bookshelf tour!!📚💛

[Music] [Laughter] [Music] hi everyone it's lucy and today i'm going to be doing my bookshelf tour i don't think i've ever done one of these before and i've always wanted to do one and since i've organized my shelves and i'm quite happy with how they are i thought i would film it now i don't exactly know how well this is going to work but i'm just going to give it a go so i will go through all the shelves and kind of explain the process behind my organization as a quick introduction most of my books are organized chronologically so i start with the earliest and i go through to the latest that's only some of them and i'll kind of explain um what the deal is that basically everything except for some specific genres are organized chronologically yeah i think i'll just go ahead and get straight into it i think for the top shelves i'm just going to hold my camera i don't think there's a good way to set the tripod up but the very first shelf that i have is my tolkien shelf so i do have a separate bookcase for all of my other editions but these are the ones that i read from so we have the adventures of tom bombadil the hobbit my set of the lord of the rings and then we have the silmarillion unfinished tales and then we have the three tales we have the children of heron beran and luthien and the fall of gondolin and then finally we have some volumes from the history of middle earth series moving on this is when we start my chronological organization so obviously we start with very very early texts so i believe the earliest book i have or text is the iliad by homer i have read the odyssey i studied it but i don't have my copy anymore and then we have if not winter fragments of sappho by anne carson which i read in december of 2020 and i absolutely loved it then we have more ancient greek we have some euripides plays we have beowulf which i have read but i really want to get the tolkien translation and we have some medieval ghost stories i studied these um for my pre-modern gothic module i think then we have this collection of stories of king arthur and his nights which i found at a library sale i believe and i really enjoyed it i love the legends of king arthur so that was a really fun one then we have seguin and the green knight which i also studied for my pre-modern gothic and again i would love to get the tolkien translation a lot of these are definitely university reads so i have the fairy queen by admin spencer which i didn't really read i only really focused on books one and two those are the ones that we had to study but i only really skimmed it so i should probably go back and properly read it then we have some shakespeare plays we have julius caesar hamlet othello king lear and macbeth then we have the duchess of malfi by john webster which i studied at college and i really really enjoyed studying this play i'd recommend it if you are into renaissance literature and maybe if you like shakespeare this is another one to give a try then we have a study guide we have paradise lost by john milton which i also studied at college and we only focused on i think books nine and ten but again i really enjoyed studying this one we have orinoco by aphra ben we have a vindication of the rights of women and also the wrongs of women by mary wollstonecraft next we have this illustrated poetry of keats which i found in a secondhand shop and i'm in love with this i think it's so beautiful and then finally on this shelf we have shelly on love edited by richard holmes this is a collection of percy shelley's writing about love so this is the next shelf down and we start with songs of innocence and of experience by william blake then we have all of austin's complete works and this is stacked in chronological order so we have sense and sensibility pride and prejudice mansfield park emma persuasion and northanger abbey then we have this complete novels of jane austen which i believe was a gift from one of my grandparents this has all of her works as well as lady susan i've never read from this one but it's just really nice to have i also have this jane austen mug which is a gift this was a gift from my friends and i think it's so gorgeous i like to have it next to my jane austen books then we have frankenstein by mary shelley another university reads next we have the history of mary prince by mary prince this was the first narrative of a black woman to be published in britain then we have this copy of some of edgar allan poe's tales i think this is the british library edition this is just really beautiful and it also has illustrations throughout which are really gorgeous next we have this beautiful edition of the pic papers volume one i got this from a friend at college i also got another charles dickens book in the same edition which you'll see in a bit but i just love how gorgeous this is and i just really love having this on my shelves i think it just adds a lot of interest to it and then next to that coffee i have the wordsworth classics edition which i actually read from this was the first dickens book that we read for the dickens vs tolstoy book club which is hosted by carolyn and emma and all of the dickens and tolstoy books that you see on my shelves will eventually be read for that book club you can see that we're moving into the victorian period now um which is probably the period that i have the most literature for so we have our next dickens which is oliver twist in the same wordsworth classics edition and then again we have a christmas carol by charles dickens this also has some other stories it also includes the chimes and the haunted man and i've read all of these ones then we have the three musketeers by alexandra dumas and the complete poems by emily bronte which i really really adored and i definitely recommend reading her poetry i preferred it a lot more than withering heights and then we have jane eyre by charlotte bronte which i definitely need to reread because it's been years on to the next shelf now these are again still victorian classics or they're in that era we'll start with these two beautiful editions so we have this edition of jane eyre which has really beautiful designs on it this edition was published in 1978 and i also have wuthering heights in the same edition these are both gifts next to that edition i have the wordsworth classics of wuthering heights which i studied for my victorian gothic module i believe and unfortunately i didn't enjoy this one which is quite unpopular opinion but i just found it so dull as you can see on this shelf i have quite a lot of the wordsworth editions or the penguin black classics i think just because they're the most readily available and probably the cheapest as well we have vanity fair by william make peace factory which i think i got secondhand i don't know when i'm gonna read this one it's quite a commitment but i have it on my shelves whenever i feel like it we have mary barton by elizabeth gaskell which i read in my first year of uni is this the yeah the oxford world classics edition next we have the tenant of waterfall hall by anne bronte in the god what edition is this i'm so bad at knowing what different editions are the penguin classics edition okay oh yeah the cloth bounds that's it i don't have a lot of these editions because i do prefer paperbacks um but this one is really beautiful this is the only ambronte book i have so far and i know she's only written one more then you can see i have a lot of penguin black classics we have david copperfield by charles dickens which is a very big one but i am excited to read it one day because sarah from sarah's perusals absolutely adores this book and i'm basically going to read it for her after dickens we have a tolstoy so this is childhood boyhood youth and this is the first tolstoy work that we read for the dickens vs toy story book club then we have villette by charlotte bronte i really love this cover i studied this for uni and i really enjoyed it i would definitely recommend it another massive dickens book we have bleak house we have ruth by elizabeth gaskill and hard times by charles dickens then i think this is my final gas school book i have it so far this is north and south and this is definitely my favorite gas school so far we have another wordsworth classics edition with madame bavary by gustaflover haven't read this one yet but it's quite a short one so maybe soon i found this edition of adam bead by george eliot i think at covent garden in one of their markets this is a penguin popular classics edition and i love the cover of this one i've only read middle march so far by george eliot that i absolutely loved middlemarch so i'm really hopeful that i will enjoy her other works then we have the other one of the editions that my friend gave me this is a tale of two cities i just love how antique this looks next is this very short book it is first love by taguer nev again this is thrifted we have another dickens with great expectations which i read a long time ago but i remember really loving it so hopefully i will enjoy it as much my next time reading it next we have a very recent addition to my shelves this is silas mana by george eliot this was a gift from my grandma this is my only the modern library edition i do really love these editions so i'm grateful to have one then we have lady ordly secret by mary elizabeth braden wasn't a big fan of this one i studied it and then we have fathers and sons by togenuif this is the arcturus edition and i thrifted this one and then finally on this shelf we have les miserables by victor hugo which i read 2020 and did really enjoy going down to the next lowest shelf we have alice's adventures in wonderland by lewis carroll which i haven't read yet then we have war and peace by leo tolstoy this is the vintage classics edition which is really beautiful this is another read from the dickens versus tall story book club and i really really enjoyed this one it just has so much in there to unpack and i think it's just beautifully written so i definitely think it is worth the length and then keeping war and peace company is this beautiful toy story illustration by carolyn on the back we also have dickens this is the print which is specifically for the dickens versus toy story book club but she has so many more on her etsy shop so definitely go and check it out i will link it below next we have crime and punishment by fyodor dostoyevsky i have read this one but it was a while ago and i would love to reread it and try some more of dostoyevsky i do have a few russian novels but not too many so i definitely should try and get some more next we have little women by louisa may alcott and middlemarch by george eliot i have read both of these middlemarch like i said is probably one of my favorite classics i just think it's really really well written and i love the character study as i mentioned before this is all organized chronologically so if there are any mistakes that i have committed then please let me know it is quite hard to organize everything down to perfection so let me know if there's any mistakes that you've spotted next we have far from the madden crowd by thomas hardy in this beautiful penguin english library edition i have read this one a while ago i would love to reread it and i do want to read all of hardy's works of course we have anna karenina by tolstoy i recently read this at the time of filming and really enjoyed it definitely not as much as war and peace but i just love tolstoy's writing the way that he investigates humanity and treats it with such realism is just really powerful we have our next thomas hardy with the return of the native this was found in a charity shop this is the new wessex edition i don't know much about this novel but it's hardy so i should be okay next we have two of the oxford world classics editions so we have the portrait of a lady by henry james and then also the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde and other tales by robert louis stevenson i read jacqueline hyde but i haven't yet read the portrait of a lady now we are definitely getting into the later victorian periods because we have lots of gothic attacks here which i just love the trends and the rising popularity of the gothic genre i think it's so interesting to see the ebb and flow of literature within history and to see kind of what is going on in these time periods with the prevalence of a lot of gothic texts i love studying the theories behind this rise in the 1890s and basically the end of the 19th century going into the 20th there is a lot of gothic literature and there's been a lot of speculation about what led to that there's a lot of imperialistic fears and fears of outside influences as well as changes within british society such as women and like i said outside influences so it's just really interesting to study the progress of literature and the evolution of what fuels that so these three collections i got for university when i had my victorian gothic modules so we have terrifying transformations and anthology of victorian werewolf fiction then we have the oxford book of victorian ghost stories and then the oxford world classics edition of late victorian gothic tales then we have some oscar wilde so we have the decay of lying and other essays by wild which i'm honestly in love with this edition this is a penguin classics edition and then of course we have the picture of dorian gray also by wild i studied this i wrote i think a 3 500 word essay on this book but yeah there's so much to get from this and i love this book of course next we have my favorite hardy so far which is tess of the derbyvilles i love this book i think it's beautiful and just so tragic so intense so powerful i think my final wild text is an ideal husband i studied this this is the dover thrift edition and then i think this is my final hardy book which is judy obscure which i have read this is honestly one of the most tragic novels i've read this is known as thomas hardy's most despairing novel which i definitely can see because it is just honestly so so tragic so that's a warning if you do read this book next we have the island of dr moreau by h.g wells i studied this at university this is a really interesting science fiction novel published in the late 1890s going into some more gothic literature we have dracula by bram stoker i haven't read this one yet but i definitely need to and we also have the turn of the screw by hemmie james which i studied at university and i also read this for the dark academics book club i believe art halloween this is a wordsworth classics edition which i really love how this one looks very vintage and this is a five star book for me i just love how ambiguous the languages and you're constantly trying to decide what is the truth whether the narrator is telling the truth it's just such an intriguing story so i really recommend this one my final tolstoy on my shelves is resurrection i found this in london and i'm very intrigued by this one and of course excited to read another tolstoy we're almost into the 20th century now this is the awakening and some other stories by kate chopin and finally we've come to my very first rilke book this is the book of hours love poems to god this one is translated by anita barrows and joanna macy i'm so so excited to read this one i think this one is really going to resonate with me then we have a room with a view by ian foster next we have this collection of wba's poetry yates toes the border i believe between romanticism of the victorian period and modernism we have the phantom of the opera by gaston leroux another dark academics book that we read we have my next ruleka with the notebooks of monty laurie's brick this is real cuz i believe only novel so i'm very excited to read this one heading into the 1920s we have the great gatsby by f scott fitzgerald and the final book on this shelf is the prophet by khalil gibran at the time of filming i recently read this and this is such a beautiful book not only on the outside gibran manages to give us life advice in such a beautiful enthralling introspective way and it just really makes you think this next shelf is definitely going into the modern period so we're right into the 20th century with this shelf and it goes up until the 1980s i believe the first book we have is passing by nella larsen and then we have a miniature real care collection here so we have letters to a young poet the dark interval and finally the selected poetry of reina maria rilke i'm really excited to just continue growing my real care collection and to read a lot more of his works we have my two virginia wolf books next we have a room of one zone and three guineas and then we have the waves both by virginia woolf we have brave new world by aldous huxley which is our first explicit dystopian novel we have rebecca by daphne du maurier which i wasn't the biggest fan of i have anne frank the diary of a young girl next is brideshead revisited by evelyn moore then we have animal farm by george orwell another short book we have extracts from the second sex by simone d bevoir i believe this is part of the collection alongside a vindication of the rights of women and the beauty myth here is a vindication alongside the second sex then we have my other orwell book with 1984. i studied this in college and i loved studying this i thought there was so much to unpack and just a really really interesting book that makes you think about society next is one of the few plays i have i don't have too many plays but this is the crucible by arthur miller this is one of the penguin modern classics we have two more dystopian books with fahrenheit 451 by ray bradbury and lord of the flies by william golden these books weren't my favorite but dystopian books do have a lot of interesting thoughts and themes to explore we have two more modern classics with lolita by vladimir nabokov and a streetcar named desire by tennessee williams i studied a streetcar named desire at college i haven't yet read lolita and i'm not sure when i will we have a separate piece by john knowles to kill a mockingbird by harper lee as well as we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson we have two more dystopian-esque books with catch-22 by joseph heller and a clockwork orange by anthony vergess i have read both of these but i will definitely revisit them in the future we have another penguin modern classic with wide sargasso sea by jean reece i think i'll read this one once i reread jane eyre because i believe this is either a retelling or it's inspired by jane eyre next is this beautiful edition of 100 years of solitude by gabrielle garcia marquez at the time of filming i recently read this for the first time and i'm honestly in awe of how amazing this book was if you're intimidated by it i would definitely still recommend giving it a go because i didn't find it as complicated as i thought i would and i do think it's definitely worth it we also have morris by e.m forster next are two vintage classics editions with the bloody chamber by angela carter and the house of the spirits by isabella linde then we have sleepwalking by meg wolitzer the miss of avalon by marion zimmer bradley which is a very very big book but i do want to read it one day i believe this is a retelling of arthurian legend but from the perspective of the women and finally from this shelf we have the color purple by alice walker and sister outsider by audrey lorde which is a really powerful essay collection all about feminism and race sexuality is really powerful so i would recommend this one moving on to the next shelf we're still in the 20th century but now we're almost at the 21st century and i guess this is maybe moving on from classics or what most people define as classics i suppose and we're moving into literary fiction first we have their eyes were watching god by zora neale hurston which is a really beautiful story next is the hamas tale by margaret atwoods this is the copy i studied at college it's a very strange edition but this is the one that has all of my notes in it when i studied it next we have two books that are very much focused on mythology so first we have cassandra by krista wolfe which is a really beautiful retelling of cassandra's life and then we have the secret history by donna tartt which is about a group of classic students so both of these are great if you want to get more into mythology related literature then we have notes and crosses by mallory blackman then we have atonement my ian mcewen beloved by tony morrison which is an absolutely incredible book the wind up beard chronicle by hiroki murakami which still has the sticker on the front then we have this beautiful copy of the kite runner by kala tussini i haven't read this one yet but i'm sure i'm going to adore it because i read a thousand splendid sons and it was honestly incredible such a powerful book next is jonathan strange and mr norrell by susanna clarke which i haven't read yet it is a very intimidating book but hopefully one day i will pluck up the courage to read it after dark by murakami is the only murakami book i've read so far that after loving this one i was convinced to pick up the wind up the chronicle next we have never let me go by kazuo ishiguri this is a non-fiction book titled jmw turner the man who set painting on a fire i got this from tate britain when i went there in london i'm not really sure why i have it with my literary fiction but i just keep it on the shelf then we have the road by cormac mccarthy which i studied at college the book thief by marcus zuzak and the hidden heart of emily hudson by melissa jones next is the memory of love by emmanata fauna i've never heard of this book but i found it at a charity shop and it just sounded really interesting so i picked it up then we have the song of achilles by madeline miller which i would love to reread someday then we have the snow child by erwin ivy and yes i did first become interested in this book because of the author's name my brilliant friend by elena ferrante and then the dispossessed by gillard bauberly then we have some mysteries or thrillers we have everything i never told you by celeste ing which i did really enjoy the family relations were really interesting to read about then we have we were lies by e lockhart which i'm not sure whether i'll enjoy but it is really short so i might just give it a go and then we have the night falling by katherine webb which i believe is historical fiction so we have definitely gone into the beginning of the 21st century now this is the final shelf which is organized chronologically the organization chronologically goes up until on earth we're briefly gorgeous and then state of sorrow is when i start to go into some fantasy first we have the berry giant by kazuo ishiguro then we have go setter watchman by harper lee which is the sequel to killer mockingbirds which i really really didn't enjoy then we have a little life radio silence by alice oseman which is a why a contemporary book one of the few that i have as you will probably see then we have the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor jenkins reed i absolutely love this book when i first read it then we have the secret books by marcel thoreau pachinko by men jin lee then we have some mythology inspired books again so we have the penelope by margaret atwood and then the silence of the girls by pat barker i wasn't a massive fan of both of them i think i probably preferred the science of the girls this was one of our dark academic book club picks it was actually our first one but personally i didn't think that either of them were that powerful or impactful actually i do think the science of the girls was impactful in some ways but i didn't personally think it focused as much as it could have on the women then we have girl women other by bernadine evaristo which i believe is told in this or it seems like it is written in an unconventional format so i'm very excited for that one we have the deathless girls by kieran millwood hargrave which i believe is a retelling of dracula so i'm planning to read this one after i read the original dracula and the final two books i have in this chronological organization is the doll factory by elizabeth mcneil which is a historical fiction and finally on earth we're briefly gorgeous by ocean one so now we're moving on to the fantasy section this isn't really organized in age range or anything else it's just all the fantasy books i have i think managed to keep together fantasy used to be the one genre that i really read mostly a few years ago when i first got into reading but i don't really gravitate towards it as much now i'm definitely more focused on reading classics and literary fiction at the moment so most of these are books i read a while ago and i'm just keeping there are a few that i haven't read yet but in this period in my life i'm not reading as much fantasy as i used to the first we have status sorry by melinda salisbury and the sequel which is a song of sorrow i absolutely loved status sorrow i love the politics and how i looked at the position of women in politics but the sequel i wasn't the biggest fan of then we have a strange the dreamer by laini taylor which i actually dnf'd and i'm only keeping it because so many people love the book and part of me wants to give it another go eventually then we have the queen of the tailing by erica johansson which was okay the poppy war by rf quang which was a really really intense book and i definitely want to continue with the series at some point next we have the fifth season by n.k jemisin which i haven't read yet but i've heard amazing things finally for this shelf is the starless sea by erin morgenstern which i did really enjoy it was quite a conflicting experience but overall i thought it was a really creative book this shelf is definitely the shelf of older fantasy books these are the ones that i read when i was a lot younger and first getting into reading so we have harry potter we have the hunger games which i always see as the books that got me into reading then we have cassandra clare books which i did really enjoy when i was younger i don't have the immortal instruments books anymore just because i wasn't as connected to those and i really don't see myself rereading those but we have the infernal devices and then the dark artifices series which honestly i am debating unhauling just because i don't think i'll ever revisit them and then we have the divergent series which i also really loved when i was younger now we're going back to some adult fantasy but i think there is still some why a so first we have the final empire by brandon sanderson and the shadow of what was lost by james islington both of which i haven't read then we have the a song of ice and fire series which i will read if george rr martin ever comes out with the next two books then i just have this little collection of caroline duffy poems titled dorothy wearsworth's christmas birthday which was a gift from my grandma then we have the andy darkin series which i really enjoyed when i was younger and some robin hobb books this is the assassins apprentice trilogy then we have night circus by erin morgenstern which i would like to reread daughter of smoke and bone by laina taylor which i haven't read and wars of the roses by khan igordan which i also haven't read and this is historical fiction as opposed to fantasy we are down to the bottom two shelves this is mostly books that need to be on the bottom of the shelves because they're so heavy and they don't fit most of them are non-fiction i think and we have quite a few anthologies which i needed for university here we have an illustrated a to z of classic mythology which includes the legends of ancient greece rome and the norse in celtic worlds then we have this harry potter pop-up book which my nan got for me next is a series about british history we have early britain which is 500 000 bc to ad 1154 the middle ages the tudors and stuarts the georgians the victorian age and modern britain next we have this book which is i believe all of george harrison's lyrics i was really into the beatles a few years ago and i really liked george as well he's probably my favorite beetle so i was gifted this anthology of his songs then we have this diode of the peaky blinders book which was again a gift from my nan then we have these two books so they're both from the same collection we have the mythology book and then the literature book which basically gives you an overview of different books popular books throughout the ages these are both published by dk then we have my first university anthology which is a critical and cultural theory reader then we have mythos by stephen fry then we have two beatles books we have the dead straight guy to the beatles and the ray connolly beatles archive the yellow wallpaper by charlotte gilman which i couldn't fit on my classics shelf we have this 365 days of art book which my friend got me is basically an activity book where you do an activity a day then we have this writer's london book which basically goes through the different areas of london and gives you different places that are associated with different writers then we have some non-fiction so we have a history of the world by andrew marr as well as the regency revolution by robert morrison then we have london's secret walks and finally we have a stack of some anthologies so at the top we had this complete works of william shakespeare which was actually a gift from my grandma then we have all of these university anthologies the norton anthology of english literature then we have the anthology of poetry victorian age literature american literature another american literature and the norton shakespeare and finally on to the last shelf which is basically a mixture of big books and hardbacks so we start with lots of fantasy we have the name of the wind which i haven't read the six of crows duology the city of brass and the kingdom of copper by essay chakraborty we have the never night series and the prairie of the orange tree then we have the young romantics the shelley's byron and other tangled lives by daisy hay which i would love to read the jane austen writers club the chosen ones by steve sam sandberg then we have the dark descent of elizabeth frankenstein by kirsten white which is a retelling of frankenstein from elizabeth's perspective then we have lovely war by julie berry a thousand splendid sons by cali tussini which i couldn't fit on the other shelves but absolutely love this book then we have the princes in the tower by alison weir which is a non-fiction about richard iii and the myth that he killed his nephews and finally three hardbacks we have mexican gothic the bone clocks and ham nuts i've only read mexican gothic so far so there we go those are my bookshelves [Music] [Music] so that is my bookshelf tour i really hope you enjoyed it and i hope it wasn't too long because it took ages to film yeah i'm gonna have fun editing it but i really hope you enjoyed it and let me know whether there are any books that i can add to my shelves maybe to fill up some gaps i know i said that victorian literature is my main presence on my shelves i would love to get more from the romantic periods and maybe more ancient attacks and things but yeah i hope you enjoyed it and i'll see you again soon [Music] you

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