a list of books currently on my desk

[aamcnamara]

...offered without explanation:
- The Secret of the Old Clock
- The Bungalow Mystery
- The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse
- Sammy Keyes and the Dead Giveaway
- The Tombs of Atuan
- Shakespeare's Bawdy
- Much Ado About Nothing
- The Princes of the Air
- The Moonbane Mage
- King Lear, Macbeth, Indefinition, and Tragedy
- Burning Bright
- Dreamships
- Dreaming Metal
- The Eyre Affair
- Selected Prose of T.S. Eliot
- Collected Poems of James Wright

What's on yours?

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Three Kingdoms Vol. IV
The Road to Jerusalem
Crystal Nights and Other Stories
A Kipling Pageant
Kris Longknife: Defiant
All the Places to Love
A Posse of Princesses
Underworld
A Fine and Private Place
Growing Up Hockey
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
Freakonomics
The Pursuit of Glory: The Five Revolutions That Made Modern Europe, 1648-1815
Defenders of the Faith
The Day We Discovered the Universe
Enlightenment Contested
Backroom Boys
The Poison King
God's Playground: A History of Poland (two volumes)
Modernity at the Edge of Empire: State, Individual, and Nation in the Northern Peruvian Andes, 1885-1955
History in Three Keys
Linnaeus
Kitchi-Gami
Louis XIII, The Just
A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove
The World of Gerard Mercator
The Regional Roots of Developmental Politics in India
A History of the Gypsies

[aliseadae]

Fire and Hemlock
Fire Logic
The Silmarillion
1066 and All That
Nintey Percent Study and Ninety Percent Experience
Tam Lin
War for the Oaks.

...apparently my desk is smaller than yours.

[aamcnamara.livejournal.com]

I cheated, some of them are actually in a pile on the top of my bookcase. But technically there is room for that pile on my desk as well, if I felt like putting it there.

[aliseadae]

Cheater! Here are some other books lying around my room:

Finder
Proven Guilty
Lieutenant Hornblower
Latinoamérica: Su civilizatión y cultura
The Dragon Waiting
The Archaeology of Wetlands
The Bronze Age

[aliseadae]

Even more!

Empress of the World
Changing Planes
The Snow Queen
Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader
Interfictions 2
Lud-in-the-Mist
To Say Nothing of the Dog
University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology, Technical Report 26
The Archaeology of Mesopotamia: Theories and Approaches
Ancient Mesopotamia
People of the Wetlands
Sumer and the Sumerians
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Heaven's Bones
Middle Egyptian Grammar

[mlt23.livejournal.com]

I love To Say Nothing of the Dog!

[aliseadae]

Me too! I've been re-reading it, among many other things on that list. Plenty are new to me, though.

[mlt23.livejournal.com]

Actually on my desk at the moment:
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Romance of Archaeology
Dracula
The Craft of Research
Conspiracy of Kings
Introductory Applied Biostatistics
Biological Anthropology

The books on the shelf above my desk that I can see from my bed:
All of Lois McMaster Bujold's Mile's books
The Glass House People
Passage
To Say Nothing of the Dog
Sailing to Sarantium
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
Her Smoke Rose up Forever
Caine Black Knife
Fool's War
Gaudy Night
Lud-in-the-Mist

[mlt23.livejournal.com]

Oops.

I don't actually own Conspiracy of Kings in RL. Only in my dreams. I mean to say King of Attolia.

[actourdreams.livejournal.com]

Unseen Academicals
Chewing Gum: A History
Answering Only to God
The Speed of Dark
Confederacy of Dunces
The Motion of Light on Water
Heavenly Breakfast
The Good Neighbours: Kin
All the Fishes come Home to Roost
The Story of Writing
The Behavioral and Social Sciences
Civil Disobediences
Lord of Light

+misc. issues of Hellblazer, The Unwritten, and Weird Tales