What's on YOUR bookshelf?

well today i just added invisible monsters by chuck palahniuck, and i plan on checking out his new book lullabye from work... also you'd find a lot of high school books i stole back in my senior year of high school

amog these is slaughter house 5, the crucible, death of a salesman, the long hard road out of hell, johnny got his gun, inferno, purgatory, the books of blood, fight club, choke, survivor, the hobbit, fellowship of the ring, the two towers, return of the king, the silmarillion, the tolkien reader, and a few more.... i don't have too many books myself... i'm more of a comic reader... i'm a geek

i LOVE making lists like this.

this is just the shelf in my bedroom above my desk. we have about a million bookshelves in this house. this is probably only about a third of the things that should go on a bookshelf in my room, but my bookshelf is small, so most of it is all scattered about.

here goes:

from left to right between stereo speakers:

the difference engine - gibson/sterling
stupidest things ever said by politicians
canada visitors guide (1986)
bringing out the dead - connelly
declaration of independence/constitution (1956)
the acid house - welsh
slaughterhouse five - vonnegut
naked lunch - burroughs
filth - welsh
galapagos - vonnegut
1984 - orwell
glue - welsh
violin - rice
golden bible stolen from a hotel room
...

on top of left stereo speaker in a stack:

blade runner dvd
smashing pumpkins video collection dvd
ecstacy - welsh
clockwork orange vhs
metropolis (2001) dvd
pi dvd
drugstore cowboy dvd
big lebowski dvd
akira dvd

stuffed animals:

the noid
stimpy
energizer bunny

[Edited on Sep 23, 2002 by catboner]

[Edited on Sep 23, 2002 by catboner]

morgan, i think we're literature-compatible. i'm not even going to try and list everything on my bookshelf. it has about six shelves that are all stuffed full. sometimes i hate buying books because i rarely read them more than once, but i like the look of a healthy bookcase

In order of what I think of, not love hate etc...

Bored of the Rings (National Lampoon spoor)
Balkan Ghosts... a travelouge detailing why the Balkans are as screwed up as they are...
Almost all of the Discworld books
Wet and its sequel, books coated in plastic to be read anywhere...
A great deal of KODT
A Dot A Line and A Squiggle, a Romance of HigherMath
Dragonstar... The latesr in the Hambly series...
Cloven Hooves...
Basically a lot of books... Not as many as I had in RI, but a collection that is growing,,, Trips to Powells to return for cash nonwithstanding...

Time Enough for Love -Heinlein
Stranger in a strange land - "
Revolt in 2100 - "
Hocus Pocus - Vonnegut
The Sirens of Titan - "
Cats Cradel - "
Mother Night - "
Hard Times - Studs Terkel
A ClockWork Orange - Burguess
Still LIfe with Woodpecker - Tom Robins
White Noise - Delillo
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Short Stories - Jack London
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevski
Notes from the Underground - "
David Copperfield - Dickens
Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
Dancing Naked in the Mind Field - Kary Mullis
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Kidnapped - Stevenson
Walden and Civil Disobedience - Thoreau
The Oedipus plays of Sophocles
The Informers - Brett Easton Ellis
Glamorama - "
The Rules of Attraction - "
Less Than Zero - "
Hamlet - Shakespeare
A Separate Peace - John Knowles

Ok, I give up. That's the first part of my bookshelf.

well my bookshelf is not very big, and there arent many things on it just yet.....

north anthology, i dunno which one...
"Have a nice day" - mic foley
Meshugah
Fight club
the great train robbery
one of the resident evil books
one of the star craft books
2 of the doom (not dune) books
dante - the inferno
the epic of gilgamesh
Rats Saw God - rob thomas

thats all i can think of thats on there right now...

my book shelf took a HUGE cut when i moved across the country. it now consists of ::

fear and loathing in america
the great shark hunt
generation of swine
better than sex (confessions of a political junkie)
fear and loathing in las vegas
the proud highway
hell's angels
the rum diary
// all by hunter s. thompson

bloodcurdling tales of horror and the macabre :: hp lovecraft
dreams of terror and death :: hp lovecraft
the portable jung
the portable nietzche
the story of b :: daniel quinn
120 days of sodom :: marquis de sade
atlas shrugged :: ayn rand
the fountainhead :: ayn rand
anthem :: ayn rand
the divine comedy :: dante aligheri
cryptnomicon :: neal stephenson
infinite loop :: michael malone (history of apple computer)
a brief history of time :: stephen hawking
brave new world :: aldous huxley

and then a bunch of design/art/photography books and a buncha tech books

my collection used to be at least 4 times that size. ah well.

Orientalism - Edward Said
A Finger in the Wound - Diane Nelson (the only professor i ever kissed)

The Colonizer and the Colonized - Memmi
Unpacking Culture - Phillips and Steiner
The Great Transformation - Polanyi
The Iron Tonic- Edward Gorey
Me Talk Pretty Some day - Sedaris
Elementarteilchen - Michel Houlllebecq
Primitive art in civilized places- Sally Price
Die Yanomami - Helbig
Travesti - Don Kulick
Die Physiker - Dürrenmatt
The Post colonial Studies Reader
The Death and Life of American Cities- Jane Jacobs
Capitalism and Modern social Theory- anthrony Giddens
Erledigt in Parin und London - Orwell
Rituale von Leben und Tod: Robert Gardner und seine Filme- Kapfer/Petermann
Paul Goma - My childhood at the Gates of unrest
The Predicament of Culture- James Clifford
The "Death" of Authentic Primitive art and other tales of progress - Errington
The story of the Eye - Georges Bataille
Ghost World
The Doubtful guest - Gorey
Hieronymous Bosch - Bosing
The History of Sexuality - Foucault
Carry On Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
Development as Freedom Amartya Sen
Machos, Mistresses, Madonnas: Contesting the Power of Latin American Gender Imagery. - Melhus
Disposable People - Bales
Optic Nerve
Hegel - Peter Singer
Surburban Nation: the rise of sprawl and the decline of the american dream - ANdres Duany
Sustainability and Cities - Kenworthy
I served the King of England - Bohumil Hrabel
Indishe Küche - damar
Of Revelation and Revolution - Camaroff

no wonder i'm so fucking boring

This is a cool thread!

Some of my stuff:

Perfume
Hunter (HST biography by E. Jean Carrrol)
The Collector by John Fowles
Land's Polaroid
Circus of the Scars (Jim Rose Circus biography)
Apocalypse Culture 2
Death Scenes
CAD - A handbook for heels
Alice in Wonderland
Fritz Lang - Nature of the Beast
2 copies of Maldoror (one I custom-made into a hardbound)
The Frankenstein Diaries
Jimmy Corrigan - the Smartest Kid on Earth
Mosby's Medical Dictionary
Betty Page - Queen of Pinup
Coyote Satan Amerika by Steven J. Leyba
Crash by J.G. Ballard
2 books on handwriting analysis
Jeux de Dames Cruelles
everything Anton LaVey ever wrote
The Model by William Mortensen
Monsters and Madonnas (photocopy reprint) by William Mortensen
a shelf of vintage Playboys
Fleurs du Mal by Baudelaire
Notes from Underground
Justine by De Sade
several paperbound medical books regarding nail fungus, eyeballs, etc.
Ars Erotica (erotic art collection)
Weird Wills & Eccentric Last Wishes
How I Photograph Models by Bunny Yeager
Heart of Darkness
STRUWWULPETER
The Primal Screamer by Nick Blinko
The Tin Drum
Notes of A Dirty Old Man by Bukowski
Oak Mot by Crispin Hellion Glover
Alternative Photographic Processes
The Devil
very old book on hypnosis
No Strings Attached (about Jim Henson Creature Shop)
Gods From Outerspace & Chariots of the Gods (handed down from my mom...)
Guiness book of World Records (circa 1982)
my favorite dictionary ever
Electricity and Electronics
a few comics (Tank Girl, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac..)

and some other stuff. I'm tired of running back and forth from my bookcase to my computer.

almost all my books are in cardboard box limbo at the moment - i am moving soon and will have to do without them for a while. here's a list of what i read this summer, though.

lost in the funhouse // john barth
riprap // gary snyder
cold mountain poems // gary snyder
buddhism: the religion of no religion // alan watts
invisible monsters // chuck palahniuk
bend sinister // vladimir nabokov
neverwhere // neil gaiman
stranger in a strange land // robert heinlein
the way of zen // alan watts
good omens // terry prachett + neil gaiman

...and i'm working on "skinny legs and all" by tom robbins, which was given to me by the supernice Eris. once i finish that i am going to read the "Ficciones" collection by Borges.

101 tips for silent killing
anarchy cookbook
details on human anatomy by leonardo devince
user hanbook for the AR-15 carbine assault rifle
the do's and don'ts of nerve toxins
brute warfare
brute manlove
so you're gay and angry with the world volume 3

I have four bookcases in my room, each of them stuffed. That comes to 13 shelves completely filled. These are favorits, as I do not covet tendonitis.

a brief history of time- stephen hawking
the druids- peter ellis (historical)
the golden bough- sir james george frazer
the structure of scientific revolutions- thomas kuhn
lemegeton
the doors of perception- aldous huxley
perfume- patrick suskind
the philosophy of andy warhol
house of leaves- mark danielewski <-the god of books
et tu, babe- marke leyner
tooth imprints on a corn dog- leyner
my cousin, my gastroenterologist- leyner
the tetherballs of bougainville- leyner
i smell esther williams- leyner
the cheese monkeys- chip kidd
the illuminatus trilogy
altman's tongue- brian evenson
labyrinths- borges
gonzo, the art- ralph steadman
the museam at purgatory- nick bantock
the emerald tablet- daniel hauck
the book of ceremonial magick- arthur edward waite
liber kaos- peter carrol
principia dischordia
chronicles of narnia
three books of occult philosophy- agrippa
dear mister president- gabe hudson
suttree- cormac mccarthy

I've always wanted to read Kuhn

Laying in various piles and on shelves

Harry Potter books - They're really good!
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung - Lester Bangs
Boonville - Robert Mailer Anderson
MacOSX Unleashed
Flash 5 for Dummies
All the James Bond books and an Ian Fleming biography
A Winston Churchill Biography
various issues of Gourmet and Saveur
Twin Peaks: Laura Palmer's Diary
Hollywood Rock - Marshall Crenshaw

Farewell, My Lovely
Short Cuts
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver
Mason Dixon - Thomas Pynchon (I've read about 5 pages and am currently planning ways to kill it - it is evil)
Run With The Hunted - Charles Bukowski (with bookmarks from the night he died when a large group of people drank all night and read the bastard from the top of our lungs)
Seabiscuit - Laura Hillenbrand
Psychopathia Sexualis - Richard von Kraft-Ebbing
The Complete Enderby - Anthony Burgess
The Deptford Trilogy - Robertson Davies
The Serial: A Year In The Life Of Marin County - Cyra McFadden
The Turn Of The Screw - Henry James
Heart Of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Man and Superman - George Bernard Shaw

Hamlet
Macbeth
King Lear
The Tempest - That Shakespeare guy
a nice hardcover 1st book club edition of Catcher In The Rye (alas with no JD Salinger pic on the back)
The Tibetan Book Of The Dead
a WWII American edition of Mein Kampf (either Hitler was a terrible writer, or it's an awful translation, on purpose I'd think)
The Life And Death Of Yukio Mishima

The Talisman
The Stand
Carrie
It
The Dead Zone
'Salems Lot - Stephen King (ya just can't hate the guy)
a W. Somerset Maugham anthology
a Flannery O'Connor Anthology
Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH - Robert C. O'Brien
Black and Blue Magic - Zilpha Keatly Snyder
a bunch of Doc Savage books

Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
Charlie And The Great Glass Elevator
James And The Giant Peach - Roald Dahl (the greatest kids author ever)

Selections From The Marquis de Sade with a study by Simone de Beauvoir
The Story Of O - Pauline Reage
Dear Mr. Capote - Gordon Lish
James Beard's Theory And Practice Of Good Cooking
Escoffier's Cook Book
The Art Of Eating Well - Pelligrino Artusi
Better Than Sex - Hunter S. Thompson
Crime And Punishment
The Idiot - Dostoevsky
1987 Baseball Encyclopedia
1982 PDR (I really need a new one!)

I'm tired of looking now - there are many more

edit - Jeez - how could I forget my AUTOGRAPHED copy of Strom Thurmond: Rebel Senator that I found in a discard pile! *tick tick tick*






[Edited on Sep 24, 2002 by googuse]

No books unfortunately....most my stuff got ruined when our basement flooded last month.

I have a few odds and ends upstairs, but nothing too great... just some stephen king stuff.

Im kinda a Book nerd, I dont have a book shelve but i have tons of books that date back to the 30's. Boxed in the dark in my closet, Some worth a pretty penny some worthless but still a great read! Most are Weird fiction, also Sci Fi, Fetish, Art, Childrens etc!

Too many boks to list, mainly childrens.

Since I had to give away 70% of my books away, due to lack of walking space, I have been borrowing books from the library. It works quite well and saves money so I can buy my daily supply of crack.

Ive got about 600 books. Most of em are stored away in boxes. My shelves are currently filled with a mixture of sci/fi & Fantasy and history books.

Stephen Lawhead - Pendragon, Song of Albion and Celtic Crusades series
Stephen Donaldson - Thomas Covenant chronicles
Bernard Cornwell - Warlord Chronicles
Terry Pratchett - Discworld series
Robert Jordan - Wheel of Time series
Isaac Asimov - Foundation,robots and empire series
Variety of books covering Roman Empire, Eastern Roman Empire, Celts, Saxon, Normans, Crusades
Old Greek and Latin: Odyssey, Illiad, Herodotus Histories, Thucydides Peloponnesian War , Aeneid, Tacitus, Pliny, Livy,

Bah, I can't remember half the ones on the shelf and I'm stuck at work at the moment.

Most of my books are graduate texts in mathematics or philosophy texts, but here is a sample:

math:
wait... you don't really want to know these

philosophy:
Nietzsche : Beyond Good and Evil, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Gay Science, Twilight of the Idols,... several more, including several anthologies.
Irrational Man - Barrett
The Ethics of Ambiguity - de Beauvoir
Nausea - Sartre
lord, i won't list these, but just add about another fifteen existentialist works, some of which i have yet to read.

my mind is in insomnia-zombie mode right now, sorry

lying about in/under various piles of froof:

collected poems - catullus
sexual personae - paglia
how the dead live - self
don quixote - cervantes
keep cooking the maine way - ?
motion picture camera techniques - ?
songs of innocence and experience - blake
garbo - ?
the antipope - rankin
george formby: a troubled genius - bret
the illuminatus trilogy - wilson/shea
microserfs - coupland

all of which i'm currently reading/ re-reading/ always reading. kinda regretting the melodramatic decision to give all me possessions away

don quixote?? the whole version or condensed?? id be suprised if your bookshelf could hold the whole thing...

i almost answered this thread until i went into my bedroom and looked at what was on my bookshelf. no one really wants to know.

I used to have all the Monty Pythons scripts, but they were taken from me by a horde of drunk, naked Tory back benchers last tuesday.