/lit/ - Literature

>>13897440
No. I like reading, not listening to someone talking.

>>10936486
Let's do this.

Some Canadian authors I enjoy and own five or more books by:
Margaret Atwood, Joseph Boyden, Robertson Davies, Timothy Findley, Anne Hebert, Alice Munro, Rohintin Mistry, Miriam Toews, Michael Ontaatje, Jane Urquhart, Thomas King, Margaret Laurence, Michael Crummey.
Poets: Dionne Brand, George Elliott Clarke, Leonard Cohen.
Genre: William Gibson, Charles de Lint, Spider Robinson, Jack Whyte.
Children/YA: L.M. Montgomery, Farley Mowat, Robert Munsch.
Comics/Art: Nick Bantock, Dave Sim, Seth, Kate Beaton, Chester Brown, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Joe Matt (honourary), Mariko & Jillian Tamaki, Jeff Lemire, Hal Foster.

>>8372815
I'm an adjunct prof with two kids and teach Children's Lit for undergrads every term. I like carefully handing some of the older ones around as examples and reading excerpts. Or, you know, I might be a pervert who uses young children's natural desire to be shown dusty antique books as a way to lure them into my home. Whichever you like.

>>6819632
I'm fortunate enough to live in a dry apartment, so no mold issues at all. Books must never be below ground level!
>>6819517
My favourites, aside from a lot of William Morris-related books from 1880-1920, are a few original Arthur Rackham-illustrated works (lavish gift versions of Midsummer Night's Dream and Grimm's Fairy Tales), and a few very old childrens' morality books (primers from early/mid 19th century), and my first edition Montgomery books (pic related). Also, that first edition Old Possum's Book with Eliot's own drawing for the dustjacket. One of my oldest is a battered old leather-bound 1814 Ovid's Metamorphoses.

>>6740769
Most of my shelves are fiction and poetry by author last name, chronological by original publication within author. Critical works specifically about one author (e.g. Eliot) go next to his works, as does non-fiction/essays by that author. After that, I have nonfiction and visual book categories: Myth, Occult, Medieval (fiction/non all together), English anthologies or critical works on periods, etc., Nature, Photography, Comics, Humour, Art, etc. Of course some oversized books don't fit where they should, and old/rare books have their own case, but that's life. Also, when I run out of room or have to pull a stack for a project, this all goes to hell in a handbasket.

They're battered, but I have first editions of these two.