Books: Inventory

Last updated: 2026-10-08

This is a list of my physical books. Read items are marked with ✓.

On The Go

• Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan & Other Classic Horror Stories

Main Bookshelf

Shelf Six (Top)

• Peter S. Beagle: The Last Unicorn ✓
• Ray Bradbury: Something Wicked This Way Comes ✓
• John Wyndham: The Chrysalids ✓
• L. M. Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables ✓
• Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian ✓
• Charles Portis: True Grit ✓
• Margaret Atwood: Oryx and Crake ✓
• Margaret Atwood: The Robber Bride ✓
• Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms ✓
• Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front ✓
• Louis L'Amour: Off the Mangrove Coast (short stories) ✓
• Louis L'Amour: Valley of the Sun (short stories) ✓
• John le Carré: Three Complete Novels (omnibus) ✓
  • The Spy Who Came in from the Cold ✓
  • A Small Town in Germany ✓
  • The Looking Glass War ✓
• Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice ✓
• Sinclair Ross: As for Me and My House ✓
• Pearl S. Buck: Letter from Peking ✓
• Nick Hornby: Slam ✓
• Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome ✓
• John Williams: Butcher's Crossing ✓
• John Williams: Stoner ✓
• John Williams: Augustus ✓
• Mervyn Peake: Titus Groan ✓
• Mervyn Peake: Gormenghast ✓
• Mervyn Peake: Titus Alone ✓
• John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces ✓
• Joseph Heller: Catch-22 ✓
• George and Weedon Grossmith: The Diary of a Nobody ✓
• Cornelius Ryan: A Bridge Too Far ✓
• Patrick O'Brian: Master and Commander ✓
• Elmore Leonard: Pagan Babies ✓
• Cervantes: Don Quixote (translator: John Rutherford) ✓
• Alexandre Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo (translator: anonymous) ✓
• Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell: From Hell (comic) ✓
• Katsuhiro Otomo: Akira, Volume 1: Tetsuo (comic) ✓
• Charles M. Schulz: The Complete Peanuts 1965-1966 (comic) ✓
• Raymond Briggs: Gentleman Jim (comic) ✓
• Raymond Briggs: When the Wind Blows (comic) ✓

Shelf Five

• Nicholas Sparks: Dear John
• Michael Cadnum: The Book of the Lion
• Thomas P. Kelley: The Black Donnellys
• Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Jane Austen: Mansfield Park
• Ian McEwan: Atonement
• Lord Dunsany: The King of Elfland's Daughter
• Yann Martel: Life of Pi
• Michael Chrichton: Sphere
• Maeve Binchy: Victoria Line, Central Line (short stories)
• John Grisham: The Runaway Jury
• Louis L'Amour: The Quick and the Dead
• Louis L'Amour: Mustang Man
• Louis L'Amour: Lando
• Louis L'Amour: Sackett's Land
• Rudyard Kipling: The City of the Dreadful Night and Other Stories
• Lilian Jackson Braun: The Cat Who Wasn't There ✓
• Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol ✓
• William Bell: Forbidden City ✓
• Margaret Wise Brown: Mister Dog: The Dog Who Belonged to Himself ✓
• Robert Munsch: The Paper Bag Princess ✓
• G. Myles DeLong: Nomads of the Night ✓
• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: Le Petit Prince ✓
• Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ✓
• Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking-Glass ✓
• J. R. R. Tolkien: The Hobbit ✓
• J. R. R. Tolkien: The Tolkien Reader (short stories and essays) ✓
• J. R. R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings (omnibus) ✓
  • The Fellowship of the Ring ✓
  • The Two Towers ✓
  • The Return of the King ✓
• David McCullough: The Wright Brothers ✓
• Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island ✓
• Ian Fleming: Casino Royale ✓
• Jordan Mechner: The Making of Karateka: Journals 1982-1985 ✓
• Jordan Mechner: The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985-1993 ✓
• F. X. Nine: Worlds of Power #1: Blaster Master ✓
• John Harrison: Legends of 16-bit Game Development ✓
• Chris Wilkins, Roger M. Kean: Ocean: The History ✓

Shelf Four

• Jane Urquhart: The Underpainter
• Audrey Niffenegger: The Time Traveler's Wife
• Dan Simmons: The Terror
• Stephen King: Everything's Eventual (short stories)
• H. B. Broome: Gunfighters
• Louis L'Amour: The Sackett Brand
• Annie Proulx: Barkskins
• C. S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia (omnibus)
  • The Magician's Nephew
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
  • The Horse and His Boy
  • Prince Caspian
  • The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
  • The Silver Chair
  • The Last Battle
• Alfred Hitchcock: Portraits of Murder (short stories)
• Herman Melville: The Confidence-Man
• George Eliot: Middlemarch
• Dean Koontz: Whispers
• Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry: Helter Skelter
• David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas
• Jane Austen: Emma
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment
• Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
• Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities
• Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy (translator: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• The Holy Qur'an (translator: Abdullah Yusuf Ali)
• William Shakespeare: The Complete Works (omnibus)
• The Usual Gang of Idiots: MAD - The Best of the Worst! (magazine)
• Robert Thomas Allen: A Treasury of Canadian Humour

Shelf Three

• Stephenie Meyer: Twilight
• Jeff Kinney: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck (#8)
• Jeff Kinney: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth (#5)
• Jeff Kinney: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down (#11)
• John le Carré: The Secret Pilgrim
• Ross King: The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
• Edvard Radzinsky: The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II
• John Newlove: Apology for Absence: Selected Poems 1962-1992
• Bernice Morgan: Random Passage
• Michael MacKenzie: Waves of Recollections
• Stephen King: Lisey's Story
• Jan Potocki: The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
• Herman Melville: Moby-Dick
• Gore Vidal: Lincoln
• Elizabeth George: Believing the Lie
• Elizabeth George: Just One Evil Act
• Robin Cook: Terminal
• Jodi Picoult: House Rules
• J. R. R. Tolkien: The Silmarillion
• Bryan Lee O'Malley: Scott Pilgrim, volumes 1 - 6 (comic)
• Jeff Smith: Bone (comic)
• Katsuhiro Otomo: Akira, Volumes 2 - 6 (comic)

Shelf Two

• Collins English Dictionary, 14th Edition
• Collins / Le Robert French Dictionary
• Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage
• Steven Pinker: The Sense of Style ✓
• Roger Hawkins and Richard Towell: French Grammar and Usage, Fourth Edition ✓
• Roger Hawkins, Richard Towell and Marie-Noëlle Lamy: Practicing French Grammar, Fourth Edition
• John Butt, Carmen Benjamin and Antonia Moreira-Rodríguez: A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish
• Robert Nystrom: Game Programming Patterns ✓
• Roberto Ierusalimschy: Programming in Lua, 2nd Edition ✓
• John Ousterhout: A Philosophy of Software Design ✓
• Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie: The C Programming Language, Second Edition ✓
• Bjarne Stroustrup: Programming Principles and Practice Using C++, Second Edition
• Beverly McMillan: Human Body: A Visual Guide
• Grace Deutsch and Avanthis Swan: Canada: Coast to Coast
• Roland Bauchot (editor): Snakes: A Natural History
• Stanley Klein: The Encyclopedia of North American Wildlife
• Fred Housego: London: A portrait of Britain's historic capital
• National Geographic Society: The New America's Wonderlands: Our National Parks
• Michael Streeter: The Mediterranean: Cradle of European Culture
• Reader's Digest: Scenic Wonders of Canada
• Birds & Blooms: Ultimate Guide to Hummingbirds
• Dorothy Wood: The Practical Encyclopedia of Soft Furnishings
• Wendy Baker: The Curtain Sketchbook 3
• Mark Cullen: The Canadian Garden Primer
• Noelene Morris: The Lettering Book
• Grant W. Reid FASLA: Landscape Graphics: Plan, Section, and Perspective Drawing of Landscape Spaces

Shelf One (Bottom)

• Raymond E. Feist: A Darkness at Sethanon
• John Grisham: The Innocent Man
• John Grisham: Rogue Lawyer
• Nicholas Sparks: The Best of Me
• Nicholas Sparks: At First Sight
• John Grisham: Gray Mountain
• John Toland: Infamy
• John le Carré: The Naive and Sentimental Lover
• Robin Cook: Critical
• Nicholas Sparks: The Longest Ride
• T. Gilbert Pearson (Editor-in-Chief): Birds of America

In a Box Beneath Shelf One

• Margaret Atwood: The Testaments
• Marion Zimmer Bradley: The Mists of Avalon
• Lee Child: The Midnight Line
• Lee Child: Past Tense
• John Grisham: Sycamore Row
• Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords
• Robert Jordan: The Eye of the World
• Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson: The Gathering Storm
• Stieg Larsson: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
• Stieg Larsson: The Girl Who Played with Fire
• George R. R. Martin: A Clash of Kings
• George R. R. Martin: A Dance with Dragons, Part 2: After the Feast
• George R. R. Martin: A Feast for Crows
• George R. R. Martin: A Game of Thrones
• George R. R. Martin: A Storm of Swords
• Larry Niven: The Ringworld Throne

In Storage

• Kentaro Miura: Berserk, Volumes 1 - 40 (comic) ✓