My Books: Shelves #1 and #2

I thought it might be an interesting exercise to take a look at the books I've got on the shelf at home. (of course, I could be wrong. It might be extremely boring. If so, my apologies.) It's been a while since I've done an "inventory" anyway. I own a whole big ol' bunch of books, but I have half of them at home (the "non-religious" books) and the other half at the office (the "religious" books).



So these are from the "non-religious" category. I have a 5-shelf bookcase in the bedroom (one of those $45 Walmart "put it together yourself with the wood-colored cardboard in the back" deals), as well as books stuffed into the nightstand next to my bed.


This is what's on the top two shelves of the bedroom bookcase:

Culture Warrior by Bill O'Reilly (autographed, a gift from my parents)

Forever Red by Steve Smith

Me Talk Pretty One Day--Sedaris

The Little Prince--Saint-Exupery

In A Different Voice--Gilligan

Flight of the Old Dog--Brown (love this book!)

War and Peace--Tolstoy (yes, I actually HAVE read it in its entirety)

e.e. cummings: a selection of poems

The Hunchback of Notre Dame--Hugo

Black Like Me--Griffin

Emma--Austen

A Tale of Two Cities--Dickens

For Red Sox Fans Only!--Wolfe

Faithful: A Chronicle of the Red Sox 2004 Season--King (yes, Steven King...BIG Sox fan!)

Flowers For Algernon--Keyes

I Got a Job...and It Wasn't That Bad--Jim (a collection of comic strips...HILARIOUS in its understatedness)

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn--Smith

The Dialogues of Plato--do I REALLY have to list the author of this one? =)

Finn Family Moomintroll--Jannson (a gift from a friend...and apparently written for children on acid trips)

Night of the Hawk--Brown

The Pelican Brief--Grisham

Our Town--Wilder

Frankenstein--Shelley

Native Son--Wright

A Prayer for Owen Meany--Irving

It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It--Fulghum

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten--Fulghum

Snow Falling on Cedars--Guterson

Where The Red Fern Grows--Rawls

The Green Mile--King

The Death of Ivan Ilyich--Tolstoy

The Autobiography of Malcolm X--um....who else?

Bang the Drum Slowly--Harris

The Hunchback of Notre Dame--Hugo (dang it...a duplicate!)

Up From Slavery--Washington

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings--Angelou

Contact--Sagan

The Color Purple--Walker

The U.S. Constitution

Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer Detective--Clemens

The MLA Handbook

Of Mice and Men--Steinbeck

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead--Stoppard (GREAT play...but ya gotta have a firm handle on Hamlet to "get it")

Concise Readings in Philosophy--Halverson

The Idiot--Dostoyevsky

Anna Karenina--Tolstoy

Fatal Terrain--Brown

Dr. Zhivago--Pasternak

The Philosophy of Aristotle--hmmm...who could possibly have written this?

In Cold Blood--Capote

Invisible Man--Ellison



AND...last, but not least on the first two shelves of my bookcase...

Wobegon Boy, by Garrison Keillor

(which apparently makes for good bathroom reading...)

Tomorrow, the next two shelves!

LH