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Favorite authorsDante Alighieri, Margery Allingham, H.C. Andersen, Walter R. Brooks, Robert Browning, John Buchan, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Raymond Chandler, Geoffrey Chaucer, G. K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Wilkie Collins, Joseph Conrad, Thomas B. Costain, Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, Edward Eager, T. S. Eliot, Jasper Fforde, Cornelia Funke, Kenneth Grahame, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Hayes, Mark Helprin, Marguerite Henry, O. Henry, Hergé, James Herriot, Georgette Heyer, Anthony Hope, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Victor Hugo, Laurie R. King, Stephen R. Lawhead, Madeleine L'Engle, C. S. Lewis, Hugh Lofting, George MacDonald, Helen MacInnes, Ngaio Marsh, Robert McCloskey, Patricia A. McKillip, A. A. Milne, Walter Moers, E. Nesbit, Baroness Orczy, Terry Pratchett, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anna Sewell, William Shakespeare, Margery Sharp, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jonathan Swift, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Josephine Tey, James Thurber, J. R. R. Tolkien, Megan Whalen Turner, Sigrid Undset, Bill Watterson, Evelyn Waugh, Oscar Wilde, Charles Williams, Connie Willis, P.G. Wodehouse (Shared favorites)

Favorite librariesAurora Public Library - Eola Road Branch, Aurora Public Library - Main Library, Aurora Public Library - West Branch, Batavia Public Library, Glen Ellyn Public Library, Naperville Public Library - Nichols Library, Wheaton College - Buswell Memorial Library, Wheaton College - Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton Public Library

About meMy 999 Challenge
My 2d 999 Challenge

I'm a previously home-schooled college student (English major, of course), who has far too many books and would very much like to find more.

And, as an explanation for large number and odd mixture of "favorites," I add just about every author of whom I've read several books and quite thoroughly enjoyed each one. Or rather they're authors whose books I would purchase whether or not I'd read that particular one. And, since I tend to only acquire used books, I don't own any (or hardly any) books by a few of my favorite authors. Hopefully, that will change.

About my libraryMost of my books (those under the "Your Library" collection) were found at resale shops and thrift stores, since I love old books--and the new ones are far too expensive for their poor quality and ghastly appearance.
As far as the physical storage of these books, they're everywhere. Shelves, bins, boxes, piles, heaps. It drives my mom crazy . . . These are just my books, not those belonging to my family. (I have claimed a few of doubtful ownership, though.)

With the advent of collections, I am adding the books I've borrowed from libraries (under the collection "Borrowed" with tags marking which library it came from), as well as those I've given away and want to bother "keeping" here, and perhaps eventually those I intend to read or purchase. Ultimately I hope to also add some copy of each work I own within anthologies or omnibuses, until/unless that particular feature is added to LT.

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Member sinceFeb 9, 2008

Currently readingA short history of nearly everything by Bill. Bryson