What books do you own?

[Matariki]

Note: This thread is open for everyone to partake in.
You don't have to list all your books if you don't want to, just your favorites will be fine enough.

I'm a book worm, I love books and after I discovered the wonders of Amazon.com, I've begun building my own library in my room. As it is, I have about hundred books on the wish list and it excites me when I order and receive some in the mail each week. So here are some of the books I own so far:

Christian Books:
ESV Study Bible - Crossaway Bibles
Knowing God - J.I.Packer
Knowing God Study Guide - J.I.Packer
Christian Beliefs - Wayne A. Grudem and Elliot Grudem
Telling Yourself The Truth - William Marie and Backus Chapian
Jesus: The Greatest Life of All - Charles R. Swindoll
Eternity in Their Hearts - Don Richardson

Martial Art Books:
The Way of the Warrior - Chris Crudelli
Box like the Pros - Joe Frazier and William Dettloff
Boxing's Ten Commandments - Alan Lachica and Doug Werner

Cook Books:
Off Duty - David Nicholls
How to Cook Everything Vegetarian - Mark Bittman and Alan Witschonke
I'm Just Here For the Food - Alton Brown

Art Books:
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Graphic Novel - Nat Gertler and Steve Lieber
Filmmaking For Dummies - Bryan Micheal Stoller
The Big Picture - Hammish Keith
The Animator's Survival Kit - Richard Williams
Drawn To Life - Walt Stanchfield
People and Poses - Buddy Scalera
The Fantasy Artist's Figure Drawing Bible - Matt Dixon

 

[Pentecostal Boy]

Christian Books (as in strictly apologetic works):
Messy Spirituality by Michael Yaconelli
Overflow: A Student's Guide to Giving by Scotty Gibbons
Fear Fighters by Jentzen Franklin
Crazy Love by Francis Chan
It's Your Time by Joel Osteen
Servolution by Dino Rizzo

Everything Else (Including Christian Authors and Everythings else):
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis (one big book with all of the stories in it)
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (All Three books)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Anthem by Ayn Rand
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis (Three separate books, all part of the same trilogy)
Candide by Voltaire
The Prince and Other Writings by Niccolo Machiavelli
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

I also own 2-3 Bibles, one a NIV and the other a NKJV.

I also have many many more books that I don't care about mentioning quite as much as the ones I have just mentioned because well... that would just be over doing it. haha xD

 

[dewba]

I own books but I only ever read the Bible. Everything else I find difficult to keep my focus on, at the moment.

Nevertheless, when I used to read, I'd try not to spend my money on books because I'd want to buy every single one of them...and I absorbed a lot. Usually, at a bookstore or library, I'd gravitate towards philosophy books, self-improvement, fantasy. At a Christian bookstore, I used to go nuts with all the books I wanted to read. I stick to the Bible, lol. Less stressful and less money involved. After all, we're supposed to be content with the things that we needed, that God has given us.

 

[Jane_the_Bane]

Spiritual/religious literature:

The Bible (Martin Luther translation, NIV, KJV)
The Qur'an (in German, English, and Arabic)
The Talmud (in German)
Various Buddhist texts
Willigis Jäger: Wiederkehr der Mystik
Meister Eckhart's sermons
The Tao te Ch'ing
The Bhagavad Gita
21st century Wicca
Modern Magick
The Book of the Law
Qabbalah, Qliphoth and Goetic Magick
Demons of the Flesh
and many others...

"Classics":
The majority of "Penguin's Popular Classics", along with several free Kindle e-books: Jane Austen, Dickens, Henry James, Joyce, Homer, George Eliot, Defoe, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Goethe, Shakespeare, Shelley, Marlowe, Hardy...

Fantasy:
Tolkien's Hobbit, Silmarillion and Lord of the Rings
George R.R. Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire"- series
Jacqueline Carey's "Kushiel"-series

Graphic Novels:
Alan Moore's From Hell, Promethea, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Watchmen, Lost girls, V for Vendetta
Neil Gaiman's Sandman
The Dark Knight returns
Persepolis
Crumb's Kafka

Oh, you know what? This list could be endless. Let's call it a day.

 

[kranberrydude]

BIBLES
The Parallel Study Bible: NKJV - NCV - The Message-http://www.amazon.com/Parallel-Study-Bible-Message-Comprehensive/dp/B001OW5MZ6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1308677819&sr=8-1
The Everyday Life Bible: The Power of God's Word for Everyday Living http://www.amazon.com/Everyday-Life-Bible-Power-Living/dp/0446578274/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1308677922&sr=1-1

DEVOTIONALS
Ending Your Day Right: Devotions for Every Evening of the Year http://www.amazon.com/Ending-Your-Day-Right-Devotions/dp/0446533645/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1308678063&sr=1-6
The Soul of C. S. Lewis: A Meditative Journey through Twenty-Six of His Best-Loved Writings http://www.amazon.com/Soul-Lewis-Meditative-Twenty-Six-Best-Loved/dp/1414325665/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1308678129&sr=1-1

NOVELS

The Chronicles of Narnia
- The Magician's Nephew http://www.amazon.com/Magicians-Nephew-C-S-Lewis/dp/0064409430/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1308678215&sr=1-1
-The Horse and his boy http://www.amazon.com/Horse-Chronicles-Narnia-Full-Color-Collectors/dp/0064409406/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1308678288&sr=1-10

Space Trilogy
- Out of the Silent Planet http://www.amazon.com/Silent-Planet-Space-Trilogy-Book/dp/0743234901/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1308678389&sr=1-1

AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life http://www.amazon.com/Surprised-Joy-Shape-Early-Life/dp/0156870118/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1308678547&sr=1-10

 

[SparkyMaddie]

Life Expectancy- Dean Koontz
What the Night Knows-Dean Koontz
The Kill-AllisonBrennan
Catching Fire-Suzanne Collins
Objection-Nancy Grace
Encylopedia of Crime Scene Investigation

 

[inconsequential]

I have a "Silver Jubilee Special Edition" of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings that I got when I was a child.

 

[keith99]

If I seriously started I'd be here all day.

Everything readily available by C.S. Lewis except for "English Literature in the 16th Century Century: Excluding Drama" which I used to own but gave as a birthday present decades ago. (And I most likely have a copy of 'The Screwtape Letters' which was 'translated' intop American and buthcered in the process).

The vast majority of Heinlein, but excluding the 'Unabridged' version of 'Stranger ina Strange Land'. That work was cut because it should have been (according to Heinlein in Grumbles from the Grave). Unlike 'Podkaine of Mars' And Red Planet where changes wer made against his desired (And where things differ the original is in an appendex in Grumbles).

Most of the works of Niven, Pournelle, Dickson, Asimov and Saberhagen. (And a lot of others I am forgetting right now).

A 6 or 7 volume set of collected sermons. Not home right now so I forget if it is Calvin or Luther. The institutes by Calvin. A small booklet that is called somethgin like "The Golden booklet of the Christian Life' which is a samll excerpt of the Institutes and feels totally different than the same section of the Institutes (both are translations to English, no differences where one can say they 'disagree' but the 'poetic impact is hugely different)

A lot of Bonhoeffer and his Biography by Bethge.

The 120 days of Sodom by deSade and Venus in Furs by Sacher von Masoch.

A couple of Deborah Tannen's books on communication. She actually makes sense and has substance, to bad that "Men are from Mars..." is a catchy title.

Oh and Ties that Bind by Guy Baldwin and Learning the Ropes by Race Bannon.

I have an eclectic library.

 

[CelticGrace]

The only actual books I own are The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy (all 4 books in one set), the Harry Potter series and The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes in Two Volumes; the rest are on the Kindle and that would take forever and a day to list

 

[Z3AL0T]

THE HOLY BIBLE - God
The Age of Reason - Thomas Paine
I don't have enough faith to be an atheist - Normal Geisler / Frank Turek
23 minutes in Hell - Bill Wiese
Atheist Universe - David Mills
Reasonable Faith - William Lane Craig
Reasons for God - Timothy Keller
Language of God - Francis Collins
God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
Embraced by the light - Eadle
Quran - Moon God
Deism a revolution in religion a revolution on you - Bob Johnson
Chariot of the gods - Erich Von Daniken

New World Order Facts and Fiction - Mark Dice
Illuminati Faccts and Fiction - Mark Dice
Resistance Manifesto - Mark Dice
Behold a Pale Horse - William Cooper
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Dark Mission - Richard Hoagland

 

[Carl+]

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[SparkyMaddie]

I just bought
The Stranger Beside Me, Ann Rule
The Casebook of Forensic Detection: How Science Solved 100 of the World’s Most Baffling Crimes

 

[Khryzsean]

I have so many books now but below are some of the titles:

Bible (of course)
The Purpose Driven Life
Applying the Bible
Teaching to Change Lives
The Greatest Secret
The Secret
Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
The Greatest Salesman in the World
The Greatest Miracle in the World
8 Secrets of the Truly Rich >>> www . trulyrichclub . info

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Maximum Achievement
The Success Principles
The Leader In You
Awaken The Giant Within
Unlimited Power
Think and Grow Rich
The Law of Success
Conversation with Millionaires
See You At The Top

and many more...

 

[Rhovanion]

Fiction & Non-Fiction
Agatha Christie – Murder On The Orient Express
Alex Garland – The Beach
Alexandre Dumas – The Count Of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas – The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas – The Vicomte De Bragelonne
Alexandre Dumas – Twenty Years After
Ann Carroll – Rosie's Gift
Ann Carroll – Rosie's Quest
Ann Rosman – Fyrmästarens Dotter
Ann Rosman – Själakistan
Anna Jansson – Drömmen Förde Dej Vilse
Anne Rice – Interview With The Vampire
Annika Thor – En Ö I Havet
Annika Thor – Havets Djup
Annika Thor – Näckrosdammen
Annika Thor – Öppet Hav
Astrid Lindgren – Bröderna Lejonhjärta
Astrid Lindgren – Madicken
Astrid Lindgren – Mio Min Mio
Astrid Lindgren – Ronja Rövardotter
Astrid Lindgren – Sagor
Astrid Lindgren – Sunnanäng
Bengt af Klintberg – Nostradamus Profetior
Betty Ren Wright – Ghosts Beneath Our Feet
Camilla Läckberg – Olycksfågeln
Camilla Läckberg – Predikanten
Camilla Läckberg – Sjöjungfrun
Camilla Läckberg – Stenhuggaren
Carmen bin Laden – Inside The Kingdom – My Life In Saudi Arabia
Carol Jones – Real Girls
Caroline B. Cooney – The Face On The Milk Carton
Cecelia Ahern – P.S. I Love You
Charlaine Harris – All Together Dead
Charlaine Harris – An Ice Cold Grave
Charlaine Harris – Club Dead
Charlaine Harris – Dead And Gone
Charlaine Harris – Dead As A Doornail
Charlaine Harris – Dead In The Family
Charlaine Harris – Dead To The World
Charlaine Harris – Dead Until Dark
Charlaine Harris – Definitely Dead
Charlaine Harris – From Dead To Worse
Charlaine Harris – Grave Sight
Charlaine Harris – Grave Surprise
Charlaine Harris – Living Dead In Dallas
Chris Kuzneski – The Prophecy
Chris Kuzneski – Sign Of The Cross
Dan Andersson – Samlade Dikter
Dan Brown – Angels & Demons [hardback]
Dan Brown – Angels & Demons [paperback]
Dan Brown – The Da Vinci Code [hardback]
Dan Brown – The Da Vinci Code [illustrated edition]
Dan Brown – The Da Vinci Code [paperback]
David Day – A Tolkien Bestiary
David Day – Tolkien’s Ring
Dean Koontz – Intensity
Dean Koontz – Odd Thomas
Dean Koontz – The Good Guy
Dean Koontz – The Taking
Elle Newmark – The Book Of Unholy Mischief
Elsi Rydsjö – Liten Flöjt Av Silver
Erlend Loe – Naiv. Super.
Ewa Christina Johansson – Drömmens Hus
Frances Hodgson Burnett – A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett – Little Lord Fauntleroy
Frances Hodgson Burnett – The Secret Garden
Gunila Ambjörnsson – Tidens Fånge
Gunila Ambjörnsson – Trädet Och Tiden
Gunila Ambjörnsson – Vilse I Tiden
Gustaf Fröding – The Complete Works
Harlan Coben – No Second Chance
Henning Mankell – Danslärarens Återkomst
J.D. Salinger – The Catcher In The Rye
J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter & The Chamber Of Secrets
J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter & The Philosopher's Stone
J.R.R. Tolkien – The Children Of Húrin
J.R.R. Tolkien – The Children Of Húrin [illustrated edition]
J.R.R. Tolkien – The Fellowship Of The Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien – The Fellowship Of The Ring [illustrated edition]
J.R.R. Tolkien – The Hobbit [illustrated edition]
J.R.R. Tolkien – The Return Of The King
J.R.R. Tolkien – The Silmarillion
J.R.R. Tolkien – Tales From The Perilous Realm [illustrated edition]
J.R.R. Tolkien – The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien – Unfinished Tales
Jack London – The Call Of The Wild
James Rollins – Map Of Bones
Jane Austen – Sense And Sensibility
Joan Bunning – Learning The Tarot
Jonas Gardell – Frestelsernas Berg
Jostein Gaarder – Sofies Verden
Kate Summerscale – The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher: Or The Murder At Road Hill House
Lars Collmar – Evangelium Enligt Johannes Larsson
Laura Ingalls Wilder – The Long Winter
Liza Marklund – Sprängaren
Lucy Maud Montgomery – Anne Of Green Gables
M.R. James – Ghost Stories
Maria Gripe – ...Och De Vita Skuggorna I Skogen
Maria Gripe – ...Och De Vita Skuggorna I Skogen [limited edition]
Maria Gripe – Agnes Cecilia – En Sällsam Historia
Maria Gripe – Agnes Cecilia – En Sällsam Historia [limited edition]
Maria Gripe – Glasblåsarns Barn
Maria Gripe – Skuggan Över Stenbänken
Maria Gripe – Skuggan Över Stenbänken [limited edition]
Maria Gripe – Skuggornas Barn
Maria Gripe – Tordyveln Flyger I Skymningen
Maria Gripe – Tordyveln Flyger I Skymningen [limited edition]
Maria Gripe – Tre Trappor Upp Med Hiss
Martin Eriksson – Sveakampen
Mary Downing Hahn – The Spanish Kidnapping Disaster
Michael Moore – Stupid White Men
Nicholas Guyatt – Have A Nice Doomsday: Why Millions Of Americans Are Looking Forward To The End Of The World
Oscar Wilde – The Picture Of Dorian Gray
Peter Hedges – What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Reby Edmond MacDonald – The Austwick Treasure
Reby Edmond MacDonald – The Ghosts of Austwick Manor
Richard Dawkins – The God Delusion
Stephen King - Four Past Midnight
Stephen King – Needful Things
Stephen King – The Shining
Waris Dirie – Desert Dawn
Waris Dirie – Desert Flower
William Hjortsberg – Falling Angel
Vivien Alcock – Time Wreck

Fairytale Collections
HC Andersens Sagor
John Bauers Sagovärld
Kungliga Sagoboken
Prins Hatt Under Jorden
Svenska Folksagor
Tusen Och En Natt

Dictionaries
Amerikanskt Slanglexikon
Irish-English/English-Irish Dictionary
Prismas Främmande Ord
Swedish-Spanish/Spanish-Swedish Dictionary
Swedish-German/German-Swedish Dictionary

 

[Logeth]

OK, I have more than 200 books, so my favorite books that I own are:

Les miserables
Pollyana (my favorite book since I was a child!!)
Last of the Mahicans
some Romanian books

Christians:
Blue like jazz
Battlefield of the mind
HEaring the voice of God or something like this (the title is in Romania ) and by the same author Conquering the gates of the enemy.

 

[stacymay]

This is not a complete list, as I am in my dorm now so I don't have all the books I own with me and most likely will forget lots of them XD.

FICTION

The Silmarillion - JRR Tolkien
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - JRR Tolkien
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling
Shanghai Girls - Lisa See
The Imager - LE Modesitt, Jr.
Linger - Maggie Steifvater
Forever - Maggie Steifvater

NONFICTION

NIV Bible (couldn't find my version on Amazon though)
Jesus Calling Devotional Journal - Sarah Young
A Purpose-Driven Life Journal - Rick Warren
Quench! Devotionals
The Roads to Sata - Alan Booth
Lost Japan - Alex Kerr (different version, though)
Looking Like the Enemy - Mary Matsuda Gruenwald
Kickboxing Geishas: How Modern Japanese Women are Changing Their Nation - Veronica Chambers
Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa - Karin Muller
My Name is Number 4: A True Story from the Cultural Revolution - Ting-xing Ye
Mere Christianity - CS Lewis
Stranger at the Gate - Mel White
Soul Survivor - Philip Yancey
The OCD Workbook - Bruce M Hyman & Cherry Pedrick
Running With Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
A Wolf at the Table - Augusten Burroughs
Look me in the Eye: My Life With Asperger's - John Elder Robison


AND quite a few more fantasy novels & random books I forget I have.

 

[keith99]

This is not a complete list, as I am in my dorm now so I don't have all the books I own with me and most likely will forget lots of them XD.

FICTION

The Silmarillion - JRR Tolkien
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - JRR Tolkien
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling
Shanghai Girls - Lisa See
The Imager - LE Modesitt, Jr.
Linger - Maggie Steifvater
Forever - Maggie Steifvater

NONFICTION

NIV Bible (couldn't find my version on Amazon though)
Jesus Calling Devotional Journal - Sarah Young
A Purpose-Driven Life Journal - Rick Warren
Quench! Devotionals
The Roads to Sata - Alan Booth
Lost Japan - Alex Kerr (different version, though)
Looking Like the Enemy - Mary Matsuda Gruenwald
Kickboxing Geishas: How Modern Japanese Women are Changing Their Nation - Veronica Chambers
Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa - Karin Muller
My Name is Number 4: A True Story from the Cultural Revolution - Ting-xing Ye
Mere Christianity - CS Lewis
Stranger at the Gate - Mel White
Soul Survivor - Philip Yancey
The OCD Workbook - Bruce M Hyman & Cherry Pedrick
Running With Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
A Wolf at the Table - Augusten Burroughs
Look me in the Eye: My Life With Asperger's - John Elder Robison


AND quite a few more fantasy novels & random books I forget I have.

Might I reccomend 'Weight of Glory' by Lewis?

An overlooked book and judging from your list one you might appreciate.

 

[JM]

Where to start...I've worked in a library for 20 years and have bought a lot of books. I have spent about 5,000 in just theological works and have over 30 leather covered Bibles.

 

[keith99]

This is not a complete list, as I am in my dorm now so I don't have all the books I own with me and most likely will forget lots of them XD.

FICTION

The Silmarillion - JRR Tolkien
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - JRR Tolkien
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling
Shanghai Girls - Lisa See
The Imager - LE Modesitt, Jr.
Linger - Maggie Steifvater
Forever - Maggie Steifvater

NONFICTION

NIV Bible (couldn't find my version on Amazon though)
Jesus Calling Devotional Journal - Sarah Young
A Purpose-Driven Life Journal - Rick Warren
Quench! Devotionals
The Roads to Sata - Alan Booth
Lost Japan - Alex Kerr (different version, though)
Looking Like the Enemy - Mary Matsuda Gruenwald
Kickboxing Geishas: How Modern Japanese Women are Changing Their Nation - Veronica Chambers
Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa - Karin Muller
My Name is Number 4: A True Story from the Cultural Revolution - Ting-xing Ye
Mere Christianity - CS Lewis
Stranger at the Gate - Mel White
Soul Survivor - Philip Yancey
The OCD Workbook - Bruce M Hyman & Cherry Pedrick
Running With Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
A Wolf at the Table - Augusten Burroughs
Look me in the Eye: My Life With Asperger's - John Elder Robison


AND quite a few more fantasy novels & random books I forget I have.

Might I suggest 'The Weight of Glory' By Lewis? A overlooked book and judging from your list one you might appreciate.

 

[stacymay]

Might I suggest 'The Weight of Glory' By Lewis? A overlooked book and judging from your list one you might appreciate.

Ooh, yay! I'll be sure to check it out, thanks bro! I'm really enjoying Mere Christianity so far.