# 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:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sans\_Seraph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@Sans\_Seraph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sans_Seraph)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-bookshelves/381783/41 "2006-11-27T00:52:30Z")
On the top shelf of my desk: Smoke and Mirrors American Gods The Golden Compass The Subtle Knife The Amber Spyglass Stiff–The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Zodiac The Diamond Age The Baroque Cycle The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy The Ancestor’s Tale Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell & A cutting from a jade plant, a lamp, and a gallon jar containing knitting needles and loose change. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-bookshelves/381783/42 "2006-11-27T00:55:38Z")
It is one of seven Ikea white bookshelves with my sf books (not counting the books on the shelves in the closet.) The front books on the one at eye level are from Baxter (Manifold Space) to Blish (They Shall Have Stars - Cities in Flight 1). The top shelf goes from Anderson (Guardians of Time) to Asimov (The Martian Way.) I just finished indexing my sf books - 2513. Now I have to start on my magazines. ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-bookshelves/381783/43 "2006-11-27T04:06:23Z")
I’ll do the books sitting next to my bed and one shelf frome the bookcase. Next to the bed: The Rainmaker - John Grisham Light on Snow - Anita Shreve My Horizontal Life - Chelsea Handler Smashed - Koren Zailckas To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee My Friend Leonard - James Frey The middle shelf of my bookshelf: High Fidelity - Nick Hornby Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut Triangle Fire - Leon Stein Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce Stupid White Men - Michael Moore Lucky - Alice Sebold On the Road - Jack Kerouac Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk Catch 22 - Joseph Heller Daily Life in the US 1920-1940 - Evan Dee Last Exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Jr. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides Dave Barry’s Greatest Hits Boogers are My Beat - Dave Barry The Trumpet of the Swan - EB White This Boy’s Life - Tobias Wolff Wasted - Marya Hornbacher Heavier tha Heaven - Charles Cross Superstud - Paul Feig Sartre in 90 Minutes - Paul Strathern Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury Different Seasons - Stephen King Dave Barry Slept Here Dave Barry’s Homes and Other Black Holes Animal Farm - George Orwell Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels Candide - Voltaire The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky The Things They Carried - Tim O’Brien So my books are definitely NOT organized. There were when I moved in, now they are randomly thrown on three shelves. There is also a few picture frames, some shot glasses, and a stuffed pizza toy thing (don’t ask, my friends got it for me). On the top of it are some beer bottles from Greece and France, a Rubik’s cube, unsolved, and some more picture frames. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-bookshelves/381783/44 "2006-11-27T14:35:29Z")
The shelf nearest the computer isn’t a bookshelf, but it does have books on it. 😃 The stereo Headphones All of Mr. Lissar’s martial arts books, from Dave Lowry through _The Samurai Sourcebook_ through _The Journal of Asian Martial Arts_ None of my books are near the computer. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-bookshelves/381783.md?page=2)