I always find it interesting when I look at what someone has placed on the top of their bookshelf. I’m not sure why. There could be an in-depth psychological reason on why we put the books we have on the top shelf as apposed to other shelves. If there is I don’t know it. I like to think that the material people like rises to the top.
On my shelf I have:
- The Master and Commander Series (20 books) by Patrick O’Brian
- Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond.
- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien
- The National Dream and The Last Spike by Pierre Berton
- Rebel Faye by B. & J.C. Hendee
- Pragmatic Unit Testing by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
- Leading a Software Development Team by Richard Whitehead
- Interface Oriented Design by Ken Pugh
- Agile Retrospectives by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen
- A manual for my camcorder
- World of Warcraft Game Manual
I guess this sampling would say I enjoy fiction more than any other genre, and I have a strong interest in computers. What does your shelf say about you?