Over the years, as my book collection ballooned and slowly slurped over my apartment like The Blob, I noticed that my natural preferences engorged certain topics more than others. In these areas, I find myself addicted to collecting every book I can find on a subject. Here they are, in order of the topics I've collected most exhaustively.
- Good News
Books that influenced and inspired my own, The Secret Peace - Critical Thinking
- Debunking myths, pseudosciences, etc.
- Media analysis
- Factoids correcting history and common knowledge
- Gandhi
- Nonviolence
- Comparative Religion
- Art Instruction
- Drawing
- Caricaturing
- Watercolor
- Graphic Novels
- Vertigo (Preacher, Hellblazer, Transmetropolitan, Sandman)
- Brian Michael Bendis
- The Flash
- Alan Moore (ABC line, etc.)
- Greg Rucka (Queen & Country, etc.)
- Ed Brubaker (Sleeper, etc.)
- Warren Ellis
- Cerebus
- Batman
- Marvel Ultimate line
- DC Universe
- Political books - mostly left-leaning
- International Affairs
- Classic Literature
Really getting into Russian literature now - Graphic Design software books
Visual Quickstart Guides
Web Usability - General Art books
- John Singer Sargent
- Children's Fantasy
i.e. The Chronicles of Narnia, Oz books, Roald Dahl, etc.
(Mostly books I've saved since I was younger) - Quantum Physics
- Science v. Religion
- Baha'i books
- Neil Gaiman
(One of the only authors who I collect completely.) - Oxford Very Short Introductions
- Science Fiction in general
- Time Travel
- DK Books
- Dating/Sex
- Humor & comic strips
Most notably, Calvin & Hobbes - Books about comics & the comic book industry
- Poetry, especially compilations
- Signed books
The DaVinci Code, Clinton's Memoir, Neil Gaiman, Art Spegielman, Walter Mosley. Click here to see the full list.
What are your specialties? Which books do you like to collect? Which topics can't you get enough of? E-mail me.