Get people to post photos of their bookshelves/cases/stacks, because I'm a book junkie

My favorite quote has always been one by Erasmus; “When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.” It seems to run in the family, with books making the best lifetime trail of clutter. These are some of the books in my family library… could this perhaps explain my unwaivering positivity?

pity theyre still minus a bookcase…

:)

My bookshelf. Small, cozy, in the corner of my room :)

Not mine, obviously – this is from the library at Leeds Castle. I love it so much it’s on the Happy Wall.

Art stuff on the coffee table.

Top shelf- military history. Second from top- History. Third from top- fiction/history/philosophy. Bottom- art.

In the living room. The other one is in the bedroom and mostly blocked by the bed, so maybe after we move I can get that pic.

They’re not in any particular order except (generally) the religious books are mostly on the top shelf, philosophy under that, and I intended to put fiction and literature, then non-fiction on the bottom. It didn’t really turn out that way and I have more books than shelf space, so you have what you see here.

For a list of the catalog, see http://www.librarything.com/catalog/tem209

angling toward my office nook.

Here are our main bookshelves, floor to high ceiling across most of a wall. A couple of bottom shelves are for games, & one shallow shelf for hand weights, just because I couldn’t figure out anywhere else I could keep them handy.

We also have a pretty decent-sized (& quite full) bookcase in our bedroom, & there’s another in D.’s office.

Much delight is encased in these shelves, & stories from many cultures.

We’ve got books, books, and more books. These are all the ones we can fit onto our shelves (and Isak’s starter library, we’re trying to pass our love of literature on to the next generation). We need more space and more shelves.

5 of 5. This is the shelf in the laundry room-cum-study where I spend most of my time on the computer. This shelf is exclusively books I have been meaning to read one day. You can see my tastes are pretty eclectic:

• We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver
• Galatea 2.2, Richard Powers (recommended to me because I’m working on a novel with a similar theme)
• Breaking Free from Emotional Eating, Geneen Roth
• Jennifer Government, Max Berry
• Putting Your Passion Into Print, Eckstut & Sterry
• Famous Writers School, Steven Carter (a Christmas gift from Mrs. Monotreme…better read this one first)
• The Echo Maker, Richard Powers
• Songs of Innocence and Experience, William Blake (illuminated edition): I’ve read this one many times but it figures prominently in my novel

...and that’s just the top part of the stack.