h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

one shelf of your bookcase? Title and author, from left to right.

I`ll start, middle shelf (its just the right height to see without moving.)

The Foundation Trilogy, Asimov
Dune, Frank Herbert
To Your Scattered Bodies Go, P.J.Farmer
The Early Asimov Volume 2
The Other Side Of The Sky, Arthur.C.Clarke
The Magic Labyrinth, P.J.Farmer
The Dark Design, P.J.Farmer
The Very Best in SF and fantasy, Various
All My Sins Remembered, Joe Haldeman
The Battle of Forever, A.E.van Vogt
The View from Serendip, A.C.Clarke
SF Hall of Fame, Various
To Arms! To Arms in Dixie, JT Edson
The Green Odyssey, PJ Farmer
Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
Time Enough For Love, R.Heinlein
The Best of Fritz Leiber
The Immortals, James Gunn
Go Back to Hell, JT Edson
Buy Jupiter, Asimov
The Silkie, AE van Vogt
Satan`s Mules, Gil Martin
Wanderers of Time, John Wyndham
The Stone God Awakens, PJ Farmer
Black Holes in Space, P.Moore & I.Watson
The Last Continent, Edmund Cooper
Kronk, E.Cooper
The Fabulous Riverboat, PJ Farmer
Imperial Earth, A.C.Clarke
The Bicentennial Man, Asimov
I,Robot, Asimov
The Shape of Things to Come, HG Wells
AZ London, a-z map comp.
The Nations Favourite Poems, Various
Poems on the Underground, Various
100 Best Loved Poems, Various.

Thats it! Hmmm, most of those are pretty old! Too much sci-fi?

Shock Value- John Waters
The Chicago Manual of Style
Radio Waves- Jim Ladd
Rebels on the Air: an Alternative History of Radio in America- Jesse Walker
Dr. Fegg's Encyclopedia of All World Knowledge- Terry Jones & Michael Palin
A Liar's Autobiography- Graham Chapman
A Life in the Cinema- Mick Garris
Drawing Down the Moon- Margot Adler
The Mystical Qabbalah- Dion Fortune
A Garden of Pomegranates- Israel Regardie
The Mists of Avalon- Marion Zimmer Bradley
Sewer, Gas and Electric: the Public Works Trilogy- Matt Ruff
The Satanic Verses- Salman Rushdie
A Confederacy of Dunces- John Kennedy Toole
A Clockwork Orange- Anthony Burgess
Candide- Voltaire
Naked Lunch- William S. Burroughs
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas- Hunter S. Thompson
Chelsea Horror Hotel- Dee Dee Ramone
Phantasmagoria- Lewis Carroll
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung- Lester Bangs
High Fidelity- Nick Hornby
Night of the Avenging Blowfish- John Welter
Breakfast at Tiffany's- Truman Capote
On the Road- Jack Kerouac
The Illuminatus Trilogy- Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency- Douglas Adams
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul- Douglas Adams
The Bromeliad- Terry Pratchett
Foulcault's Pendulum- Umberto Eco
Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand
Good Omens- Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?- Philip K. Dick
A Graveyard For Lunatics- Ray Bradbury
The Girl Next Door- Jack Ketchum
Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte
Weaveworld- Clive Barker

I would really love to do this for you, but all of my bookselves are stacked two and three books thick and I just don't have the time.
Good luck.

Watermusic - TC Boyle
Riven Rock - TC Boyle
Widow for one year - John Irving
The fourth hand - John Irving
The Ciderhouse rules - John Irving
Owen Meany - John Irving
The world according to Garp - John Irving
A son of the circus - John Irving
Leviathan - Paul Auster
The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
Timbuktu - Paul Auster
Mr. Vertigo - Paul Auster
Fool on the hill - Matt Ruff
GAS - Matt Ruff
Eureka Street - Robert McLiam Wilson
Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
McCarthy's Bar - Pete McCarthy
My life - Marcel Reich-Ranicki
The shipping news - E. Annie Proulx
The accordion crimes - E. Annie Proulx
Veronika decides to die - Paolo Coelho

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
The Return of Reginald Perrin
The Better World of Reginald Perrin
The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men/Cannery Row
The Compleet Molesworth
Winnie The Pooh
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul
The Silmarillion
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
Spycatcher
What Are U?
The Complete Upmanship
Brian Johnston (biography)
The Black Lace Omnibus
Clochemerle
THX 1138
1066 and All That
The Pavilion Book of Pavilions

I don't have shelves, I have piles of books on the floor.

I must get some shelves!

The middle shelf of my bookcase at University has the following books upon it:

How to Eat by Nigella Lawson
Foundations of Parallel, Concurrent and Distributed Programming
How to be a Domestic Goddess by Nigella Lawson
Using C++
Using Java 1.2
Programming Language Processors in Java
Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages and Computation
Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming (2nd Edition)
Computer Graphics in Java
The C++ Programming Language (3rd Edition)

On my bookshelves are (litterally) thousands of books, anally ordered alphabeticaly by authour. A very dull list.

On my window ledge in front of me as i type, is a more select list of titles, ones which i refer to regularly - and probibly say most about me. So here goes:

The Ancient Celts; Barry Cunliffe
Chambers Dictionary of World History
Roman Britain,; John Wacher
Guide to Prehistoric England; Thomas
Dictionary of Archaeological Terms; Trent
Oxford Dictionary of Art
OJRIL; Graham Chapman
Archaeology; Renfrew and Bahn
Archaeology Grant, Gorin and Flemming
Burne-Jones; The Arts Council
Kimiro; Robert McLellan
Sappho. Translations, Texts and Readings; by, er, me.
A Day in the Life of Joe Egg; Theatre programme
Dreamweaver Tutorial Handbook
A Season in Hell; Rimboud and Mapplethorpe
Copying with a Durst Enlarger
Some Contemporary Pooets;Scmidt
A Bad Day for the Sung Dynasty; Frank KUppner
Te Intelligent Observation of Naked Women; Frank Kuppner
Ridiculous, Absurd, Disgusting; Frank Kuppner
A Very Quiet Street; Frank Kuppner
A Concussed History of Scotland; Frank Kuppner
Everything is Strange; Frank Kuppner
Something Very Like Murder; Frank Kuppner
In the Beginnig the Was Physics; Frank Kuppner
Second Best Moments in Chinese History; Frank Kuppner
What Again? Selected Poems; Frank Kuppner
Ancient and Modern Images of Sappho Vol. II; Duban
Road Raging - Top Tips for Wrecking Roadbuilding; Road Alert
The Hamlyn Guide to Houseplants; Alan Titchmarsh
Cosmography - Maps From Ptolomy's Geography
From Hell (Volumes 1-11 with number 4 missing); Alan Moore
Big Numbers 1 & 2; Alan Moore
Brought to Light; Alan Moore
Egyptian Medicine - Reeves
Pottery in Roman Britian; Swan
Prehistoric Pottery; Langmaid
Later Sone Implements; Pitts
Notes of a Clay Pidgeon; Miroslav Holub
Tenebrae; Geoffrey Hill
Mercian Hymns; Geoffrey Hill
King Log; Geoffrey Hill
Canaan; Geoffrey Hill
Triumph of Love; Geoffrey Hill
Greek Tragedies 1 & 2; Greene and Lattimore
Early Romances in Prose and Verse; William Morris
Alcestis; Ted Hughes
Sappho Poems and Fragments; Josephine Balmer
Beowulf; Shamus Heaney
Spanish Front: Writers on the Civil War; Cunningham
The Witsun Weddings; Philip Larkin
Four Quartets; T.S. Eliot
Death and Fame; Allen Ginsberg
What the 2Friends of the People Are"; Lenin
Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism; Lenin
On the National and Colonial Questions; Lenin
The Revolutionary Storms in the East; Lenin
The Paris Commune; Frank Jellinek
The Angry Brigade 1967-1984
The Naked Lunch; William Burroughs
Nova Express; William Burroughs
The Catcher in the Rye; J D Salinger
The Inverted Forest; J.D. Salinger
Star Wars: A New Hope; George Lucas
Rubens; Emma Micheletti
The Agricola and Germania; Tacitus
Penguin Modern Poets 7; Murphy Silkin Tarn
On Britian and Germany; Tacitus
Braque 1906-1920
Picasso Antibes
Picasso Blue and Rose Periods
Picasso Papiers Colles
Picasso Cubist Period
Ink Polaroid of Belle and Sebastian; Stuart David
Little Ink Movies of Belle and Sebastian; Stuart David
Unto the Last; John Ruskin
The Cown of Wild Olive; John Ruskin
The Ethics of the Dust; John Ruskin
The Queen of the Air; John Ruskin
Left Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder; Lenin
Brendan Behan's New York; Brendan Behan and Paul Hogarth
Brendan Behan's Island; Brendan Behan and Paul Hogarth
Touching the Void; Joe Simpson
Franny and Zooey; J.D Salinger
Penguin Modern Poets 8; Brock, Hill, Smith
(quietly moves last two titles to sit next to their earlier counterparts)
Love; Stendhal
The Trials of Oz; Tony Palmer
Poem into Poem; George Steiner
Elizabethan Verse; Edward Lucie-Smith
Revolution in the Revolution; Regis Debray
Deadeye Dick; Kurt Vonnegut
Twighlight of the Idols; Friedrich Nietzsche
The Anti-Christ; Friedrich Nietzsche
A Drink With Shane MacGowan
Dylan Thomas in America; J M Brinin
Collected Poems; Dylan Thomas
In His Own Write; John Lennon
A Spaniard in the Works; John Lennon
The Penguin Altas of North American History; Colin McEvedy
The Penguin Altas of Modern History; Colin McEvedy
The Penguin Altas of Modern History History; Colin McEvedy (2nd Copy)
The Penguin Altas of Medieval History; Colin McEvedy
The Penguin Altas of Medieval History; Colin McEvedy (2nd Copy)
The Penguin Altas of Ancient History; Colin McEvedy
The Penguin Altas of African History; Colin McEvedy
(wonders what has happened to two copys of 'Recent History')
Minutes to Go; Burroughs, Gysin, Corso and Beiles
Exterminator; Burroughs and Gysin
With William Burroughs; Victor Bokris
The Burroughs File; William Burroughs
The Letters of William Burroughs; Oliver harris
Ali's Smile; William Burroughs
Painting and Guns; William Burroughs
Garden of Ashes; Cookie Mueller
Luxor Museum of Ancient Egyptian Art; Guidebook
Graeco Roman Museum Alexandria; Guidebook
Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band; CD booklet
Four book dealers catalogues; Andrew Sclanders (check him out)
Literary Outlaw: the Lives of William S. Burroughs; Ted Morgan
Being and Nothingness; J P Sartre
Existentialism and Humanism; J P Sartre
Sartre; Cranston
A Liars Autobiography; Graham Chapman
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (paperback); Douglas Adams
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (hardback); Douglas Adams
The Restaraunt at the End of the Universe (audiobook); Douglas Adams
The Restaraunt at the End of the Universe (paperback); Douglas Adams
The Restaraunt at the End of the Universe (hardback); Douglas Adams
The Maning of Liff (2 copies); Adams and Lloyd
Life the Universe and Everything; Douglas Adams
SO LOng and thanks for all the fish (hardback); Douglas Adams
SO Long and thanks for all the fish (paperback); Douglas Adams
A Trilogy in Four Parts; Douglas Adams
Last Chance to See (Ppaerback); Adams and Cawardine
Don't Panic; Niel Gaiman
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agecy; Douglas Adams
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul (UK Hardback); Douglas Adams
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul (Us Hardback); Douglas Adams
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul (paperback); Douglas Adams
Last Chance to See (hardback); Adams and Cawardine
Mostly harmless; Douglas Adams
Starship Titanic; Adams and Jones
Oxford Compact English Dictionary
God Bless You Doctor Kevorkian; Kurt Vonnegut
An Unfortunate Woman; Richard Brautigan
Like Shaking Hands With God; Kurt Vonnegut
Egypt; G Maspero
Sappho; Wharton
Poems of D G Rossetti
The Clothes they Stood Up In; Alan Bennet
Medea; Euripedes
Heartland: The Sisters of Mercy (issues 4,2 and 3); Andrew Pinnel
Hearland: Anthology; Andrew Pinnel
Last Chance to See (audiobook); Adams and Cawardine
Communism in the Bible; Jose P Miranda
Under the Volcano; Malcom Lowery
Head On; Julian Cope
Obsolete Communism - The Left Wing Alternative; Daniel & Gabriel Cohn-Bendit
Ways of Seeing; John Berger
The Life of Christ by Chinese Artists
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Dispair; Pablo Neruda
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Origonal Radio Scripts; Adams & Perkins



That was LOADS more books than i thought were there - we're only talking about a five foot box-room window ledge!

That's one unbelievable list you've got there.

These are on my cupboard, not on my shelf, but most of they are all originally in English so I'll get the names right.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K.Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K.Rowling
The Pastures of Heaven - John Steinbeck
The Happy Isles of Oceania - John Theroux
The Hobbit - J.R.R.Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R.Tolkien
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoi
The Lily Theather (I don't know the English translation) - Lulu Wang
Eleanor of Aquitaine - A Life - Alison Weir
Girl in Hyacinth Blue - Susan Vreeland
The History of the European Family (or something like that - it's Finnish) - Kaari Utrio
two books on linguistics

The top shelf of my book-case is in a cardboard box, as indeed are all the shelves of all my bookcases.

With me, in the hotel, I have:

Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire - Amanda Foreman
The Bridge - Iain Banks
Open Secret The autobiography or the former Director General of MI5 - Stella Rimington
and my journal, as Oscar Wilde said 'one must have something sensational to read on the train'.

My books are completely out of order having been put into boxes and then on to shelves and then into boxes 4 or 5 times each in the last 18 months.

I am tempted to organise them by theme and to hell with fiction and not fiction and authors etc; the stuff about the Mercury and Apollo missions would go with the Arthur C Clarke, for example. Pratchett's witches books with stuff about psychology and NLP. The Oddessey with The Lord of the Rings and Anne McCaffrey.

I had a friend who organised her books by colour like a

Ben

Testament of Youth- vera brittain
Solo- jack higgins
Six days of the Condor- james grady
Tropic of Ruislip- leslie thomas
The Code Book- simon singh
Shirley- charlotte bronte
See them Die- ed mcbain
The Illustrated Man- ray bradbury
On Her Majesty`s Secret Service- Fleming
The Odessa File- frederick forsyth
Red Dragon- thomas harris
Chariots of Fire- michel parry
Dune Messiah- frank herbert
Different Seasons- stephen king
The Sparrow- mary doria russell
Sense and Nonsense in psychology- h.j.eysenck
Serpico- peter maas
Madonna- andrew morton
The Universe in a Nutshell- stephen hawking

Thats all folks! (its a small shelf.)

Can't remember the ones at home so I'll use my book shelf at work

A Visual Dictionary of Architecture - Frank Ching.
Spon's Architects' and Builders' Price Book 2000
The Building Acts and Regulations Applied
Spon's Mechanical and Electrical Services Price Book 2000
Metric Handbook: Planning and Design Data
An Office Smart (stationary suppliers) catalogue
Concise OED
A little book with venetian blind samples in.
Thomson Local directory
Architect's Pocket Book
Croner's Health and Safety
Various issues of:
SMT - a security industry magazine
CCTV today - see above
H&S magazine.

How terribly exciting.

Liam.

I have a problem with this thread. If I type it all in as requested, people will unfortunately realise that:

a) I am sad enough to alphabeticise my bookshelves.
b) I read too much Pratchett.

B

But if you've alphabetised (as have I) surely these a non-Pratchett shelf somewhere. They can't all be P.

Geggs

Yes, but that shelf contains at least one Jeffrey Archer novella, which I'd be far too embarrassed to admit to online...

Dammit!

B

Ah. Now I understand.

Geggs

When Mrs SM was in hospital before the birth of baby SM the table in the middle of the ward had, what looked like, every Jeffrey Archer novel on it - and various copies of Bella, Woman's own and the like.

Have we uncovered the indentities of both of the Jeffrey Archer fans?

Liam.

Leave me alone!

I like 'Not A Penny More...'

B

No! Not me!

But I have met (briefly) someone who does like the liar's books. That being one of the causes of the briefness of the meeting.

Geggs

Master B - I presume that it's actually quite good. I'm not usually one to knock something until I've tried it. Is it worth picking up a JA book? Any recommendations?

Liam.