Top products from r/bookshelf
We found 22 product mentions on r/bookshelf. We ranked the 76 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
1. The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary Edition
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 2
Houghton Mifflin
2. SEI Furniture Metal Spine Book Tower, 16" W x 14" D x 55.25" Tall, Silver
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 2
Features 11 storage shelves that flip up for fitting large booksVertical, space saving design allows for small space-friendly storageContemporary book tower is finished in a silver finishAssembly required | Constructed from Powder-coated tube and sheet metalWeighs 35 pounds, supports 30 pounds (per ...
3. Hitler (Harvest Book)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
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4. Books of Blood, Vols. 1-3
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Berkley Publishing Group
5. The Lord of the Rings
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
6. HSH Solid Wood Bookshelf, 4 Tier Rustic Vintage Industrial Etagere Bookcase, Open Metal Farmhouse Book Shelf, Distressed Brown
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Solid Wood Bring Nature Home and Create Healthy Living Spaces: Natural character and rustic charm of this solid wood bookcase have a special way of adding warmth, elegance, and nature to your home and create healthy living spaces.Extraordinary Durability and Sturdy Construction: Solid wood etagere b...
7. The Age of Revolution: Europe, 1789-1848
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
ABACUS
10. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-3, Volumes 4-6
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
11. The Art of Computer Programming, Vols. 1-3
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
12. The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Harper Perennial
14. The Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection: More than 1000 of the Greatest Classics
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Complete set of classic paperback books
15. Les Miserables: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Penguin Books
17. Surely You're Joking, MR Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
VINTAGE
18. Everyone Loves You When You're Dead: Journeys into Fame and Madness
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Wow, that is an awesome edition of Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman. They really should start publishing it with that cover again.
Thanks for the offer but I am actually saving up to buy one of the nice single volume editions with all 3 in one. Something like this: http://www.amazon.com/Lord-Rings-50th-Anniversary-Edition/dp/0618517650/ref=cm_lmf_tit_12
Nice.
Highly recommend:
Infidel
Age of Revolution
Pic of the others please?
Yes, it's the Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition. It's quite pretty!
>Do the kids value the books more by owning them, even though they ultimately only get a few a year?
What if those few books are the only ones you own? The meaning behind book ownership is proportional to the number of books you own. More than half of the students come from low income families.
For my parents' generation growing up, my aunt has told me how she wrote her name inside every book and treasured the few she owned. That idea, of claiming a book as your own, survives today. Kids still write their names in books.
This week was our grand re-opening after a month-long overhaul of the room. A teacher told me about a first grader new to the school who began crying as the teacher explained about their upcoming visit. The student said, "I don't deserve a book." I don't know her background, other than that she has a troubled home. You do deserve a book. You've earned this book. This bookstore exists because you are worth it.
>What sort of impact does this idea have compared to just having a library?
Our school library is essential for obvious reasons. A kid gets far more books from our library than the bookstore. Kids don't have to fret that the last copy of The BFG is gone and it's unknown when another copy will come along. The BFG will be in next week; would you like to reserve it?
Last year, there was a battle over parent funding of the library (which is sad, but yes, parent groups now raise money to cover basic salaries). I vowed to stop the bookstore if the library closed, which kind of shook things up. The right people got involved and we still have a library for 4 hours a day, just enough for every class to visit every week and to be open during lunch recess.
> Does it influence the parents in the area at all?
Influence how? The parents who have seen the bookstore like it.
One kinder family this year chose our school over another because their daughter is a book lover and she wanted the school that gives away books. That's important because the reform movement is always thinking up new ways to draw students away from traditional public schools. The bookstore exists only because we have empty classrooms that were once filled with students (e.g., no empty classroom = no place for a bookstore).
Top 5 off those shelves would be:
The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Alt History detective novel by a Pulitzer winner
http://www.amazon.com/Yiddish-Policemens-Union-Novel-P-S/dp/0007149832
The Atrocity Archives - Lovecraftian spy thriller and IT hell
http://www.amazon.com/Atrocity-Archives-Laundry-Files-Novel/dp/0441016685/
Books of Blood - A compilation of Clive Barker's nasty little 80s horror anthologies
http://www.amazon.com/Books-Blood-Vols-Clive-Barker/dp/0425165582/
Perdido Street Station - Steampunky fantasy with excellent worldbuilding that's apparently a good example of the New Weird, whatever that is and however it differes from the Old Weird
http://www.amazon.com/Perdido-Street-Station-China-Mieville/dp/0345459407
American Gods - Gaiman's mythology based urban fantasy; a modern classic
http://www.amazon.com/American-Gods-Neil-Gaiman/dp/0380789035
As for the Weird Tales collection, it's Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors. It sets out to present the best tale from each year of the magazine's original run. Published in 1988 and edited by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz (as if the eldritch gods didn't inject enough unpronounceable names into the mix) you've got everyone from Isaac Asimov to Seabury Quinn to good ol' HPL himself with "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward"
http://www.amazon.com/Weird-Tales-32-Unearthed-Terrors/dp/0517661233
Not quite the $1 deal I got from the library sale, but not as outrageous as some of the out of print prices on Amazon.
Every house I have owned over the years, I have built bookshelves of varying complexity and posted pictures of them on the Internet. Without fail, someone notices that book. :) It's a very dry, dense book written by a German guy.
Heeey, you've got MY collection of Hitchhiker's Guide books...
I love that book company (Picador), they also published a very affordable collection of some writings of Hunter S. Thompson, which is awesome. I think the art on the Hitchhiker books are bomb-ass as all hell.
Thank you! I believe this is what you’re asking about.
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-3, Volumes 4-6 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0307700763/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_LstDDbYWAMCHZ
Here you go!
HSH Solid Wood Bookshelf, 4-Tier... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RW5N7JB?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
Ok, if you haven’t already added this to your list, and because you have The Dirt and Tommyland, you should really check out Nikki Sixx’s Heroin Diaries. But maybe you already did and that’s why you picked up those Crue books!
And you should probably look for a budget-priced copy of Vince Neil’s book, called Something Something Buy My Tequila, because it’s not great. I found one at a Goodwill for $2.99 which was the right price.
And for extra credit: https://www.amazon.com/Everyone-Loves-When-Youre-Dead/dp/0061543675
Amazon sells something similar: Southern Enterprises Spine Book Tower - Metal Floor Shelves, Silver https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001QOGKSA/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_apip_BRvZEvgrMdEhO
The paperbacks or the hardbacks?
The paperbacks are a quite common boxset
The hardbacks are a bit less common:
Harper Collins:
The Chronicles of Narnia (Box Set) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060244887/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_aFmnDb3DC2J2J
I think Amazon was selling the one "complete" set and various smaller collections not too long ago?
http://www.amazon.com/Penguin-Classics-Library-Complete-Collection/dp/0147503078
People complain about Penguin Classics because the paper apparently yellows and becomes brittle quite quickly. Maybe they've fixed this problem recently, though.
Can I give you a recommendation based on your collection? The Peregrine by J.A. Baker.
If you read it and aren't glad I'll send you 50 dollars/pounds/whatever.