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[lala2]

I live on the library. Hence the only library I had was before I came to Australia--a Peanuts-themed encylopedia, Enid Blyton everything, a dictionary, and more encylopedias.

 

[^emmie^]

u people have so many books its crazy i guess ive only recently started buying books rather than library books which i know dont like reading for some reason
anyways heres my small compared to everyone elses collection
F.W Aabagnale
Catch me if you can
Louisa May Alcott
Little women
Marc Auge and Jean-Paul Colleyn
The world of the anthropologist
Jane Austen
Pride and Predjudice
Sense and sensibility
mansfield park
Emma
Northanger Abbey
Persuasion
Lady Susan
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte
Wuthering heights
Frances Burnett
The secret garden
Paulo Coelho
the Alchemist
John Lewis Gaddis
The cold war
David Gutterson
Snow falling on Ceders
Alexander Dumas
The count of monte cristo
F scott Fitzgerald
the great gatsby
Keylor
The twentieth century world and beyond
Henry Kissinger
Diplomacy
Alfred Lansing
Endurance
D H Lawerence
Sons and lovers
Robert Ludlum
The bourne identity
the bourne supremacy
John Marsden
Tomorrow when the war began
the dead of the night
the third day the frost
darknesss be my friend
burning for revenge
the night is for hunting
the other side of dawn
while i live
incurable
circle of flight
J K Rowling
HP and the philosophers secret
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina

and some enid blytin and rhold dahl from when i was a kid

wow i actually had more than i thought

 

[reeni24]

i have a bit over 140 in my room because thats all i have space for, haha,
but i have numerous others in the garage, in the family library and 'borrowed' to friends which i will most likely never see again (ahh!)

i have classics like...
jane austen, tolstoy, homer, charlotte bronte...etc

and then i have more recent books
jk rowling, garth nix, john marsden, phillip pullman, francesca lia block, maggie alderson, ian mcewan, patrick suskind, kate mosse

i like all genres really however after doing ext.1 this year i think it will be a looooong time before i pick up a crime fiction book.

 

[Rafy]

Superior Person's Book of Words
Milton Friedman - Capitalism and Freedom
The Howard Factor
Stupid White Men
Tolkien - Lord of the Rings
Fundamentals of Investing
Bob Woodward - All the president's men
George Orwell - 1984
George Orwell - Animal Farm
Plutarch - The fall of the roman republic
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Huxley - Brave New World
Laclos - Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangerous Liasons)
Dan Brown - The Da Vinci code

 

[mortein2008]

Cecilia Dart-Thornton:
The Ill-made Mute
The Lady of the Sorrows
The Battle of Evernight

Cecilia Dart Thornton:
The Ill-made Mute
The Lady of the Sorrows

i'm really surprised you two have that on your shelves, and you're guys...and you admit to it. i've read it, and dare i say i quite liked it, but i've always been quite hesitant to admit it, seeing as its fanbase seems to be almost unanimously of the female sex. kudos to you guys ^^

i don't own any novels, as i don't see the point of buying them. i only ever read novels once. no point rereading if you already know the story.
the library is my bookshop XD

edit: actually, i do own some. i have the majority of the animorphs series, back from when i was in primary schools. ahhh, the good ol' days.

 

[bawd]

I have heaps of random books from Primary school days:

Harry Potter Set
Lemony Snicket Set
Random Babysitters club books
Shonen Jump past editions
Random classics
Death Note Japanese first few volumes
School Rumble Japanese first few volumes
Random superhero novels

 

[nichhhole]

I've only recently started collecting but have since put a year longs hold on my aquisitions, but my library currently consists of (from what i remember)
- 1984, Orwell
- BNW, Huxley
- Harry Potter series
- His Dark Materials trilogy by Pullman
- The Catcher in the Rye- Salinger
- To Kill a mocking bird- Harper lee
- Speeches that changed the world
- Oxford dictionary of allusions
- Heart of darkness-Conrad
- Wuthering heights-Bronte
-Pay it forward - Ryan hyde
-The Awakening -Choppard
-lolita -nabokov
-Siddhartha- Hesse

 

[Kwayera]

I have.. at least 200 books, as anyone who has seen my bookshelf can attest to (and I've just gotten rid of ~50). Mostly sci-fi, fantasy, random shit, textbooks, penguin classics, reference books..

 

[CharlieB]

On last count:

Science and Evidence for Design in the Universe - Behe
Darwin Day in America - John G
Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? - J Wells
Evolution: A Theory In Crisis - Dneton
Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology - Demski
The Bible - various

 

[melissa92]

JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Quidditch Through the Age

Christopher Paolini
Eragon
Eldest
Brinsgr (will soon ^_^)

CS Lewis
The Magician's Newphew
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

Philip Pullman
Northern Lights

Stephenie Meyer
Twilight
New Moon
Eclipse
Breaking Dawn ( three more days<333)
The Host

Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
Fantastic Mr Fox
The Twits

Emily Rodda
Rowan of Rin 1
The Forest of Silence

OTHERS
Hating Alison Ashley by Robin Klein
Levin Thumps 1 by Obert Skye
Think Smart Hazel Green by Odo Hirsh
What will happen in HP7? by Mugglenet
Fly by Night by Frances Hardince
The Boy or made a Million by Gyles Brandreth
The Riddle of the Trumpalar by Judy Bernard-Waite
Staying Alive in Year 5 by John Marsden
With the Light 1 by Keiko Tobe
With the Light 2 by Keiko Tobe
Shrine with the Morning Mist
The Dreaming 1 by Queenie Chan
The Dreaming 2 by Queenie Chan
The Dreaming 3 by Queenie Chan
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
So, do you think you know Harry Potter?
Can't Wait to Get to Heaven
Dr Karl's Collection of Great Australian Facts and Firsts
Wizardology - The Secrets of Merlin
Wizardology - Handbook

TOTAL : 53
I need more books ^_^

 

[eliseliselise]

the lovely bones - sebold <3
lolita- nabokov
harry potters - rowling
twilight, new moon, eclipse, breaking dawn [will own and have read by this time tomorrow!! yay!!!] - meyer
let the right one in - lindqvist
perfume - suskind
catcher in the rye - salinger
the almost moon - sebold
a series of unfortunate events - snicket
uglies, pretties, specials, extras - westerfeld
the host - meyer
cloudstreet & breath - winton
a million little pieces - frey
the girl with the dragon tattoo - larsson
frankenstein - shelley
the time traveller's wife - niffeneger??
after dark - murakami
lucky - sebold
peeps & the last days - westerfeld
wuthering heights - bronte
the bell jar - plath
alice in wonderland - lewis
steppenwolf - hesse
hitchhikers guide to the galaxy - adams

& a whole stack of books from the library i am yet to [and probably should] return....!

 

[cait33]

ohhh ho ho!
my 'library' is so embarrassing! most of my books were from my prolific reading stint of my early teens

a billion meg cabot books
the whole Artemis fowl series- eion colfer
HP
Hitchhikers guide series (two copies of some because the old one has fallen to bits because of over-reading!)- adams
memoirs of a geisha- golden
finding cassy crazy- moriarty
13 unfortunate events books- snicket
twilight, new moon, host (no breaking dawn. damn trials)- meyer
otori series- hearn
helen of troy- george
a lot of philippa gregory
eyre affair-jasper fford
emma, p&p- austen
all quite on the western front- remarque
wrack
strange objects
maestro
7 ancient wonders & 6 sacred stones Matthew reilly
assorted agatha christie

there are prob more....
but im embarrassed enough

 

[ZEROtheHERO]

I got a pretty crap library. Mostly harry potter and the twilight series.

I got:
- tuck everlasting (got that for like 50c.)
- some paul jennings book (bought it from a birthday voucher)
- faraway tree adventures (10th birthday present)
- once in a lifetime (bought it cheap from library)
- 4 love for venus books
- ARCHIE COMICS! I love archie. (bought most of them in europe. Good stuff to read on trains)
- Uncollected by paul jennings volume three (bought this when i was a kid)
- Angels and demons - dan brown
- Some fantasy flying castle book (bought this when i was like 11)
- i,robot (ha, havent finished this. bought this in switzerland i think, cant remember.)
- Memoirs of a geisha (bought this in overseas too.)
- Night by Elie weisel. (My latest buy. I'm glad i bought it, even though its so thin and expensive.)

So yeah. Over all, bought most of my books when i was in primary school and overseas. I badly need to update my library.

 

[Hatta]

Appaling quality image, but i'm just too lazy to type everything up. Lots of them are hidden under other junk.

I hope no one from my school sees this :rofl:

Because it's hard to see, the highlights are:

Stephen King - all except for Blaze, Duma Key, Everything's Eventual, and the books from no. 2 onwards of the Dark Tower series

Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide (all four); Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency; The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul

Peter F. Hamilton - A Second Chance at Eden; Fallen Dragon

L. Sprague de Camp - Lest Darkness Fall; The Stolen Doormouse; Divide and Rule

Clive Barker - The Theif of Always; Weaveworld; Sacrament; Galilee; The Great and Secret Show; Everville; Cabal; Books of Blood 1-3

R.L Stine - Goosebumps XD

Non-author-exclusive short story compilation things. I think I mainly have ones on Werewolves, Zombies, Fantasy and Vampires

Textbooks (mainly maths-related)

Quite a few non-fiction, too. Oh, and a Companion Cube (and, it's not noticable with the poor quality, but a model of two portals, Chelle and c.cubes).

(BTW, they're doublestacked)

 

[Ezzzgi]

220 on my bookshelves - my friends have about 5 more which they've borrowed. And of course, I have a good 4 or 5 boxes of childhood books, but I'm not about to count those.

I might type up a list in the hols or something, but my faves at the moments include The Book Thief (autographed ), The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns... and ok, pretty much all my books actually

 

[ratcher0071]

I got probably ~50 books. I had to get rid of some
But I gave them to charity

 

[Ezzzgi]

I got probably ~50 books. I had to get rid of some
But I gave them to charity

Why did you "have to" get rid of them? Good on you for giving them to charity though

My primary school's library, among other buildings, burnt down when I was in Yr 7 or something, and I sent the librarian $50 that I saved up. And I was so proud and happy coz I thought i was doing something for the library and librarian that/who did so much to encourage my love of reading... but now I realise that it'd probably get them 3 or 4 books max

 

[ratcher0071]

Why did you "have to" get rid of them? Good on you for giving them to charity though

I "had to" get rid of them because we moved houses, and they were not being used, so they just took up space.

 

[KFunk]

My shelves are mainly dominated by non-fiction books e.g. some books readable from where I am sitting:

Philosophy

Rawls - Theory of Justice, and Political Liberalism
Nozick - Philosophical Explanations
Priest - Beyond the limits of thought
Flanagan - The really hard problem
Nietzsche - Thus spoke zarathustra, beyond good and evil, & The birth of tragedy
Sartre - Being and nothingness
Heidegger - Introduction to metaphysics
Rorty - Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
Aristotle - Politics
Plato - The Republic
Nagel - Mortal questions
Joyce - The evolution of morality & the myth of morality
Sidgwick - The methods of ethics
Blackburn - Essays in Quasi-realism
Williams - Ethics and the limits of philosophy
Mackie - Ethics
Lewis - On the plurality of worlds
Kripke - Wittgenstein on rules and private language
Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus
Rousseau - The social contract
de Beauvoir - The second sex & The ethics of ambiguity
Camus - The myth of Sisyphus
Kierkegaard - Fear and trembling
Metzinger - Being noone
Kant - Critique of pure reason
Habermas - Between facts and norms


Logic

Haack - Philosophy of logics
Garson- Modal logic for philosophers
Hughes & Cresswell - A new introduction to modal logic
Hunter - Metalogic
Quine - Set theory and its logic
Potter - Set theory and its philosophy
Boolos et al - Computability and logic


Neuro/Psych/Phil

Sinnott-Armstrong - Moral psychology vol 1-3
Gray - Consciousness
Chalmers - The Conscious Mind
Zeman - Consciousness, a users guide
Dennett - Consciousness explained
Seager - Theories of consciousness
The Cambridge handbook of consciousness
Rucker - Infinity and the mind
Siegel - The idea of the self
Cicchetti et al - Neurodevelopmental mechanisms in psychopathology
Stein & Ludik - Neural networks and psychopathology
McKenna & Oh - Schizophrenic speech
Kircher & David - The self in neuroscience and psychiatry
Jenkins & Barrett - Schizophrenia, culture & subjectivity
Folensbee - The neuroscience of psychological therapies
Hunt - The mathematics of behavior
Yalom - Existential psychotherapy
Sutton - Philosophy and memory traces
Laing - The divided self

 

[Nashie]

my library was unpacked and set up for the first time a couple of months ago all nice, neat and ordered on a huge bookcase... now once again i have many, one on my bedside table, one in the lounge room, one on the window sill next to the bath, one next to my chair in the rumpus room... its a bit chaotic at present

basically breaks down to mostly pulp fiction

*almost all star wars post movie timeline books
*all matthew reilly's
*all clive cusslers
*some dan browns
*foresters' hornblower series
*some historical fiction (stuff on cesear, alexander, giordanias the finder (fictional character in the time of julius cesear)
*kydd series (like hornblower)
*lian hearn's otorio series

then some non pulp fiction
*a few plays
*war and peace takes up half a shelf almost
*a few management books
*a few design/architecture books

A bit broad but tending to fiction, no idea of total numbers at present it too hard to count.. please excuse all typos/spelling errors

edit: reading my post from a few years ago i remembered some:
*harry potters
*tom clancy's featuring jack ryan
*alex rider series (tragic i know, especially since i didn;t start reading them till i was 18)
*a few biographys
*a couple of tim wintons
*to add to my entire shelf with of star wars (and a shelf full of stargate dvds) there may be a couple of torchwood novels

Is it just me or is it becoming an out-geek competition