mostly, I don't think my norse mythology books have much drawings. (at least I don't remember any) But if I recall correctly, at least one artist on the online Elfwood galleries has some pretty aquarels of a few Norse goddesses, I'll see if I may have saved a link to that gallery somewhere.

You should be proud on that language book collection, it's quite impressive. :)

Angkor Wat, have you ever seen it? Or Angkor Tom? From the pictures I've seen they're very impressive but pictures sadly don't always convey the feeling of places completely.

[Linaewen]

Originally posted by Eärniel
You should be proud on that language book collection, it's quite impressive. :)

Angkor Wat, have you ever seen it? Or Angkor Tom? From the pictures I've seen they're very impressive but pictures sadly don't always convey the feeling of places completely.
Thank'ee. :) The other day, I required a great amount of willpower to stop myself from buying this Dutch beginner's book, and some classics (though they're really cheap). I can't stand buying books that I don't get the chance to read for a while.

No, I've never been to Angkor. But I'll tell you more about it, if you want. (That would mean having to read the book though, another one on the shelf gathering dust).

[Earniel]

Oh, I don't let no-time-to-read stop me from buying or asking for books. Most of the books I get for christmas or my birthday (in may) are kept for the holidays in july. Also, I usually have exams not long after my birthday, so my mother strictly forbids me then to read anything else than course books and notes anyway. :p

And yet, I never have shortage of books to read. The number I want to read only seems to grow and grow. :eek: But that's what you get in a family where all 4 are reasonably avid readers.

Tell me about Angkor if you want to, but don't let it push you to read the book. My sister got a nice big book on it too, but I haven't read it yet (like so many others). I was just wondering whether you had seen it since, geographically, you're closer to it than me.

[hectorberlioz]

I spend so much money on books, its outrageous!:D
[ievery[/i] single time i get the chance, i buy books.
but the hardest part is choosing. i take more time choosing which books to buy than i do in choosing what clothes i want to buy,lol.

anyone else have this problem?:D Earniel? Lin?:D

[azalea]

I missed out on this the first time around!

I have my books Dewey Decimaled.:) I have my hardcover nonfiction:
Bible
dictionaries
Thesauruses (or thesauri?)
encyclopedias
psychology
language books
etiquette (an old Emily Post -- it's a very entertaining read -- no pun intended)
folk and fairy tales, including some old German ones (what does Hey, Die schonsten Fabeln mean?) and a nice old copy of The Arabian Nights, plus an old Grimm's with a beautiful fairy on the cover
foreign languages
science
cookbooks
art books (including Tolkien's Pictures)
music
essays and humor
plays/ drama
poetry
history
biographies

Then we have the hardcover fiction, alpha by author:
compilations, then Alcott, Anderson, Barrie, Baum, Pinocchio, Robinson Crusoe, Hans Brinker, Dostoyevsky (which I'm sad to say I haven't read any yet), Doyle, The Three Musketeers, Faust, The Wind in the Willows, Hawthorne, Hugo, Joyce, many Nancy Drews, The Water Babies, Kipling, L'Engle, Lenski, Melville, Milne, Orwell, Cyrano de Bergerac, Bambi, Encyclopedia Brown books, Heidi, Steinbeck, Dracula, Uncle Tom's Cabin (a VERY old copy), Stevenson (including an old Treasure Island with a nice painting of the pirates on the front -- they sure don't make many really nice looking book cover paintings anymore), The Hobbit, Tolstoy, Twain, Virgil, E.B. White (Charlotte's Web is one of my favorite books, and has one of the best ending lines ever), Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Zola (those being some of the highlights)

Then on to paperback nonfiction (also Deweyed):
my reference books are on my little desk shelf, along with my copy of LotR, The Silm, and another Hobbit.
highlights are -- Bibles, some quaint old "current event" books (Nuclear Power on Trial, etc.), more folk and fairy tales (from Irish to Native American), bird books, parenting books, how-to books, movie guides, music books (including a Grateful Dead Anthology), tour guide books (kind of outdated, including one on India and one on Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific), cartoon anthologies, including some Pogo and old Peanuts, literature, including some Chaucer and a Sir Gawain and the Greeen Knight (not the Tolkien translation:( ), a Companion to Narnia, a Balzac in French (darn, I'm not that good at translating;), a Le Petit Prince (that's more my speed), mythologies, Homer, Greek dramas, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare, Shaw, Dylan Thomas, Ibsen, The Annotated Mother Goose, T.S. Eliot, then more biographies, including an early Eddie Murphy one and an old copy of Elizabeth Taylor's autobiography, Little House series.

And finally the paperback fiction:
Douglas Adams, Watership Down, Lloyd Alexander, V.C. Andrews (:o ), Austen, Burnett, Tarzan, Bronte, Agatha Christie, Susan Cooper, Roald Dahl, Dickens, more Doyle, Some Black Stallion books, E.M. Forster, Les Miserable (unabridged -- took me about two years to read, but it was excellent), more Kipling, From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Stephen Lawhead, a great book called Uncle Silas, more L'Engle, Elmore Leonard (my husband's), C.S. Lewis, Pippi Longstocking, The Thorn Birds, The Outlaws of Sherwood, L.M. Montgomery, A Portrait of Jennie, The Boy Who Could Fly, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Poe, The Godfather, Catcher in the Rye, Sartre, Sayers, A Cricket in Times Square, Frankenstein, Gertrude Stein, Steinbeck, Mary Stewart, Gulliver's Travels, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Thurber, Tolkein (UT and yet another Hobbit), Vonnegut (my husband's, though I plan to read one to see if I like it), The Age of Innocence, T.H. White, Wilde, Woolf, Yep.

And then of course the various shelves with phone books, photo albums, yearbooks, scrapbooks, more cookbooks, a Disney poster book, and my 1977 Tolkien calendar by the Brothers Hildebrandt. I have a lot of money invested in Walmart shelving.:p

[hectorberlioz]

why azalea, you have a very impressive collection indeed....:D

[Valandil]

Azalea - I'm just happy to see that your husband gets to put a couple of his books on your bookshelf! :D

[Linaewen]

Originally posted by hectorberlioz
I spend so much money on books, its outrageous!:D
[ievery[/i] single time i get the chance, i buy books.
but the hardest part is choosing. i take more time choosing which books to buy than i do in choosing what clothes i want to buy,lol.

anyone else have this problem?:D Earniel? Lin?:D
Indeed. And I'm spending even more soon; my [expensive] Swedish dictionary has arrived at the bookstore! Yeah!

I know I should borrow them from the library, but it takes me forever to get around to reading them, so I feel guilty. But it's so nice to see all those spankin' new books on the shelf. :p

[Earniel]

Originally posted by hectorberlioz
I spend so much money on books, its outrageous!:D
[ievery[/i] single time i get the chance, i buy books.
but the hardest part is choosing. i take more time choosing which books to buy than i do in choosing what clothes i want to buy,lol.

anyone else have this problem?:D Earniel? Lin?:D

I've spend my share on books as well. But I don't have much difficulty with choosing. I usually knew pretty well which books I want. I am a bit picky with books, after all they're not always cheap, you have to be able to place them somewhere on a shelf (and with my stacked shelves, that can be a bit of a problem) and it took some paper and energy to produce that book. Besides that, it's rather pointless having near identical books on the same subject. So I seldom buy books on impulse. Unless I really, really want that book or when I'm not likely to see it again in a bookstore.

Though at times I can take some time when I want to decide which combination of potential books-to-buy will give the highest satisfaction within the limits of the money I have available at that time. :D Though generally I need more time to pick clothes. :rolleyes: :p

Wow, Zales! That's quite a collection! :) And very varied too. "Die schonsten Fabeln" means something like "The most beautiful fairy tales".

[hectorberlioz]

hey! I just increased my Dostoyvsky collection!
my older brother sent me some of his(dostoyyevsky's) books for a christams present(a late one mind you:p )

anyway...

I now have.....

The Idiot
3 versions of crime and punishment
House of the dead
The gambler/bobok/a nasty story
notes from the underground
and a real tattered and torn "Brothers Karamazov"

[katya]

Have you read The Gambler, HB? I read it right about hte time I first read Crime and Punishment, which is cool because Dostoyevsky wrote it while he was writing C & P.

[hectorberlioz]

well, no, I havent yet, but its on my list.
yeah, he wrote it because his first wife was always scolding him about gambling.

[azalea]

Originally posted by Valandil
Azalea - I'm just happy to see that your husband gets to put a couple of his books on your bookshelf! :D

LOL, yes, I do let him have a shelf or two.:) Really, there are more of his, but of course I was just giving the highlights. We have way too many books, mainly a result of not being able to resist going to (and then of course buying from) used book sales at the local libraries.:o How can you pass up such a great deal as 50 cents a book? Of course I forgot to mention that we also have three shelves plus full of children's (picture) books (Suess and the like). I have a Golden Book from the 40s, and a picture book from the thirties called Cinder (about a lost cat), as well as some ABC books from the 1800s. I love old children's books.

Earniel -- thanks for the translation, it bugged me that I didn't know what it meant. What does the "Hey" at the beginning mean?

[Earniel]

Originally posted by azalea
What does the "Hey" at the beginning mean?
Frankly, that has been puzzling me. It's either 'hey' as in 'Hey, look at these beautiful tales' or some word of which the German meaning completely escapes me. :o You may want to ask Lalaith who speaks German or ask it on the official language thread.

[Lótiel]

Well, this is just my temporary bookshelf. Home in Norway I have one big shelf that´s quite stuffed, plus all my old childrens books(which used to take a couple of roofhigh shelves) are in our hall. So the books I mention here are the ones I couldn´t live without for six months, or just never had time to read before.

Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
Silmarillion - Tolkien
The Ultimate Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy - D. Adams
Bored of the rings
Pride&Prejudice - Jane Austen
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
Dracula - Bram Stoker
A Tolkien biografi - Carpenter
The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
Dude, where´s my country - M. Moore

And, 2 days ago I added two more books, they´ve finally begun to sell english books on this island, so I bought:

Emma - Jane Austen
Little Women

[Miranda]

On my bookshelf, well LOTR, Hobbit, Sil, HoME etc of course including Bored of the Rings and The Soddit (apologies admins if you don't count that as appropriate language but it is the actually title of the book!). Then His Dark Materials Phillip Pullman, Moorstones by Adrian Cole, Peter Pan, All of the works of the Bronte sisters. The entire works of Austen and my own poetry book. That is merely one shelf, If I told you them all I'd be here all day and then some.

Mx

[hectorberlioz]

All of the works of the Bronte sisters.
Including Agnes Grey? by Anne Bronte?:D

[Miranda]

Originally posted by hectorberlioz
Including Agnes Grey? by Anne Bronte?:D

Including Agnes Grey- good book. Mx

[Brian]

there are books on my book shelf. but if you want me to go in to depth: all lord of the rings books
all harry potter books
a book clled hatchet
a book called for joshua
captain underpants from when i was younger!
and many more:rolleyes:

[Dúnedain]

Here is my list as of right now, though I have a number of books in boxes and not on my "shelf" persay. There is only a few on my immediate shelf at this time, but I have hundreds of books stored away :D

It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life - Lance Armstrong
Band of Brothers - Stephen Ambrose (This was made into an HBO mini-series a few years ago, awesome book)
April 1865: The Month That Saved America - Jay Winik
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
Reflections on the Civil War - Bruce Catton
Macbeth (2 different versions) - William Shakespeare
Congratulations, Now What? A Book for Graduates - Bill Cosby
Wilderness Vol. 1, The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison (the poems and diaries of a rock 'n' roll legend) - Jim Morrison
Lost Cities: 50 Discoveries in World Archaeology - Paul G. Bahn
The Exploration of the Colorado River and its Canyons - John Wesley Powell (this is from his diary and mapping of the Colorado River from the late 1800's)
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 6th Ed. Vol. 1
The Hobbit - Tolkien
The Brownsville Raid - John D. Weaver
The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
The Silmarillion - Tolkien
Unfinished Tales - Tolkien
The History of Middle Earth, Volumes 1-5 (The Book of Lost Tales 1 & 2, The Lays of Beleriand, The Shaping of Middle-Earth, The Lost Road and Other Writings) - Tolkien
Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane (Author of Mystic River)
The Twenty-Seventh City - Jonathan Franzen

I then have about 15 books that are related to writing that I will save from listing :D

[Grey_Wolf]

My Star Wars Library

S W EPISODE 4: A NEW HOPE
SPLINTER OF THE MIND'S EYE
S W EPISODE 5: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
SHADOWS OF THE EMPIRE
S W EPISODE 6: RETURN OF THE JEDI
TRUCE AT BAKURA
X-WING: ROGUE SQUADRON
X-WING: WEDGE'S GAMBLE
X-WING: THE KRYTOS TRAP
X-WING: THE BACTA WAR
X-WING: WRAITH SQAUDRON
X-WING: IRON FIST
X-WING: SOLO COMMAND
X-WING: ISARD'S REVENGE
X-WING: THE STARFIGHTERS OF ADUMAR
THE COURTSHIP OF PRINCESS LEIA
T THRAWN TRILOGY: HEIR TO THE EMPIRE
T THRAWN TRILOGY: DARK FORCE RISING
T THRAWN TRILOGY: THE LAST COMMAND
I, JEDI
JEDIAC: JEDI SEARCH
JEDIAC: DARK APPRENTICE
JEDIAC: CHAMPIONS OF THE FORCE
CHILDREN OF THE JEDI
DARKSABER
PLANET OF TWILIGHT
THE CRYSTAL STAR
BFC: BEFORE THE STORM
BFC: SHIELD OF LIES
BFC: TYRANT'S NEST
THE NEW REBELLION
CORTRIL: AMBUSH AT CORRELIA
CORTRIL: ASSAULT AT SELONIA
CORTRIL: SHOWDOWN AT CENTERPOINT
T THRAWN DUOLOGY: SPECTER O T PAST
T THRAWN DUOLOGY: VISION O T FUTURE

VECTOR PRIME
DARK TIDE 1: ONSLAUGHT
DARK TIDE 2: RUIN
AGENTS OF CHAOS 1: HERO'S TRIAL
AGENTS OF CHAOS 2: JEDI ECLIPSE
BALANCE POINT
EDGE OF VICTORY 1: CONQUEST
EDGE OF VICTORY 2: REBIRTH
STAR BY STAR
DARK JOURNEY
ENEMY LINES 1: REBEL DREAM
ENEMY LINES 2: REBEL STAND
TRAITOR
DESTINY'S WAY
FORCE HERETIC 1: REMNANT
FORCE HERETIC 2: REFUGEE
FORCE HERETIC 3: REUNION
THE FINAL PROPHESY
THE UNIFYING FORCE

[Miranda]

Originally posted by Grey_Wolf
My Star Wars Library

S W EPISODE 4: A NEW HOPE
SPLINTER OF THE MIND'S EYE
S W EPISODE 5: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
SHADOWS OF THE EMPIRE
S W EPISODE 6: RETURN OF THE JEDI
TRUCE AT BAKURA
X-WING: ROGUE SQUADRON
X-WING: WEDGE'S GAMBLE
X-WING: THE KRYTOS TRAP
X-WING: THE BACTA WAR
X-WING: WRAITH SQAUDRON
X-WING: IRON FIST
X-WING: SOLO COMMAND
X-WING: ISARD'S REVENGE
X-WING: THE STARFIGHTERS OF ADUMAR
THE COURTSHIP OF PRINCESS LEIA
T THRAWN TRILOGY: HEIR TO THE EMPIRE
T THRAWN TRILOGY: DARK FORCE RISING
T THRAWN TRILOGY: THE LAST COMMAND
I, JEDI
JEDIAC: JEDI SEARCH
JEDIAC: DARK APPRENTICE
JEDIAC: CHAMPIONS OF THE FORCE
CHILDREN OF THE JEDI
DARKSABER
PLANET OF TWILIGHT
THE CRYSTAL STAR
BFC: BEFORE THE STORM
BFC: SHIELD OF LIES
BFC: TYRANT'S NEST
THE NEW REBELLION
CORTRIL: AMBUSH AT CORRELIA
CORTRIL: ASSAULT AT SELONIA
CORTRIL: SHOWDOWN AT CENTERPOINT
T THRAWN DUOLOGY: SPECTER O T PAST
T THRAWN DUOLOGY: VISION O T FUTURE

VECTOR PRIME
DARK TIDE 1: ONSLAUGHT
DARK TIDE 2: RUIN
AGENTS OF CHAOS 1: HERO'S TRIAL
AGENTS OF CHAOS 2: JEDI ECLIPSE
BALANCE POINT
EDGE OF VICTORY 1: CONQUEST
EDGE OF VICTORY 2: REBIRTH
STAR BY STAR
DARK JOURNEY
ENEMY LINES 1: REBEL DREAM
ENEMY LINES 2: REBEL STAND
TRAITOR
DESTINY'S WAY
FORCE HERETIC 1: REMNANT
FORCE HERETIC 2: REFUGEE
FORCE HERETIC 3: REUNION
THE FINAL PROPHESY
THE UNIFYING FORCE

Star Wars fan by any chance?
What did you think of the Courtship of Princess Leia, I think its one of the best books in the whole collection. Mx

[Grey_Wolf]

Originally posted by Miranda
Star Wars fan by any chance?
What did you think of the Courtship of Princess Leia, I think its one of the best books in the whole collection. Mx

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.

[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?:D 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. :o

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? :o

[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. :D

[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.... :D

[Menelvagor]

:) :D 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.:o :p

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


[b]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]

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 :confused: the other day, but anyway.

Top shelf
Shiny trophies! Pic (http://img306.imageshack.us/img306/9021/shiny5uq.jpg), because shiny! :p

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? :confused: )
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.

[Lotesse]

Anduril, :D LOL you're cracking me up! First chuckle of the day 4 me...

[Lotesse]

well, a long time ago I had such an enormous book collection, hundreds of beautiful books, dammit! I wish I still had all my books :( , but I'm slowly rebuilding a collection again, slowly slowly...

Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche

Wisdom of the West, Bertrand Russell

In Memorium, Alfred Lord Tennyson

A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn

The Art of Dramatic Writing, Lajos Egri

Advanced Screenwriting, Dr. Linda Seger

The Natural Way To Draw, Nicolaides

The Armand Hammer Collection, its a catalogue of the museum's artwork

The Silmarillion
Lord Of The Rings
The Hobbit

... and some Tarot reading books and Latin books. Man, I miss my old book collection.

[Lotesse]

An Encyclopedia of World History, by William L. Langer.

My copy has no longer got its binding, or its front & back cover, and is therefore literally falling apart, but it is one of the most indispensible research tomes I've ever come across. This old copy of mine I found at some estate sale, I think I got it for like 50 cents. If you're at all a history nut, like myself, this is a must-have. I looked it up on google, and discovered that there is now a new-and-improved edition with the same name, compiled & edited by Peter N. Stearns. But the one I have now I swear by.

[littleadanel]

Heh. Yesterday I was cleaning my room, and just had to take this pic... These (http://img.tar.hu/adanel/size2/18391094.jpg) are the books I have, heaped upon my bed while I was cleaning the shelves. :D :rolleyes:

[Earniel]

Oh, the irony of seeing this thread again, now!

What's on my bookshelves, eh Precious? Too effing much! :rolleyes:

For the last month or two I've been working on a database as a New Year gift for my mother. A database where she can look up which books we have so she (as most avid reader at our home) doesn't risk buying books double. Since books come out with new covers, different titles due to new translation etc, etc...

I've promised that already a while ago but never got started until now because it's quite a huge endeavour. (I'm starting to wish I never promised it in the first place...) I've entered 3540 books so far and I still have at least 15 fully stacked shelves to go. Pity me.

[littleadanel]

:eek: I do feel your pain. My dad wanted to do the same thing last year... he entered mine, but the books in my granny's two rooms he couldn't finish... Since then, we're stuck. There are my parents' books, there are my new ones, there are my brother's... Yeah, I do know where you are now.

[katya]

Some of these books are in my backpack or on the couch, but you get the idea:

novels:
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass- Lewis Carroll
The Great Blue Yonder- Alex Shearer
Hawksong- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
The Godfather- Mario Puzo
Dracula- Bram Stoker
Genji Monogatari- Murasaki Shikibu (translated by Arthur Wales)
Nobuta Wo Produce- Shiraiwa Gen (not translated)
Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion

manga:
Nana, volume one -Yazawa Ai
Fruits Basket, volume one- (this is bad- I can`t remember how to read the author`s name)
Trigun, volume one- Yasuhiro Nightow (English)
Rurouni Kenshin, volume four- Watsuki Nobuhiro
Bokura Ga Ita, volume one- Obata Yuuki
Gravitation, volume 12- Murakami Maki (English)

dictionaries:
Webster`s New World Compact Japanese Dictionary
Random House Japanese-English English-Japanese Dicitionary
Shogakukan Progressive English-Japanese Dictionary
Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary
a kanji dictionary
not a book, but I have a really nice eloctronic dictionary as well

Kuwashii Kokugo, a book intended for Japanese middle schoolers to learn Japanese
Kokugo No Fukushu, same but smaller
Basic Funtional Japanese- a Japanese textbook for English speakers, almost useless since it`s so polite

a journal

some school textbooks (that belong to the school and thus I won`t take home with me, maybe. But it`s starting to look like I might).

Now, all that may not seem like much compared to the amounts you guys have, but you have to realize I have to fit all of these into my suitcase somehow when I go back home in July... and by then, I`ll have accumulated a lot more, I think. Wish me luck. Oh, and that sounds crazy with the book database thing. Good luck with that too, should you guys decide to pursue it further.

[hectorberlioz]

Some of these books are in my backpack or on the couch, but you get the idea:

novels:
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass- Lewis Carroll
The Great Blue Yonder- Alex Shearer
Hawksong- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
The Godfather- Mario Puzo
Dracula- Bram Stoker
Genji Monogatari- Murasaki Shikibu (translated by Arthur Wales)
Nobuta Wo Produce- Shiraiwa Gen (not translated)
Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion

manga:
Nana, volume one -Yazawa Ai
Fruits Basket, volume one- (this is bad- I can`t remember how to read the author`s name)
Trigun, volume one- Yasuhiro Nightow (English)
Rurouni Kenshin, volume four- Watsuki Nobuhiro
Bokura Ga Ita, volume one- Obata Yuuki
Gravitation, volume 12- Murakami Maki (English)

dictionaries:
Webster`s New World Compact Japanese Dictionary
Random House Japanese-English English-Japanese Dicitionary
Shogakukan Progressive English-Japanese Dictionary
Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary
a kanji dictionary
not a book, but I have a really nice eloctronic dictionary as well

Kuwashii Kokugo, a book intended for Japanese middle schoolers to learn Japanese
Kokugo No Fukushu, same but smaller
Basic Funtional Japanese- a Japanese textbook for English speakers, almost useless since it`s so polite

a journal

some school textbooks (that belong to the school and thus I won`t take home with me, maybe. But it`s starting to look like I might).

Now, all that may not seem like much compared to the amounts you guys have, but you have to realize I have to fit all of these into my suitcase somehow when I go back home in July... and by then, I`ll have accumulated a lot more, I think. Wish me luck. Oh, and that sounds crazy with the book database thing. Good luck with that too, should you guys decide to pursue it further.

Wow! With that many books in your backpack, I'd say you're ready to marry Quasimodo! :eek:

[Jabberwock]

I don't think I can, or want to, write all the titles of the books in my library, but I do have a nice collection of old Lord Dunsany and E. R. Buroughs books I'm proud of. My grandmother got them all a very long time ago. Some got abused when I was a stupid child, but not badly.

[King of The Istari]

If I told you everything on my four two books deep book shelves (and thats in MY room alone) we'd be here till next christmas but heres a few:

Tolkien: (all in black harper colins paper back)
the Sil
the Hobbit
FOTR
TTT
ROTK
Unfinished tales

the chronicals of narnia

the Jason Bourne trilogy

the Ian Fleming James Bond novels

Dan Brown Books: the Da Vinci Code
Angels and Deamons
deception Point

the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy trilogy of 4

several star wars books (incl all the movie adaptations)

The Harry Potter series

the Garth Nix abourson Series:
Sabriel
Liriel
Abourson

Hornblower

Jaws

I robot

a book called fire and hemlock

lord of the flies

Oliver twist

the Alex Rider Antony Horowitz series

The Bourne Legacy By Eric Van Lustbader

Catch me if you can

the Long Way round (ewan mcgregor and charley boorman's motorcycle trip around the world)

The Templar Revelation (a book about the knights templar)

Jesus the Man (a story of t6he life of Jesus that contradicts the bible)

a set of classics (I can't remember them all)

several Eion Colfer books

the Darren Shan Vampire series

His Dark Materials

when the wind blows by James Patterson

the Lake House by Jams Patterson

the Alex Cross series (James Patterson)

and many more... (I can't be bothered to type anymore but you get the jist)

[Curubethion]

Oh lemme see...
Maps of ME
The Hobbit
LOTR
The Philosophy of Tolkien
The CS Lewis Collection
Languages of Middle Earth
Making "The Lord of the Rings"
20,000 leagues under the Seas

I need more books

[littleadanel]

Well, after that pic of the heap of books, I've finally decided to post here seriously. :p

So, what's on my bookshelves...

(just randomly going through them; and apologizing for most of the titles are rough translations. :o )

- Jostein Gaarder - The Mistery of the Cards; Sophie's World; The Orange Girl
- Exupéry - The Little Prince
- Robert Fulghum - It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It; Maybe (Maybe Not)
- Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
- Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo
- Amy Tan - The Hundred Secret Senses
- 3 pieces of my current-very-favourite Hungarian author
- Dan Rhodes - Timoleon Vieta comes home
- Yann Martel - Life of Pi
- another 3 Hungarian ones (2 poetry)

- Walter Moers - The City of Dreaming Books
- William Nicholson's Wind Singer trilogy
- Philip Pullman's DarkMaterial trilogy, plus Clockwork and the other shortish tale, about the fireworkmaker's daughter... now WHERE are those two? :confused:
- Michael Ende - The Neverending Story; Momo; The Magic School and other stories
- Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl; plus the second one, Arctic Incident, IIRC... waiting for the 3rd one - translators, COME on!
- Sally Prue - Cold Tom
- Russian folk tales - proof that the forced-and-only kind of literature can be beautiful, too
- C. S. Lewis - Out Of The Silent Planet - found it totally by accident when the library was selling out some old books for a ridiculous price - just couldn't leave it there so typical of me :rolleyes:
- Hungarian folk tales
- Winnie-the-Pooh

- a shelf full of Agatha Christie's books

- Doctorow - Sweet Land Stories
- Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
- Susan Orlean - The Orchid Thief
- Thomas Wharton - Salamander
- 3 books of José Saramago - The Stone Draft; Double; Lucidity (have borrowed & read Blindness and All the Names too)
- 4 books of Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist; The Devil and Miss Prym; Veronica decides to die; By the River Piedra I sat down and wept
- 3 books of a Czech guy called Milos Urban
- 5 books of an Italian guy called Alessandro Baricco (his thread will die a quiet death since nobody seems to know him..)
- another 5 Hungarian ones; one of them is a collection of interview with writers
- Bridget Jones's Diary 1-2

Foreign-language bookshelf:

- Michael Ende - The Neverending Story (in English - I really don't remember who bought it for me.. I read it though, but honestly, I should refresh my German knowledge and read it in original. :rolleyes: )
- bilingual readings: Carson McCullers - The Ballad of the Sad Café; Thornton Wilder - The Bridge of San Luis Rey; R. L. Stevenson - Will o' the Mill; Stefan Zweig - Schachnovelle (tssk, German knowledge missing again...); Wells - The Magic Shop and other stories
- HP I-III plus that tiny book, Fantastic Beasts
- Agatha Christie - Poirot Investigates
- Kipling - The Jungle Books
- Michael Crichton - The 13th Warrior (now where is that from?)
- Milne - Winnie-the-Pooh

Tolkien bookshelf:

- LOTR, Sil, UT and Hobbit - both in original and Hungarian
- HoME - currently 4 (Lost Tales 1-2, Lays, Morgoth's Ring - in original cuz never even published here, only Lost Tales and nowhere to be seen anyway)
- the 3 EE DVDs and the 3 soundtrack CDs

Currently borrowed from the library:

C. S. Lewis - Of Other Worlds (in English); Four Loves; Miracles; Surprised by Joy
Umberto Eco - The Story of Beauty

Currently snatched from my parents:

Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose, just finished reading it
Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf (finished some time ago); Demian (just started) ; Siddharta

wheew. Loo-ong list. :) (Yes, I'm most certainly not normal :rolleyes: )

[Serenoli]

I've only got two shelves on my bookshelf full, I only started collecting last year. Mostly I read by borrowing from libraries, its hard to get many books where I am otherwise:

Harry Potter 2, 4, 5 and 6
Lord of the Rings
The Silmarilion
The Hobbit

The Naked Sun - I. Asimov
Gold
The Robots of Dawn
Foundation
Foundation and Empire
I, Robot

Persuasion - Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility

Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope
The Golden Lion of Granpere
Phineas Redux

a dozen Agatha Christies
even more P.G. Wodehouse

A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Bleak House
Great Expectations

The Potrait of a Lady - Henry James
The Turn of the Screw

Moby Dick

The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas

The Razor's Edge - Someset Maugham
Of Human Bondage

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

Gulliver's Travels - Swift

Not as large as I'd like it to be, and I have a lot of plans of expansion. :) The rest of my bookshelf contains my schoolbooks, and one shelf for all my bags of whatever size... one for CDs and DVDs and some pretty showpieces that I had no other place for.

[inked]

You really want a library catalogue? :eek:

Rather let me say that I have just added Dorothy L. Sayers two works
1) INTRODUCTORY PAPERS ON DANTE, and
2) FURTHER PAPERS ON DANTE.

Such brilliant analysis and explication is driving me back to THE DIVINE COMEDY yet again.

:D

[Nurvingiel]

Do you have "Out of the Silent Planet" (C.S. Lewis of course :)) Inked? Is it good? I'm thinking of adding it to my list of books to read after "The Last Crossing" by Guy Vanderhaeghe (borrowed from my dad) and "The Golden Spruce" by John Valliant.

Another book that's on my bookshelf that has been shelved until the summer is "The Canterbury Tales" by Chaucer. I just can't read Chaucer unless I'm on holiday. (I read quite a decent chunk on the bus and train between Norway and Sweden.)

A book on my bookshelf that I have actually read is "Lie Down With Lions" by Ken Follett. I love his books - I think he's brilliant. This one is set in Afghanistan in the early 1980s (I think. :o It's when the USSR invaded Afghanistan.) (edited to add: And I think I only paid a dollar for it! :eek: )

EDIT: littleadanel, I love "The Little Prince" and "Life of Pi"! Those are awesome books. :)

[littleadanel]

EDIT: littleadanel, I love "The Little Prince" and "Life of Pi"! Those are awesome books. :)

Yes they are :) and I forgot to mention that I have the original Le Petit Prince too. Something in French I can understand ;)

EDIT: I checked the original title of my C. S. Lewis book, and I've got that one! (in Hungarian it's simply "The Silent Planet" and I thought they were different ones. :o ) Anyway, it's the one you asked about, and I do recommend it. :)

[hectorberlioz]

I've added quite a few to my bookshelf in recent times...it'd take a thorough survey to sort em out form the ones already listed.
Buying books, I'm going to concentrate on finishing my Dostoyevsky collection, Polishing up my Dickens (my "great expectations" is in tatters), and getting EVERYTHING I possibly can that cs.Lewis ever wrote.

[Desperado_51]

I have a lot of Warriors books by Erin Hunter. They are my favorite books of all. They are about a cat that finds his destiny with a bunch of rugged cat clans. You guys might really like them. I know I did :D

[Tamuril Sirfalas]

I've only got two shelves on my bookshelf full, I only started collecting last year. Mostly I read by borrowing from libraries, its hard to get many books where I am otherwise:

Harry Potter 2, 4, 5 and 6
Lord of the Rings
The Silmarilion
The Hobbit

The Naked Sun - I. Asimov
Gold
The Robots of Dawn
Foundation
Foundation and Empire
I, Robot

Persuasion - Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility

Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope
The Golden Lion of Granpere
Phineas Redux

a dozen Agatha Christies
even more P.G. Wodehouse

A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Bleak House
Great Expectations

The Potrait of a Lady - Henry James
The Turn of the Screw

Moby Dick

The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas

The Razor's Edge - Someset Maugham
Of Human Bondage

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

Gulliver's Travels - Swift

Not as large as I'd like it to be, and I have a lot of plans of expansion. :) The rest of my bookshelf contains my schoolbooks, and one shelf for all my bags of whatever size... one for CDs and DVDs and some pretty showpieces that I had no other place for.
quite a nice selection

[E, LoR]

A lot of contemporary Fiction:
including...
Sisterhood of the Traveling pants books 1-3
Princess Diaries

A lot of Fantasy including....
Harry potter 1,4, and 6
Lord of the rings the two towers
That Tamora Pierce one about the girl named Alanna that i can't remebmer the title to....
Dealing with dragon's series 1,2, and 4

And other random stuff like...
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Watership Down (I loved this book so much!!)
Lord of the Flies
Firebringer
Menyms (or however you spell that)

[Serenoli]

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.

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]

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. :rolleyes: My granny does, though. And my mum. Maybe it comes down from the women's side in my family :p

[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 :rolleyes: oh well

[Gwaimir Windgem]

Hmm...

Well, first of all, see the curriculum (http://www.thomasaquinas.edu/curriculum/index.htm) 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]

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 :rolleyes: 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? :eek:

[littleadanel]

HoMe 1-12

*jealous*

The Letters of Tollers

*even more jealous*

Uhm, yes. :o

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

[Arien the Maia]

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]

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. :D

(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)
E$@D>48
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... :eek:

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 :D (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! :D)
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. :D 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. :D

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
Lord of the Rings (3 volume version); The Silmarillion; The Hobbit / Tolkien
[B]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]

Categories, De Interpret., Prior Anal. by Aristotle
:eek: :D
J/K
Very interesting list there, GW. But I think you should read more poetry.

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]

:p

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]

:p...Shelley...

Shelley's poetry, now isn't his just SO scary? ;) :p

[Gwaimir Windgem]

Also Poe.

[hectorberlioz]

Also Poe.

I think it's Edgar Allen Poe, Gwai m'boy... ;)...unless of course, you speak of another...

[Gwaimir Windgem]

It is indeed. But when speaking of famous individuals, it is quite common to refer to them by their last name; thus, Wilde, Putin, Blair, Arafat, etc. And so, Poe.

[hectorberlioz]

It is indeed. But when speaking of famous individuals, it is quite common to refer to them by their last name; thus, Wilde, Putin, Blair, Arafat, etc. And so, Poe.

You assume Poe is famous... :p

[Gwaimir Windgem]

Indeed, and as there are volumes entitled:


The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe

I think that a reasonable assumption. :p

[Elfmaster XK]

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.

Hmm. Thanks Gwai. I think I'll give it a go then. :) Once I'm done with American Gods (N. Gaimen).

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.

Hey, yes I have been to Egypt. Only once unfortunately, but hopefully that should change. I went to Luxor and stayed at the Etap hotel. Very nice indeed. I enjoyed the trip greatly. It's wonderful to finally see things in the flesh. I've been interested in Egypt's history a long time, and studying it at university means I know the place quite well. :D Pictures just don't compare though.

One thing I didn't like was the poor little donkeys had big fat American tourists on their backs because they were too lazy to walk up the valley of the queens. (And no, I'm not generalising, they really were fat and American because they came over to talk to us later. I'm sure the donkeys also have to suffer under the weights of various other fat tourists!)

[Gwaimir Windgem]

EXK: Is American Gods good? I've heard about it, and thought of getting it.

Azalea: very nice. And Deweyed too; sweeet...

GW: Excellent collection, good sir. Although I must say, I find your Star Wars a bit frightening, in a numerical sort of way... ;)

HB: Nice library. And the Archives of Anthropos; I remember those! I was just thinking about them yesterday, and trying to remember the name of the series!

[Grey_Wolf]

GW: Excellent collection, good sir. Although I must say, I find your Star Wars a bit frightening, in a numerical sort of way... ;)



Thanks, Gwai. It has taken me about 20 years to collect those +600 books.

As for the 10% SW books i began buying them last year .

[hectorberlioz]

HB: Nice library. And the Archives of Anthropos; I remember those! I was just thinking about them yesterday, and trying to remember the name of the series!

And did you hear about the newest book? It came out in 03...04...can't remember, but me and my older sis got it as a present for my younger sis (I have seven sisters, so don't complain about all these sis';) you see me talk about)

[Gwaimir Windgem]

There's a new one? I had no idea; is it the same calibre as its predeccessors?

[hectorberlioz]

I haven't read it yet...

I'm only as far as Book Two. My sis said it was good...

(It's called "The Dark Lord's Demise" btw)

[Elfmaster XK]

EXK: Is American Gods good? I've heard about it, and thought of getting it.


It's pretty good. Everyone seems to prefer it, or Anansi Boys, (not read that one) but I preferred Neverwhere myself. It seemed like a better, more thought out storyworld and I enjoyed reading it. Although my copy was borrowed and falling apart so once I dropped all the pages! :rolleyes: But yeah, American Gods is pretty good, though if you haven't read Neverwhere, I think that one is better.

[Gwaimir Windgem]

I'll keep that in mind then; thankee kindly. :)

[BookMasterJMV]

I actually don't own many books at all. The only ones I have on my bookshelf that belong to me are ones that people have bought me.

That said, I work at a public library and have an entirely different shelf of books that are next on my to be read list.

Presenting...
-=drum roll, please=-
Separation of Power by Vince Flynn
Executive Power by Vince Flynn
Memorial Day by Vince Flynn
Consent to Kill by Vince Flynn
Fragile Things by Neal Gaiman
Stardust by Neal Gaiman
New Moon by Stephenie Meyers

That should last me about a month and a half, as long as I actually decide I'm going to read all of them.

[trolls' bane]

I'm really behind on all my books. I just don't have time to read these days.

[hectorberlioz]

This is what I have now:)



My book collection

CS LEWIS

The Chronicles of Narnia (2 sets)
The Pilgrim’s Regress
Till We Have Faces
Perelandra
That Hideous Strength

The Problem of Pain
Miracles
The Weight of Glory
Screwtape Letters
Mere Christianity
A Grief Observed

GK CHESTERTON

Manalive
The Man Who Was Thursday
The Everlasting Man
Orthodoxy


PRACTICAL

Wild Edible Plants, Kirk

AUTOBIO/BIO,ETC

The Starr Report: Investigation into Pres. Clinton
The German-English, English-German Dict.
The French-English, English-French Dict.
Webster’s Thesaurus


By James Herriot

All Creatures Great and Small
All Things Bright and Beautiful
All Things Wise and Wonderful
The Lord God Made Them All
Every Living Thing
Dog Stories

Miscellaneous
Diary of A Young Girl, Anne Frank
The Confessions, Jean Jacques Rousseau
The Great Houdini, Williams, Epstein
Will, G.Gordon Liddy
Life of Samuel Johnson, by James Boswell
Autobio of Ben Franklin
Narrative, Frederick Douglass

Music

My Younger Years, Arthur Rubinstein
Memoirs, Hector Berlioz
Letters of Hector Berlioz
Testimony of Dmitri Shostakovich
Toscanini, Samuel Chotzinoff
Lives of the Great Composers, Harold C Schonberg
Gramophone 2006 Guide to Classical Music
How Opera Grew, Bauer & Peyser
NPR Curious Listener’s Guide to Classical
Evenings with the Orchestra, Hector Berlioz
The Mikado Libretto, Gilbert
The Symphony, Michael Steinberg
The Concerto, Michael Steinberg
Great Choral Masterworks, Michael Steinberg
100 Great Operas, Henry Simon
What to Listen for in Music, Aaron Copland
Story of Orch Music and it’s Times, Paul Grabbe
Introduction to Songwriting
Music: The Art of Listening
Understanding Music, Leming & Veinis
Tonal Harmony, Kostka & Payne
How to Read Music, Howard Shanet
Studying Rhythm, Hall
Music for Ear training, Horvit etc
Music for sight singing, Horvit etc

PLAYS & POEMS

Faust, W. Von Goethe
A Man for All Seasons, Robert Bolt

Shakespeare:

Hamlet
As you Like It
Othello
Merchant of Venice
Taming of the Shrew
Comedy of Errors

Beowulf, Ruth P.M. Lehmann
Idylls of the King, Tennyson
The Odyssey, Homer
The Iliad, Homer
The Aeneid, Virgil


Charles Dickens

Bleak House
Oliver twist
David Copperfield
Tale of two Cities
Hard Times
The Pickwick Papers
Great Expectations
A Christmas Carol

Other English

Agnes Grey, Anne Bronte
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
Kidnapped, R.L. Stevenson
Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
Nineteen-Eighty Four, George Orwell
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
Invisible Man, H.G. Wells
Ivanhoe, Walter Scott
Watership Down, Richard Adams
The Once and Future King, T.H. White
Merlyn, T.H. White
Lord Jim, Conrad
Short Stories, Conrad
Victory, Conrad
Goodbye Mr Chips, James Hilton
Hound of the Baskervilles, Doyle
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Doyle
Lord of the Flies, Golding
Persuasion, Jane Austen



Rudyard Kipling

Kim
The Jungle Books
Captains Courageous

Jules Verne

Around the World in Eighty Days
Mysterious Island
Michael Strogoff
Journey to the Center of the Earth



Fyodor Dostoevsky


Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamazov
The Possessed
The Idiot
House of the Dead
Letters from Underground
Bobok/ A Nasty Anecdote/ The Gambler
The Insulted & Injured

Other Russian

Fathers and Sons, Turgenev
Taras Bulba, Gogol
Diary of a Madman, Gogol
War & Peace, Tolstoy

Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
The Adven. Of Tom Sawyer
The Adven. of Huckleberry Finn
Prince & the Pauper

Other American

As I Lay Dying, Faulkner
Ben-Hur, Lew Wallace
Eight Cousins, Alcott
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne
House of Seven Gables, Hawthorne
A Wonder Book, Hawthorne
Jacob Have I Loved, Katherine Patterson
My Antonia, Willa Cather
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
The Good Earth, Pearl S Buck
Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane

Steinbeck

East of Eden
Grapes of Wrath
Travels with Charley
The Pearl
The Red Pony

Other Classics

Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
The Three Musketeers, Alexander Dumas
Don Quixote, Cervantes
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Anderson’s Fairy Tales
Green Mansions, W.H. Hudson
In Freedom’s Cause, G.A. Henty
Arabian Nights, selected
Robin Hood, Howard Pyle
The Book of Virtues, edited William J. Bennet


Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings (w/ several different volumes)
The Hobbit
The Shaping of Middle Earth
Unfinished Tales
Roverandom

Brian Jacques

Redwall
Mattimeo
Martin the Warrior
The Pearls of Lutra
Rakkety Tam
The Bellmaker
Mariel of Redwall
Lord Brocktree
Salamanadastron
Taggerung
The Long Patrol
The Outcast of Redwall
Marlfox

Lloyd Alexander

The Chronicles of Prydain
The Iron Ring
The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen
The Arkadians

John White

The Sword Bearer
Gaal the Conquerer
The Tower of Geburah
The Iron Sceptre
Quest for the King
Dark Lord’s Demise

Stephen Lawhead

The Paradise War
The Silver Hand
The Endless Knot
Taliesen
Merlin
Arthur
Pendragon
The Warlord’s of Nin

Other fantasy…

The Wind in the Door, Madeleine L’Engle
A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Madeleine L’Engle
The Grey King, Susan Cooper



John Grisham

The Brethren
The Testament
The Client
A Time to Kill
Pelican Brief
The Partner
The Street Lawyer
The Firm

Tom Clancy

Hunt for Red October
Clear & Present Danger
The Sum of All Fears
Cardinal and the Kremlin
Red Storm Rising
Executive Orders
Red Rabbit
Patriot Games
Op-Center: Sea of Fire
Power Plays: Politika


Michael Crichton

The Great Train Robbery
Airframe
Timeline
Jurassic Park
Congo
Sphere
The Andromeda Strain
The Lost World

Others

Hide & Seek, James Patterson
Big Bad Wolf, James Patterson
The Vanishing Man, Jeffrey Deaver

Dorothy L Sayers

Have His Carcase
Murder Must Advertise
Five Red Herrings



Sci-Fi

Star Wars

The Trilogy Novelizations
Attack of the Clones
Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter, Michael Reaves
The Adventures of Han Solo, Brian Daley
Rogue Planet
The Adventures of Lando Calrissian
The Courtship of Princess Leia
Heir to the Empire
Dark Force Rising
The Last Command
I Jedi
Jedi Search
Dark Apprentice
Champions of the Force
Force Heretic: Remnant
Edge of Victory: Rebirth

[nokom]

Sci fi

Uncountable number of Star Wars books

The Tritonic ring by Sprangue De Campe

Fantasy

Elminster, making of a mage by Ed Greenwood

Baldur's gate by Philip Anthes

Best of the realms I and II, by various

Just about all the Tolkien stuff

The complete Narnia

Mystery

The complete Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arther Conan Doyle

The Italian Secetary by Caleb Car

Thriller

Full James Bond collection by Ian Fleming, many first editions

Middle English historicals

The best of Sir Thomas Mallory

The Holy Grial

Beowulf (Of course!)


General

Arabian Nights

New Arabian nights, by Robert Stevinsons


Horror

The Best of H.P. Lovecraft