One thing that I learned about moving is I have a lot of great books that I forgot about. As I was unloading my laundry basket after each trip, I would see a book and think, “Oh! I forgot about this” or “I’ll have to read this again because I don’t remember the story” or “I really want to share this book on my blog.”
The pile above is about 2/3rds of my books, maybe a little less. I managed to empty about 8 shelves and still have a couple of shelves to go, two large stacks (about twice the height of those in the picture), and random books scattered around the house. I honestly think I’ll have to get another set of shelves. Sigh.
The piles are filled with the serious classics (Scarlet Letter, Count of Monte Cristo, Tale of Two Cities), other classics (Anne of Green Gables series), contemporary fiction (Dee Henderson’s O’Malley series), historical fiction (multiple series by the Thoenes, Michael Phillips, Judith Pella), young adult (Mandie series, Patricia St. John books, Joy Sparton series, Melody Carlson books), kids books (Bobbsie Twins, Nancy Drew, Black Stallion, Golden books), biographies (Jessica Lynch, Elizabeth Elliot, ??? Markham), non-fiction (references on teaching, English and literature, journal of L.M. Montgomery, business start-up, various religious topics), and collections (Rudyard Kipling’s short stories, essays by Emerson). I still have all of my writing and graphic design books to move as well as my Shakespeare collections and literature anthologies.
I’m guessing that I could probably read books from my own collection for the next year and not run out of things to read. Is that too many books to have? What’s on your book shelves?
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One can never have too many books. Most of my shelf is non-fiction and books I use in homeschool. Most of my fiction reading comes from the library.