Your Library

Almost everyone has a personal library, from ten books to ten thousand.
I was wondering what other people have in their collection, just as an example of your interests.
My home library contains a lot of books on physics, biology, psychology, fictional novels, art, history, and hardware/garden books. My camera cord isn't working so I can't show people my wall...
If you have a picture you can share your wonderful collection and make yourself look smart(er).

My library is ever expanding at the moment, with a mix of ancient history related non-fiction and fiction mainly, since I'm trying to buff up on it as much as I can before university in September.

I've probably got about 30 odd books that I use alot.

My library includes The lord of the rings and the bible, but my parents have thousands of books

My library is just a lot of books under my bed that I read. It has about 10 books.

ah cool thread idea :original:

let's see... i have hundreds of books, i need more bookshelves! i don't have enough room for them all.... fiction, philosophy, history, various religions, art, how-to books (fixing things.. leaky faucets, etc), writing, graphic design, medicine and health, evolution, animals, various types of dictionaries, poetry, gardening, knitting, wildlife encylopedies, Calvin and Hobbes collections, astrology, psychology... i think that covers the general categories.. oh, and of course erotica

well the family library contains lots of books from the 18th and 19th century. I read some law books from the 18th century...wow, those were some strict laws back then, lots about cutting of hands or burning people.

I don't read much, I have concentration problems
but I would like to read up on some aristotle and plato.

oh, and of course erotica

hah, please tell me they are in book form :original:

Originally Posted by Bwaho

hah, please tell me they are in book form :original:

yes, that's why it's listed along with my books :wink: yes, it is literature

Buddhism (histories and dummies guides to)
Martial arts (generalised and historical stuff)
Japanese history (samurai and zen categories mainly)
Fantasy (R.Jordan G.R.R.Martin)
Science Fiction (recent thing C Franklin)
Comedy (Terry Pratchett, C brookmyre among others)
Political (recent additions again a couple on Europe)
Historical Fiction (C Iggulden B cornwell)
Travel (Bryson Obviously)
Philosophy (Just the obvious ones Descartes and Hume and Mills plus a couple of what I think of beginners books, basic)

I've got about 500 I think in total.

Blech. Politics (Marx, Engels, more modern stuff like Fukuyama); lots of Cold War history (including some things by Lenin, Trotsky); some other history including a lot of WW2 (including books by Primo Levi); a smattering of postClassical philosophy; a lot of Classical history and about double that classical literature (the history by people like Holland and Goldhill, the literature including both Homer and Virgil). Finally we move on to fiction; Pratchett, Saylor, Crichton, Clancy, and authors in their various ilks grace these shelves... When I say Pratchett, by the way, I mean literally all the Discworld novels plus about 3 other books by him.

I've lost a lot of books but I still got quite a few.
about 10 Stephen King books including the Dark tower series, IT, Christine, and some others.
a lot of Anne Rice Books - Vampire Chronicles, and others
5 or six romance novels ( My Girlfriends books)
Necromancer series- I don't know who wrote them but it's some dark stuff.
About 10 books on accounting that I can't sell back to the college.
Lord of the Rings
Sun Tzu's Art of War
Mushashi's book of five rings
Brief History of Time
Bible

Originally Posted by Decimus Equitius

Sun Tzu's Art of War

Keep meaning to buy this. If only for the coolness/sophistication factor...yes really.

I'll read it at some point

I have alot of book, too many to count, I guess thats why I have no money.

Well anyway here are some of my favorites:

The Holy Bible: King James Version
An Army at dawn (about battle of El Alemain)
Smithsonian History of Warfare: The First World War (greatest book Ive found on WWI)
Flags of our fathers (about battle of Iwo Jima, really good book)
The Real Lincoln : A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War (a book everyone needs to read)
The Rape of Nanking (about the horrors of the Japanese in Nanking)
Gustavus Adolphus the Great (book on one of the greatest leaders in history)

I have like four book cases full of books, ill see if I can get an image up.

Let’s see here

I have 7 books on the Middle East, around 7 on the Vietnam War, multiple books on civil liberties and general books on like globalization. In total all my books total to a little over 50..... And I'm buying more this weekend off of amazon.com! I also have Fukuama's book The End of History and the Last Man (sp?) as someone mentioned him above...

Ah, my personal library consists of hordes of Russian books, those by Russian authors and those that were translated, such as Dumas, Druon, Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, etc.

But I have read much more than these. I almost always check books out from the library.

Currently, here are all the major books I have read in the last 2 years.

• Alexander Dumas
Three Musketeers
20 Years Later
10 Years After
Count of Monte Cristo
The Black Tulip
The Two Diana’s
Marguerite de Valois
La Dame de Monsoreau

• Maurice Druon
The Iron King
The Strangled Queen
The Poisoned Crown
The Royal Succession
The She-Wolf of France
The Lily and the Lion

• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (All)
The White Company
The Lost World

• Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer

• Jules Verne
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The Journey to the Center of the Earth
Around the World in 80 Days

• J.R.R Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Silmarillion

• Konstantin Paustovsky
A Story of a Life
Years of Hope

• Ivan Turgenev
On the Eve
Rudin
Fathers and Sons

• Julius Caesar
The Gallic War
The Civil War

• John Julius Norwich
Byzantium: The Early Centuries
Byzantium: The Apogee
Byzantium: The Decline and Fall
A History of Venice

• Raphael Sabatinni
Captain Blood
Captain Blood Returns

• C.S. Lewis
The Magician’s Nephew
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Horse and his Boy
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Last Battle

• Miscellaneous
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe
The Headless Horseman by Mayne Reid
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Redwall Series (All) by Brian Jacques
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol
Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by the Brothers Grimm
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdal
War and Peace by Lev Tolstoy
Anthem by Ayn Rand
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Master and Margherita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Carnage and Culture by Victor Hanson
Beowulf by Anonymous
1984 by George Orwell
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Jean-Christophe by Romaine Rolland
Anabasis by Xenophon
The Rise of Rome by Livy
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Night by Elie Weisel



I'm currently reading Spartacus, in Russian, A History of the Crusades, by Runciman, the Ivankiad, by Voinovich, and the Bible

Crapload of books from when I was 8-11 years old. Mostly considered "childrens books", but interesting plots nonetheless. I don't read them anyone, but I refuse to give them away for nostalgia's sake.

Some science, biology-based, books. Me likes animals with the coolness, i.e predators.
The Halo Books, Harry Potter series, several Michael Crichton books, the whole Hitchhiker's Guide anthology, etc.
Some game strategy guides.
Some history-based books, a couple of short biographies.
My Halo-StarCraft-Metroid-StarWars crossover fanfics I made out when I was 13.
And a lot of fiction.

I cant really tell you how many books I have. Most of them are all about. Just a lot of random books. I havent had time to compile a collection. Perhaps when I move out of my house.

I have a few hundred books (about 200... I think).
There are so many I want to get, such as the whole Sharpe series, some ancient books on philosophy and mythology, books about politics over the centuries and more.
If I ever get enough money I am buying a whole stack of books. One Sharpe book takes four-five days if I read it in the afternoon and at night. I read faster than most people, but I get the message the same.

I've probably own 20-30 seperate books on history, some specificly on a subject such as Napoleon or WW2, others on history in general.

I've got a little novel collection from Tolkien, Lewis, Crichton, Clancy, and a couple L'Amour