What's on your bookshelf?
Omnivoracious wants to feature your favorite or latest reads on our banner. Just snap a picture of your bookshelf and send it as a .jpg to omnivoracious at amazon.com. Accompany the photo with a list of the book titles in the body of the e-mail. Your submission should be around 1 MB in size or larger ... low-res photos don't work as well.
We'll showcase a different reader's bookshelf as our banner image regularly. Read our Conditions of Use.
Mae Sander's Bookshelf
Week of April 28, 2008
(click image to enlarge)
Books shown above:
- The Cuisine of Hungary
- A Taste of the Past: the Daily Life and Cooking of a 19th-Century Hungarian Jewish Homemaker
- The Eastern European Cookbook
- The Czechoslovak Cookbook
- Gundel's Hungarian Cookbook
- Jewish Cooking in America
- Jewish Home Cookbook
- The First Jewish-American Cookbook
- Apricots on the Nile
- Cocina Judia: Memoria y Tradicion
- A Lexicon of Jewish Cooking
- Eat and Be Satisfied: A Social History of Jewish Food
- In Memory's Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezin
- The Book of Jewish Food
- A Drizzle of Honey: The Lives and Recipes of Spain's Secret Jews
- Food & Judaism
- The Food of Israel
- The Unprejudiced Palate
- Joy of Cooking
- Classic Southwest Cooking
- River Roads Recipes
- The New Orleans Cookbook
- The Bialy Eaters
- Six Thousand Years of Bread
Shannon Roudebush's Bookshelf
Week of March 31, 2008
(click image to enlarge)
Books shown above:
- Leftovers
- The Handmaid's Tale
- A Great and Terrible Beauty
- Snow Falling on Cedars
- Then We Came to the End
- The Legacy of Luna
- Cocktails for Three
- The Gatecrasher
- Undead and Unpopular
- The Way the Crow Flies
- A Prayer for Owen Meany
- 101 Things You Should do Before Going to Heaven
- The Good Earth
- Anna Karenina
- The Monsters of Templeton
- Escaping into the Open
- My French Whore
- The Omnivore's Dilemma
- World Without End
- Redeeming Love
- The Secret Life of Bees
- Stargirl
- Catching Genius
- The Rest of Her Life
- Little Pink Slips
- Love Walked In
- The Department of Lost & Found
- Mother
Kristin Hannah's Bookshelf
Week of March 7, 2008
(click image to enlarge)
Books shown above:
- Black House
- Fortune’s Rocks
- The Prince of Tides
- Plainsong
- Our Lady of the Forest
- The Stand
- The Witching Hour (two copies!)
- The Poisonwood Bible
- A Thin Dark Line
- Fiona Range
- The Shadow of the Wind
- Twilight
- The General in His Labyrinth
- House of Sand and Fog
- The Shining
- The Woods
- Second Nature
- Cold Mountain
- Sense and Sensibility
- Dark Rivers of the Heart
- Memoirs of a Geisha
- American Pastoral
- Peachtree Road
- The Road
- Coldheart Canyon
- Bastard Out of Carolina
Jessa Crispin's Bookshelf
Week of February 25, 2008
(click image to enlarge)
Books shown above:
- The Inferno of Dante Alighieri
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- The Annotated Hunting of the Snark
- The Norse Myths
- Beowulf: A Dual Language Edition
- Outfoxing Fear: Folktales From Around the World
- The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen
- The Iliad
- The Odyssey
- Russian Fairy Tales
- The White Goddess
- Metamorpheses
- The Tibetan Book of the Dead
- The Coyote Road
- The Golden Bough
- The Red Fairy Book
- The Green Fairy Book
- Irish Fairy Tales
- Grimm's Fairy Tales
- Penguin Epics Boxed Set
- The Inferno of Dante
- Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
- Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook Translated from the Sanskrit
Joel Bass' Bookshelf
Week of February 11, 2008
(click image to enlarge)
Books shown above:
- Introspections: American Poets on One of Their Own Poems
- Infinite Jest
- White Teeth
- Emergence
- The Bloody Chamber
- The Story of English
- How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
- Cloud Atlas
- Hungry Hollow: The Story of a Natural Place
- The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
- Libra
- Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
- The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
- The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self & Soul
- Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
- The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
- Middlesex
- The King of Attolia
- The Human Voice: How This Extraordinary Instrument Reveals Essential Clues About Who We Are
John Lawton's Bookshelf
(click image to enlarge)
Books shown above:
- Idoru
- All Tomorrow's Parties
- Pattern Recognition
- Spook Country
- Neuromancer
- Count Zero
- Burning Chrome
- The Difference Engine
- Essential Blogging
- Drown
- Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
- Retribution
Ben Lukoff's Bookshelf
Week of December 17, 2007
(click image to enlarge)
Books shown above:
- Once in Golconda
- The Young Detective's Handbook
- Mr. Bean's Diary
- Philosophy of Natural Science
- Philosophy of Language
- The American Language
- The American Language, Supplement 1
- The American Language, Supplement 2
- Experience
- Varieties of American English
- The Acoustic Analysis of Speech
- The Glory of Their Times
- A History of the English Language
- Pig-Tail Days in Old Seattle
- The Elements of Murder
- The Complete Essays of Mark Twain
- The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: An Age Like This, 1920-1940
- The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: My Country Right or Left
- The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I Please, 1943-1945
- The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In Front of Your Nose, 1945-1950
- Krazy & Ignatz 1927-1928: Love Letters in Ancient Brick
- Krazy & Ignatz 1925-1926: There is a Heppy Land Furfur A-waay
- Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
- The National Bank of Commerce of Seattle, 1889-1969
- Language in the USA
Andrea Johnson's Bookshelf
Week of December 3, 2007
(click image to enlarge)
Books shown above:
- Maia
- Jack of Kinrowan
- XXXHolic
- Fullmetal Alchemist
- Tsubasa
- Mother Night
- Welcome to the Monkey House
- Cat's Cradle
- Slaughterhouse Five
- Red Storm Rising
- Atlas Shrugged
- The Romance of Tristan and Isuelt
- Robots and Empire
- Star Trek: Log Seven
- Shardik
- Foundation's Edge
- The Puppetmasters
- Time for the Stars
- In Alien Flesh
- Second Foundation
- Friday
- The Martian Chronicles
Bob Lock's Bookshelf
Week of November 19, 2007
(click image to enlarge)
Books shown above:
- Selling Out
- Fat
- Stranger in a Strange Land
- The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime
- Light
- Nova Swing
- Bone Song
- Wintersmith
- Brother Odd
- Science of the Discworld 2
- Night Watch
- Soul Music
- Interesting Times
- The Truth
- Men at Arms
- Flames of Herakleitos
- The Lonely Dead
- Wolves Eat Dogs
- Broken Angels
- Woken Furies
- Black Wind: A Dirt Pitt Novel
- Holy Fire
- Gridlinked
- The Line of Polity
- Cowl
- Prador Moon
- The Voyage of the Sable Keech
- Polity Agent
- The Skinner
Daphne Durham's Bookshelf
- Tokyo Year Zero
- Daywatch
- New England White: A Novel
- Think Big and Kick Ass in Business and Life
- A Golden Age
- Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Life Class: A Novel
- Matrimony: A Novel
- Exit Ghost
- The Air We Breathe: A Novel
- The Zero
- Getting to Innovation: How Asking the Right Questions Generates the Great Ideas Your Company Needs
- Origin: A Novel
- Basic Black: The Essential Guide for Getting Ahead at Work (and Life)
- Shadow Man
- How to Talk to a Widower
- The Face of Death
- About Alice
- Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
- I am Legend
- In the Woods
- The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
- Caught Stealing: A Novel
- Six Bad Things: A Novel
- A Dangerous Man: A Novel
- The Death and Life of Bobby Z
- Decorativa
- The Roaring Nineties
- Rock Springs
- Sacre Blues
- Saturday
- The Secret Lives of Citizens
- The Secret Parts of Fortune
- Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
- Selected Stories
- Shame
- Seven Plays
- Rhinoceros
- The Shadow Boxer
- The Shell Collector
- Shooting the Stars
- A Short History of Reconstruction
- Julian of Norwich: Showings
- Shroud
- The Signifying Monkey
- Silence
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Sixty Stories
- A Man Without a Country
- The Slave
- The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South
- The Sink
- Slaves in the Family
Week of November 5, 2007
(click image to enlarge)
Books shown above:
Tom Nissley's Bookshelf
Books shown above:










Listen to an interview with author Steve Coll about his new book 








