After years of Pinterest boards, I have finally built my dream home library. It is not perfect – the next one will be. But it’s a good reason to show anyone interested in what the bookshelf of a bookseller and book layout artist looks like and how I got here. But before we get to my new creation, let’s take a look back at the shelf in my last apartment.
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4,00 €by Eimear McBride
Touching on everything from family violence to sexuality and the personal struggle to remain intact in times of intense trauma, McBride writes with singular intensity, acute sensitivity and mordant wit. A Girl is a Half-formed Thing is moving, funny – and alarming. It is a book you will never forget.
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5,00 €by Hanya Yanagihara
A decade in the writing, this is an anthropological adventure story that combines the visceral allure of a thriller with a profound and tragic vision of what happens when cultures collide. It is a book that instantly catapults Hanya Yanagihara into the company of young novelists who really, really matter.
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5,00 €by David Foster Wallace
A gargantuan, mind-altering tragi-comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America.
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4,00 €by G.F. Green
A unique, enchanting and complicated coming-of-age story about the passion between two young boys, In the Making is widely hailed as G. F. Green’s masterpiece, and is now in print for the first time since its original publication in 1952.
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3,00 €by Andre Dubus III
In this page-turning, breathtaking novel, the characters will walk off the page and into your life. And a small house will seem like the most important piece of territory in the world.
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5,00 €by Susan Sontag
Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual representations of war and violence in our culture today.
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5,00 €by Saul Bellow
A modern day Everyman on an odyssey in search of reality and identity, Augie March is the star performer in Bellow’s exuberant, richly observed human variety show.
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5,00 €by Anne Michaels
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling author of Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault.
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3,00 €by Marlo Morgan
Mutant Message Down Under is the fictional account of an American woman’s spiritual odyssey through outback Australia. An underground bestseller in its original self-published edition, Marlo Morgan’s powerful tale of challenge and endurance has a message for us all.
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4,00 €by Jules Verne
A mysterious creature, larger and more rapid than a whale, has been haunting the deep: Professor Aronnax has been invited to join a task force to rid the seas of the monster.
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6,00 €by Susan Sontag
‘Death Kit’ follows a troubled man through a self-incriminating investigation. It travels from upstate New York to New York City, and to the recesses of the American conscience, where the will to destroy may to the strongest impulse of all.
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6,00 €by Hannah Witton
SEXTING. VIRGINITY. CONSENT. THE BIG O… Sex-positive vlogger Hannah Witton covers it all.
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Original price was: 4,00 €.1,20 €Current price is: 1,20 €.A delicious cookie where the richness of almonds meets the joy of aromatic nutmeg with warm cinnamon, the sweetness of date syrup and creating a wonderful bouquet of aromas and filling flavours.
Best before / Parim enne: 02.11.2024
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7,30 €Salted Caramel Oatm*lk features decadent well-defined caramel notes with hints of sea salt that intensify the cereal notes of oats perfectly balanced and underlined by chocolate-like tones and creamy texture.
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Original price was: 3,50 €.2,70 €Current price is: 2,70 €.A Coffee oat cookie to give you a boost in the morning time and energy all day long. It is probably the best experience eating real oat coffee cookies. Try it!
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7,30 €A bar of plant-based chocolate with 43% cacao content made with fine flavour cocoa beans from Colombia and oat powder.
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7,30 €UP-UP Dark Cherry is one of life’s tiny treasures combining the fineness of our insignia dark chocolate Single Estate 50% cacao content, alongside well-defined notes of candied sweet cherries
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7,30 €UP-UP Dark Wild Mint is an inspiring dark chocolate Single Estate 50% cacao content made with fine flavour cocoa beans from a single farm called “El Rosario” located in the Necocli region on the north-eastern coast of Colombia.
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Original price was: 4,00 €.3,60 €Current price is: 3,60 €.A delicious cookie where the richness of almonds meets the joy of chocolate to form a scrumptious bouquet of flavours. Crunchy, filling and 100% natural.
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7,30 €The perfect plant-based chocolate to enjoy delightful sea salt tones that accentuate the cereal flavours of natural oat powder and roasted cacao characteristic of fine flavour cocoa beans from Colombia.
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4,20 €These rich Double Chocolate Hazelnut Biscuits are perfectly baked with dark chocolate chunks. Double the chocolate and dairy-free!
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5,00 € – 50,00 €The perfect gift for a books and cookies lover!
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7,30 €UP-UP Dark Espresso is an especially dark chocolate Single Estate 50% cacao content made with fine flavour cocoa beans from a single farm called “El Rosario” located in the Necocli region on the north-eastern coast of Colombia.
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7,30 €The ideal chocolate for plant-based coffee lovers to savour the rounded full-bodied tones of a selected blend of roasted coffee, matching the chocolate-like tones and cereal notes delivered by the creamy-melting rate of this exclusive bar.
Bookish Lifestyle Products
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11,50 € – 29,50 €Readers gonna read. And write about it.
For lovers of books and keeping track of them.
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7,50 €- 7 seperatly packaged condoms
- Lubricant coating (Silicone Base)
- 54mm diameter (standard size)
- 100% electronically tested
- natural colors
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Original price was: 11,20 €.7,84 €Current price is: 7,84 €.A stylish A5 reading journal to record your thoughts on your recent reads.
A perfect gift for book lovers and avid readers.
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Original price was: 12,90 €.10,32 €Current price is: 10,32 €.Part of the Dystopian collection, this striking red and white enamel pin takes inspiration from Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.
The perfect literature-themed gift for a book lover.
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Original price was: 5,50 €.3,85 €Current price is: 3,85 €.An A6 pocket notebook featuring a quote from Jane Austen.
A lovely literature-inspired gift for a book lover.
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Original price was: 12,90 €.10,32 €Current price is: 10,32 €.Don’t let Big Brother control your thoughts and wear your resistance as a badge of honour with our ‘Thought Criminal’ Enamel Pin.
The perfect literature-themed gift for a book lover.
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1,00 € – 5,00 €Readers gonna read. And write about it.
For lovers of books and keeping track of them.
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7,50 €- 7 seperatly packaged condoms
- Lubricant coating (Silicone Base)
- 54mm diameter (standard size)
- 100% electronically tested
- natural colors
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Original price was: 39,90 €.31,90 €Current price is: 31,90 €.- filters 99.9 % of all viruses & bacteria
- for all soulbottles from 0.6 l
- up to 300 l filter performance
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13,50 €A beautiful reading ring – the perfect accessory for book and jewellery lovers.
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39,90 €Stay cool. Unpolished stainless steel gives this bottle a rough look. It also keeps cold drinks fresh and hot beverages nice and warm.
- 100 % plastic free
- fair cooperation with producers
- 1 € to our drinking water project WASH’n’soul
Books&Cookies blog
Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary
Some time ago I stumbled upon a book called Top Ten: The Best Books According to 125 Writers. As the name suggests, it listed the top 10 books of 125 authors and from that created the ultimate top 10 list. I thought it would be good reading inspiration, mostly for classics. And so in September, I started from the top – with Anna Karenina and from there to Madame Bovary.
A Bookseller’s Bookshelf. Part 1: Sorting and Assambling
As I just finished a major renovation and built a bookshelf in my new apartment, it feels fitting to share the origin story of my home library and the very conscious process of sorting my books and other belongings with the help of Marie Kondo and Döstädning (Swedish Death Cleaning).
