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bookshelf tour
06/03/26
my dear friend angel asked to see what books i have, so i'm doing a bookshelf tour.
★ shelf 1
these first three shelves are all japanese books
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mushishi, urushibara yuki, volumes 1-10 (complete set) – i've only read the first two volumes but i really want to finish this someday...
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majo no takkyuubin, kadono eiko, book 1
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ginga tetsudou no yoru, miyazawa kenji
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ICO - kiri no shiro, miyabe yuuki, books 1-2 (complete set) – my mum's friend gifted these to me. i think they're awesome.
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one piece, oda eiichirou, volumes 1-24 and 70-71 – i sent most of my one piece manga home recently because i don't have much space in my current bedroom, but these particular volumes are still here for some reason.
★ shelf 2
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harasu no ita hibi, nakano kouji
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watashi ga koroshita shoujo, hara ryou
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fune wo amu, miura shiwon – this is the next novel i plan to read in japanese.
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oyasumi punpun, asano inio, volumes 1-13 (complete set) – i haven't read this in japanese yet, but i've read the english translation three times.
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soranin, asano inio, volumes 1-2 (complete set) – my favorite ever manga.
★ shelf 3
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yotsubato!, azuma kiyohiko, volumes 1-6
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kaze no tani no naushika, miyazaki hayao, volumes 1-7 (complete set)
★ shelf 4
first layer
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steppenwolf,
narziss and goldmund,
the glass bead game, hermann hesse, boxed set – my dear friend seren gifted this boxed set to me for my birthday.
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stories of five decades, hermann hesse
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gertrude, hermann hesse
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the prodigy, hermann hesse
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peter camenzind, hermann hesse
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demian, hermann hesse – one of my favorite ever books.
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complete works, oscar wilde, volumes 1-3 (complete set) – i recommend wilde's poetry a lot.
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the picture of dorian gray, oscar wilde – one of my favorite ever books.
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raise high the roof beam, carpenters / seymour, j. d. salinger
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the catcher in the rye, j. d. salinger
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franny and zooey, j. d. salinger
second layer
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emma, jane austen
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sula, toni morrison
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the decameron, giovanni boccaccio
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dandelions, thea lenarduzzi – fitzcarraldo editions' books have a really premium feel to them, and i found this in one of my hometown's little libraries. i'm unsure if this is a global phenomenon, but a little library is a box of books situated in public, usually glass-fronted, where you can take a book if you leave another in its place. it's rare to find anything in them besides cheap smut and/or children's books, so i pinched this immediately. i don't remember what i swapped it with.
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the adventures of huckleberry finn, mark twain
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jane eyre, charlotte brontë
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love story, erich segal
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portnoy's complaint, philip roth
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84, charing cross road, helene hanff
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a room with a view, e. m. forster
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thérèse raquin, émile zola
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germinal, émile zola
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out, kirino natsuo
★ shelf 5
first layer
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a portrait of the artist as a young man, james joyce
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a portrait of the artist as a young man, james joyce
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a portrait of the artist as a young man, james joyce
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a portrait of the artist as a young man, james joyce
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a portrait of the artist as a young man, james joyce – yeah i have five copies of this book.
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dubliners, james joyce – this book contains two of my favorite ever short stories:
the sisters, and
the dead.
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a farewell to arms, ernest hemingway
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death in midsummer, mishima yukio – i picked up this amazing book of short stories thanks to my dear friend mira.
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the sailor who fell from grace with the sea, mishima yukio – one of my favorite ever books.
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spring snow, mishima yukio
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confessions of a mask, mishima yukio
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the sound of the mountain, kawabata yasunari
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the rainbow, kawabata yasunari
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snow country, kawabata yasunari
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dandelions, kawabata yasunari – one of my favorite ever books.
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secret rendezvous, abe koubou
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the plague, albert camus
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giovanni's room, james baldwin – one of my favorite ever books. this was recommended to me by my dear friend michael.
second layer
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oliver twist, charles dickens
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a tale of two cities, charles dickens
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the divine comedy, dante alighieri – i really regret picking up this copy. i am not a fan of the sisson translation...
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1Q84, murakami haruki – murakami's books are hidden away for a reason. i'm a little embarrassed that i own these, but
kafka on the shore did genuinely get me back into reading after high school, so it feels wrong to get rid of them...
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colorless tsukuru tazaki and his years of pilgrammage, murakami haruki
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kafka on the shore, murakami haruki
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the elephant vanishes, murakami haruki
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the strange library, murakami haruki
★ shelf 6
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why i write, george orwell
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a vindication of the rights of woman, mary wollstonecraft
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a room of one's own, virginia woolf – one of my favorite ever books.
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the thousand and one nights, various authors
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the trial, franz kafka
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the idiot, fyodor dostoevsky
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confessions, saint augustine – i've never read this cover to cover, but i dip in now and then and it's always amazing.
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spring torrents, ivan turgenev
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first love, ivan turgenev
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the holy bible, various authors
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complete stories, clarice lispector
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the delicate prey, paul bowles
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short treatise on the joys of morphinism, hans fallada – i really like the first story in this book.
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notes on 'camp', susan sontag
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daydream and drunkenness of a young lady, clarice lispector – one of my favorite ever books.
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kasyan from the beautiful lands, ivan turgenev
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the tell-tale heart, edgar allen poe
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only dull people are brilliant at breakfast, oscar wilde
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white nights, fyodor dostoevsky
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letters to a young poet, rainer maria rilke
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house of leaves, mark z. danielewski
★ shelf 7
various things i haven't found room for elsewhere
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doraemon no kanji jiten, no author
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doraemon, fujiko fujio, volume 2
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on a sunbeam, tillie walden
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sense and sensibility, jane austen
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the white review - writing in translation, various authors –
the endless week by laura vazquez which appears in here is one of my favorite ever pieces of prose. there is only an excerpt of it in this book though, and to my knowledge it has never been fully translated. it makes me sad!
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invisible cities, italo calvino
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alice's adventures in wonderland, lewis carroll
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through the looking glass, lewis carroll – these are illustrated editions which my grandfather gifted me.
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the best of owen marshall's short stories, owen marshall
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the garden party - katherine mansfield's new zealand stories, katherine mansfield