A bookshelf will tell you everything you need to know about a person.
As Alan Bennet said, “A personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.”
Seeing as I write a lot about books and reading, I thought I’d give you my first mini bookshelf tour.
I’ve recently moved, so these are just the books that have helped see me through lockdown. Most of my books are in storage, and this is just 1% of my personal collection. But it’s a great 1%.
I’ve put links to the books mentioned below the video.
Enjoy, and let me know what’s on your bookshelf.
Bookshelf Tour
A few of the books mentioned:
- Turgenev’s Sportsman’s Notebook
- Chekhov’s short stories
- A Remembrance of Things Past
- Shakespeare Arden editions
- Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy
- James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room
- Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina
- James Joyce’s Ulysses
- Henry David Thoreau’s Walden
- The Colour of Time (review here)
- Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged
- Horace’s Epistles
- P.G. Wodehouse
- Agatha Christie
- Raymond Chandler
- Haruki Murakami
- Yukio Mishima (podcast here)
- The Teachings of Buddha
- Taschen series
- Nietzsche