[BwanaNdege]

Anyone for a thread on which books to fit on just one bookshelf, if you were limited?

Say, 20 titles?

[QualityMan]

good thread idea....

[Scarpetta]

I’m game.

[wideawake]

King James Bible
Federalist Papers
Shakespeare
Dante's Divine Comedy
Homer's Odyssey
The Roman Catechism
Machiavelli's Discourses (far better than The Prince)
Ulysses S. Grant's Memoirs
Augustine's Confessions
Bonaventure's Breviloquium
Fowler's King's English
Newman's Apologia
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Caesar's Gallic Wars
Montaigne's Essays
Waugh's Edmund Campion
O'Connor's Wiseblood
Wittgenstein's Investigations
Blanchot's Literary Space
Barzun's Dawn to Decadence

[jocon307]

“Anyone for a thread on which books to fit on just one bookshelf, if you were limited?”

well now you are reminding me of one of the great compliments I ever got, so I’ll repeat it in complete humility.

My first apt. of course I didn’t have too much stuff and only one bookshelf as you say. My brother came over and he said “wow, for only one bookshelf, you have an excellent compiliation”. If you knew what a complete intellectual snob my brother was you’d understand why I was over the moon about that.

I can’t remember what I had, sorry, but I guess it was OK. Pretty sure I had my trusty “Complete Sherlock Holmes” because that to me is the best.

[BwanaNdege]

I’m working on my list.

“Wideawake” has just made me look totally illiterate, but here goes my first eleven. The order has no significance

Pocket Ref - Thomas J Glover
Language in Thought & Action - S.I. Hayakawa
The Bible -KJV
The Bible -(NIV, ESV, NASB. Whichever contemporary version with which you are comfortable)
The Jungle Books (Vol 1 &2) -Kipling
Trustee from the Toolroom -Nevil Shute
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
Eat the Rich - P.J. O’Rourke
Edge of the Anvil - Jack Andrews
How to Grow More Vegetables - John Jeavons
Westminster Shorter Catechcism