57 Books on Hank Green’s Bookshelf
Do you spy on other people’s bookshelves?
I don’t snoop in bathroom cabinets, I go straight to the bookcases. I love to see the individual combination of books on someone’s shelves – spotting your favorites there, or discoving something new that you never knew you wanted to read.
Book collections are often eclectic and personal; unexpected or odd or insightful.
So every week when I watch Vlogbrothers (the YouTube videos made by John Green and his brother Hank Green), I find myself peering over their shoulders and spying on their bookshelves.
Want to know what’s on Hank Green’s bookshelf? Here are 57 titles I spotted.
1. The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith
2. The Scott Pilgrim series by Bryan Lee O’Malley
3. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
4. The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
5. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
6. Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
7. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
8. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
9. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
10. Watership Down by Richard Adams
11. The Magicians by Lev Grossman
12. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
13. Possession by A. S. Byatt
14. Marvel’s Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, adapted by Nancy Butler and Hugo Petrus
15. Marvel’s Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, adapted by Nancy Butler and Sonny Liew
16. Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Joss Whedon and Christopher Golden
17. Five Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth by The Oatmeal
18. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
19. The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling
20. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
21. Serenity by Joss Whedon, Brett Matthews, and Will Conrad
22. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
23. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
24. Ender’s Shadow by Orson Scott Card
25. The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
26. Coraline by Neil Gaiman
27. Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
28. Star Wars X-Wing Solo Command by Aaron Allison
29. The Sandman comics by Neil Gaiman
30. Dr. Horrible by Joss Whedon
31. Kodocha by Miho Obana
32. The Last Little Blue Envelope by Maureen Johnson
33. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
34. Peeps by Scott Westerfeld
35. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation by M. T. Anderson
36. Sunshine by Robin McKinley
37. The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
38. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
39. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
40. Paper Towns by John Green
41. Ship Breaker by Paulo Bacigalupi
42. The Annotated Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and David Shapard
43. Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
44. Dune by Frank Herbert
45. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
46. Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
47. Wizards First Rule by Terry Goodkind
48. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
49. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
50. Little Bee by Chris Cleave
51. About a Boy by Nick Hornby
52. Atonement by Ian McEwan
53. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
54. The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon
55. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
56. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
57. Serenity: The Shepherd’s Tale by Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, and Chris Samnee
