What's in your bookshelf?

Just a very small sampling of books scattered among at least five book cases.......my stuff only, which means that none of well-read wife's stuff is included.

The Future of Life-E.O. Wilson (autographed)
The Song of the Dodo-Quanmmen (Island bio-geography)
The Ghost with Trembling Lips-Scott Weidensaul (extinct or endangered birds)
Watership Down-Richard Adams (source of my signature line)
The Lorax-Dr. Seuss
Pursuit-Ludovic Kennedy (the British version of the Battleship Bismarck saga)
The Destruction of the Bismarck-Bercuson & Herwig
The Tao of Pooh & The Te of Piglet-Hoff
Alexander II-Radzinsky (the Russian Tsar/Czar)
Silent Snow-Marla Cone (the poisoning of the Artic)
King Leopold's Ghost-Hochschild (the rape of the Congo by the king)
The People's History of the U.S.-Zinn
The Burning Tigris-Balakian (the Armenian genocide)
The Romanovs (the Russian royal family)
In War's Dark Shadow (Russia in the decades leading up to WWI)
Passage through Armageddom (Russia during WWI & the Revolution)
Red Victory (The Russian Civil War)
The Conquest of a Continent (the history of Siberia)
Nicholas I (Tsar/Czar of Russia)
The last six books were all written by W. Bruce Lincoln

Tons and tons and tons at home, but here in my dorm I have:

(Keep in mind, many of these are actually for classes...)

The Moral Law -- Immanuel Kant
Utilitarianism & On Liberty -- textbook
Beyond Good & Evil -- Nietzsche
Understanding Movies -- textbook
Introduction to Film Studies Readings -- textbook
Popular Culture Theory & Methodology -- textbook
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels & Stories -- Arthur Conan Doyle
The Maltese Falcon -- Dashiell Hammett
Blacklist -- Sara Paretsky
Murder At the Nightwood Bar -- Katherine Forrest
Valley of the Dolls -- Jacqueline Susann
The da Vinci Code -- Dan Brown
Psychological Science -- textbook
Sociology In Our Times -- textbook
Tarzan -- Eric Burroughs
Positive Match -- Tony Chiu
Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
The Shining -- Stephen King
The Island of Dr. Moreau -- H.G. Well
Chromosome 6 -- Robin Cook
From Russia With Love -- Ian Fleming
Masquerade -- Gayle Lynds
A&R -- Bill Flanagan
Digital Fortress -- Dan Brown
The Devil Wears Prada -- Lauren Weisberger
Running With Scissors -- Augusten Burroughs
Slaughterhouse-Five -- Kurt Vonnegut

One Song Glory wrote:

Tarzan -- Eric Burroughs

Cool beans.........I have 23 of the original Tarzan novels, which I forgot to tack onto my list.

Ms. Haiku wrote:

Is it time to list the books on the second shelf of a bookcase?

indeed it is.

eye scream - henry rollins
the first five - henry rollins
the portable - henry rollins
black coffee blues - henry rollins
smile, you're travelling - henry rollins
roomanitarian - henry rollins
solipsist - henry rollins
see a grown man cry - henry rollins
now watch him die - henry rollins
do i come here often - henry rollins
broken summers - henry rollins
enduring love - ian mcewan
saturday - ian mcewan
black dogs - ian mcewan
amsterdam - ian mcewan
the child in time - ian mcewan
atonement - ian mcewan
henry miller on writing
under the roofs of paris - henry miller
the books of my life - henry miller
air conditioned nightmare - henry miller
black spring - henry miller
and the ass saw the angel - nick cave
nonfiction - chuck palahniuk
the giving tree - shel silverstein
lord arthur savile's crime - oscar wilde
less than zero - bret easton ellis
glamorama - bret easton ellis
lunar park - bret easton ellis
junky - william burroughs
the outsider - albert camus
the rebel - albert camus
de profundis and other writings - oscar wilde

Kenny Olav wrote:

Anyway, I just picked up a new book today - Neitzsche, Twilight of the Idols/The Anti-Christ. I've only read The Birth of Tragedy by him (and I've been referring to everything as either dionysian or apollonian ever sense (no not really)) and I found it quite entertaining, so I figured I'd move on to something from his darker years (plus it was only $3.50).

I just finished reading Zarathustra and found it completely fascinating. To have so many original ideas bubbling out of you head...unreal.

Here's a handfull of mine it kind of reveals my school background:
Between Borders - Giroux and McLaren
Getting Beyond the Facts - Kincheloe
Reading Sport - Birrell and McDonald
Modernity - Sturrt Hall et al.
Cultural Studies - Lawrence Grossberg et al.
Gender/Body/Knoweledge -Jaggar and Bordo
Stealing Innocence - Giroux
Built to Win - Heywood and Dworkin
The Abandoned Generation - Giroux
Fugitive Cultures - Giroux
Kinderculture (1 and 2) - Steinberg and Kincheloe
White Reign - Kincheloe et al.
The art of Fieldwork - Wollcott
Channel Surfing - Giroux
All the Rage - Walters
The study of Culture - Williams
Qualitative Methods in Sport Studies - Andrews, Silk
Disney and the End of Innocence - Giroux
Popular Arts - Hall and Whannel
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy - Laclau and Mouffe
Bringing it All Back Home - Lawrence Grossberg
Hatred of Capitalism - A bunch of people
Distinction - Bourdieu
History of Sexuality - Foucault
Discipline and Punish - Foucault
The Uses of Cultural Studies - McRobbie
The Ethics of Cultural Studies - Zylinska
Feminism and Sporting Bodies - M.A. Hall
The terror of neolibearlism - Giroux
Caught in the crossfire - Grossberg
Sport and Postmodern Times - Rail
Shut out: The History of Race and Baseball in Boston - Bryant

mammasan wrote:

I am suprised that with the amount of conservatives on this board, a minority but not a small one, we haven't seen more books by Leo Strauss, Allan Bloom, Irving Kristol, David Horowitz, and/or Norman Podhoretz on people's bookshelfs.

I don't think conservatives read books, they just listen to the radio...kidding I just want to roil someone up so that they'll present their definitive conservative list.

thanks for the book ideas i may be surfing on over to amazon in awhile, keep 'em coming. oh yeah...a pertinent one that everyone should get:

Pink Ribbons Inc. - Samantha King