List 8 Books That You Own

Just like the DVD thread...you don't necessarily have to list your 8 favorites...just 8 random books that you own!

Here's my random list:

Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

Courtney Love: The Real Story by Poppy Z. Brite

Living My Life by Emma Goldman

A Widow for One Year by John Irving

Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs by John Lydon

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Silent Bob Speaks by Kevin Smith

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Valley Of The Dolls - Jacqueline Susann

The Love Of Elspeth Baker - Myron S. Kaufmann

It - Stephen King

America - Jon Stewart

The Film Encyclopedia

My Life - Bill Clinton

The Grass Is Always Greener Over The Septic Tank - Erma Bombeck

1984 - George Orwell

The Godfather (1st Edition) by Mario Puzo
The Sun Also Rises (1st Edition) by Ernest Hemingway
The Caine Mutiny (1st Edition) by Herman Wouk
In Cold Blood (1st Edition) by Truman Capote
Kill Your Idols edited by Jim DeRogatis and Carmel Carrillo
Let's Stop Beating Around The Bush by Jim Hightower
The Holy Bible (King James Edition) by God ;)
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell

German Grammar
Grammar of the Vulgate by Plater & White
History of Language by Fischer
Introduction to the French Language by Van Daell
Langscheidts German/English Eng/Ger Dictionary
Latin Language by Palmer
Latin Literature by Wheelock
Lexicon Nominum Virorum Et Mulierum by Egger

WAHOO- Dick Okane Submarine USS Wahoo
Clear the Bridge.....Dick Okane....Submarine Tang
Red Scorpion........Submarine Rasher
The Magnificent Mitscher ........Vice Admiral Mitscher biography
Silent Victory I and II Clay Blair...Submarines Pac 1941-1945
Final Dive.......Rick Cline USS Snook
Fighting Lady...........USS Yorktown CV10
Thunder Below.........RADM Eugene Fluckey USS Barb

Inside Out -- Ole Anderson

The Stand -- Stephen King

Red Dragon -- Thomas Harris

Silence of the Lambs -- Thomas Harris

Hannibal -- Thomas Harris

Salem's Lot -- Stephen King

Pure Dynamite -- Tom Billington

To Be The Man -- Ric Flair

My Friend Flicka
Charlotte's Web
James and the Giant Peach
On the Day You Were Born
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Horton Hears a Who
Blueberries for Sal
The Five Chinese Brothers

Creating Freedom by Laurie Wilkie
Archaeology of the Modern World by Martin Hall
In Small Things Forgotten by James Deetz
The Overcoat and Other Short Stories by Nikolai Gogel
The Gunslinger by Steven King
Birth in Four Cultures by LeAnn Jordan
Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Man in the High Castle by Phillip K Dick.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. Middlemarch - George Eliot
3. The French Revolution - William Doyle
4. Greek Mythology - Robert Graves
5. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
6. De Gaulle and Churchill - Francois Kersaudy
7. The Stranger - Albert Camus
8. Big Lies - Joe Conason

watership down
to kill a mocking bird
the complete works of shakespeare
market wizards
reminiscenes of a stock operator
the source book of magic - nlp book
enders game
starship troopers

Harry Potter 6 - Jo Rowling

Sex, Time, and Power - Leonard Shlain

The Far Side - Gary Larson

In a Sunburned Country - Bill Bryson

The Botany of Desire - Micheal Pollen

What Not to Wear - Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine

Falling Up - Shel Silverstein

Deep Survival - Laurence Gonzales

he was a hoot and did little sketches for folks he liked LOL

It was stained, ragged and the spine was beginning to split when my little sister absconded with it and began to subject it to her own brand of childhood love and destruction.

I'm in my thirties and my sister will be starting college soon but we keep taking turns "borrowing" it and "forgetting" to tell one another.

No use buying a new one, that wouldn't be any fun. ;-)

Color me extremely green that you got to met him and bask in all his fun, cool groovy-ness.

1 - The Letters of Henry VIII, 1526-1529

2 - The Stripping of the Altars, Eamon Duffy

3 - Viking Age Iceland, Jesse Byock

4 - Revel, Riot & Rebellion, David Underdown

5 - Scotland, Michael Lynch

6 - The Penguin Essays of George Orwell

7 - Without Feathers, Woody Allen

8 - England's Dreaming, Jon Savage

The Lord of the Rings (3 books )
by JRR Tolkien

Harry Potter series
by J. K. Rowling (7 books 8 in all)

Dragonlance Chronicles series
by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (3 books)

The Wheel of Time Series
by Robert Jordan (11 books)

The Belgariad
by David Eddings (10 books)

Riftwar Saga
by Raymond Feist (5 books)

Conan the Barbarian
by Robert E. Howard (4 books he committed suicide at the age of 30 RIP big guy.)

The Sword of Shannara
by Terry Brooks (3 books)

Cowboy Sam and the Rodeo, by Edna Walker Chandler (and 3 more Cowboy Sam books)
Miss Bianca, by Margery Sharp
Gone Away Lake, by Elizabeth Enright (and the sequel, Return to Gone Away)
Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon (and the rest of the series - #6 debuted last week)
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, by JK Rowling (plus the others!)
The Tale of Desperaux, by Kate DiCamillo
Life's Companion, by Christina Baldwin
Seven Steps on the Writer's Path,, by Nancy Pickard & Lynn Lott


As an English prof and lifelong reader, I must own 1,000+ books.
These were random, starting with my childhood lit bookcase.

Books!

The Annotated Alice by Martin Gardner
Roughing It by Mark Twain
Lucky You by Carl Hiaasen
Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
We're Right, They're Wrong by James Carville
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Stupid White Men - Michael Moore
Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
About a Boy - Nick Hornsby
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
The Belgariad series except #4 (which I left on a ferry years ago)
Harry Potter Series so far
Farnsworth on Contracts

(someone commented that I alphabetize my movies. I generally do, but I sort books by size).

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

The Feast of All Saints by Anne Rice

Hanging Time by Leslie Glass

Striptease: From Gaslight to Spotligh by Jessica Glasscock

The Complete Idiots Guide to the Pilates Method

More Mouse Tales by David Koenig

:hi:

"House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski
"No Logo" by Naomi Klein
"Survivor" by Chuck Palahniuk
"Lullaby" by Chuck Palahniuk
"Hegemony or Survival" by Noam Chomsky
"Weirdsville, USA: The Obsessive Universe of David Lynch" by Paul A. Woods
"The Bush-hater's Handbook" by Jack huberman
"Animal Farm" by George Orwell

I've heard that it's gory and boring, but I really liked Fight Club.

I actually liked it better than Fight Club.

The Curse of Lono Hunter S. Thompson

The Boomer Bible R.F. Laird

The Lord of The Rings - One Volume Edition J.R.R. Tolkien

Lamb Christopher Moore

Watchmen Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons

The Cartoon History of The Universe, Vol 1 Larry Gonick

Ilium Dan Simmons

Under The Banner of Heaven Jon Krakauer

American Gods - Neil Gaiman

If It Takes All Summer: The Battle Of Spotsylvania - William D. Matter

The Second World War (6 volumes) - Winston Churchill

Wicked - Gregory Maguire

Windows on the World Complete Wine Course - Kevin Zraly

The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Traveller - Richard Adams

Bag of Bones - Stephen King

Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon

Harlot's Ghost by Norman Mailer

The Day the Voices Stopped by Ken Steele

Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike by Tom Mes

Nova Express by William S. Burroughs

The Quantum Theory of Insanity by Will Self

Night Fall by Nelson DeMille

Ghostwritten by David Mitchell

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And re yours -- I had no idea Poppy Z. Brite had written a book about Courtney Love. Any good?

It's very good. If you are a fan of Courtney, you'll love it. If you are not a fan, it might make you like her...or at least be more sympathetic to her. I personally am very pro-Courtney, in spite of her flaws. She was a great inspiration to me back in the early/mid-90's when I was a teenager. But I know a lot of people absolutely loathe her. Maybe if they read this book, they would see her in a different light? :shrug:

1985, by Anthony Burgess

The Real Frank Zappa Book, by Frank Zappa

Abe: Wrong for all the Right Reasons, by Glenn Dakin

Disposable People: New SLavery in the Global Economy, by Kevin Bales

Marvel Comics: Secret Wars (TPB)

Benedict Arnold, by Willard Sterne Randall

We Seven, by the Asronauts Themselves (1st edition)

Human, All Too Human, by Freidrich Nietzsche

Okay, the first 8 in the shelf immediately to my left then:

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Browning: The Complete Annotated Works of Robert Browning, Robert Browning
My Life and Hard Times, James Thurber
The Red Pony, John Steinbeck
The Stranger, Albert Camus
Attack Upon Christendom, Soren Kierkegaard
Oedipus the King & Antigone, Sophocles
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

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

Barrel Fever by David Sedaris

Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham

Palimpest by Gore Vidal

John Adams by David McCullough

The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

The Real Story"?????? So do I! I went to highschool with Poppy Brite, and was surprised as HELL she'd written one of my favorite books!

How'd you like that bit about the girlrazor tooth of little Frances Bean? I loved it!

So, here are seven others, randomly:

2. Thirtynothing, by Lisa Jewell
3. The Monkeywrench Gang, by Edward Abbey
4. Proud Highway, by Hunter S. Thompson
5. On Writing, by Stephen King
6. Class, by Paul Fussell
7. Kiss Kiss, by Roald Dahl
8. The Abortion, by Richard Brauttigan

Great thread! :)

It's a great bio...I think more people might view Courtney in a better light if they read it. I personally love her (despite her flaws.) It's been quite a while since I last read it, so I'll have to give it a reread...I'm only vaguely remembering the razortooth Frances thing!

gets her mistakes and awful behavor splattered all over the press; it's a rare instance when her humanity, articulateness and sensitivity are brought to the front. I saw Nick Broomfield's pathetic-but-interesting movie called "Kurt & Courtney". I had to have it. The characters in it were too much!

She was so inspiring to me as a teenage girl in the 90's. People give her a bunch of shit, but she made me pick up a guitar, and I tried to emulate her "take no shit" attitude. I think in that way, she was very empowering to girls. Unlike the great female pop culture icons of today, like Britney and Paris fucking Hilton. Give me Courtney any day!!

About the Broomfield documentary: "pathetic, but interesting" is a great way to describe it! I love how all those low-life characters in the movie were supposed to provide such credible evidence that Courtney murdered Kurt. What a joke...it was entertaining though! :)

gesticuated in his back yard with a FLY SWATTER?!? That was great. I actually rewound that so my brother & I could laugh at it again & again. Remember how Courtney's charming dad repeated "I'LL KICK YOUR ASS!" Well, while he said it his head acted like a bobble-doll, so I had to rewind that part, too! We laughed so hard at that part, and I fell off the couch.

That man has issues, pulling Courtney's poetry out of the trashcan & then publishing it. The only 3 credible characters were his teacher, his aunt, and Tracey. And Courtney, too.

GOOD to KNOW ya!! :toast:

Donald, David. _Lincoln_

Blight, David. _Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory_

Franklin, John Hope. _Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation_

Fehrenbacher, Donald. _The Slaveholding Republic_

Litwack, Leon. _North of Slavery_

Litwack, Leon. _Trouble in Mind_

Oakes, James. _The Ruling Race_

Frederickson, George. _White Supremacy_

Dracula deluxe edition in hardback

ALL Stephen King novels in hardback

several Anne Rice novels in hardback

ALL Dune novels in hardback

several Robert Heinlein novels in hardback

several Isaac Asimov novels in hardback

several A.C. Clarke novels in hardback

...and many many others...

Gosh I don't know if I can do only 8....I'll think on it and try to come up with a good list.

2. Making Tracks: The Rise of Blondie by Deborah Harry, Chris Stein, and Victor Bockris

3. Billions & Billions by Carl Sagan

4. Five Smooth Stones by Ann Fairbairn

5. Dreamcatcher by Stephen King

6. All Things Wise and Wonderful by James Herriot

7. Alas Babylon by Pat Frank

8. Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

I want to reread that! I wonder if it's still in print?? I read it as a teen when I had just discovered punk rock. It was very interesting to read about Nancy from her mother's perspective. I know John Lydon loathed her...I wonder if he's read her mother's book!

saw her as the reason for Sid's demise. In The Filth and The Fury he breaks down crying because he couldn't save Sid from heroin. It might be in print now. I am not sure. A lot of the great older punk memorablia is getting harder to find again.

Strange Wine by Harlan Ellison - autographed first edition
The Seed And The Sower by Sir Laurence Van Der Post - first edition
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
To America by Stephen Ambrose
The Name Of The Rose by Umberto Eco
Lost Moon by Jim Lovell - autographed first edition
All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

bwahahahahahahaha

Where to start? This room, the other room, the bedroom, the living room, the sewing room, the 15 cases of books in the attic?

...I'm a book junkie, too! But that's why I married a carpenter, so he can keep building me more shelves! :-)

Anyway, I did it, so I know you can too! Give us a little random sampling of your library!

Schindler's Legacy
People's and Plagues
Angela's Ashes
Mists of Avalon
When Will Jesus Bring the Porkchops
Lies and the Lying Liars that tell them
The full Gunslinger series (I'll count all 7 as one book)
Name of the Rose
Foucalt's Pendulum

Ok, that's 8 + 1. Now you got me on a roll it's hard to quit.

1. The Ceremonies of the Roman Rite, Described - Rev'dd A. Fortescue & J.B. O'Connell,

2. Teach Yourself Serbo-Croat - Vera Javarek & Miroslava Sudjic,

3. The Ten Books on Architecture - Vitruvius,

4. Perspectives on World Politics - ed. Richard Little & Michael Smith,

5. Time on the Cross, The Economics of American Negro Slavery - Robert William Fogel & Stanley L. Engerman,

6. The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England (alias B.C.P. 1662),

7. The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli,

8. The Book of Mormon - Joseph Smith.

I was actually tempted just to put the Book of Common Prayer as I have more than 8 copies - varying in age between the late 1980s and early 1850s (the text only changing to reflect different members of the Royal Family, and the abolition of three state services in 1859).

As I look up at my book shelf I see:

the Road Less Traveled, by Scott Peck

Bridge for Dummies

the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Alcoholics Anonyomous

the Websters Dictionary

the Great American Sex Diet

The Complete Works of Mark Twain

Love Signs by Linda Goodman (Volumes I & II)

One for the Money ~Janet Evanovich
Sammy's Hill ~Kristin Gore (yes, *that* Kristin Gore)
No Ordinary Time ~Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Swallows of Kabul ~Yasmina Khadra (aka Mohammed Moulessehoul)
America: The Book ~Jon Stewart
My Life ~Bill Clinton
The Time Traveler's Wife ~Audrey Niffeneger
Ahab's Wife ~Sena Jeter Naslund

The People of the Abyss...Jack London
The Orton Diaries
The Name of the Rose...Umberto Eco
The Murders of the Black Museum...Gordon Honeycombe
Racehorse Breeding Theories...Frank Mitchell
The Pickwick Papers...Charles Dickens
Seabiscuit...Laura Hillenbrand
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe

Book Business - Jason Epstien

Steichen's Legacy - Joanna Steinchen

The Wreck of Agathon - John Gardner

Medea - also Gardner

Teach Yourself Icelandic - Hildur Jonsdottir

The Passover Plot - Hugh Schonfield

Egyptian Hieroglyphic Reading Book for Beginners - E. A. Wallis Budge

Witches Abroad - Terry Prachett

"Sex and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress" - Anne Hollander
"The Complete Etchings of Goya" - Crown Publishers, NY
"Giamattista Tiepolo" - The Metropolitan Museum" - Walker Art Center, Mpls
"The Pritzker Architecture Prize: the first 20 years" - The Art Institute of Chicago
"Support and Seduction: a History of Corsets and Bras" - Beatrice Fontanel
"My Love Affair with Jewelry" - Elizabeth Taylor
"Pirates and Piracy" - David Reinhardt
"Sowa's Ark: An Enchanted Bestiary" - Michael Sowa & Nick Bantock

It's our art & reference shelf!

The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe

Suicide girls
sex tips from a dominetrix
the color purple
the divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood
abnormal pyschology
nutrition
tantric sex
the adventures of Huckleberry Finn

...But here is what is handy on my shelf:

The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner

The Nature of Personal Reality - Jane Roberts

Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron - Daniel Clowes

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Kovels' Antiques Guide and Price List (2003)

The Lessons of Terror - Caleb Carr (Carr's fiction is terrific, as well)

Street Spanish - David Burke (all of the most colorful metaphors, etc.)

Champ, the Legend - Joe Zarzynski (OOP, unfortunately)

...Poppy Z. Brites collections of short stories?

Perfect for Halloween, wonderful for nightmares.

I am not much for the horror genre. My husband is a big fan, though...I believe he has all of her books.

"wonderful for nightmares", indeed!

:)

No Man Knows My History by Fawn M. Brodie

Swanson on Swanson by Gloria Swanson

The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent, Selected Essays by Lionel Trilling

Paul: The Mind of the Apostle by A.N. Wilson

The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd

The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang

Journey of Awakening by Ram Dass

Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar

The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster (yes, THAT Ellen Foster
The Stand
Sometimes a Great Notion
Time in Its Flight
Miss Rumphius
Sick Puppy
Electric Kool Aid Acid Test
Shroud of the Thwacker

McLuhan: Hot and Cool, with essays from Susan Sontag, Dwight MacDonald, Howard Gossage, Howard Rosenberg, Tom Wolfe and George Steiner, and responses by Marshall McLuhan

Sex, Love and Violence by Cloe Madanes

The Evolving Self, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The Right to Privacy, by Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy

The Berkeley Student Revolt, edited by Seymour Martin Lipset and Sheldon S. Wolin

Learning How to Learn, by Idries Shah

Joined at the Heart, by Al and Tipper Gore

Walden and Other Writings, Thoreau
Complete Works, Poe
The Poetic Edda, Hollander translation
Dune, Herbert
The Age of Spiritual Machines, Kurzweil
Alice in Wonderland, Carroll
The Essential Tao, Cleary
The Portable Nietzsche

The Culture of Make Believe - Derrick Jensen

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Max Weber

The Demon-Haunted World - Carl Sagan

Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser

The Republican Noise Machine - David Brock

The Politics of Experience - R.D. Laing

The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness - Erich Fromm

The Social Contract and Discourses - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne

The Black Album - Hanif Kureishi

The Complete Claudine - Colette

The Sissy Duckling -Harvey Fierstein

Drawing Down The Moon - Margot Adler

Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex - Pat Califia

The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. LeGuin

Use Of Weapons - Iain M. Banks

(The first 8 of a stack of 12 on my desk.)

Khash.

:loveya:

Although for some reason reading "Public Sex" on the bus inspires little old ladies to smite you with their umbrellas....

(Actually, this is my "books to reread" stack, as soon as I finish the stack of new books.)

Re: Your multiple historical copies of The Book of Common Prayer: Do you collect them or have they been passed down through your family?

:loveya:

Khash.

I adore second-hand book shops, and obviously in England they are littered with copies of the B.C.P.

Big House
All Creatures Great and Small
Skipping Christmas
Pottery Barn Storage Solutions
Good Night Moon
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Maisy Flap Book

I've been collecting books since I was about 6 years old. I probably have close to 5000 of them, if not more. I would say at least 65% of them are science fiction or fantasy; 15% are non-fiction; 5% are mainstream fiction and the rest are mysteries, textbooks, or craft books.

And everyone wondered what was in all those boxes when I moved. ;)

The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne
Brave New World, Huxley
Nickel and Dimed - On Getting by in America, Ehrenreich
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Hillary's Choice, Sheehy
Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs, Cheryl Peck
The Joy of Cooking
A Good Man Is Hard to Find - O'Connor

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

A History of Britain by Simon Schama

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis

The Long Emergency by James H. Kunstler

Plausible Denial by Mark Lane

The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh

Desert Queen by Janet Wallach

Who Will Tell the People by Willaim Greider

Papa, My Father. Leo Buscalia.

Living, Loving, Learning. Leo Buscalia.

Tying Rocks to Clouds. William Elliot.

The Alchemist. Paulo Coelho

Anger. Thich Nhat Hanh

Things I Meant to Say to You When We Were Old. Merrit Malloy

Notes to Myself. Hugh Prather

An Unquiet Mind. Kay Redfield Jamison

The Making of a Cook -- Madeleine Kammen

Fear of Falling -- Barbara Ehrenreich

The American Language -- H.L. Mencken

McCormick on Evidence

An Autobiography -- Margaret Sanger

Five Families -- Oscar Lewis

The Professor and the Madman -- Simon Winchester

Eva Trout -- Elizabeth Bowen

:(










OK....Closer to seven hundred...

God's Politics
Homegrown Democrat (Garrison Keillor - terrific book!)
Stealing Jesus, How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity (an oldie but a goodie)
You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas - Patterson
Miyelo (Viggo Mortensen Photo Essay)
Still Life With Woodpecker - Tom Robbins
American Scoundrel - Thomas Keneally who wrote Schindler's List
(General Sickles was a Civil War General and my grandfather's
cousin)


Many, many more, but those come to mind.

LG

Gone With the Wind
Tom Sawyer
Jane Eyre
The Godfather
Wuthering Heights
Ragtime
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Of Mice and Men

That was fun. I just took a quick look around the room.

after I've nejoyed them but a few hanging around:

A Peoples' History of The United States ~ Howard Zinn
Guns, Germs, and Steel ~ Jared Diamond
Love Time and Memory ~ Jonathon Weiner
The Professor and the Madman ~ Simon Winchester

And just about every fiction Mitchner ever wrote. I've read 12 of them now I think, some of them 3 times.

8 among many...mind you

"Profiles in Courage" by JFK (what I'm reading right now)

"The Tudor Age" by Jasper Ridley

"Ari: The Life and Times of Aristotle Onassis" by Peter Evans

"The Pelican Brief" by John Grisham

"Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince" by JK Rowling

"The Mammy" by Brendan O'Connell

"Watership Down" by Richard Adams

"We the Living" by Ayn Rand

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere--Z.Z. Packer

Cat's Cradle--Kurt Vonnegut

Alias Grace-Margaret Atwood

Love All The People (letters, lyrics, routines)--Bill Hicks

Naked Lunch--William S. Burroughs

Get Your War On II--David Rees

Porno--Irvine Welsh

Franny & Zooey--J.D. Salinger


I have more on the floor, but these were on the top of the pile.

"Forests of the Heart"--Charles de Lint

"Don't Think of an Elephant"--Lakoff

"My Love Affair with the State of Maine"--Scotty Mackenzie

"Tanequil"--Terry Brooks

"Why People Believe Weird Things"--Shermer

"Words and Rules"--Pinker

"The Seconds"--Linda Bierds

Chicago Manual (14th)


Big desk. Messy desk.

Bored of the Rings
All the Kings Men
Bear
Fingerprints of the Gods
Ball Four
All the Shah's Men
Aztec
Fortunes of War

I own quite a few. The best is Mushrooms of Northeast America by Barron. Its more of a field guide. Field guides dominate my little library. Identification etc, Trees, wild plants, spiders, audubon society bird books...

I have a few others like Lies and lying liars by Franken, The Book on Bush by Alterman . Those types.

The Sagas of Icelanders (multiple translators).

George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, and A Storm of Swords.

J.R.R. Tolkien's translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo, collected in one book.

David Drake's Lord of the Isles.

March Upcountry, by David Weber and John Ringo.

Terry Pratchett-The Colour of Magic.

The End Of Faith by Sam Harris

Pompeii by Robert Harris

Monsters Of God by David Quammen

Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin

An Unfinished Life
John F Kennedy by Robert Dallek

Nemesis by Peter Evans

Current New Yorker and Dog Fancy Mags.

so many to choose from...

Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Are You Loathsome Tonight?, Poppy Z. Brite
Coraline, Neil Gaiman
Seven Ages of Paris, Alistair somethingorother
Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman
Abuse Your Illusions, Disinfo Collective
People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn
Middle East Illusions, Noam Chomsky

The Tests are NEgative... By I.P. Freely....
Once is Not Enough.... By Neve R. Satisfied...
Three for the Road... By Lucy Goosey....
Time and Gravity takes a Toll... By Sage E. Privates...
Fun with Dick and Jane.... By Bob and Carol...
Ted and Alice.... By Dick and Jane...
Forty Days in a Baloon.... By I. M. Soar...

That means they're old.

I never saw a joke I wouldn't steal to get a laugh to get a laugh...

All of my jokes are older than me too.

Smith's "Porphyrins and Metallophorins"

Wheeler's "Gravitation"

Hurd's "Electron in Metals"

Seaborg's "The Elements Beyond Uranium"

Cotton and Wilksonson's "Advanced Inorganic Chemistry."

"The Analytical Chemistry of Protactinium" (I have 10 volumes of this wonderful old Soviet era treatment of the analytical chemistry of the elements - it was one of the best things to come out of the Soviet state, sort of a Ag lining on a a very dark cloud.)

Hensel and Warren's "Fluid Metals"

Green's "Protection Groups in Organic Chemistry."

Eliel's "The Sterochemistry of Organic Compounds."

Lowry and Richardson's "Mechanism and Theory In Organic Chemistry."

That's much as I have time to type out now. I have non science books too I swear. My computer happens to be right next to the science section in my home library. I had a busy week and am too tired to get up and look around.

Density of Souls by Christopher Rice
Le Morte d’Arthur by Sir Thomas Mallory
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Great Expectations
Different Seasons by Richard Bachman
Star Wars
Relativity by Albert Einstein
Sharing the Good Times by Jimmy Carter

"The Blind Watchmaker" by Richard Dawkins

"The Demon Haunted World", "Billions and Billions", "Broca's Brain", "Cosmos", and "Dragons in Eden" by Carl Sagan

"No Logo" by Naomi Klein

"Alan Turing: The Enigma" by Andrew Hodges

Here are some that I can see from where I'm sitting right now:

1. Ballet Shoes - Noel Streatfeild
2. Prep - Curtis Wittenfeld
3. Ghost Towns of the Colorado Rockies - Brown & Easton
4. Skipping Towards Gomorrah - Dan Savage
5. The Eight - Katherine Neville
6. The Secret History - Donna Tartt (a truly awesome book, by the way!)
7. White Oleander - Janet Fitch
8. Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer
9. The Character of Cats - Stephen Budiansky
10. The Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes

Here's mine:

1. They Sailed into Oblivion- A. A. Hoehling

2. Backlash- Susan Faludi

3. The Story of Civilization- (11 volumes) Will and Ariel Durant

4. The Alienist- Caleb Carr

5. Trouser Press Record Guide- Ira Robbins

6. The War on Choice- Gloria Feldt

7. The Memory of Eva Ryker- Donald Stanwood

8. The Boyfriend School - Sarah Bird

9. And the Band Played On- Randy Shilts

10. Crime and Punishment- Dostoyevsky

Jane's Weapon Systems 1980-81

Advanced Techniques for the Modern Drummer by Jim Chapin

How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive by John Muir

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 1972 by Hunter S. Thompson

Operation and Maintenance Manual for the Watkins-Johnson WJ-8640A Portable Surveillance Receiver

Inside the Soviet Army by Viktor Suvorov

Russian-English Dictionary of Obscenities

The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin

Domino by Ross King

Hornet's Nest by Jimmy Carter

Cicero by Anthony Everitt

Beach Music by Pat Conroy

Portrait of a Killer by Patricia Cornwell

Empire of the East by Fred Saberhagen

35mm Handbook by Michael Langford

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story (Deluxe Edition): Douglas Adams

Aztec: Gary Jennings

Gateway: Frederik Pohl

Night Over Water: Ken Follett

Helter Skelter: Vincent Bugliosi

The Color of Magic: Terry Pratchett

The Turn of the Screw: Henry James

The Mote in God's Eye: Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

Alcools

The Pacific Northwest

Backlash

A Wrinkle in Time

What Color is Your Aura?

Deluze & Guattari 2-volume set Capitalism and Schizophrenia

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

1.The Grapes of Wrath
2.Everything Mark Twain ever wrote, including his letters, essays, and shopping lists
3.Lucifer's Hammer
4.Hitchhiker's Trilogy (all five books)
5.101 Myths of the Bible
6.Eragon & Eldest
7.The Giver
8.Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres (Copernicus)

I read a lot, and have recently gotten into children's/YA literature (I think it might be fun to try and write a good YA book).

That's classic!! :-) And I love that it's in there with Twain and Grapes of Wrath! Eclectic libraries are the best libraries!

There is some great Children's/YA Lit out there! I'm an aspiring children's librarian, so I have to keep current with it (which is a fun job responsibility to have, let me tell you!) Julia Alvarez and Celia Rees are two of my current favorite YA authors...you might want to check them out if you like historical and/or realistic fiction. I'm not much of a fantasy/sci-fi person, but the best fantasy YA book I read recently was "The Amulet of Samarkand" by Jonathan Stroud. It's very much along the same lines as Harry Potter.

The Rise and Fall of English by Robert Scholes

Uncle Tom's Children by Richard Wright

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Middle Passage by Charles Johnson

A Different Mirror by Ronald Takaki

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Hard Times by Charles Dickens

1984 by George Orwell

8 books, they are:

The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot

The Philip K. Dick Reader By PKD

What If Our World Is Their Heaven? The Final Conversations of PKD edited by Gwen Lee and Doris Elaine Sauter

The Transmigration of Timothy Archer by PKD

Atom by Isaac Asimov

Into the Silent Land by Paul Brooks

The Light of Other Days by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter

The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul by Douglass Adams

Stuff is kind of in sections so this must have been from my sci-fi/consciousness section. :D

Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol

The World According to Garp by John Irving

The Cat and the Curmudgeon by Cleveland Amory

2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clark

The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy

Rabbit Redux by John Updike

Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy

Iliad by Homer

Brothers Karamazov

Chomsky Reader

Lies and The Lying Liars

Godel, Escher, Bach

Living in Spanglish

The Moor's Last Sigh

What Liberal Media?

Backlash

Act One - Moss Hart

The Ordinary Princess - M. M. Kaye

Relativity and Common Sense - Hermann Bondi

The Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Holt

The Self Destruction Handbook - Wasson and Stamen

She Who Remembers - Linda Lay Schuler

Snow White, Blood Red - Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling

Human, All Too Human - Freidrich Nietzsche

American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Cosmic Trigger - Robert Anton Wilson
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsing
The Satanic Bible - Anton Szandor Lavey

1. harry potter 1
2. harry potter 2
3. harry potter 3
4. harry potter 4
5. harry potter 5
6. harry potter 6
7. 1984
8. A Clockwork Orange

"Life as a Loser" (Will Leitch)
"The Story of Language" (Mario Pei)
"The New Making of a COok" (Madeleine Kamman)
"I Sing the Body Electric" (Ray Bradbury)
"Vested Interests" (Marjorie Garber)
"Linden Hills" (Gloria Naylor)
"Women of Wonder" (ed. Pamela Sargeant)

One from each of 8 shelves...got a few more shelves, though...

Master of the Senate by Robert Caro

Dred by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Dharma Bums By Jack Kerouac

The UFO Experience By J. Allen Hynak

The C.I.A. and the Cult of Intelligence by Victor Marchetti, John D. Marks.

Operation Overflight by Francis Gary Powers

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

Manzanar Photographs by Ansel Adams, Commentary by John Hersey

I also have:

America by Jon Stewart;
It's Still the Economy, Stupid by Paul Begala;
50 Ways to Love Your Country by the people at MoveOn;
The Hobbit;
and the three Lord of the Rings books.

she's a big birdwatcher in new orleans but she does not tirelessly "self promote"

i knew she wrote vampire books

i'll have to look for that one

My Life
Where the Red Fern Grows
Don't shoot it's only me (bob hope)
Salem's Lot
Dragon Riders of Pern
To Kill a Mocking Bird
The Stranger Beside Me

1. Pride and Prejudice
2. Exodus
3. Fahrenheit 451
4. 1984
5. The Forever King
6. The Blue Sword
7. Things Fall Apart
8. Night

1984 by George Orwell

What Liberal Media? by Eric Alterman

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

'Figure Drawing' Richard G. Hatton

'Container Garden' Reader's Digest

'Build it Better Yourself' Rodale Press

'Macninery's Hanbook, Twentieth Edition' Industrial Press, Inc

'Western Forest Trees' James Berthold Berry

'Rocks and Minerals' A Golden Guide

:hi:

1. The Fortress of Solitude, Jonathan Lethem
2. Hairstyles of the Damned, Joe Meno
3. The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles
4. Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand
5. Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich
6. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Ray Carver
7. The Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff
8. Beloved, Toni Morrison

Have to mention this one first as its one of my faves.

Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan.

The rest... hang on... lemme wander into my library and grab 7.

Queen Jane's Version: The Holy Bible for Adults only. by Douglas Ranking. This is one of my banned books. A not at all nice interpretation of the bible. Difficult to find.

Robots and Empires by Isaac Azimov. Part of his I Robot series. Interesting stuff but I prefer his foundation series.

Flim-Flam: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and other Delusions by James Randi. An excellent reading of the adventures of a debunker.

M.Y.T.H. Inc. In Action by Robert Asprin. Lite fantasy and comedy. Pity he screwed up his life by not paying taxes.

Sherlock Holmes: The complete Novels and Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Pity Mr Doyle and Mr Randi never got to meet. Would have been an interesting conversation. Its interesting to note that Holmes only works in a fictional universe. Doyle was so convinced that people could only rise to their station in life that you could tell everything about them by observing them. In a nutshell Holmes/Doyle is a racist/classist.

Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson. Cyber Punk. What more do you need to know?

Soul Music by Terry Pratchett. Nearly impossible to reach into my library and not pull out a work of Pratchetts. Imagine if Douglas Adams actually liked to write. Thats Terry Pratchett.

V. by Thomas Pynchon
Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man by Thomas Mann
Bulfinch's Mythology
Ed Broadbent: The Pursuit of Power by Judy Steed
The Final Days by Woodward & Bernstein (how appropriate!)
Mosquitoes by William Faulkner
My Life & Loves by Frank Harris
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.

Anger The Unauthorized Biography of Kenneth Anger (Book) by Bill Landis
The Bee Gees: Tales of the Brothers Gibb (Book) by Melinda Bilyeu,Hector Cook,Andrew Mon Hughes
On the Origin of Species (Book) by Charles Darwin
Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel (Book) by Jonathan Safran Foer
A Tale of Two Cities (Book) by Charles Dickens
The Butterfly Kid (Book) by Chester Anderson
The Pied Piper of Tucson (Book) by Don Moser Don & Jerry Cohen...
...and...




Tikki

The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Green and Joost Elffers (I just noticed that the last person who owned it pencilled "#49 - be nice" on the inside title page)

Perfume by Patrick Susskind

Don't Look at an Elephant by George Lakoff

Why Do Men Have Nipples?: Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini by Mark Leyner and Billy Goldbert, MD

The Fight for Canada: Four Centuries of Resistance to American Expansionism by David Orchard (signed)

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss

The Queer Encyclopedia of Music, Dance & Musical Theater, Claude J Summers, ed.

Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
The Last of the Wine (Mary Renault)
The Iliad (Homer, Fagles trans.)
Bunnicula (James Howe)
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
War Without Mercy (John Dower)
Our Man in Havana (by Graham Greene)

Wow, I have a weird train of thought... :crazy:

I guess they're all books I've mentioned or thought about recently, even though I haven't read some of them in years!

i promote reading so i'm doin' 16 goddammit.

1) Ficciones- Borges
2) Labyrinths- Borges
3) Dreamtigers- Borges
4) Blow Up & Other Stories- Cortazar
5) The Transparency of Evil- Baudrillard
6) The Perfect Crime- Baudrillard
7) One Dimensional Man- Marcuse
8) The Alphabetic Labyrinth (history of scripts)

my second group

1) Making Sex: history of the body from Greeks to Freud-Laqueur
2) Sexing the Body: Ann Fausto-Sterling
3) African Homosexualities: Roscoe
4) Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold (1930-1960 lesbian ethnography)
5) butch/femme: ed. Sally Munt
6) Female Masculinity: Halbersham
7) Spontaneous Human Combustion
8) The Spirit and The Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture

Dean Koontz -- "The Taking" that I am reading now.
James Patterson -- "1st to Die."
John Grisham -- "A Painted House."
Robin Cook -- "Shock."
Lynn Truss -- "Eats, Shoots & Leaves."
Mary Newton Bruder -- "Much Ado About A Lot."
Thomas Parrish -- "The Grouchy Grammarian."
Stephen Budiansky -- "The Truth About Dogs."

Plus hundreds more at home.

Pol Pot Philip Short
The Sorrow of War Bao Ninh
Private Dancer Stephen Leather
Travels on the Mekong Louis de Carne
The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
A Pretext for War James Bamford
Chain of Command Seymour Hersh
Lao for Beginners Busawan Simmala