Member saskia17

Real Name

Nica

About My Library

Collections Legend:

• Your library: Incomplete record of what I own, whether I have read them yet or not.
• To read: My evergrowing TBR list, none of which I own. I use it to record anything that looks vaguely interesting. Once I have read them, they are shifted to one of the other three collections.
• Wishlist: Books I wish I owned, some of which I have already read and some of which I am familiar enough with the book or author to know that I want it before actually reading it.
• Read but unowned: Books I have read and do not currently own. This includes several categories including books I didn't care for and don't particularly wish to own, books I enjoyed but don't think I will want to read again, books read a long time ago, books read from the library or for a class, and books read from family collections which I don't personally own or have immediately on hand but retain access to.

About Me

An avid reader of eclectic taste.

Location

San Jose, CA

Memberships

LibraryThing Early Reviewers

Favorite Authors

Mercedes Lackey, Ben Aaronovitch, Douglas Adams, Charles Addams, Joan Aiken, Catherine Aird, Jez Alborough, Louisa May Alcott, Lloyd Alexander, Margery Allingham, Chris Van Allsburg, Hans Christian Andersen, Brian Andreas, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Laura Antoniou, Kelley Armstrong, Robert Asprin, W. H. Auden, Jane Austen, Blue Balliett, Nick Bantock, Owen Barfield, Bill Barnes, J. M. Barrie, Nicholas A. Basbanes, L. Frank Baum, Peter S. Beagle, Elizabeth Bear, John Bellairs, Anthony Berkeley, Anne Bishop, Francesca Lia Block, Edmund Blunden, Enid Blyton, Michael Bond, Sandra Boynton, Ray Bradbury, Betty Brock, Rupert Brooke, Gwendolyn Brooks, Terry Brooks, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Steven Brust, John Buchan, John Bude, Lois McMaster Bujold, Emma Bull, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Miles Burton, Jim Butcher, A. S. Byatt, Joseph Campbell, Julie Campbell, Sam Campbell, Orson Scott Card, Mike Carey, Gail Carriger, John Dickson Carr, Anne Carson, Angela Carter, Sarah Caudwell, Patrizia Cavalli, Betty Cavanna, Becky Chambers, M. Chandler, KJ Charles, Remy Charlip, Suzy McKee Charnas, Leslie Charteris, Geoffrey Chaucer, G. K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, P. Djèlí Clark, Billy Collins, R. Cooper, Susan Mary Cooper, William Corlett, Stephen Cosgrove, Noël Coward, Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, Frances Crane, Edmund Crispin, Freeman Wills Crofts, Amanda Cross, E. E. Cummings, Roald Dahl, Kara Dalkey, Ellen Datlow, Pamela Dean, John DeChancie, Megan Derr, Samantha M. Derr, Kate DiCamillo, Emily Dickinson, Peter Dickinson, Annie Dillard, S. S. Van Dine, Michael Dirda, Franklin W. Dixon, Cameron Dokey, John Donne, Sylviane Donnio, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Diane Duane, Alexandre Dumas, Dave Duncan, David James Duncan, Dorothy Dunnett, John Dunning, Olivier Dunrea, Paul Durcan, Umberto Eco, David Eddings, Martin Edwards, Mell Eight, Aaron Elkins, Garth Ennis, Elizabeth Enright, Eleanor Estes, Marilyn Ezzell, Anne Fadiman, Clifton Fadiman, Ann C. Fallon, Walter Farley, Raymond E. Feist, James Fenton, E. X. Ferrars, Jean Ferris, Jasper Fforde, A. Fielding, Charles Finch, Anne Fine, Joseph Fink, Ian Fleming, James Thomas Fletcher, Lynn Flewelling, Ford Madox Ford, Rhys Ford, Christopher Fowler, Richard Fowler, Mark Del Franco, Marla Frazee, Don Freeman, Garret Freymann-Weyr, Esther M. Friesner, Robert Frost, Brian Froud, Gyo Fujikawa, Cornelia Funke, Neil Gaiman, Erle Stanley Gardner, Alan Garner, Randall Garrett, Tom Gauld, Arthur Geisert, Jean Craighead George, Kahlil Gibran, Laura Anne Gilman, E. X. Giroux, Max Gladstone, Debi Gliori, Christopher Golden, William Goldman, Lisa Goldstein, Lawrence Goldstone, Rob Gonsalves, Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Edward Gorey, Theodora Goss, Elizabeth Goudge, Kenneth Grahame, Charles L. Grant, Robert Graves, Andrew M. Greeley, Simon R. Green, Kate Griffin, Martha Grimes, Johnny Gruelle, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ivor Gurney, Shannon Hale, Laurell K. Hamilton, Helene Hanff, Cyril Hare, Charlaine Harris, C. S. Harris, Joanne Harris, Neil Patrick Harris, Kim Harrison, Sabrina Ward Harrison, Jordan L. Hawk, Christopher Healy, Seamus Heaney, Kevin Hearne, Florence Parry Heide, Robert A. Heinlein, Kevin Henkes, James Herriot, Georgette Heyer, Grace Livingston Hill, Jim C. Hines, Jane Hirshfield, Russell Hoban, Will Hobbs, Barbara Hodgson, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Tom Holt, Homer, Anthony Hope, Laura Lee Hope, E. W. Hornung, Tanya Huff, Barry Hughart, Langston Hughes, Victor Hugo, Zora Neale Hurston, Aldous Huxley, Eva Ibbotson, Michael Innes, Benedict Jacka, Rumi, P. D. James, William James, Rosamond du Jardin, Alex Jennings, Iris Johansen, Patricia M. St. John, Crockett Johnson, Kij Johnson, David Jones, Diana Wynne Jones, Norton Juster, Jan Karon, Carolyn Keene, Walt Kelly, Kathryn Kenny, Jack Kent, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Lucy Kincaid, Patrice Kindl, Charlot King, Laurie R. King, Dick King-Smith, Rudyard Kipling, Jim Kjelgaard, Kate Klise, TJ Klune, E. L. Konigsburg, Ted Kooser, Gordon Korman, Erich Kästner, Michael Kurland, Ellen Kushner, Anne Lamott, Derek Landy, Amy Lane, Andrew Lang, Jane Langton, Philip Larkin, Gary Larson, Rosemary Laurey, Maurice Leblanc, Francis Ledwidge, Madeleine L'Engle, Gail Carson Levine, Philip Levine, Larry Levis, David Levithan, C. S. Lewis, Rebecca Lickiss, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Charles de Lint, James Lipton, Frances Lockridge, Anne Logston, Jack London, E.C.R. Lorac, Karen Lord, H. P. Lovecraft, Scott Lynch, David Macaulay, R. A. MacAvoy, George MacDonald, John D. MacDonald, Alberto Manguel, Don Marquis, James Marshall, Ngaio Marsh, John Masefield, Daphne du Maurier, Peter Mayle, Jill McGown, Seanan McGuire, Juliet E. McKenna, Dennis L. McKiernan, Patricia A. McKillip, Robin McKinley, David McPhail, David Melling, George Mendoza, William Meredith, Billy Merrell, W. S. Merwin, Kate Milford, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sasha L. Miller, K. E. Mills, A. A. Milne, Czesław Miłosz, John Milton, Devon Monk, L. M. Montgomery, Alan Moore, John Moore, Marianne Moore, Moira J. Moore, Erin Morgenstern, Christopher Morley, William Morris, Patricia Moyes, Robert Munsch, C. E. Murphy, Shirley Rousseau Murphy, Donna Jo Napoli, Pablo Neruda, E. Nesbit, Garth Nix, Thelma G. Norman, Henri J. M. Nouwen, Mary Oliver, Baroness Orczy, James A. Owen, Wilfred Owen, Bernard Palmer, Peggy Parish, Dorothy Parker, Richard Parks, Tom Paxton, Nancy Pearl, Hugh Pentecost, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Sarah Pinsker, Edgar Allan Poe, Jo-Ann Power, Terry Pratchett, Tim Pratt, Alexandre Dumas, Piet Prins, Ellery Queen, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Ellen Raskin, Peggy Rathmann, Andy Redsmith, Kat Richardson, Gary Richmond, Grace S. Richmond, Rainer Maria Rilke, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Mary Roach, Tom Robbins, Spider Robinson, Theodore Roethke, Isaac Rosenberg, Michael Rosen, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Abigail Roux, John Ruskin, Louis Sachar, Oliver Sacks, Carl Sandburg, Andrzej Sapkowski, Siegfried Sassoon, Dorothy L. Sayers, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Richard Scarry, Jon Scieszka, Will Scott, David Sedaris, Jean-Jacques Sempé, Ernest Thompson Seton, Dr. Seuss, Anne Sexton, William Shakespeare, Margery Sharp, George Bernard Shaw, Ann Sheldon, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Delia Sherman, Kate Sherwood, Will Shetterly, Margaret Sidney, Shel Silverstein, Dorothy Simpson, David R. Slayton, David Small, Dodie Smith, Sherwood Smith, Thorne Smith, Roy J. Snell, Lemony Snicket, Grant Snider, Tom Sniegoski, Midori Snyder, Elizabeth George Speare, Wen Spencer, William Stafford, Vincent Starrett, Wallace Stegner, Robert Louis Stevenson, Wallace Stevens, Caroline Stevermer, Trenton Lee Stewart, Tom Stoppard, Rex Stout, Marjorie Stover, Gene Stratton-Porter, Anton Strout, Margaret Sutton, David Taylor, Phoebe Atwood Taylor, Sara Teasdale, Albert Payson Terhune, Dylan Thomas, Graham Thomas, James Thurber, Rob Thurman, Eve Titus, Charles Todd, J. R. R. Tolkien, P. L. Travers, Tasha Tudor, Megan Whalen Turner, Mark Twain, Stephanie Tyler, Catherynne M. Valente, Vivian Vande Velde, Ursula Vernon, Charles Vess, Judith Viorst, Voltaire, Martin Walker, Ellen Stoll Walsh, Jo Walton, Marina Warner, Bill Watterson, Alan W. Watts, Gerard Way, David Weber, Lenora Mattingly Weber, Jean Webster, Joy De Weese Wehen, Martha Wells, Patricia Wentworth, Jerry West, T. H. White, Elie Wiesel, David Wiesner, Oscar Wilde, Charles Williams, William Carlos Williams, Bill Willingham, Terri Windling, Elizabeth Winthrop, Clifford Witting, Ellen Wittlinger, P. G. Wodehouse, Audrey Wood, Catherine Woolley, Patricia C. Wrede, Harold Bell Wright, Janny Wurts, Anthony Wynne, William Butler Yeats, Jane Yolen, Gene Zion, Jack Zipes

Favorite Lists

Books We Love to Reread, Favorite Fairy Tale Retellings, Favorite Fairy Tales, Poetry volumes by single author

Local Favorites

Bookstores: Abednego Book Shoppe, Addyman Annex, Addyman Books, Adventures for Kids, Bank of Books, Bart's Books, Black Cat Comics, Blackwell's - London Holborn, Blackwell's Oxford, BookSmart, Calico Cat Bookshop, Chaucer's Books, Coalesce Bookstore, Copperfield's Books - Calistoga, Dark Carnival, Encore Books on the Square, Feldman's Books, Friends of the Los Gatos Library Bookstore, Gay on Wye, Hay Castle Bookshop, Haystacks Music & More, Hicklebee's, Hijinx Comics, JLM Bookstore, Kepler's Books, Linden Tree Children's Books, Moe's Books, Mr Mopps' Children's Books, Murder & Mayhem, Pegasus Books, Pegasus Books, Pegasus Downtown, Pendragon Books, Powell's City of Books (Portland), Recycle Book Store - Campbell, Recycle Book Store - San Jose, Rose's Books, SpaceCat, Spare Time / 2nd Hand, The Book Loft, The Book Odyssey, The Literary Lion, The Other Change of Hobbit, The Reading Bug, The Strand Bookshop, Two Birds Books, Village House Of Books

Libraries: Bodleian Library, Bodleian Library, Oxford University - Old Library, British Library, Camarillo Public Library, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library - San José State University and San José Public Library, San Francisco Public Library - Main, San José Public Library - Bascom Library and Community Center, San José Public Library - Tully Community Branch Library, San José Public Library - Willow Glen Branch Library, The Huntington Library, Ventura County Library - E. P. Foster Library

Other: Bay Area Book Festival

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Friends

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