Books you are proud to have on display...

[Justcallmemissstupid]

I’ve bought a lovely new bookcase for the living room. But I’ve come to realise my taste in books isn’t something I’d like to display 😆 think Bridget Jones etc.
I’d like to fill up my bookcase but I’d also like to expand my reading. So can you give me some titles that wouldn’t make you cringe if visitors were to see them? 😬 and that are a good read also

[Valkadin]

MN loves a books on bookshelves judgement thread.

I’m a retired academic librarian and DH is a Professor. We have a bookcase in his office full of incredibly specific scientific tomes but visitors don’t go in there. I have 1500 Ladybird books that are packed away. I also have two large chests of books. Just before we had DS we decided to have a major cull and got rid of about 1000 books and 20 years of The Economist and Private Eye. So no books to be seen obviously apart from the ones we are reading just on the sofa.

Wuthering Heights was the first classic novel I read and as a child I remember thinking what utterly disagreeable people they were.

[Deathraystare]

Until recently my book case was packed full of cookbooks! I am an extensive reader and do love crime fiction too and also autobiographies, History stuff. I am moving soon and having to cull my books so a lot of the cookbooks have gone.

Anyway, I really do not think I would be shamed by comments. I read more variety than others I know and some of my acquaintances don't read books at all!

[KirstenBlest]

When I moved house a friend came round, looked at my bookcase and suggested that I pack the books away as they weren't going to impress anyone. They weren't meant to!