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Tim Spalding
About My Library

My interests run to ancient history and languages, especially Greek and Latin. So far I've done maybe half of what I have. Frankly, it's also gotten a bit mixed-up and redundant, as I use this account for testing the software too. (There are a couple books I test out with, because I know they have certain fields or are in certain libraries.) That said, I've got a good chunk of my library in.

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I am the founder and a developer at LibraryThing. I am a father, husband, hacker, bibliophile, ex-classicist, Mainer and Catholic.
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Portland, ME
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The 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time, 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (That Are Older Than 200 Years), ALA Reading List: Historical Fiction 2021-2026, ALA Reading List: Horror 2021-2026, ALA The Reading List, August TBR, Banned or Challenged Books, Best Alexander Books, Best Crime Fiction, Best Dystopias, Best Fantasy Novels, Best historical fiction set in the ancient world, Best History Books about Epidemics, Best Literature in Portuguese, Best Post-Apocalyptic Stories, Best Roman Empire Books, Best Science Fiction Novels, Best Survival Stories, The Best Vampires, Werebeasts, Witches Books, Biggest Disappointments, Books Read in 2025, Books recommended by Barack Obama, Books that changed the world, Books We Loved As Children, Books We Want To Read Again For The First Time, A Child's Book Tour of Greece, Children's picture books with kids of color, Classics you know you should have read but probably haven't, Diversity in Fantasy and Science Fiction, Dystopian and Apocalyptic Literature, Environmental History, Favorite Science Fiction by Women Authors, Favourite Books, Fiction Set in Ancient Mesopotamia, Gateway Book: Fantasy, Great Pirate Books, LGBTQIA Horror, Lindsey Davis's top 10 books about Ancient Rome, Modern Arthurian Fiction, Must-Read Books by Black Authors, Native American / Indigenous Literature, Novels that you shouldn't waste your time on, NPR Reader Poll: 100 Best Horror Novels and Stories, NPRs your picks: top 100 Sci-Fi/Fantasy books, Pacific Northwest, Reading List: Deep Dark South Challenge (Completed), Recommended Faerie books, Recommended Nature Writing, Recommended Speculative Fiction by Women and People of Color, Religious Science Fiction, Rereads list from my library, SFF Down Under, Southern Fiction, Speculative Fiction from around the World, Stories of War and Revolution, Survey of Classic Science Fiction, Ten Books That Have Stayed With Me, To Read, Top Five Books of 2022, A Ukraine Reading List, Ukrainian Culture, Weird and Weirder Fiction
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Bookstores: Borders - Boston, Brattle Book Shop, Brookline Booksmith, Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Carlson & Turner Books, Casablanca Comics, Changing Hands Bookstore, Comicopia, Commonwealth Books, Commonwealth Books - Milk St, Cracked and Spineless New and Used Books (Imperial Bookshop), Cunningham Books, Dawn Treader Book Shop, Elements, Eren Kitabevi, Faulkner House Books, Green Hand Bookshop, Harvard Book Store, Harvard University Press Display Room, Longfellow Books, Maine Coast Book Shop & Cafe, McIntyre and Moore Booksellers, Porter Square Books, Print: A Bookstore, Raven Used Book Shop (Northampton, MA), Rodney's Bookstore, Schoenhof's Foreign Books, Second Run Bookstore, Shaman Drum, Sherman's Books & Stationery, Sherman's Books and Stationery, Bar Harbor, Strand Bookstore, Trident Booksellers & Cafe, Waterstone's Boston USA, Yes Books

Libraries: Boston Public Library, Cambridge Public Library - Main Branch, Center for Hellenic Studies Library - Harvard University, J. Josephine Tucker Library - Concord Academy, Library of Congress, Monhegan Memorial Library, Portland Public Library - Peaks Island Branch, Portsmouth Athenaeum, Schlesinger Library - Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, The Boston Athenaeum, The Library of Celsus, Ephesus

Other: LibraryThing H.Q., Harvard Museum of Natural History, Sacred Heart/Saint Dominic Parish, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (museum and shop)

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