My Personal Library

I am a bibliophile. From the past twelve years, I’ve spent quite some amount on books.

Not a single by anybody’s recommendations, but by my own need, desire, and intuition, with sheer will to learn about a topic. Low space urban gardening, foraging, primitive life, Wyoming life, immigrant stories, polished English, humor, psychology, technical, survival skills, poem books, foreign language, for my kids... I buy whatever I feel like learning about.

Sometimes, I buy used books. No plan to sell my collection ever. Too much underlining, highlighting. They will be donated when I am done.

Sometimes, I do tsundoku. You might have heard of the Japanese word tsundoku. It’s the act of buying books and letting them pile up, unread yet cherished. I do that. It's due to time, deficit, I have not finished many. I will do.

It's good to keep track. Even Stephen King, the King of Horro, lists his read books in his memoir. He says, he tends to write like the book he has been reading. Books inspire us. It's not money wasted but invested beautifully.

Today, I went to my Amazon profile and recorded all the books I have bought since 2014. Let me share the books in my library that I have purchased. These are only the paperbacks.

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#By Famous Authors

To Kill a Mockingbird

If It Bleeds

The Institute

IT

Misery

Pet Sematary

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Gulzar: Selected Poems

A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement — David Attenborough

E.R. Nurses

Ikigai

What I Talk About when I Talk About Running

Marshal South and Ghost Mountain Chronicles

Close Range

The Grapes of Wrath

The Odyssey

The Namesake

Beyond Possible

The Vegetarian

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts

The Best of Me

The World's Greatest Short Stories: Selections from Hemingway, Tolstoy, Woolf, Chekhov, Joyce, Updike and more

We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live

Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

The Joy Luck Club

Interpreter Of Maladies

Yes, some authors show up multiple times.

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#Psychology

Read People like a Book

The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness

Mindset

Without Conscience

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#Foraging

66 Square Feet: A Delicious Life

Nature's Garden: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants

Foraging Southern California: 118 Nutritious, Tasty, and Abundant Foods

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#Art

The Art of Positivity

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#Kids

I Love You to the Moon and Back

I Love You, Mommy and Daddy

365 Bedtime Stories and Rhymes

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#Dictionary/ Language

Knowledge Encyclopedia

2,001 Most Useful Spanish Words

Short Stories in Spanish

Merriam-Webster Children’s Dictionary

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Mosby’s Medical Dictionary

Merriam-Webster's Illustrated Spanish-English Student Dictionary

Merriam-Webster Webster’s Spanish-English Dictionary for Students

Merriam-Webster's Word-for-Word Spanish-English Dictionary

The Bantam New College Latin & English Dictionary

Et Cetera

Italian English Picture Dictionary

A Beginner's Guide to Japanese Haiku

Japanese Picture Dictionary

Japanese Death Poems

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#Technical

Bioinformatics with Python Cookbook

Bioinformatics Data Skills: Reproducible and Robust Research with Open Source Tools

Business Analysis For Dummies

UX Research: Practical Techniques for Designing Better Products

Data-Driven Healthcare

Fundamentals of Data Analytics

Excel 2019 All-in-One For Dummies

Learning Microsoft Power BI: Transforming Data into Insights

Copywriting: Successful Writing for Design, Advertising and Marketing

Tableau for Dummies

180 SOLVED CASES IN DAX LANGUAGE: POWER BI - Business Intelligence (Quick guide: DAX language)

Biostatistics For Dummies

R Cookbook: Proven Recipes for Data Analysis, Statistics, and Graphics

Learning Python

The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction

SQL Cookbook: Query Solutions and Techniques for Database Developers

Perl Cookbook, Second Edition

Single Variable Calculus

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#Writing

Targeted Regulatory Writing Techniques: Clinical Documents for Drugs and Biologics

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#Driving

The Driving Book

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#From Friends

Being, Becoming, Being

Memory Gardens: Botanical Tributes to Celebrate our Loved Ones

Silent Storms and Other Stories

Surrounded By Beauty: Pictures of Cyprus with 40 Encouraging Bible Verses

A Confection of Courage

Whispers in Your Mind

Halloween Activity Book

Mr. Dekker Bounces Back

Crack Me Up Riddles for Kids

Arnetta and the Mirror of Destiny

Win At Freelance Writing: Everything you need to know about making your first $1000-$5000 per month as a freelance writer

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Glad to create a growing personal library.

Out of the above list, above 10 are by Medium/Vocal Media/ Facebook friends. Happy to be supportive to new writers.

I am curious to see how the coming year will look, what kinds of books will attract me.

Apart from the paperbacks, I support writers in Kindle Plus and I subscribe to 'The New Yorker' too.

Before ending, let me share some book-related quotes.

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.” — Jorge Luis Borges

“The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity.” — A. Edward Newton

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still buy a book.” — Martin Luther

“To build up a library is to create a life. It’s never just a random collection of books.” — Carlos María Domínguez

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” — Jorge Luis Borges

“Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.” — Henry Ward Beecher

“The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.” — Arthur Conan Doyle

Thank you for reading. Do we have common books? List yours and show.