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On Trivial Pursuits

Friday the Twenty-Eighth of December, Two Thousand and Seven

And yet I can't help feeling like I should have more books than this.

Bookshelf 1: English-language fiction (Adams-Vonnegut)
Bookshelf 2: English-language fiction (Vonnegut-Yehoshua), foreign-language fiction, memoirs, poetry, general non-fiction, linguistics
Built-in shelves: General reference, linguistics reference, Spanish, Russian, other languages, photography reference, art/photography, comics, religion/folklore, philosophy

Actually, I have a lot more shelf space than I realized, thanks to my thirty-six linear feet of built-in bookshelves. That's a very good thing, because those shelves are the closest I have to a pantry. (My apartment, I've noticed, has plenty of storage space in theory, but the distribution isn't exactly optimal.)

Are there any good authors whose last names start with "E"?

posted by Martin Marks at 7:57 in the evening // ten comments

Ralph Ellison good enough for you?

comment by patrick // Friday, the 28th of December, 2007, at 9:27 in the evening

Huh. Wonder what happened to my copy of Invisible Man. I haven't read it since high school.

comment by Martin // Friday, the 28th of December, 2007, at 9:36 in the evening

We have: Umberto Eco, Clyde Edgerton, Dave Eggers, and Harlan Ellison.

comment by Liz // Friday, the 28th of December, 2007, at 9:37 in the evening

Jeffrey Eugenides, Warren Ellis, and many would say George Eliot, though others would vehemently decry this. I haven't read any of her stuff, though my sister is diligently reading Middlemarch for Seminar even as I type this. She seems to like it all right.

comment by Julia // Friday, the 28th of December, 2007, at 10:49 in the evening

Many of these are authors I really ought to have on my bookshelf. Certainly Ellison and Ellis, at the least. (There's some Ellison in a short story compilation or two.) Also, Middlesex was a very good book.

comment by Martin // Friday, the 28th of December, 2007, at 11:57 at night

With have the other Ellison and Eliot, too. Also T.S. But they are on the non-fiction/poetry/Program shelves in the other room.

comment by Liz // Saturday, the 29th of December, 2007, at 8:50 in the morning

Also, I realized later that my mother would say Janet Evanovich. We had one of hers on our shelf until a few days ago when Moss's mother borrowed it. I personally really like having a section for graphic novels.

comment by Julia // Saturday, the 29th of December, 2007, at 11:14 in the morning

I'm also missing Q, X, and Z, at least in fiction, but it was the absence of Es that really suprised me. You'd think there'd be more E last names out there.

comment by Martin // Saturday, the 29th of December, 2007, at 1:24 in the afternoon

Queneau (author of Zazie)!

comment by patrick // Saturday, the 29th of December, 2007, at 1:38 in the afternoon

Epictetus? Euclid? Euripides?

comment by Nate // Saturday, the 29th of December, 2007, at 3:13 in the afternoon

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