Virtual Shelf
Please excuse the knife on the bookshelf. I live with a military historian.
Here in Fiction C-D, you can observe a wide range of interests. You’ll find classics (Willa Cather, Joseph Conrad, James Fenimore Cooper, Dante), mysteries (Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie), young adult fiction (Susan Cooper, Sharon Creech, Roald Dahl, Kate DiCamillo), erudite contemporary fiction (Italo Calvino, Don DeLillo, Junot Diaz), and more evidence that I live with a military historian (Bernard Cornwell).
More books about Sherlock Holmes are lurking, most notably The Final Problem by Michael Chabon and A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullin, two excellent portraits of a very old Holmes.
The black sheep of this shelf is The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. It’s a perfectly lovely book, but I’ve seen it shelved under D, S, and E. For a while it lived in E, until I looked for it once and couldn’t find it: as it turns out, I had subconsciously expected it to be in D, so that’s where I put it back. I’m seriously considering reorganizing my books according to the colors of the spines. I could probably find them just as fast.
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