Do You Have a List Of All Your Books?

Art Garfunkel has a website dedicated to listing every book he read and when

https://www.artgarfunkel.com/library/list1.html


A vast majority of my physical books are biographies of those in music, film, comedy, and to a lesser extent, politics and sports, which are ones I got early in life. I have a couple on geography or books from these book exchanges in Australia through the Couchsurfing travel community. A few language books I'll probably never check out again. In fact, the only time I read physical books was when I was on an airplane, train, etc.., and they're only taking space I don't have in this very tiny house. Most of my books are e-books. I've been in a rush to sell my physical books for many reasons, but also because of neck/shoulder pain, and also because I can increase the font on an e-book or Zoom in while I see it on my TV.



I do have a list, and will post more if others reply... I love finding older books, just for comparison, even if those artists weren't very popular. Some guys like Peckinpah is even more interesting than his movies! I have the physical and e-book of this Interviews series.


Another huge benefit of e-books is the Search function.. There's some people who I rarely know, but might want to read their mentions on a certain director, or certain keywords ('love', 'hate', 'best', etc).



Brando Unzipped (Darwin Porter)
Money players inside the new NBA (Armen Keteyian, Harvey Araton, Martin F. Dardis)
Van halen a Visual History 1978-1984 (Zlozower, Neil)
The American Cinema (Andrew Sarris)
To the Limit The Untold Story of the Eagles (Marc Eliot)
The Films In My Life (Francois Truffaut)
Led Zeppelin (Bob Spitz)
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life A Sortabiography (Eric Idle)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers. Vol. 1 Films (Sara Pendergast, Tom Pendergast)
Long Train Runnin Our Story of The Doobie Brothers (Pat Simmons Tom Johnston)
Robert Altman and the Elaboration of Hollywood Storytelling (Mark Minett)
Van Halen Rising How a Southern California Backyard Party Band Saved Heavy Metal (Greg Renoff)
Hollywood Babylon (Kenneth Anger)
Where Did Our Love Go The Rise Fall of the Motown Sound (George Nelson)
The Led Zeppelin Saga (Davis, Stephen)
John Lennon Life Is What Happens Music, Memories Memorabilia (John M. Borack)
A Life in the Day Memories of Swinging London, Lots of Writing, The Beatles and My Beloved Wife (Davies Hunter)
Frank Capra The Catastrophe of Success (Joseph McBride)
Led Zeppelin All the Albums, All the Songs (Martin Popoff)
Conversations with Classic Film Stars Interviews from Hollywoods Golden Era (Bawden, JamesMiller, Ron)
Ancient Mesopotamia Life in the Cradle of Civilization - Guidebook - The Great Courses - TTC (Amanda H. Podany PhD)
The Anarchy of the Imagination Interviews, Essays, Notes ( etc.)
How to Talk Dirty and Influence People (Lenny Bruce) (78:39)
The Films of Roberto Rossellini (Cambridge Film Classics) (Peter Bondanella)
The Recording Engineers Handbook (Bobby Owsinski)
Bring It On Home Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and Beyond–The Story of Rock’s Greatest Manager (Mark Blake)
Crazy from the Heat (David Lee Roth)
How to Talk Dirty and Influence People (Lenny Bruce)
The Stone Age Sixty Years of The Rolling Stones (Lesley-Ann Jones)
Angela Davis An Autobiography (Angela Y. Davis)
Swanson on Swanson (Gloria Swanson)
Lennon in America 1971-1980, Based in Part on the Lost Lennon Diaries (Geoffery Giuliano)
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Ilan Pappe)
A Modern Man (George Carlin)
Conversations with Classic Film Stars Interviews from Hollywoods Golden Era (Bawden, JamesMiller, Ron)
Reel Conversations Candid Interviews With Films Foremost Directors and Critics (George Hickenlooper)
Hitler (Ian Kershaw)
David Lee Roth - Eat Em And Smile Band Score (David Lee Roth)
Me Stories of My Life (Katharine Hepburn)
What Is Cinema (André Bazin)
Interviews with Film Directors (Andrew Sarris)
Lets Spend the Night Together Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies (Pamela Des Barres)
The Last Sultan The Life and Times of Ahmet Ertegun (Greenfield, Robert)
John Ford The Man and His Films (Tag Gallagher)
Van Halen Rising How a Southern California Backyard Party Band Saved Heavy Metal (Greg Renoff)
Traveling Music Playing Back the Soundtrack to My Life and Times (Neil Peart)
The Great Erasure The Reconstruction of White Identity (Richard B. Spencer (ed.))
Last Words A Memoir (George Carlin, Tony Hendra)
Andrei Tarkovsky Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series) (John Gianvito)
Esoteric Hollywood II More Sex, Cults Symbols in Film (Jay Dyer)
Last Man Standing Mort Sahl and the Birth of Modern Comedy
-Bowie- David- Leigh- Wendy- Bowie the biography-b-ok.org-
Hitler (Ian Kershaw)
The History of Rock Roll, Volume 2 (Ed Ward)
The 100 Best Movies Youve Never Seen (Richard Crouse)
How Sweet It is The Jackie Gleason Story (James Bacon)
The Comedians Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy (Nesteroff, Kliph)
Led Zeppelin on Led Zeppelin Interviews and Encounters (Bordowitz, Hank) - Copy
Dark History of Hollywood (Kieron Connolly)
Led Zeppelin on Led Zeppelin Interviews and Encounters (Bordowitz, Hank)
Led Zeppelin on Led Zeppelin Interviews and Encounters (Bordowitz, Hank) - Copy (2)
Steve Howe - Guitar Pieces (Steve Howe, Mick Barber)
Mitchell-Zuckoff-Robert-Altman -The-Oral-Biography-Vintage-
Robert Altman The Oral Biography (Mitchell Zuckoff)
My Life in Dire Straits (John Illsley)
Pauline Kael-Going Steady-Little, Brown & Company (1970)
The medium and the magician Orson Welles, the radio years, 1934-1952 (Welles, Orson Welles, Orson Welles etc.)
Storytelling in the New Hollywood (Kristin Thompson)
Seduction Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood (Karina Longworth)
Bazin on Global Cinema, 1948-1958 (André Bazin)
Music business handbook and career guide (David Baskerville Tim Baskerville)
From the Back Court to the Front Office The Isiah Thomas Story (Paul Challen)
Smokey Inside My Life (Smokey Robinson, David Ritz)



If it helps, maybe we can include it only to movies so it gets more views being in a much more popular category.

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I started to keep a list in my teens but that project fell through a couple of months in. But I always wished I had kept with it.

Damn! Maybe you can remember the best, which is probably best, anyway, since others would probably prefer it in this quest of introducing people to something great.



One great piece of advice I received when I was a kid was to keep a journal, which I did/do.. Unfortunately, 33 of them were water damaged as they sat in the trunk of my broken down car, but I still have a few.

Wow, that sucks! I made a couple attempts to keep a journal, but I thought my life was to boring and when it wasn't it made me cringe.

Storytelling is a dying art.. It also seems like the funniest stories are the real ones. You can remember the best ones and upload them anonymously. I'd love to find channels/pages of older people, because that knowledge will be gone soon, especially those who were able to see my favorite stuff in concert, etc.

I use this software to catalog my physical books. I haven't gone back to add ALL the books I owned before I bought the software, but I'm slowly catching up. And I'll also eventually add the e-books later.

I saw Garfunkel's site list and love that idea. The software I use does have the option of checking off whether you've read the book yet or not, but even that isn't all accurate in my database yet. Since I bought the software nearly ten years ago, I've added any new books I buy immediately, so at least the last ten years' worth are catalogued.

I'd been better about using Goodreads to keep up with my Currently Reading list but I'm not as good about keeping up with that as I should be.

I've kept a computerized diary since the early 1990s. I'm glad I didn't feel it was redundant to also print those early years out and bind them because the early DOS-based software I was using obviously doesn't work anymore. For the past bunch of years I've just used OneNote with a password... and I still print them out and bind them. They're mostly mundane thoughts and bits and pieces of daily life, but I try not to second-guess whether I should be writing this boring stuff down. When I think about how much I wish my own grandmother (or even mother) kept a boring, mundane diary of her daily life (what I would give for such a thing!), I realize that just cataloguing what daily life is like might be interesting to reread sometime. For instance, I've reread the diary from the year of my separation and divorce (1993 to 1994) and it reads like a bad novel. Crazy, but I'm still glad I wrote down my thoughts and feelings from that long, long year.

I wish I was reading more than I am, but I'm enjoying what I'm reading and try not to flog myself too much for not reading faster. It's not a competition with myself.

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Oops! Link for the book-cataloguing software:

https://collectorz.com/book

I use the desktop installation (since I work from home anyway), so I have no idea how the phone app is. The company/developer is always very responsive to any issues I've had in the ten years I've owned/upgraded the software (and issues have been very few).

This might be a good site, too
scribd.com/

I actually have a “book room”, but, no, my books are not listed anywhere. If I want to re-read something it’s easier to buy it on kindle rather than search for it.

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Don't you know librarything.com/?
Very good free place online. It is quite complicated for using it at first but when you learn the basic things (will take some time) you gonna love it.

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Goodreads is the way to go if you're a bookworm.

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only books i have is shadowhunters
harry potter
narnia
hunger games

I sure wish I had a list. At last count, I had close to 3,000 books in my house. Sometimes I can't find one when I want it. I've accidentally ordered a few books that I already had because I looked for one and didn't see it, but then ran across it later after I'd bought a duplicate. It's chaos! I'm in dire need of some kind of organization, but at this point compiling an inventory would be a monumental project.

Most recent books I got




The Grand Illusion Love, Lies, and My Life with Styx (Chuck Panozzo, Michele Skettino)
Fanshen A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village (William Hinton)
Into the Void From Birth to Black Sabbath – and Beyond (Geezer Butler)
History of the Russian Revolution (Leon Trotsky)
Their Morals and Ours (Trotsky L., Dewey J., Novack G., Serge V.)
Revolution Betrayed What Is the Soviet Union and Where Is It Going (Leon Trotsky)
Bird Watching On Playing and Coaching the Game I Love (Bird Larry)
Showtime Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s (Jeff Pearlman)
Seabiscuit (Laura Hillenbrand)
May Made Me An Oral History of the 1968 Uprising in France (Mitchell Abidor)
Hollywood - The Oral History(2022) (Jeanine Basinger)
Jack Nicholson The Early Years (Robert Crane, Christopher Fryer)
Roger Corman Interviews (Constantine Nasr)
Known and Unknown A Memoir (Rumsfeld Donald)
By his own rules the ambitions, successes, and ultimate failures of Donald Rumsfeld (Rumsfeld, DonaldGraham, Bradley)
Rumsfelds Rules Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War, and Life (Donald Rumsfeld)
Last Man Standing Mort Sahl and the Birth of Modern Comedy (James Curtis)
Letters to Milena (Franz Kafka, Philip Boehm)
Letters To Friends, Family, and Editors ( etc.)
Whitewash II the FBI-Secret Service Cover-Up (Harold Weisberg)
Oswald in New Orleans A Case for Conspiracy with the CIA (Harold Weisberg)
When Giants Walked the Earth A Biography of Led Zeppelin (Mick Wall [Wall, Mick])
Acid test LSD, Ecstasy, and the power to heal (Shroder, Tom)
Strange Things Happen A Life With the Police, Polo, and Pygmies (Copeland Stewart)
Vincent van Gogh - Ever Yours… The Essential Letters (2014) (Vincent van Gogh, Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten etc.)
The Artist’s Way A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Julia Cameron)
Cassavetes Directs John Cassavetes and the Making of Love Streams (Michael Ventura)
Space Between the Stars My Journey to an Open Heart (Santana Deborah)
Essential Works of Lenin What Is to Be Done and Other Writings (Vladimir Ilyich Lenin)
Chat Room Wind-Ups (Stuart McLean)
Survivors An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide (Donald E. Miller, Lorna Touryan Miller)
Rome 1960 The Olympics That Changed the World (David Maraniss)
The Year of Magical Thinking (Joan Didion)
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 (Solzhenitsyn Alexander)
Boris Yeltsin The Decade that Shook the World (Boris Minaev)
The quiet American (Greene Graham)
Family of Secrets The Bush Dynasty, Americas Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years (Russ Baker [Baker, Russ])
John Cassavetes Interviews (Gabriella Oldham)
False Witness The Real Story of Jim Garrisons Investigation
The Arab awakening the story of the Arab national movement (Antonius, George)
The Essential Mario Savio Speeches and Writings That Changed America ( etc.)
Reporting on the Kennedy Assassination (Willem L. Oltmans, Michael A. Rinella etc.)
Peckinpah Today New Essays on the Films of Sam Peckinpah (Michael Bliss)
Goin Crazy with Sam Peckinpah and All Our Friends (Max Evans)
If They Move . . . Kill Em The Life and TImes of Sam Peckinpah (David Weddle)
Sam Peckinpah interviews (Peckinpah, Sam, Hayes, Kevin J.)
American Scream The Bill Hicks Story (True Cynthia)
Love All the People (Bill Hicks)
John lennon In His Own Words (Lennon, JohnLawrence, Ken)
Citizen Welles A Biography of Orson Welles (Frank Brady)
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Koba the Dread (Martin Amis)
Its Only A Joke, Comrade Humour, Trust and Everyday Life under Stalin (Jonathan Waterlow)
Stalin The Court of the Red Tsar (Simon Sebag Montefiore)
Set the Night on Fire (Robby Krieger)
Good Stalin (Viktor Jerofejev)
Only One Year (Svetlana Alliluyeva)
Twenty Letters to a Friend (Svetlana Alliluyeva)
Stalins Letters to Molotov 1925-1936 (Josef Stalin, Lars T. Lih, Oleg V. Naumov etc.)
The 50s The Story of a Decade (The New Yorker Magazine, Henry Finder (Ed.) etc.)
Cultural Cleansing in Iraq (Raymond W. Baker, Shereen T Ismael etc.)
Hunter S. Thompson The Last Interview and Other Conversations (David Streitfeld, Hunter S. Thompson)
Proud Highway Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 (Thompson, Hunter SKennedy etc.)
Writings of Leon Trotsky (Leon Trotsky)
My Life An Attempt at an Autobiography (Lev Davidovič Trockij Leon Trotsky)
Trotskys Diary in Exile, 1935 (Leon Trotsky, Illustrated)
History of the Russian Revolution (Leon Trotsky)
The Political Economy of Stalinism Evidence from the Soviet Secret Archives (Paul R. Gregory)
Van Halen Exuberant California, Zen Rocknroll (Reverb) (John Scanlan)
Hillbilly Elegy (J. D. Vance)

I'm still putting together my ranked list.

No, I don’t. That would take me forever.