What's on your bookshelf?

[Tattila the Hun]

Let's see...
In order:

Idiot, by Dostojevski
Sum of all fears (Not the movie reprint), Clancy (Executive orders is great!)
The Hound of Baskervilles, Arthur C. Doyle
Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Places
Catch 22, who was it again?
Civ3 manual (Don't you?)
If I were you, finnish translation, by P.G. Wodehouse
Pelican at Blandings, same
The worlds greatest armored fighting vehicles, can't remember
The Unknown Soldier, pocket book, Väinö Linna
The Three Musketeers, finnish, Dumas
Letters and Notes on North American Indians, ?
Uh, Yoshi's Island, Shigeru-san (A game...)
Plastic Action Figure of Rinoa Heartilly ( )
The Gold of The Incas, Clive Cussler
Korkeajännitys, iskee kuin miljoona volttia (Commando-comics for the brits...)
Court-Martial, Sven Hassel
Talking Pikachú (I collect 'em .p)
And a *bleep*-load of assorted stuff I can't remember right now.

Ta Ta...

[dudemanjack]

Video games and DVD's.

[MikeH]

Hardly got any books at my house but two entire big bookcases full at my parents house.

[Richelieu]

Scott Turow : all of them
Martin Cruz Smith: Gorki park, Northern Star, Red Square, Havana Bay.
Valerio Manfredi : Alexander the Great (still can't find the first part of the trilogy )
Almost all of Tom Clancy. (although Red October and Red Storm Rising are the only 2 i really enjoyed)
K.S. Robinson : Red Mars
Various Canadian politics books : Trudeau and Levesques' biographies etc...
Reagan's bio ( a gift! )
Primary Colors, J. Klein
5 or 6 John Le Carre's.
And many more...

[Paul Hanson]

Not a great many here at uni, and most of them are textbooks:

Michael L. Morgan et. al.: Classics of Moral and Political Theory
Norman Lowe: Mastering Modern World History
Joshua Goldstein: International Relations
Bealey, Chapman and Sheahan: Elements in Political Science
Brian Redhead: Plato to Nato
Plato: The Republic
John Sergeant: Give Me Ten Seconds
Robert A. Heinlein: Starship Troopers

[Ishtar]

Too many to list! Everything from Anne Rice to Stephen King to various Computer related books to self - help to law related (since that's the field I work in) and on and on and on. Some are still packed up from my move last year. No room in the new place to keep them out.

[Skanky Burns]

My bookshelf looks like Asher's. At least, it would if I actually had a bookshelf. At the moment all my books are still at my parents house.

[Proteus_MST]

I´m also one of those who have lots of books:

One Big Bookshelf (2 meters high, 0,8m wide) filled with Books about Computer, Programming (mostly C++, Java and Visual Basic), Databases and the like.

Several Books about Biology (hey, I´m just studying it, aside from Computer Science )
Several Non Fictious Books about a couple of things like Philosphy, Zen-Budhism, Psychology, Cooking, Astronomy/Astrophysics and other things
Loads of Fantasy Books (mostly Battletech, Shadowrun, Earthdawn, but of course also things like Lord of the Rings or Hitchhikers Guide to Galaxy)
And aside from this all loads of Magazines. Aside from the weekly magazines "Die Zeit" and "Focus" there are lots of Magazines about Computer/Computergames, Biology, Science and Astronomy.

My rooms would look very empty If I would get rid of all of my books and magazines

[SpencerH]

About 200 in the living room. Mostly artsy-fartsy uni trash and non-english language books as well as the oversize books of art (Rembrandt, Dali, Geiger, Frazetta, etc). About 600 science fiction and fantasy in the bedroom collected since about 73 (mostly paperbacks). Another 50 or so technical and textbooks downstairs in my office. About 100 more fiction in the TV room.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Tattila the Hun
Catch 22, who was it again?

That's Joseph Heller. Great book, coined a new phrase singlehandedly.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Asher
I don't do much (or any, to be more precise) reading aside from the technical stuff. And lots of the technical stuff is online now.

You ought to, say, Homer's Illiad.

[Space05us]

I have what I used to think was a lot of books
but now it looks like nothing, I dont even have a bookshelf, I have a box of books.

but hey! Im only 16

[Ramo]

I just bought another bookshelf since I had no place to put so many of my books. Anyways:

Bottom Row, Primary bookcase:

Modern Stellar Astrophysics
Intro to Quantum Mechanics
Modern Physics from alpha to Z_0
Intro to Electrodynamics
Analytical Mechanics
Intro to Fluid Mechanics
Waves
Fundamentals of Physics
A Brief History of Time
Mathematics of Classical and Quantum Physics
Topics in Algebra
Complex Variables and Functions
Real Analysis and Foundations
Intro to Analytical Number Theory
A First Course in Probability
Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems
Modern Elementary Differential Equations
Vector Calculus
From Calculus to Chaos
Intermediate Calculus
Elementary Linear Algebra

Second Row, Primary Bookcase:

General Chemistry
Mathematical Economics
Micro-Economic Theory
Economics
A Peoples' History of the United States
The American Pageant
Peasants and Landlords in Medieval England
The First World War
A Peace to End all Peace
Homage to Catalonia
Deterring Democracy
The Secret Wars fo the CIA
In Confidence
America, Russia, and the Cold War 1945-1989
Plagues and Peoples
Guns, Germs, and Steel
The Rise of the West
Asimov's Chronology of the World
What If?

Top Row:

Red Storm Rising
Departures
Time Wars
The Time Patrol
All One Universe
Across Realtime
Orion Shall Rise
The Vampire Lestat
The Great War: American Front
Pastwatch: Redemption
Slautherhouse 5
A Choice of Catastrophes
Foundation and Chaos
Foundation's Fear
Foundation's Triumph


Second Shelf, Bottom Row:

Von Nustrend's Scientific Encyclopedia
CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics
Table of Integrals, Series, and Products
Handbook of Mathematical Functions
The CIA World Factbook
Atlas of World Military History
Atlas of World History
[portioned off to be sold]
Data Structures and Programming Using Java
Fundamentals of Logic Design
Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems
Fundamentals of Biology

Second Row:

We the People
The Federalist Papers
The Marx-Engels Reader
Declarations of Independence
Rogue States
Against Empire
Dirty Truths
Lies My Teacher Told Me

Top Row:

Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality
The Formation of a Persecuting Society
Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error
The First Crusade
[Portioned off, to be sold]
Confessions
Jews and the Crusaders
Arab Historians of the Crusades
Heresies of the High Middle Ages
Medieval Handbooks of Penance

I think that about covers it (I certainly can't be arsed to list authors either). Of course there are even more in my closet...

[SpencerH]

Math and socialism, no surprise there

[Jac de Molay]

Interesting..

My bedroom's a converted porch with two long ledges than run along the walls. Good places for the 200 or so I have.



Dune series books by father and son.
Umberto Eco Name of the rose, Foucault's pendulum, Island of the day before.
Several atlases.
Elegant Universe and Five ages of the universe. - egghead astronomy/cosmology books.

The Knights Templar and their myth Peter partner.
Do what thou wilt. - biography of Aleister Crowley.
American Psycho brett easton ellis.
High fidelity Nick hornsby.
Rise and fall of the Third Reich William Shirer.
The Discoverers, The Thinkers, The Creators. all by daniel boorstin.
Explaining Hitler Ron Rosenbaum
Lord of the Rings Tolkien.
The Fermata Nicholson Baker.
The sign and the seal graham hancock.