# What's on your bookshelves? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 25, 2006, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-bookshelves/381783 "2006-11-25T21:32:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-bookshelves/381783/21 "2006-11-26T01:36:07Z")
The **F** Word, by Jesse Sheidlower The Joys of Yiddish/Rosten 5 volumes of The Straight Dope Books/Adams Panati’s Parade of Fads, Follies, and Manias Going Nucular,/Nunberg Walter Johnson, Baseball’s Big Train/Thomas The Teammates/Halberstam Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary No Uncertain Terms/Safire Tropic of Cancer/Capricorn/Miller The Professor and the Madman/Winchester …and too many slang dictionaries/quotation dictionaries/etc. to count. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-bookshelves/381783/22 "2006-11-26T01:50:07Z")
Let’s see…out of the 18 individual shelves of books in my bedroom, the one next to my bed has… _Treasure Island Flight of the Phoenix First Landing_ by Robert Zubrin (I’ve read fanfic better than this one. Furry fanfic. With [romantic subtexts and far more compelling techno-thriller plotlines.](http://home.att.net/~john_w_nowak/Icarus.txt)) _The Difference Engine The Ra Expeditions A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court How to Seduce, Pleasure, and Titilate in Classical Latin_ _Ring of Fire_ and _The Grantville Gazette Coriolanus Field Guide to the Apocalypse His Share of Glory_—Cyril Kornbluth omnibus The Manga of _Escaflowne_, Vol. 1 _The Fall of Colossus The Holy Terror_—H.G. Wells _Paradise Lost_ and [_My Tank is Fight!_](http://www.amazon.com/My-Tank-Fight-Zack-Parsons/dp/0806527587) ---
**Author:** ![Caridwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@Caridwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caridwen)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-bookshelves/381783/23 "2006-11-26T02:06:04Z")
The mess on the shelf that’s sort of eye level- Lots of old text books I should get rid of but I keep thinking someone might want them. Molecular Biology of the Cell Culture of Animal Cells The Chemistry of Living Systems Color Atlas of Histology Ann Tyler - Digging to America When the Women Come out to Dance- Elmore Leonard The Traveler - John Twelve Hawks Mosby’s Medical,Nursing & Allied Health Dictionary Notebook Dog brush box of crayons 1/2 pack computer paper deformed coffee mug that I made A rock? No idea where it came from ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-bookshelves/381783/24 "2006-11-26T02:50:19Z")
I have scads of bookshelves, but the closest one is to my right, here: 13 three-ring binders packed with research materials for my current book: photocopied scrapbooks and newspaper articles; e-mails; photos; notes; drafts; book excerpts; web printouts. Also a few research books I have to grab most frequently: encyclopedias on American Theater, Musical Theater, World History Chronology; The Canadian Air Force in WWI; Variety Obituaries. Atop the shelf is my working 1920s [French phone](http://www.phonecoinc.com/topic.asp?map=1&hhrl=home&gorl=group&group=main&category=Art&topic=01029). ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-bookshelves/381783/25 "2006-11-26T03:11:53Z")
Directly over at eye level to my left, I see: Steven Brust’s _Viscount of Adrilankha_ trilogy _Dune_, Frank Herbert _Wolves of the Calla_, Stephen King _Watership Down_, Richard Adams _The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne_, Martin Lowenthal, ed. _The Taming of the Shrew_, Shakespeare _Politics_, Aristotle _The Satanic Bible_, Anton La Vey There are also some DVDs: **Carnivale** , Seas. 1 **Count Duckula** , Season 1 **Futurama** , Season 1 **Monty Python’s Flying Circus** , collection no. 3 **Mr. Bean: The Whole Bean** …and some others. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-bookshelves/381783/26 "2006-11-26T03:41:25Z")
I’m between houses, so all my books are in boxes and my bookshelf has only the few books I’ve either just read, or will read in the next few months: _A Soldier of the Great War_ by Mark Helprin _Refiner’s Fire_ by Mark Helprin _Winter’s Tale_ by Mark Helprin _Memoirs from Antproof Case_ by Mark Helprin _The Anubis Gate_ by Tim Powers _Quincunx_ by Charles Palliser _The Thirteenth Tale_ by Diane Setterfield _The Haunted Bookshop_ by Christopher Morley _Fifth Business_ by Robertson Davies _Almanac of the Dead_ by Leslie Marmon Silko _Nero Wolfe_ Season 2 DVDs On top of the shelf is a rusty horseshoe, a glass egg with weird bubbles and filaments inside and an antelope skull. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-bookshelves/381783/27 "2006-11-26T03:51:00Z")
No bookshelves in the basement, but there’s a stack on the desk that’s the start of a round-robin, as soon as I get off my lazy butt and get them sent. The Keepers of Truth - Michael Collins All Over but the Shoutin’ - Rick Bragg The Truest Pleasure - Robert Morgan Replay – Ken Grimwood The Robber Bride & Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood White Crosses – Larry Watson In the Lake of the Woods – Tim O’Brien Mrs. Bridge – Evan Connell The End of the Affair – Graham Greene City of Truth – James Morrow In the Fall – Jeffrey Lent Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-bookshelves/381783/28 "2006-11-26T04:25:34Z")
On the small bookshelf next to my computer there is, from left to right, top to bottom: A basket of dead cd covers and odd cds, approximately 30. In basket there is also an asthma inhaler, a gold gift-bow, a bauble from last-years Xmas tree, a black texta and some White-out, and the plastic top from a can of fly-spray. Next to that there is a bottle of cheap perfume, a tray of moulding clay (Plasticine) a biro, a box that some nice-smelly-bath salts came in, and another rotunda of dead cds. (only 20 this time). Next to THEM, is a CD wallet, a DVD cover, miscellaneous letters for my kids from the various creditors who are after them, a baseball cap, 2 X A3 sketch books, a pair of sunglasses sans the glass, some small change, another pair of glasses (my reading ones), a diary and an old plastic cover from somebody’s mobile phone. Underneath, on the next shelf down, we actually have some BOOKS!! There’s a stack of Geos (Australian National Geographic), a Melway’s Street Directory, Margaret Fulton Cookery Book, _Wonders of the Animal World_, _Chucklebud and Wunkydoo_, _Alternative Australia_, _A Season to be Born_, _The Dumb House_,\* Bushdwellers of Australia\*,\* Birth Without Violence\*, _The Damage Done_, _The Dark Tower_, _The Inflatable Volunteer_, _Melbourne’s Great Outdoors_, a World Atlas, more bills for the kids, an old biscuit tin containing my sewing kit, a backgammon set and some paint brushes. Shall I go on?? 😃 There’s another shelf that is equally messy and eclectic. OK: a dead computer keyboard, three vinyl LPs, 8 photograph albums, more Geos, books of poetry (x2), herbalism (x2), cook books (x4), another crappy atlas, an Oxford dictionary, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, old books of notes from university (x11), MORE tram-fine bills for the offspring, a Terry Pratchett novel (Pyramids), an Australian Encyclopaedia (one volume), two ‘Murder in Mind’ periodical mags, a photo frame, a newspaper from 4 months ago, and lots and lots of dust. Note to self: clean out yer’ bloody bookshelf, NOW!! 😃 PS…there is another twelve-shelf unit AND a three shelver in the loungeroom that are home to only books. However, I’m sure they could do with some serious culling too!! ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-bookshelves/381783/29 "2006-11-26T04:27:24Z")
[QUOTE=AuntiePam] Replay – Ken Grimwood [/QUOTE] _Excellent_ book to share – I think that everyone should read that book at least once. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-bookshelves/381783/30 "2006-11-26T04:40:41Z")
I’m a sci-fi/fantasy nut, apparently: - Robert Jordan - _The Wheel of Time_ series - David (& Leigh) Eddings - _The Belgariad_, _The Mallorean_, _The Elenium_ and _The Tamuli_ series, plus _Belgarath the Sorcerer_, _Polgara the Sorceress_ and _The Rivan Codex_. - Douglas Adams - _The More Than Complete Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy_, _Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency_, _The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul_ and _The Meaning of Liff_ - Robert Asprin - _Phule’s Company_ and _Phule’s Paradise_ - L.E. Modesitt Jr. - _The Recluse_ series (up to book 5 only) - Terry Goodkind - _The Sword of Truth_ series - Piers Anthony - The _Xanth_ series (up to book 12 – stopped reading them after that), the _Battle Circle_ series, the _Adept_ series, the _Mode_ series (up to book 3), _But What of Earth?_ (re-release with editor’s notes) - Bob Grant & Doug Naylor - All _Red Dwarf_ novels (including solo efforts) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-bookshelves/381783/31 "2006-11-26T04:54:29Z")
I’m in my office: So 42 computer books. The Essential Calvin & Hobbes, Far Side Gallery, Calvin & Hobbes: It’s a Magical World, Pre-History of the Far Side, Doonesbury Chronicles, One Krazy Kat, Bloom County Classics, Fox Trot, 20 Doonesbury books from the 70s and 80s. several Dilberts, four Dave Barry books, More Bloom County books, more C&H, Goomba’s guide to life. The Atlas of Middle Earth, The Gold Binding copy of the Hobbit, The Red Leather edition of the Lord of the Rings, The Monsters and the Critics by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Unfinished tales, Letters of Father Christmas and books 1-7 & 10-12 of the History of Middle Earth. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-bookshelves/381783/32 "2006-11-26T06:53:50Z")
The outer layer of the top shelf next to my PC: Toby Cecchini - _Cosmopolitan_. Kind of like _Kitchen Confidential_, only bar-oriented. The author is the guy who developed the Cosmopolitan. Elaine Pagels - _The Gnostic Gospels_ Arthur Machen - _The Terror and Other Stories_. An anthology put out by Chaosium. Laura Penny - _Your Call is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit_. Ty Wenzel - _Behind Bars_. Kind of like _Kitchen Confidential_, only bar-oriented. Malcolm Gladwell - _Blink_ Stuart Walton - _Out of It: A Cultural History of Intoxication_. Thomas P. Hughes - _Human-Built World_. Musings on the sociology of technology. L. Ron Hubbard - _Typewriter in the Sky_. Schlocky but entertaining. Peter Collett - _The Book of Tells_. A pop-oriented book about body language. Lord Dunsany - _The Collected Jorkens, vol. 2_. Club stories from the best fantasy writer ever. Michael Reaves and John Pelan, eds. - _Shadows Over Baker Street_. Sherlock Holmes vs. Cthulhu. John Jacob Astor (yes, the guy who died on the Titanic)- _A Journey in Other Worlds_. A spiritual science fiction novel. Arthur Machen - _The White People and Other Stories_. An anthology put out by Chaosium. Algernon Blackwood - _The Complete John Silence Stories_. “Weird detective” fiction from one of the best horror authors ever. Chad Oliver - _Far From This Earth_. Anthropologists in spaaaaaace! B. J. Fogg - _Persuasive Technology_. Changing workflow via friendly UI design. Elaine Pagels - _The Origin of Satan_ Edward Tenner - _Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity_. Musings on the sociology of technology. Elaine Pagels - _Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas_. (Yeah, I have a lot of Pagels books. I went to a talk she gave and decided to just grab a bunch of autographed copies.) Algernon Blackwood - _The Lost Valley_. S.T. Joshi - _Lovecraft’s Library: A Catalogue_. Exactly what it sounds like. Jeff VanderMeer and Mark Roberts, eds. - _The Thackeray T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases_ James P. Blaylock & Tim Powers - _The Devils in the Details_. An anthology of short fiction. Alain de Botton - _Status Anxiety_. Wankery that thinks it’s popular philosophy. Lord Dunsany - _In the Land of Time and Other Fantasy Tales_ Philip Wylie - _Gladiator_. The book that inspired Superman. Elaine Pagels - _Adam, Eve, and the Serpent_ Clark Ashton Smith - _The Sword of Zagan_. I think CAS was still a teen when he wrote this one, and it shows. Galen Cranz - _The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design_. Ian Cameron Esslemont - _Night of Knives_. This is the other guy who developed the back-story about the Malazan empire. Francis Stevens - _The Nightmare and Other Tales of Dark Fantasy_. More pre-Lovecraft fantasy/horror. A couple of issues of _The Magic Whistle_ comic. Phyllis Siefker - _Santa Claus: Last of the Wild Men_. Cross-cultural information about Santa Claus and Halloween customs. Puts forth the suggestion that they’re the last remnants of fifty-thousand-year-old Neanderthal bear worship customs. Donald Norman - _The Design of Everyday Things_. The classic book on human factors. Clark Ashton Smith - _The Double Shadow_. Alfred Bester - _The Deceivers_. Don’t bother reading this one. Tim Powers - _Powers of Two_. A reprinting of his first two novels. For completists only; he’s asked people _not_ to read his first book. Jonathan Cagan & Craig Vogel - _Creating Breakthrough Products_. Steven Vogel - _Prime Mover: A Natural History of Muscle_. A pop book on how muscles work. Richard Paul Russo - _Carlucci_. A single-volume edition of the Carlucci novels. Edward T Hall - _The Silent Language_. Classic book on proxemics. Dell McCormick - _Tall Timber Tales_. Paul Bunyan stories. James P. Blaylock - _The Man in the Moon_. The original version of his first novel. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-bookshelves/381783/33 "2006-11-26T07:53:29Z")
Far too many books on The Great War. A Lot of Dostoyevsky. Travel books for Scotland. And a paper back copy of The History of Farting. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-bookshelves/381783/34 "2006-11-26T12:47:02Z")
[QUOTE=Cicero] And a paper back copy of The History of Farting. [/QUOTE] It’s probably worth getting the hardback. ---
**Author:** ![Alistair\_McCello](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/58956e/32.png) [@Alistair\_McCello](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alistair_McCello)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-bookshelves/381783/35 "2006-11-26T20:07:18Z")
Lets see, the middle shelf of the bookcase closest to my desk: A five volume set of the works of _Goethe_ - Faust - Wilhelm Meister - Poems, Dramatic - Sorrows, Affinities, Letters - Autobiography Collected Stories - _Franz Kafka_ The Trial - _Franz Kafka_ The Lord of the Rings - _J. R. R. Tolkein_ Moby-Dick - _Herman Melville_ Bartleby the Scrivener - _Herman Melville_ Shorter Novels of Herman Melville - _Herman Melville_ Atlas Shrugged - _Ayn Rand_ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass - _Lewis Carroll_ The Count of Monte Cristo - _Alexander Dumas_ The Divine Comedy - _Dante Alighieri_ Tellers of Tales: A Definitive Anthology of the Short Story - _Assorted_ The Stories of Ray Bradbury - _Ray Bradbury_ The Satanic Verses - _Salman Rushdie_ ---
**Author:** ![kurilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea5d25/32.png) [@kurilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kurilla)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-bookshelves/381783/36 "2006-11-26T23:10:50Z")
I’m in the office, which I share with the Hubby. On the shelf to my left rear are all my writing books plus a shelf and a half of binders with notes for projects in progress. The books: Donald Maas, Writing the Breakout Novel and the Workbook thereto, and The Career Novelist Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way, Walking in this World, The Sound of Paper, etc. Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit Writing books by various novelists, including Terry Brooks, Lawrence Block, David Gerrold and others The Timetables of History, The Timetables of Science The Writer’s Digest Character Naming Sourcebook A half dozen “What Life Was Like” books ranging over various time periods. ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-bookshelves/381783/37 "2006-11-26T23:35:37Z")
George and Martha: The complete stories of two best friends, James Marshall Blood Memory, Martha Graham Atonement, Ian McEwan The English Patient (signed copy), Michael Ondaatje The Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams Eva Peron, Alicia Dujovne Ortiz Madonna, Andrew Morton Madonna: an intimate biography, Randy Tarraborelli Goddess: Inside Madonna, Barbara Victor The Diary of Frida Kahlo The Power of Kabbalah, Yehuda Berg Eats, Shoots, and Leaves, Lynne Truss Dance, Keith Haring Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett Pure Drivel, Steve Martin Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 1, 2 & 3, various authors Fighting The Forces: What’s At Stake on BtVS, various authors Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran The Elements Of Style, Strunk & White Soranus’ Gynecology The Trouble With Islam, Irshad Manji Complete Works of Children’s Literature, Madonna The Penelopeiad, Margaret Atwood Judaism for Dummies, Rabbi Ted Falcon & David Blattmer ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-bookshelves/381783/38 "2006-11-26T23:55:58Z")
I’m on the laptop in the family room, which is by the kitchen/dining room. Foods of Vietnam True Thai The Book of Thai Cooking Thai Cookbook The Book of Chinese Cooking The Joy of Chinese Cooking Flavors of the Phillipines Pan-Asian Express Stir Fry Szechuan Sunset Chinese Cook Book Sunset Oriental Cook Book Middle Eastern Cook Book Sunset Italian Cook Book Frida’s Fiestas Joyce Chen Cook Book Sunset Mexican Cook Book Healthy 1-2-3 30 Minutes or Less Cookbook The Book of Hors d’Oeuvres and Canapes 1-… 20… 30 Minute Cookbook Keep It Simple Fields of Greens Sunset Crockery Cook Book The Complete Microwave Companion The Gourmet Jewish Cook The Africa Cookbook Israeli Cookery ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-bookshelves/381783/39 "2006-11-26T23:55:25Z")
I’m sitting on the sofa so I’m not next to a bookshelf. But piled on the back of the sofa in arm’s reach are: Ze 4 - Shimuzu Yuki Kizuna 6 (English version) - Kazuma Kodaka Jeraado to Jakku 1 - Yoshinaga Fumi Gerard and Jaques 1 (English translation of above) Austin Mapsco A Dictionary of Japanese Grammar - Makino/Tsutsui Saigo no Doa wo Shimero! - Yamada Yugi Close the Last Door (English translation of above) Amayaka na Toge - Miyamoto Kano Reading Japanese - Elenor Harz Jorden Koi wo Shimashou - Nishida Higashi ---
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The Hobbit The Lord of the Rings Harry Potter 1-6 The Complete William Shakespeare Mac OSX the Missing Maunal The New Oxford Annotated Bible Strong’s Concordance The KIng James Bible Variable Star (Heinlein and Robinson) Three technical manuals for various fire alarm systems (Cheetah xi, Irc-3 and EST-3) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-bookshelves/381783.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-bookshelves/381783.md?page=3)