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Some people have a big collection, and some people put them on bookshelves to make them seem smart. What genres of books make up most of your collection? Do you guys have a way to organize them?
Textbooks count.

This post has been edited by falconboy99: 08 February 2013 - 04:04 AM

Do textbooks count? I sold ALOT of books recently, so everything I have fits on two shelves of this bookshelf.

Genres I have are Fantasy and Sci-Fi mostly, only graphic novels I still have is the complete Scott Pilgrim.

my personal bookshelf has shrunk considerably since i started attending school in Savannah. they're mostly comic collections and art books.
current books are:

• Anatomy for the Artist
  
• Scott Pilgrim (color editions vol 1 and 2)
  
• Graffiti World (both first and updated editions)
  
• Graffiti Women
  
• One Drop of Blood (a book about historical genicides)
  
• Microserfs <----currently reading
  
• a collection of the works of H.P. Lovecraft
  
• Color Theory and Practice (color theory textbook that i decided to keep)
  
• Batwoman vol.1
  
• Animal Man vol.1
  
• CHEW (vol 1-4)
  
• Wicked
  
• Son of a Witch
  
• A Lion Among Men
  
• Out of Oz
  
• Cold Magic
  
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (complete series)
  
• March Story (vol 1-3)
  
• Jing: King of Bandit - Twilight Tales (vol 1-5)
  
• Anya's Ghost
  
• Street Art Compendium
  
• Perry Bible Fellowship
  
• Mahabharata
  
• The Action Heroes Handbook
  
• How To Survive a Robot Uprising
  
• Right to be Hostile
  
• Blink
  
• Outliers
  
• The Tipping Point
  
• What the Dog Saw
  
• Good Omens
  
• RIM
  
• Dogeaters
  
• GA (vol 1-3)
  
• Doujin Work (vol 1-2)
  
• Conversations in Paint
  
• Pose File (vol 5 and 8)
  
• Not Simple
  
• Watership Down

i don't read as often as i'd like to... and i don't have an opportunity to buy new books as much as i would like. my "to read" list grows longer and longer.

Kaxbe, on 08 February 2013 - 04:07 AM, said:

Hell, yes.

From what I can see: Arabian Nights, The Odyssey, The Iliad, some generic HP Lovecraft collection, the Popol Vuh, Don Quixote, Dracula then basically everything else is on my Kindle or on loan from the library. World War Z, virtually everything by Dostoevsky, all of A Song of Fire and Ice and three books about Allan Quatermain on the Kindle at least.

This post has been edited by Jerk: 08 February 2013 - 06:16 AM

Three bookshelves that go to the ceiling filled with books and then I have magazines and comics on top of all that.

The Divine Comedy, Raptor Red (Robert T. Bakker), Beast, White Shark, and Jaws (Peter Benchley, but these books are shit), A Clockwork Orange (which I haven't gotten around to reading yet), Air Frame, The Andromeda Strain, Eaters of the Dead, Jurassic Park, Prey and Sphere (all Michael Crichton, although Airframe and Prey haven't been read yet), Different Seasons and The Shining by Stephen King, some dumb Dean Koontz book my mom bought me, Invisible Prey by John Sanford (which was a gift from my caseworker), The Ruins by Scott Smith (haven't read it yet), Resident Evil chapters 0, 1, 3, 5 and 6 by SD Perry (good gore, bad writing), The Hobbit, the Silmarillion and the three volumes of The Lord of the Rings which I've considered giving a way many times, a handful of manga, an old National Geographic Desk Reference, a few fossil collecting/identification books that I use with my hobby, some book poking fun at the Political machine I thought would be funny but never read, and of course BCB volume 1.

That's what's on my book shelf, and I have a few other books stashed away in random places.

Couple of programming books, psych text books, a Spanish book and a chemistry book, a collection of Grimm Fairy tales, a satire book with dark fairy tales, Solider X and Stephen King's Cell, and books 2 and 3 of the Dark Tower series, and the 4th Imaginarium Geographic book round out the bookshelf in my college room. If we moved to the living room though, the 3 books I have to read for my trip to Germany this summer are on the shelf along with all my fantasy and sci-fi series books (too many to recount right now). Then at home I also have all my manga and books that I've read recently/ are too big to bring to school.

God, I have such a painfully awful collection of books. The first two colour Scott Pilgrim books, some textbooks and a few Jack Kerouac/Hunter S. Thompson bits and bobs my older brother dumped on me.

I have too many books, so I'll just post the highlights.

House of Leaves
The Selfish Gene
State of Fear
The Silmarillion
A collection of Ersnt Haeckel's plates
On the Origin of Species
Dixie Cragger's Atlas (Georgia/Alabama) 3rd Ed.
The Universe in a Nutshell
Billions and Billions
Fight Club
World War Z
I Am America (An So Can You!)
A Sand County Almanac
National Audobon Society: Field Guide To Trees (East)
The Last American Man
In the Courts of the Crimson Kings
Signal to Noise
Relativity
Brave New World
Debatable Space
The Children of Hurin
The Greatest Show On Earth
Last Child In The Woods
Allen & Mike's Really Cool Backpackin' Book
Wildflower's and Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachians & Piedmont
That Hideous Strength
aaaaaaand, all the Halo books....shutup


So yeah, it's pretty much either science, scifi or outdoor stuff, with a few exceptions.

This post has been edited by CaptainBaconMan: 09 February 2013 - 08:10 AM

House of Leaves is one of the most hipster shit i've ever heard of. i really want to read it it sounds so fucking frustrating

Dude, it's not that expensive. And it's seriously the best novel I've ever read, although reading it in 11th grade probably made it have a bigger impact on me than reading it now would have. The frustration is part of the experience. I have to say though, Johnny Truants ending (not ending per se) seemed a tab predictable but the real meat of the book is The Navidson Record. There's also a lot of crazy seemingly irreverent shit at the back.

The book itself is supposed to be this whole meta comment on how broken we are as humans. At least I think.

A lot of it reads like a manuscript or a rough draft, and it's all chopped up and in weird sections with a billion foot notes. There are lines stricken out and 'missing' sections. It also has tasks somewhere in it for you to help finish the book. There are also a lot of visual world play (i.e. placing words into smaller and smaller boxes with each page to convey a sense of claustrophobia).

So yeah dude, it's a fucking ride, you should pick it up.

This post has been edited by CaptainBaconMan: 09 February 2013 - 12:33 PM

dude, i would pick it up now, but i rarely even have the time to work on personal projects let alone find time to buy a new book

Man there is nothing worse than finding a new book you want to read, and having no time to actually do it.

the only time i have to read is when i ride the shuttle each day for class. but it takes a while to finish books that way... i bought Microserfs for me to read before the quarter started. i'm only now finishing it...

Four Scott Pilgrim Volumes
One Bleach Volume
One manga I've never read (Lament of The Lamb)
And a shit ton of National geographic magazines.

Kaxbe, on 08 February 2013 - 04:07 AM, said:

I really enjoyed the anime. What did you think of the manga?

JHawk, i really really really love fantasy manga, but i'm really really picky about it. i like fantastical worlds and amazing creatures and that's what attracted me to Jing: King of Bandit. i read the manga, both the original series and Twilight Tales, and i love it to death. i like the anime, but it just falls flat for me, especially knowing that the studio that was making it dropped it so quickly. :C

i used to own all the volumes of the original series and Twilight Tales along with a box DVD set for the anime... unfortunately most of it was lost when my house caught fire two years ago. i don't really have the money to replace them either and they're somewhat difficult to find in good condition because of how old the series is and how long ago it was published (i was still living in Arkansas when it was first published), not to mention how the original English publisher closed down for good forever. Jing: King of Bandits holds a special place in my heart because it was one of the first manga series that i was completely adamant about collecting. :C sure, the story choices don't always make sense, but that's never really what drew me to the manga in the first place. i was attracted to how the world that Jing and Kiir lived in. and that love and infatuation with their world only grew when Twilight Tales came out because Yuichi Kamakura changed his drawing style for that series in order to make Jing's world more "dreamlike". i really miss those books. :C

if someone were to get me replacement copies, i'd probably love them forever.

I have a collection of Japanese picture books (mainly focusing on franchises like Godzilla and Gamera). Too bad I can't read Japanese...

get some books that you can read, motherfucker

I've got a few Stephen King books I've yet to read on my bookshelf.
The Long Walk looks pretty cool...

Kaxbe, on 11 February 2013 - 07:45 PM, said:

With an endorsment like that I will have to get the manga also.

See, I don't want books for my bookshelf because I plan on moving very soon, and I intend to find a place with large bookshelves. In the meantime, I'm spending this entire year on nonfiction books. Sometimes that's just more interesting. I read one very long history of Christianity. Granted, it produced some absolutely terrible things, but its contribution to art and literature have been priceless to the West whether we like it or not. That said, only two of the gospels are actually considered true recordings of Christ. For example, Paul was a merchant who hated gays (sound familiar?).

I just cleaned out my library, and took out most of my upper-elementary school books.

Here's pretty much what I have that i'm proud of.
Series:
Among the Hidden
Hunger Games
Twilight
His Dark Materials
Narnia
A Song of Ice and Fire
Inheritance Cycle
The Hatchet Series
The Missing (Margaret Peterson Haddix)

I have a shelf of comic books, which consist mainly of the Legend of Zelda comics, Hardy Boys, and the Superman/Batman series. I have the first collection of the Dark Tower comic series, but then I decided to save up for the omnibus.

Then for the individual books, I have:

Full Dark, No Stars
Thinner
The Dark Half
Life of Pi
Sherlock Holmes
Romeo and Juliet
Flash Games for Dummies
Prism by Faye and Aliza Kellerman
Arabian Nights
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Biography of Henry Kaiser
Heidi
The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dangerous Liasons
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Outsiders
The Call of the Wild
White Fang
The Giver

I wish I hadn't bought most of my Stephen King books on my Kindle. It would be satisfying to have The Stand, Under the Dome, Carrie, The Eyes of the Dragon, The Green Mile, and the series itself in physical form.

This post has been edited by falconboy99: 15 February 2013 - 05:45 AM

Mostly I've just got a bunch of Redwall books piled up, but Watershipdown is somewhere in there.

i loved the Redwood books. lost them in the fire also :C

Lots of posters in this thread have Watership Down's Syndrome.

baby's first furry novel

I bought Watership Down on my kindle, but I haven't gotten a chance to read it.

I have so many books. I have various bookshelves from my life. Basically I fill a bookshelf and buy a new one to fill. My walls are books. Its slowed down a bit because I recently discovered that Nooks/Kindles are a little better than I gave them credit for. (I still buy books, its just not quite the same if you can't turn the pages for the best books).

I mostly read fantasy. I read some post apocalyptic stuff but not as much. I have a lot of psychology studies.... plays..... poetry..... Bit of science fiction....... mystery....... some of the classics, not many, to my shame, I'm working on that.....

Yah I have no life.

This post has been edited by crystalgardian: 02 March 2013 - 06:58 AM

I've got all of the Ender's Game/Ender's Shadow books, all of every Warriors series and super editions, the Hunger Games trilogy, all of the Scott Pilgrim volumes in paperback and the first two in hardcover, all of the Ultimo volumes released so far, some Megaman NT Warrior mangas, and some classic Megaman mangas. Oh, and the bcb books are soon to join this collection.

So in a nutshell, Sci-Fi and comics.

i mainly have books like the hunger games and Percy Jackson I do however have like 10 copy's of Alice in wonderland I also have 3 copy's of through the looking glass and 2 bibles, I'm not even religious and i have no idea how they got there. Umm what else... Ohh yeah I've also got all of the harry potters and I've got all of Ersula Le Guin's sparrow hawk books as well as the related books. I also got a lot of fantasy ,some sci-fi and some manga like One Piece, Dead Man Wonderland ,and Death Note.