What's On Your Bookshelf?

One of the first things I do when at a person's house for the first time is to find and examine their bookshelf. If there is just one shelf of books in pristine, fresh-printed books, it's usually a safe bet that this person is either a Kindle or Nook person, or doesn't really read much. However, if the person is more like me, and their immense supply of books is falling off the shelves and onto the desk, dresser and bed, than this person is probably a bibliophile after my own heart.

Even more telling in some cases is the person's library shelf. The books and materials that they don't have the money or desire to buy, but still want to posses for a short time. At the moment, my library shelf contains two seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (I told you you I was going to become slightly obsessed), three Series Of Unfortunate Events books (a heavy dose of nostalgia- I'm re-discovering how hilarious and fascinating they are after being in love with them in first and second grade), two Scott Pilgrim graphic novels, a book of Neil Gaiman short stories, several sci-fi novels, three YA romance novels, a knitting book, and a non-fiction book about the periodic table of elements that I'm reading for fun. From this odd mixture one can tell I check out more books than I can read with a high-school student's schedule, and I have no idea what genre of book I prefer (actually, post-apocalypse dystopian or dark fantasy/humor but whatever- I read a ton of different of different books). Alternatively, my friend Meg currently has only one book out from the library- an anthology of four Shakespeare tragedies. Which means she's crazy smart, a nerd, and has a reasonable sense of how much a student can read in her free time.

What's on your library shelf?