Bookshelf Tour 2018

Let me walk you through my fantastic new home library, some of my most treasured books and talk through my tips for an IKEA hack to turn billy bookshelves into ones that look custom made. Click ‘Show More’ for info.

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My 2017 bookshelf tour in my previous apartment:

My Beginner’s Guide to Reading Joyce Carol Oates:

Rakesh Satyal’s Lammy Acceptance Speech in the style of Gaga’s ‘Bad Romance’

Articles about arranging bookshelves
Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One’s Books by Georges Perec:
On Bookshelves by Anne F. Garreta:

Books & Authors discussed:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
George Eliot
The Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionesco
Vladimir Nabokov
Jean Rhys
Difficult Women by David Plante
Blue Boy by Rakesh Satyal
The Day Communists Took Over by Isabel Moore
Sex by Madonna
Enough by Eric Karl Anderson
Ontario Review No 66
Ganymede Stories One
From Boys to Men edited by Ted Gideonse and Rob Williams
50 Gay & Lesbian Books Everybody Must Read by Richard Canning
London by George Wharton Edwards
The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982
My Day by Jean Rhys
Austerlitz by WG Sebald
The Lost Ones by Samuel Beckett
Somerset House 1971 by Gilbert & George
Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler
Soul at the White Heat by Joyce Carol Oates
The Alice B Toklas Cook Book
The Bloomsbury Cookbook: Recipes for Life, Love & Art
Tequila Mockingbird by Tim Federle
Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi

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Get in touch

[bethieandbooks]

Oh man, this just popped up as a recommendation. ‘You never know, the apocalypse could happen’ to read all the books 😅

[annapotpot]

That book dedication from Joyce Carol Oates took my breath away. Wow.

[gavinthecollector]

So glad I found your channel.  Adult bookshelf tour at last!!!!

[mementomoriadam]

Your first shelf tour was your best video you have done and you topped yourself with this one! Wonderful. What a joy to see your new shelves and like last time, you did a wonderful job of picking some choice books to spotlight among the many.. the only things missing is a portrait of ME right between Joan and JCO. We will work on that!

[alisaperez]

You can never have too many books. Thank you for sharing your home library with us. :)

[tehaneponcolona]

O my what an excellent collection you have!

[donnakirby]

A fantastic book shelf tour Eric! You have many amazing books! But the love I have for this tour, is your history and memories of many of your books!

[johnnamurraycamp]

I had no idea that anybody else had "modified Billy" bookcases! Ours are DIY and (sadly, if unsurprisingly) still unfinished, lacking the planned upper molding which will conceal additional lighting. The shelves themselves and the books upon them have been in place for about 5 years. So far so pretty-good. They seem to withstand the weight of most books, including an exultation of novels, my modest 'collections, ' and many musical scores/songbooks, but the multi-volume OED has bowed its shelf. Brilliant idea (or you'd not have thought the same!) but over time it might need a few tweaks if not an upgrade, imo.

[robinsummers]

Your library and shelving are wonderful. When you showed your novel "Enough" I admit I squealed! I danced around saying I have that book! LOL Have to say it is one of my prized books.

[SamuelDaram]

Yes, Eric, do please do a video of your experiences as a judge of a literary contest. 7:10

[confessionsofanoctopus]

"You never know, the apocalypse could happen any day, and I might have to barricade myself in ... and then I can spend day after day doing nothing but reading"

[LauraRodriguez-Peace]

Wonderful, Eric! So lovely!
I so enjoyed your tour, and learning the backstory behind some of your favorite items and special books, (especially the London book from your grandfather.) :)
Thank you for sharing!

[danidero]

O m g ! AMAZING BOOKS !!! AND LOVE THE WAY THE BIBLIOTHÈQUE IS INTEGRATED !

[annag]

Amazing library, Eric. Pure pleasure to watch it! Also, a fantastic job done by a person who did your shelving🙂

[ilseortega]

Nice! Your book collection must have grown enormously by now ☺️ The hack for the built-in shelves worked beautifully. I used to have a semi-custom made library in my previous life, now I have IKEA, and double rows (front and behind) of books on every shelf… things are getting out of control 🤣 So I am leaning more towards checking books out from the library. I have all books in Spanish on one side, alphabetically, all books in translation alphabetically by country on other side, all professional development books on another side (in no order) and books in English (in no order), newer ones to the front, older ones in the back😊 Love our worlds of books ❤️📚❤️

[jaychi]

LOVED the living room. Would love to see a video on all your signed editions are stories behind them!

[retiredbooknerd]

Ooooo, I LOVE THIS VIDEO!! I'm all about the home library! I just recently did a video showing my newly remodeled library! I also love to just sit and look at my books.. it's what we do, right?? ☺️Your new shelves are amazing.. I think that a person must arrange to completely suit himself! I'm happy for you to finally have the library you wanted! It's a wonderful feeling! I still need one of those ladders! 😉📚📚📚

[Bookshanks]

Happy new shelves...or happy new library! I LOVE a bookshelf tour. And what a fabulous job your chippy did fixing them to look built in and your desk - wow. I dream of a ladder too! I didn't know you had written a novel - how interesting. I've hardly written a word in the last year or so but I'm just getting back into my third novel, and I think a break and time spent 'just' reading is immensely valuable. Your Grandfather's books is beautiful. How wonderful when books can connect us through the generations like that. It's a special thing. My grandfather had a wonderful library of his own that I remember from when I was a child but since he's died I've not been able to revisit it as an adult (families, hey!) and see what he enjoyed, which is a real shame. I've no idea if it even still exists. Thank you for sharing this. A great video.

[Amy_Yuki_Vickers]

I love, love, love this video. I've been looking forward to it for a long time and I wasn't disappointed. Your new place looks fantastic and the way you had the shelves created is so clever. Your Joyce Carol Oates video was not only the first video of yours that I saw, but my first booktube video. It was my gateway video and I don't regret a thing. Thank you so much for all that you have contributed to the reading community.

[bookishl]

Wow what a glorious library! I love that you bought Billy bookcases and customised them - such a good idea!