The "Stuff by People We Know" shelf

[serene]

I thought of this post while I was sitting in the jurors' lounge today (the guy took a deal and went to prison, so we didn't have to sit on a jury), reading Emma Bull's really excellent War for the Oaks.

In the acknowledgements, she mentions our own pameladean, someone I really like a lot, both as a person and an author, and she raised a logistical question for me: Does this mean that "War for the Oaks" can now go on my "Stuff by People We Know" bookshelf?

Don't laugh. Doesn't everyone have one?

Now, I know that people like wild_irises and other longtime fans/editors will have lists MUCH MUCH longer than mine, but I'm interested to see them. When I get home, I'll post my list, but the question for you now is this:

Which books do you own that are written by, edited by, or contain works by people you know?

I'll post a complete list later, but I know that I have stuff by at least the following LJers: dbubley, pameladean, papersky, final_girl, me, loracs, wild_irises, charliegrrrl, pantryslut, and gosh, I'm probably missing several.

Comments

[abostick59.livejournal.com]

The fraction of books we own that are written by someone either of us knows is sufficiently large that segregating them wouldn't involve a particular shelf so much as a particular room.

Heck, half of the poker books on my shelf are by people I know. There are many textbooks on my shelves by people whose classes I've taken.

And then there's the SF and fantasy....

It's a marker of a kind of privilege: that many of the books I read are written by people I know, and that, conversely, the people I know are much more likely than the average American to have written books. (I feel like a sort of underachiever because I haven't.) I've been to this person's wedding, and to that one's fiftieth-birthday party. This one surprised me by showing up to my daughter's memorial. That one called me when she needed to be driven to the hospital. Etc.

Here's a dangerous question for literati: How many books by people you know didn't make the cut the last time you culled your bookshelves? (For me it was more than a few.)