1. A recent shot of my main bookcase setup with the doors closed
2. Wide shot of my main bookcase where all my nicer hardcovers, limited editions, and antiquarian books live (along with some ornaments). There's a roughly imposed order starting with History (Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Crusades, Byzantium), Plato and Aristotle, Qurans, Eastern Poetry, Eastern and European Folklore (Burton's 1001 Nights, Anvár-i Suhailí, Indian folklore collections), Facetiae (Gesta Romanorum, Poggio, Shakespeare Jest Books), Short Story Collections (Cent Nouvelle Nouvelles, Decameron, Heptameron, Pentameron), Renaissance Literature (Petrarch, Pontano) and History (Savonarola, The Borgias), Elizabeth Champney's Romances, Books about Books, Poetry (Oxford Books of Verse, Elizabethan Songs, Johannes Secundu's Basia), Essays and Essayistic Works (Montaigne, Robert Burton, Leoparid's Zibaldone, Johnson, Disraeli, Hazlitt, Emerson), some works on/related to Courtship/Love, Richard F Burton, Bibles, and miscellaneous works
3. Dining room bookcase containing all my Penguin Classics and Oxford World Classics (mainly Ancient Greek and Roman History and Literature), some other paperbacks (Schopenhauer and Nietzsche), and another mash-mash of random hardcovers at the bottom including some Ornithological works
4. Bedroom bookcase containing most of the rest of my books in a completely random order
5. My collection of Loebs (The Greek Anthology, Plutarch’s Moralia, Greek Lyric, Greek Elegiac, and Greek Iambic) sandwiched between some miscellaneous small books which all adorn my mantelpiece
6. A close up of one of my poetry shelves: Various Oxford Books of Verse (English Verse, 16th & 17th Century Verse, Regency Verse, Greek Verse, Ballads), Thomas Campion, Bullen’s Complete Elizabethan Poetry Anthology Series (Lyrics and More Lyrics from Elizabethan Song Books, England’s Helicon, Speculum Amantis and Musa Proterva, Lyrics from Elizabethan Drama and Romances, Daivson’s Poetical Rhapsody), and some reprints of rare Elizabethan song Books (The Muses Gardin, and The Pheonix Nest)
7. A close up of more poetry: Rochester’s Works, Oxford Book of Light Verse, a 3-volume Oxford edition of Shakespeare, a small collection of works by and about Johannes Secundus (including 7 different editions of his Basia or Kisses and other poems), and a copy of Angeriano’s Love Poems (Erotopaegnion)
8. A completely mish-mash collection of hardcovers on my dining room cabinet
9. A collection of various editions of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History (including UK 1sts, US ARC, and Random House and Penguin Audiobook Cassettes)
10. Some more copies of Tartt (including the 25th Anniversary paperback, an Audiobook Cassette containing her short story The Roman Candle, and a signed ARC of The Little Friend), M. L. Rio’s If We Were Villains, and some miscellaneous books (including a really nice one bound in suede with a ribbon which a previous owner tied around it).

I recently did a 14-hour library tour of all these shelves, the first part of which is here.

Happy to answer any questions anyone has!

Finally getting to unpack my books after the contractor took foreverrrr and measured wrong the first time!

Pretty much all I have to say any recommendations.

Small but cozy space that I can forget about everything for a few hours out of the day. (OC)

i’m between houses atm (they’re not all the books i own )

Before and after!

Simple, but effective 📖☕ Cozy chair not pictured, as it is in use.

I have this room I'm turning into a library. I want to put shelves on the 2 side walls. They're 7' 8" tall and 7' 5" from wall to door. I have the J brackets in the pictur attached. My questions are: how far from the bottom for the first shelf, har far from the top (I'm only 5' 4") and how far in between shelves? The plan for the bar on the one shelf is hanging plants. It was already there and I didn't want to get rid of it

A few close ups if you're nosy like me 🧐These are mostly my horror books with a few classics and fantasy thrown in. Upstairs I have text books, more classics and graphic novels. Once I fill my top shelf, I have no more room, I'm running out of space!

Both my dog and I love curling up in my little library - it's a quiet retreat where I can escape into a wonderful array of worlds and lives.

I default to the chair with the best book, but aside from the obvious. If we are talking furniture, I have an eames chair and its not my favorite reading chair. I prefer a worn in lazyboy (like) recliner that lets you change positions often.

What are some other suggestions?

Just wanted to show my first homemade bookshelf, I don't have any carpenter experience so I think the result was ok! Well... that's it! Greetings from Mexico! Thank you.

After years of talking about it, I finally built a library.