BIBFRAME Work

Title

Shelf respect

Other Titles (e.g. Variant)

Book lover's defence

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

Austen, Annie (author )

Subject

• Books (LCSH)
• Book collecting (LCSH)
• Rayonnage pour les livres (RVM)
• Shelving (Furniture) (FAST)
• General (UKSLC)
• books (AAT)
• Bibliothèques privées (RVM)
• Bibliophilie (RVM)
• Storage in the home (FAST)
• Private libraries (LCSH)
• Book Collecting (MESH)
• Book collectors (FAST)
• Rangement à la maison (RVM)
• HOUSE & HOME / Decorating & Furnishings (BISACSH)
• Book collectors (LCSH)
• private libraries (institutions) (AAT)
• Books and reading (FAST)
• Books and reading (LCSH)
• ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Books (BISACSH)
• Livres (RVM)
• Shelving for books (FAST)
• Books (FAST)
• Storage in the home (LCSH)
• Shelving (Furniture) (LCSH)
• Bibliophiles (RVM)
• Livres et lecture (RVM)
• Book collecting (FAST)
• Shelving for books (LCSH)
• Rayonnage (Mobilier) (RVM)
• Private libraries (FAST)

Genre Form

• humor (AAT)
• Humor (FAST)
• Humor (LCGFT)
• Humour (RVMGF)
• Wit and Humor (MESH)

Language

• English

Illustrative Content

• illustrations

Classification

• LCC: Z4.Z9 A87 2019 (Status: not used by assigner) (Status: upgraded prepub)
• DDC: 648.8

Content

• still image
• text

Summary

Decluttering is all the rage, but what do you do when your preferred interior decor is miles of overstuffed bookshelves? If you can't bring yourself to clear your collection, SHELF RESPECT will validate your life choices. Do you alphabetise your books or organise by genre ... or (heaven forbid) colour? Have you merged your collection with your other half's? (And do you write your name inside the cover, just in case?) Do you keep all the books you've read, or only the most cherished? Is there such a thing as too many books? (No.) Bound to provoke (good-natured) debate between Bibliophiles, SHELF RESPECT is a charmingly illustrated book in defence of towering TBR piles and overflowing shelves ... no matter how you choose to organise them.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- What do your books say about you? -- A dozen fictional books in literature -- The People's Bookshelf of Latvia -- Is it compulsory to finish a book once we've started it? -- Five novels that take place over a single day -- Ten books found on Osama Bin Laden's bookshelf -- Five things Oscar Wilde said about books and reading -- Dr Johnson on reading -- Barack Obama's last presidential summer reads -- Books selected most often by Desert Island Discs castaways -- In praise of the bookcase -- Ten genuine one-star reader reviews of classic literature -- Do we really need books? -- Five songs inspired by books -- How to arrange your books on the shelves -- Ten rejected titles for great books -- A lender or borrower be? -- Ten great quotes about books and reading -- Strange things found in books -- A dozen books read on screen in films -- Death by bookcase -- Fifteen books from the personal library of Marilyn Monroe -- 'The harmless and delicious fever': how bibliophilic are you? -- Some notable bibliophiles -- J.K. Rowling's favourite childhood reading -- The merging of the book collections -- Ten prolific authors -- Bookshelves that made history -- Great sliding bookcases -- Six weird book titles -- Bookshelves in style -- An early dog-ear -- The horse librarians of Kentucky -- Five fictional bookshops -- Five great cinema bookshelves -- A great fictional library -- The Brownings' bookcase -- Ten fictional places in literature -- All Greek to us.

Authorized Access Point

Austen, Annie. Shelf respect

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:22:09.517355+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 24034648

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc