My ideal bookshelf

I stumbled upon this book at the library while (quickly) browsing the shelves. As any book lover would, I have fallen in love with this book.

Growing up I was always a reader. I was that child who was grounded from reading until I got my homework done (and just in case you’re wondering, because I was grounded from reading, didn’t include being grounded from reading the words of my textbooks . . .) I couldn’t tell you the first book that I read which made me want to become an author—I think that desire has always been inside me. I can tell you books that I’ve enjoyed over the years and have read a few times over. Some books on my ideal bookshelf, I didn’t read until much later in life. Some I “cut my teeth on”. All on my list for one reason or another, these are the books that would be on my ideal bookshelf as it now stands. Ask me in a few years and I’m sure this list would change.

To Kill a Mockingbird
The Hunger Games series
The Velveteen Rabbit
Little House in the Big Woods
The Bible
Stephen King’s On Writing
Delirium
Pride and Prejudice
Ramona Quimby Age 8

And because Elsie loves book just as much as I do, the beginning of her list looks like this:

Charlotte’s Web
Stuart Little
Fancy Nancy
Crafty Chloe
Usborne’s Illustrated Guide to Cats

What would your ideal bookshelf look like?

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**I have found that The Ideal Bookshelf does have a website. I especially like this, this, and this print. And I’m highly considering getting this or this or this print for the kids’ bedroom.