Bookshelves

When I was a little girl, I was lucky to have a sister and a cousin who enjoyed reading as much as I did. We would read all of the same books, sometimes together in a room. We especially read series together, like Harry Potter and the Series of Unfortunate Events. In any case, our beloved series needed a home, so I ended up taking a bottom shelf from one of the bookshelves in my house. I made it clear that The Shelf, as it came to be called, was to be for these books only. The Shelf was the beginning of my obsession with physical books. I try to collect all the books I read, and the 4 full bookshelves in my room are proof of that. On this page I will list all my five bookshelves! Bookshelf 1, the first to be filled, is extra special for 2 reasons: 1) because my sister hand built it for me and 2) because many of the books there were read by me when I was young and impressionable, and they remain important with me today. The 5th shelf is my Kindle collection. As much as I love the physical sensation of reading a book, the accessibility and convenience of a Kindle is too much to resist.

BOOKSHELF 1
Ella Enchanted, Gail Levine
A Time for Dancing, Davida Hurwin
A Rose for Melinda, Lurlene McDaniels
The Giver, Lois Lowry
Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
Revolution on Canvas, edited by Rich Bailing
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snickett (Books 1-10)
City of Masks, Mary Hoffman
City of Stars, Mary Hoffman
Tamora Pierce's The Lionness Quartet (Alanna, In the Hands of the Goddess, The Woman Who Rides Like a Man, Lioness Rampant), The Immortals (Wild Magic, Wolf Speaker, Emperor Mage, The Realms of the Gods),Protector of the Small Quartet (Page, Squire, Lady Night),The Circle of Magic books 3+4, The Circle Opens 1+3, Trickster's Queen + The Will of the Empress
The Goose Girl, Hale
the Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Water for Elephants, Gruen
Harry Potter (H.P and the Sorcerer's Stone, H.P and the Chamber of Secrets, H.P. and the Prisoner of Azkaban, H.P. and the Goblet of Fire, H.P. and the Order of the Phoenix, H.P and the 1/2 Blood Prince, H.P. and the Deathly Hallows)
A Face in Every Window, Han Nolan
The Illustrated Man, Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
A Bend in the Road, Nicholas Sparks
The Rescue, Nicholas Sparks
The Guardian, Nicholas Sparks
The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks
True Believer, Nicholas Sparks
Letters to Jennifer, Nicholas Sparks
The Wedding, Nicholas Sparks
Letter to Nicholas, James Patterson
The Dashwood Sister's Secrets of Love, Rosie Rushton
A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray
My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult
The Persistence of Yellow, Monique Duvall
Hope for the Flowers, Trina Paulus
Paradise Alley, Kevin Baker
Dreamland, Kevin Baker
The Way the Crow Flies, Ann-Marie MacDonald
The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffeneger
California Holiday, Kate Cann
Tropical Kiss, Jan Coffey
Caribbean Cruising, Rachel Hawthorne
Island Girls and Boys, Rachel Hawthorne
Tourist Trap, Emma Harrison
Spanish Holiday, Kate Cann
Maine Squeeze, Catherine Clark
Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
Better Than Running at Night, Hillary Frank
Bel Canto, Anne Patchett
The Patron St. of Liars, Anne Patchett
The Tiger Rising, Kate Dicamillo
Any Human Heart, William Boyd
Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld
The Virgin's Lover, Philippa Gregory
The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory
The Fog's of Babel, Carolyn Parkhurst
Running With Scissors, Augustun Burroughs
Tenth Circle, Jodi Picoult
Name All the Animals, Alison Smith
The A-List series (4 books), Dean
Summer Sisters, Judy Blume
A Long Way Off, Ishmael Beah
A Million Little Pieces, James Frey
Fortune's Rocks, Anita ShreVe
Twilight, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn, Stephanie Meyer
The Boom Thief, Zusak
Looking for Alaska, John Green
Waiting for Snow in Havana, Carlos Eire
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
Birds Without Wings, Louis De Bernieres
Jesus Land, Julia Scheeres
The Electric Michelangelo, Sarah Hall
Forever, Pete Hamill
The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones
Eye Contact, Cammie McGovern
The Tales of the Beedle and the Bard, J.K. Rowling
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
Rose Daughter, Robin McKinley
The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
The Subtle Knife, Philip Pullman
The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman
Love Is a Mix-tape, Rob Sheffield
Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk
Choke, Chuck Palahnuik
Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahnuik
Skinny Legs and All, Tom Robbins
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, Tom Robbins
Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins
Villa Incognito, Tom Robbins
Still Life With Woodpecker, Tom Robbins
Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
Lucky, Alice Sebold

BOOKSHELF 2
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
We the Living, Ayn Rand
The Early Ayn Rand
I Know This Much is True, Wally Lamb
She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb
The Hour I First Believed, Wally Lamb
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
Love, Toni Morrison
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
Moloka'i, Alan Brennert
The Magic Toyshop, Angela Carter
Dance, Dance, Dance, Haruki Murakami
A Fraction of the Whole, Steve Toltz
Now is the Hour, Tom Spanbauer
The Palace of Illusions
Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Anderson
The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follet
World Without End, Ken Follet
Animus, Seonna Hong
Hold Love Strong, Matthew Aaron Goodman
The Women, T.C Boyle
Honolulu, Alan Brennert
Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling
Tarnished Beauty, Cecilia Samartin
Animal Farm & 1908, George Orwell
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
The Lie, Chad Kultgen
People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks
Bridge of Sighs, Richard Russo
The Gargoyle, Andrew Davidson
A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin
A Storm of Swords, George R.R. Martin
A Dance of Dragons, George R.R. Martin
Lord of the Rings, Tolkien *
1001 Books to Read Before You Die
The Complete Cast of Characters

BOOKSHELF 3
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear, Walter Moers
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
Darkmans, Nicola Baker
Don Quixote, Miguel De Cervantes
The House of Tomorrow, Peter Bognanni
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
The Awakening, Kate Chopin
Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
White Noise, Don DeLilo
Swann's Way, Marcel Proust
Geek Love, Katherine Dunn
The Bone People, Keri Hume
Rabbit, Run, John Updike
Rabbit Redux, John Updike
Rabbit is Rich, John Updike
Rabbit at Rest, John Updike
Crossing California, Adam Langer
Ahab's Wife, Sena Jeter Naslund
The Houra, Michael Cunningham
The Meaning of Night, Michael Cox
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
I Just Want My Pants Back, David J. Rosen
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
Juliet, Naked, Nick Hornby
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggars
Abundance, Sena Jeter Naslund
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
East of Eden, John Steinbeck
The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
The Shadows of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Youth in Revolt, C.D. Payne
Her Fearful Symmetry, Audrey Niffeneger
In the Sanctuary of Outcasts, Neil White
A Three Dog Life, Abigail Thomas
Stephen King's A Dark Tower Series Books 1-7 (The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three, The Waste Lands, Wizard and Glass, the Wolves of the Calla, Song of Susannah, and The Dark Tower)
Son of a Witch, Gregory Maguire
Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
Change of Climate, Jodi Picoult

BOOKSHELF 4 and FLOATING BOOKS

As a small side note, "floating books" refers to those books that I have read recently and don't have anywhere to put them but my nightstand and my desk ...for any readers that don't know my room, every inch is pretty much occupied! They also refer to the books I haven't read or haven't finished, which will be marked with a *.
Wii games and a very limited movie collection!
The Jungle Books, Rudyard Kipling
Sarum, Edward Rutherfurd *
Palace Walk, Naguib Mahfouz * Goddess of the Market, Burns * Being a Green Mother, Piers Anthony * Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell *
On Beauty, Zadie Smith *
Island, Aldous Huxley * (of all the books I've listed, this is one I hope one day I can finish and write about!)
Lost and Found, Jacqueline Sheehan *
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Precious, Sapphire *
Boy Detective Fails, Joe Meno *
Gigi & The Cat, Collete
Sixty Stories, Donald Barthelme *
Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout *
The Weight of Silence, Heather Gudenkauf *
The Tsarista's Daughter, Carolyn Erickson *
Empress Orchid, Anchee Min
Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver *
Something Happened, Joseph Heller *
A House for Mr, Biswas, V.S. Naipaul
The Broom of the System, David Foster Wallace
After the Quake, Haruki Murakami
Wutherinh Heights, Emily Brontë
The Day of the Storm, Rosamunde Pilcher *
Under the Dome, Stephen King *
On the Road, Jack Kerouac *
Rebecca's Tale, Sally Beauman *
Life of Pi, Yann Martel *
Love In the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
Perfume, Patrick Suskind
The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne *
The World Without Us, Alan Weisman
The Angel's Game, Carlos Ruiz Zafón *
The Book of Air and Shadows, Michael Gruber *
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson *
Black Boy, Richard Wright
Animal Dreams, Barbara Kingsolver *
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Fall of Giants, Ken Follet
Kwaidan: Japanese Ghost Stories, Lafcadio Hearn
The Power of One, Byrce Courtenay
The Raw Shark Texts, Steven Hall
Ulysses, James Joyce *
Wicked, Gregory Maguire Abraham
Lincoln: The Vampire Hunter, Seth Grahame-Smith *

KINDLE:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Infinities, John Banville
The Complete Adventures of Alice and Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
Body Artist, Don Delillo
The Brief Woundrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
One of Our Thursday's Is Missing, Jasper Fforde
Shades of Grey, Jasper Fforde
The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
The Well of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde
The Big Over Easy, Jasper Fforde *
Something Rotten, Jasper Fforde
Lost in a Good Book, Jasper Fforde
First Among Sequels, Jasper Fforde
The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
American Gods, Neil Gaiman
A Change in Climate, Hilary Mantel
The House on the Borderland, William Hope Hodgson
The Dark Tower Series books 1-7 (read them on the Kindle, but couldn't resist the beautiful books, as well)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larson
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Stieg Larson
The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larson
The Surrendered, Chang-rae Lee
The Art Student's War, Brad Leithauser
A Feast for Crows, George R.R. Martin
A Clash of Kings, George R.R. Martin
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell
The Four Fingers of Death, Rick Moody
Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
The Tiger's Wife, Tea Obreht
My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk *
Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded, Samuel Richardson
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Tom Robbins
The Pilot's Wife, Anita Shreve
The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
The Winter of our Discontent, John Steinbeck
The Help, Kathryn Stockett
The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise, Julia Stuart
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
The Pale King, David Foster Wallace
Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf