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Wow. Really? Okay.... But, I am a big believer that the books a person has, says a lot about them.... lol. This list does not include ebooks.
The Fearless Factor
The Journey Of Socrates
Alex Cross
A Farewell To Arms
Your Best Life Now
War And Peace
The King Of Torts
The Life You Were Born To Live (Major Dan Millman fan lol)
Walden and Other Writing
In The Woods
The Laptop Millionaire
Angela's Ashes
The Things We Do For Love
Photoshop Elements 8 For Dummies
Melissa Etheridge Autobiography
Sacred Journey Of The Peaceful Warrior
Moby Dick
Way Of The Peaceful Warrior
Hotel On The Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Lost Symbol
Successfully Marketing Yourself
The Magic Of Goal Setting
What Choice Do I Have?
The Miracle Of Intention
Girl Interrupted
Basic Food and Beverage Cost Control
Romeo and Juliet
The Summons
Leaves of Grass
The Brethren
The Woods
A Painted House
Angels and Demons
A River Runs Through It
The Vortex
The Power of 2
The Buddha In Your Rearview Mirror
The Laws Of Prosperity
Wine Course
Techniques of Healthy Cooking
Good Food Cookbook
Elvis: The Boy Who Dared To Rock (don't laugh!)
If You Give A Mouse A Cookie
Sundays at Tiffany's
Let The Right One In
Inferno
The Power Of Positive Living
eBay For Dummies
Fundamentals of Menu Planning
Serving Safe Food
The Shack
Command Authority
The Brethren that's by Grisham right? If so that book is awesome! One of my favorites by him.
The Complete Marathoner
The Complete Book of Trapping
The American Indian Wars
Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic
Empire of the Summer Moon
Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door
Modern Survival
Pageant of the Gun
Bears
Great American Short Stories
Here are a few titles on one of the bookshelves in my home office:
Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism
Asian Settler Colonialism: From Local Governance to the Habits of Everyday Life in Hawaiʻi
Before the Horror: The Population of Hawaiʻi on the Eve of Western Contact
Ethnicity and Inequality in Hawaiʻi
From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaiʻi
Haoles in Hawaiʻi
Hawaiʻi Pono
Hawaiʻi, the Legend that Sells
Hawaiʻi's Story by Hawaiʻi's Queen
Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity
In the Name of Hawaiians: Native Identities and Cultural Politics
Kauaʻi, the Separate Kingdom
Kū Kanaka: Stand Tall
Land and Power in Hawaiʻi
Nāna I Ke Kumu: Look to the Source (2 volumes)
Native Land and Foreign Desires: Pehea Lā E Pono Ai?
Native Men Remade: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Hawaiʻi
The Betrayal of Liliʻuokalani
The Hawaiian Kingdom (3 volumes)
The Value of Hawaiʻi: Knowing the Past, Shaping the Future
I have an antique book shelf full of hand carved fish from all over the Caribbean and shells collected from many different beaches from around the world. There's a shelf for photo albums filled with pictures of the shorties, vacations, friends, and animals. There's just no room for books.
Ooooh, Jonah, I'd love to read those titles! What a cool collection!
When I moved to my new "sort of retirement" home I was fortunate enough to take advantage of a store going out of business, and got 6 connecting shelving units which I'll use for my rare/collectible book collection. I've been collecting pre-1960 popular fiction forever, and hope to evolve this into a retirement business. I have a strong 1900 - 1915 collection. Just picked up two new WWII era fiction titles at an estate sale in a town about 15 miles away today!
But here's what's on my "to be read" small bookshelf in my bedroom - modern titles:
From the public library:
Wild Oats, Pamela Morsi
Garters, Pamela Morsi
Life After Life, Kate Atkinson
Last Train to Zona Verde, Paul Theroux
Gifts and stuff I got at the estate sale:
Tell My Horse, Zora Neal Hurston
It Can't Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis
The Carriage House, Carla Neggers
Between the Woods and the Water, Patrick Leigh Fermor
Duke of Midnight, Elizabeth Hoyt
Sexual Customs in Rural Norway, Eilert Sundt
Roads to Quoz, William Least Heat Moon
North of Hope, Jon Hassler
The Dean's List, Jon Hassler
Rookery Blues, Jon Hassler
Telegraph Avenue, Michael Chabon
Greenhorns, Zoe Bradbury ed.
As you can see, I boldly admit to reading trashy romances along with "litracha".
Books by
Diana Gabaldon (historical fiction with a fantasy twist)
JD Robb (police-procedural/whodunnits with a sci-fi twist)
Anne Bishop (romantic fantasy, dark fantasy, and/or urban-ish fantasy)
JRR Tolkein (the granddaddy of all high fantasy)
Alaska's Southeast
Shasta of the Wolves
A Guide to the Egyptian Museum, Cairo
The Gun Parts Corp. 19
Encyclopedia of the Native American Tribes
Atlas of the North American Indian
It would take me all day and maybe all night and that doesn't even count the books piled up on end tables...and I gave away about 75 - 100 about 2 years ago.
A couple of weeks ago I spent some time purging books and filled 7 bankers boxes of ones to rehome.
Yesterday I did a thorough reorganization of one bookcase that has mysteries, thrillers and sci-fi. I just went and counted those books and there are 194 in that one bookcase.
I have another entire bookcase devoted to books about dogs (and other animals) and it's getting rather full. I covers rescue/rehabiilition, training and some fiction too.
A third bookcase is devoted to gardening, landscaping, home repair projects & sewing/home decorating type books.
A fourth case has politics, religion, science, etc.
The 5th and 6th cases contain stuff about travel - both guides and stories by various travelers/explorers.
Two cases have general fiction and literature.
One has moved to the garage and contains household supplies (laundry soap, paper goods, coffee, tp) that I buy in bulk when I go to Costco.
There are 2 empty ones in the garage awaiting painting and the books that had been in those are boxed up and waiting to be sorted through, purged and then returned to the office. Maybe I will be able to purge enough books that only one case will come back in the house and one donated to my favorite non-profit for them to sell.
There are also a couple of hundred books on my Kindle and I'm moving more and more to that mode of book ownership/borrowing from the library.
Soon I may have some free wall space to put up some art work.
ps: prior to retiring and moving cross country 8 years ago I got rid of several thousand books.
Yes, I go to my various book dealers the way some people go to their local gin mill or drug dealer.
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