Living in the digital age, let's face it, no technology can match the feeling you get when you hold a good book in your hands. And if you understand that one good book deserves another, it becomes necessary to create a unique space. Let's think about what a home library should be, the interior of which would suit you.

A home library (or study) is more than a room where we display books. This is a private space where we can escape for a few hours from the real world. This means that the interior of the home library should be appropriately set up for comfort and style. And this is what will cause you the greatest delight!

So, in essence, helping you create your own reading nook (with additional items such as furniture and decor), let's start building your own home library.

1. Choice

A separate room with doors is ideal, but not required. Even a corner can be styled into a cozy little reading nook, as long as it's relatively quiet and not too crowded.

So, first of all, choose a wall space that will be the center of your new home library, the place where the bookshelves will be installed. Make sure it has plenty of natural light, or at least can be illuminated with artificial lights.

2. Book storage

Of course, the storage space of your home library will depend on how many books you have (or how many you plan to purchase). If you have a large collection, floor-to-ceiling bookshelves are the best option. Maybe even built-in if your budget allows it.

For smaller gatherings, you can install freestanding shelving, or just a bookcase.

3. Strengthening the floor

All book lovers know that books are heavy. Now imagine a whole stack of books taking up space on shelves and bookcases. How should the poor floor feel under them?

When choosing a location for your home library, make sure the floor can withstand the load. You don't want the floor to fail!

4. Setting the mood

Just as no two bedrooms (or kitchens, or living rooms) are the same, no libraries are the same. Only you know how you like to feel while reading, the type of atmosphere you enjoy with a good book. This is what will inspire you in styling your home library, the interior should be appropriate.

Choose the right color to help create the environment. If you like the enveloping, rich feel of old libraries, deep reds or rich browns are the way to go.

For a modern home library, interiors can be light blue, cheerful yellow, or white in tone.

Always try to diversify the room with flowers, regardless of whether it is for reading, sleeping or eating.

5. Pick up chairs and a table

Having finished with the idea of ​​what color you like, move on to the furniture. After all, no one reads while standing, so decide which chairs will be more suitable.

6. Choose the right shelves / racks

A strong floor is one thing, and the right shelving is another. A shelf 90 cm long must be at least 2.5 cm thick.

Adjustable shelves or shelves of different heights is an ingenious idea, allowing you to mix several types of books without wasting space.

Get creative with your shelving. Create a visual puzzle, find shelves that are oddly shaped, square, frilly, multi-colored, whatever suits you.

7. Add living room details

You don't want your home library to look too boring, so details that speak of comfort and a lively look are vital.

Think fresh flowers in beautiful vases, potted plants, a gorgeous rug, scattered sofa/chair cushions, a picture on the wall, framed photographs, etc. Feel free to add a few decorative items to the shelves between these books to spruce up the interior.

8. Book cleaning

Creating a decent home library interior is one thing; but keeping it clean is another thing, and here it is necessary to take care of your books.

Think how much dust will gather on those shelves of books. Regular cleaning will keep you from sneezing while you read, as well as keeping pests out that might want to feast on your literary treasures.

Put the books away, wipe the shelves with a soft cloth, using a little polish. Wipe the books with a clean microfiber cloth. Or use a vacuum cleaner - it's that easy!

9. Organization of the library

There is no right way to organize your books. What suits one person may not be ideal for another. Experiment with different systems until you find one that works for you.

Arrange your books alphabetically, according to genre, thickness, size, or whatever captures your imagination. You can also set the books you want to read soon at eye level. And children's books are on the lower shelves.

We suggest that you separate paperback books from hardcover books. And don't stack books vertically on top of each other. And, most importantly, have fun choosing a styling system!

Find out more about home libraries and bookcase design depending on the style of the interior.

There is an expression that the happiest people are those who have their own garden and home library. The interior you choose should create an atmosphere of peace and help you sit comfortably with your favorite book.

The era of electronic innovation reigns in the modern world. Almost every average city dweller works, writes and reads using electronic document formats, various gadgets and online books. But despite this, among us there are still lovers of printed publications who from year to year replenish the home library with classic works by great writers or works by contemporary authors in hard or soft cover. When a personal library has more than a dozen books, the question arises of decorating its interior.

Choosing a room for a library in the house

Of course, a separate room allocated individually for book storage is ideal. But most often it happens that the library has to be designed as part of the interior of the living room, hallway, study or other premises. However, professional designers claim that the library area, when properly designed, not only does not spoil the room, but also decorates the space. The choice of a room for arranging a storage area and reading books depends on the total number of rooms in the home. Most often, with a lack of space, books are placed in the hall or living room. But if you think it over carefully and choose original shelving, you can place a library collection in almost any room. You should not store printed publications in the kitchen - there is always high humidity, and this can provoke their deformation. In addition, there is a risk of splattering the books with drops of grease or steam. Dark basements or storage rooms are also not suitable for this purpose - there they can be affected by mold, fungi or rodents.

If the library is large in order not to "eat up" a lot of space in one of the rooms, it makes sense to distribute books and place them in several rooms: favorites can be identified in the bedroom, children's literature on the shelves in the kids' room, and all the rest should be placed in the office or hall. At the same time, it is important to take into account that books tend to collect dust, so their number in rooms intended for sleeping should be limited.

Be sure to consider the quadrature of the room in which you decide to equip the library. There should be enough space in the room, you do not need to stack books on the shelves very tightly so that more fit. On the contrary, place books on the shelves freely and arbitrarily. They love space and air, so the room must be well ventilated.

Choosing furniture for your home library

When you have already decided on a room for placing books, the next step is to choose, in fact, the furniture itself, in which printed publications will be stored. These can be cabinets, shelving, individual wall shelves, and more. Here you need to be guided, first of all, by the number of books available. If you also inherited the library of your mother and grandmother, and books have already filled the whole house, then you should pay attention to special racks that are made to order according to the height of the room. They can be placed, for example, in an office or living room along the walls. Such book "houses" have a huge number of different compartments - this is very convenient for sorting the library.
The second option for home library furniture is bookcases. It can be both traditional cabinets with glass doors, and their modern counterpart - sliding wardrobes, which are made of wood to order and very often decorated with carvings. The latter are ideal for a library located in an office that is designed in a classic style.
Well, the third option is a variety of wall shelves. They are suitable for those who have a "young" and not particularly voluminous library. Shelves are often used in modern interior styles as they are small, portable and most can be painted to match the overall style of the room.

Learn more about visual styles

Classical

A classic home library is necessarily located in a separate room or spacious office. This style is characterized by massive wardrobes, luxurious decor elements, a lot of wooden elements in the design of the entire room. There is a special place for reading - these are comfortable chairs or a sofa, a desk or a coffee table. To make the atmosphere even more conducive to reading, install floor or wall lamps with a lampshade, and lay carpets on the floor.

Unusual book storage systems

Today, not everyone can afford a classical library at home, but this does not mean at all that it should be abandoned altogether. An excellent alternative is storage on mobile or island structures.

If you connect your imagination or dig around on the Internet, you can find that it is really possible to arrange shelves for storing books in the most unexpected places: under the windowsill (if there is no battery), on the basis of a coffee table, under the stairs, along the perimeter of all walls in the hallway or living room, in mobile rack, which can perform the function of zoning the room, etc.

To prevent the library from looking boring, by building shelving or shelves on the wall, make them asymmetrical and arrange the books by color.

Lighting in the home library

Despite the fact that doctors advise reading in good natural light, such a bright color is fatal for books. Storing them in an area of ​​bright sunlight causes the pages to warp and turn yellow. That is why it is worth providing a local lighting system for the library. This may not be a bright general light on the ceiling, but a wall sconce in a place separated for reading. It is advisable to cover the windows with thick curtains or blinds. By following the basic tips for designing a personal collection of books, you can create a very enviable library on your own. Remember to sort books on the shelves by genre or alphabetically - this is a general principle of organizing literature in all public libraries. It should be noted that it is very convenient in further operation.

First, a little background, and then I will move on to an overview of applications. If you want to skip the lyrical introduction, then scroll down to the “And now mobile” section. Spoiler: I did not find complete happiness, but there are options.

We had such a family tradition: once a year we removed all the books from the shelves, wiped the shelves, and the books themselves were brought into a red notebook with a thick cover. The notebook was alphabetically categorized and labeled work/author/year. We also added the storage code (for example, G-9-2 - living room, ninth shelf, second row). I don’t remember whether such a notebook was a special notebook for home libraries or we drew it ourselves. At first I wiped the shelves, then I was entrusted to bring books into a notebook.

I think it's a healthy tradition, especially when all family members have a tendency to spontaneous book purchases and to borrow other people's libraries while their owners move. You always find something unexpected and put off reading for yourself.

A photograph of a bookshelf to draw attention. About the leftmost book, I have .

Then my sister and I mastered MS Access and tried to transfer the library there. At first it was fun to create directories of authors, publishers, but we soon got tired.

Later, several times I tried to take up the library again and created Excel spreadsheets, Google tables, but somehow dry tabular data did not inspire me. And the cipher of the location lost its relevance: the furniture was rearranged, books were given to read.

For a while, cataloging books lost its relevance because I became a fan of cataloging music. Programs for track recognition, tagging, Spotify and others whose names I can’t remember. This was in the pre-mobile era, many of these programs no longer exist. How many hours have been spent on what was so quickly supplanted by Shazam and Yandex music! But, I must admit, I liked this occupation.

The next step is to discover the livelib portal. I created a "home library" list and started adding books. I was pleased with the large database and quick export from the ozone / labyrinth for books that were not in it. At first, it took me a long time to choose which edition I had, but after a few hours my excitement faded - only 100 books were submitted, there are many more to come. In addition, the service is still visually not very convenient, there is some kind of clutter.

The All my books program passed me by at one time, but even now I am unlikely to install it: only Windows, manual ISBN input, bugs, design.

If you scrolled to the applications section, then here it is

And now mobile

I don't remember when I got the idea to google it, maybe after going to IKEA. After all, there must be a mobile application that scans a barcode, uploads metadata, sorts it all out, and then exports it? Of course it should! It remains only to test all the options.

Disclaimer: I tested apps from the AppStore, I think that for most of them there are relatives in Google Play.

So, we take a random stack of books from the shelf. And immediately we are faced with a problem that concerns all applications: Soviet publications do not have ISBNs, but have a different identification number. In principle, this problem could be ended and dispersed. But 1) I hope to find an app that recognizes by the cover or with a good search, 2) the library I'm going to scan is quite new (except for the books I buy from second-hand booksellers), Soviet books are left in my hometown.

1. ISBN Scan

Problem: there are no Russian books in their database. I tried the English books that are at home - it works. I wrote a review to the developers with a request to expand the databases.

ISBN Scan in action

No pluses will cover this minus, but I’ll still say about them: continuous scanning of the entire stack of books, beautiful shelves and book cards with space for notes, there is an export of shelves to csv.

Shelves, inside shelves and book card in ISBN Scan

2. Libib

There are Russian books (though with transliterated titles), but not all of them. Apparently, he only searches on Google Books, and there are no new items that are not sold electronically. What is not found can be entered manually. I did not find a quick list export. There are many features in the application, but if there is no good ISBN base, then they are not needed.

What was scanned in Libib. As shown by further testing, one of the best results

3. BookBuddy

Russian-language application, but searched only on Google Books, 4 out of 7 were found, one of them was displayed correctly (with a cover and neat metadata). A couple of Soviet books were added not manually, but through a web search.

Alas, not all books were found through a web search, although this application has one of the best compared to others

4. Books (Sort-it Apps)

5. Book Scanner

I did not find all the books, some of them I found on Amazon and require a premium account. The design is bad.

6. Book crawler

I can copy-paste this comment: not all books, the search is crooked, the application itself is crooked.

7 Bookcase

Weak database.

At this point, I thought that LiveLib should have its own application.

And it really is

8 LiveLibs

There is simply no comparable database in terms of the number of publications, especially Russian-language ones. But: like the LiveLib site, this service is designed to record what is being read and what has been read, not to keep track of books stored. That is, he wonderfully searches by the barcode, but then the book can only be added to I want to read / read / read (+ note in which format I read it). To add a book to your collection (I created "my home library"), you need to go to the site. If the book is not located either by ISBN or by title, it will not be possible to add it through the application either.

A nuance that applies to all applications: you will not find new items, especially not hits, in these databases. So not all book purchases can be registered immediately.

9. Goodreads

After LiveLib, it is logical to download the Goodreads application. You can create a shelf and add scanned books to it, but not everything is in the database. The book can only be stored on one shelf (that is, either “read” or “in the living room”), you cannot add your own cards.

Only 3 books found on Goodreads

10.HomeLibrary

Incomplete catalog, errors in the database.

11. Bookshelf

I found covers for all books with a barcode, except for the novelty (it searches for 15 databases each), but pulled up crooked metadata. Soviet books can only be added manually.

12. Book Organizer

5 books were found, 2 were not found (with ISBN), but everything is correct with title covers. Compared to other applications, it looks promising. True, from the metadata it pulls up only the cover-title-author, without the publisher and year. There is a manual entry of the web search, but only the names are found (with the scarcity of metadata, I can manually drive them in).

Minimalist Book Organizer

I'll stop there for now. There is no miracle application in which I would now create my library. So I'll wait, otherwise it will turn out like then with tags and music.

“If Nikanor Ivanovich’s lips could be put to Ivan Kuzmich’s nose, and if I could take some swagger, which Baltazar Baltazaritch has, and, perhaps, add Ivan Pavlovich’s corpulence to this, then I would immediately decide.”

If we take the livelib database, add the goodreads database there and take a simple addition to the shelves and export like ISBN Scan, and even add a search by photo. And add social features (but don't overload), a recommender system and e-books, that's when ...

In general, if the article is read by application developers or friends of developers, then;). As an experienced bibliomaniac, I can tell you a lot of interesting things about home libraries, book databases and book publishing.

If I missed some important application or made an inaccuracy, write [email protected].

What to do with e-books and audiobooks?

This is also a big topic, it did not fit in this article. Some of the apps listed above can tag the e-book version (Goodreads), and some can scan your dropbox or iCloud. For example, I have about 500 books in the Litres cloud, and what should I do with them?

Starring

We are still talking about books here, so a few words about those books on which I tested the application and which are not on the cover of this article:

• "The Adventures of Famous Books" by John Winternich and "Studies in Old Russian Literature" by D.S. Likhachev - fresh additions from the bookstore on the Moika (although I prefer the bookstore at the Ladoga railway station, but I rarely go there). By virtue of the field of activity, I love “books about books”, and “Adventures ...” are all the more published in the legendary “Book”.
• Time Travel by Jace Glick is a rich collection of facts around the phenomenon of time travel, more in a cultural context. It is interesting that the very concept of "time travel" appeared relatively recently, at the turn of the centuries (XIX and XX). Actually, like the concept of "turn of the century." If you like science pop, then MIF publishes it too.
• "Electronic book publishing in Russia" by Vladimir Kharitonov - Vladimir is the main expert on electronic books in Russia, this is my professional literature. I also write to the MYTH blog about e-books,.
• "The Word Living and Dead" by Nora Gal is a balm for the soul for those who make books, and a textbook for those who write and translate. I happen to have two editions of this book at home, so I'm interested in having a metadata wonder app with edition and binding.
• Essential Art History by Susie Hodge is an illustrated guide to major works by era, movement and technique. I love it when a book can be picked up and flipped through from any page.
• Evgeny Zamyatin's Technique of Artistic Prose is a small collection of lectures, it was recommended to us at literary courses, this year a paper was published. Interestingly, before each lecture there is a short summary.
• "Diary 29" by Dimitris Chassapakis - not found in any database, apparently because it's new. A book-quest in which a lot of editorial effort has been invested :).
• “I feel deeply depressed and unhappy” by Evelyn Waugh is a fresh addition, I have not read it yet. But reflects my state, after installing, registering and testing 12 applications.

In recent years, with the development of technology, when hundreds of books can be downloaded into one book reader, the demand for ordinary paper books has fallen. Someone hurried to hand over literature to libraries, someone distributed it to friends and acquaintances, there are also those who simply threw it into a landfill. But there are still residents of Almaty who have preserved their home libraries. They will be discussed. Why do they keep books and refuse technical innovations? Is it true that the age of the book is coming to an end?

Gerold Belger, writer

I grew up in a Kazakh village, these were the war and post-war years. There were no books in our village and it was a big problem. The first book I read was called Sinope the Little Indian by James Schultz. I didn't leave her for a long time. The second book "Strike and Defense" is about types of weapons from ancient times to the 40s of the XX century. My father brought the third one from another village, it had no beginning and no end. It was written in Kazakh in Latin letters. I read this book, it turned out to be Dzhambul's collection. There was not enough books and it got to the point that as a 9-year-old boy, I would sneak into my father's office (he was a doctor) and read a book about women's diseases. Then he looked at any girl and thought about her illnesses. Only after the war, books began to appear in the village - they were all in the Kazakh language

There is not enough space at home, so I keep some of the books on the balconies. On one I have literature in the Kazakh language, on the other - in German. I rarely buy books, I do not have time to read what they give. Sometimes I look into the store and buy those books that no one buys: on philosophy, cultural studies. I don't like descriptive literature, I'm tired of it: Bunin, Paustovsky - that's good, but it doesn't feed my mind. I read in three languages: Russian, Kazakh and German. I started collecting books while still a student. My main library is in Tashkent. There, my father converted the chicken coop into a library. My relatives don't read, and books are dead weight there.

As soon as I go out into the street, everyone considers it necessary to hand me their books. Mostly in Kazakh. I accumulate them so quickly that I have to clean them every year and distribute them: to universities, libraries, relatives and friends. I give it out, because Kazakhstan is wide, and the apartment is small. After all, books are living beings, they need to be held in your hands from time to time, caressed. A book is like a woman, she needs attention.

My idol Goethe had a library of 7,000 books. My other idol, the philosopher Kant, kept only 500 books in his house. As soon as 501 books appeared, he immediately gave something away. My friend Alexei Debolsky believes that two books should be kept at home: the Bible and fairy tales. Everything's there. But I haven't gotten to that yet.

Almaz Ordabaev, architect, designer

The home library began to be formed by my father, he was a journalist. The love of books was passed down from my parents. It so happened that of all the brothers, I was more reverent about books, and I was interested in how they were made. I do not only architecture, but also design, and my favorite part is graphic design and interior design. Since childhood, I tried to make books: I wrote, designed. This was passed on to my daughters and granddaughter, they write, illustrate, publish

I have different books, some that are needed for work, some ordinary, some unpleasant, but which must be reckoned with. Recently, literature has been published very poorly. And although the paper has become better and the print, but they are empty, they have no soul, they are made with the left foot. There was only one university in the USSR that trained book design professionals. And now, in Kazakhstan, every former pedagogical institute has acquired a design faculty. All these guys were brought up on advertising, but a book is an object of culture, it is not only a source of information, but also a certain interlocutor

A lot of people say that e-books are crap, I don't think so. Those audiobooks are crap. Do you know why? Because they are voiced by actors, this is acting hack, they play while reading. And so it is impossible. I hope that in the future books will be read by a normal, calm, competent announcer. The e-book and the internet is something amazing. Everyone knows that there is a lot of garbage, but we live in a world where everything coexists nearby.

- Do they give you books?

Yes, they say to me: "It's very good with you, it's convenient."

- And you?

I have such an opportunity - to give my younger colleagues those books that they have not seen

Seidakhmet Kuttykadam, political scientist, journalist

The apartment has a separate room where the entire home library is collected.

As soon as I graduated from the institute, I was presented with a book by Euripides. It was such a rarity. This was the beginning of the library, collected by subscription, books were then in short supply. At first, part of the library "gone", I was careless. But gradually the books accumulated. I made the bookcases myself, with my own hands. What you see is my library, collected over 40 years. I don't know exactly how many books I have

I collect books on history, science, philosophy, religion, classical literature. If I go to Moscow, I definitely buy there. Unfortunately, good books are not published in Kazakhstan.

Only trusted people. Previously, they often did not return and the books left. I take books very seriously and always return them.

- How do you feel about e-books?

I am not very friendly with the Internet, I go with the help of my daughter. My main database is my library. Unfortunately, the attitude towards books is now different. The age of the book is ending. My daughter doesn't read...

Madi Mambetov, PR specialist

Collected about 2000 books. Most of them are devoted to history, especially medieval studies (the history of the Middle Ages). Books are stored interspersed with disks.

I can't imagine an apartment without a home library, our family has always had a cult of the book. When I was 11 years old, I read Bulat Zhandarbekov's book "Saki" and then Maurice Druon and became interested in history. There was no Internet then and I had to buy books to learn even more about the subject of interest.

How much money do you spend on books per month?

About 300 dollars

- The most dear to the heart of the book?

The first edition in Russian of the book "The Neverending Story", "The Silmarillion", and several monographs about the monarchs, which I managed to buy in Moscow and San Diego.

- What do you think about e-books?

I have two e-books, but I hardly touch them. They are handy for travel.

"Then why are there two?"

Because when I was in San Diego, I borrowed a book reader from your editor-in-chief, Madina Iskakova, and dropped a glass on it. This caused the screen to crack. So the book reader passed to me, and then I fixed it

Igor Ramenskoy, owner of second-hand bookshop

Igor Ramensky has two rooms for books, these are real libraries - books in rows and a comfortable chair. In total, he has about 5,000 titles of literature.

The library began to collect from early childhood. He began to engage in second-hand books about 12 years ago. I am interested in history, classics, poetry. I try to collect books from the 50s and 60s.

Are people reading now?

Those who read before, they are reading now. There are all sorts of interesting things like tablets, it is convenient for someone, but not for someone.

- You tried?

No, I have enough books without this

- How much time do you devote to reading?

I have a job in a bookstore where I can read. But to read something difficult there it is impossible. Lighter is a must. Well, at home, every day to read an hour or two - this is certainly, but this should already be serious literature.

- Do you often bring old books?

Often. For example, they brought the "History of the Polish State" in two volumes in 1830, it turns out that it was published during Pushkin's lifetime.

- How much is such literature valued?

She is valued and not. Tragic cases happen, they leave, roughly speaking, in the trash. Libraries are now collected even by young people. I think that 30 percent of young people still read.

What books do you get asked the most?

Some of the classics, some of history. Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pushkin, Abai. More classical. It may seem to someone that we earn more on light literature, but no.

- Do you go to ordinary bookstores?

Hardly ever. Home-work-home. I don't have time to read what is here. About 30 years ago, I could read all night, until the morning, and then go quietly to work. Now - from strength to 12 at night, and sleep takes me away.

Anuar Raibaev, director and teacher

It all started in childhood, thanks to a big pull I got the books "Mowgli" and "Carlson" with good drawings. So I fell in love with literature. And he began to collect this library since 1998, when he studied at VGIK. I have a good example: my father has an extensive library and I decided to create my own. He told me: “Why are you buying this book, take it from me,” but I still bought it, it had to be mine.

How much money do you spend on books per month?

Differently. But in general, I like to go to bookstores without money, so as not to spend it. So when I get paid, I try to drive home so as not to get into the bookstore. I keep buying and can't stop. In order to read the books that I have, a lifetime may not be enough, I understand this. I have read about a quarter of my library.

I can boast that I have not seen books on theater directing in Almaty. For example, the edition according to Meyerhold. Bought the third volume this year. In the future it will be an eight-volume edition.

- Was it tempting to switch to e-books?

No, because I'm a teapot. I still write by hand.

One day I was moving and had to hire a truck for the books. As you can see, I have a mess at home, but I don't have it in my books. I always know what is where.

Antonina Kukaeva, journalist

They began to collect a home library even before I was born - at first there were grandma's and grandpa's classics, then a huge collection of my father's science fiction, fantasy books, and detective stories were added to them. Now I am slowly replenishing: I usually buy historical books, classics, well, "Harry Potter" - where would I be without it. I once tried to compile a catalog, but I'm not a good librarian.

Two years ago I was given an e-book - it's an ingenious invention for traveling. I read pretty fast, sometimes I can read 2-3 books at the same time, so an e-book reader is indispensable when traveling. But at home I don't really use it. At home, I need to rustle the leaves, creak the cover and be sure to sniff the book. I am a terrible book drug addict, I can read and smell every page, but this, of course, if it is tasty. Such books smell of fresh paper, a little glue - they have such a subtle sweetish smell with notes of printing ink. This is what good new books and 10-year-old books smell like. There are bad new books - they only smell of paint. Well, the old ones smell like dust, I don’t smell them either. Unless I stick my nose out of habit. In general, I would not mind if they released perfumes with the smell of a delicious book, I would use them

There are problems with storing books. For example, the complete works of Chekhov and Kuprin did not fit on the shelves and are stored on the mezzanine. And not only them, there are still many treasures gathering dust. I want to "relocate" the books to the hall and order a large wall-to-ceiling rack for them, then the storage problem will be partially solved. I love it when you come into the house and immediately books. I can look at them for hours, read the roots ...

If you find an error in the text, select it with the mouse and press Ctrl+Enter

1. "Master and Margarita" Mikhail Bulgakov.
2. "Eugene Onegin" Alexander Pushkin.
3. "Crime and Punishment" Fyodor Dostoevsky.
4. "War and Peace" Leo Tolstoy.
5. "The Little Prince" Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
6. "Hero of Our Time" Mikhail Lermontov.
7. "Twelve Chairs" Ilya Ilf, Evgeny Petrov.
8. "1984" George Orwell.
9. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
10. "Harry Potter" JK Rowling.
11. "Dead Souls" Nikolai Gogol.
12. "Anna Karenina" Leo Tolstoy.
13. "Idiot" Fyodor Dostoevsky 14. "The Picture of Dorian Gray" Oscar Wilde.
15. "Woe from Wit" Alexander Griboyedov.
16. "Fathers and Children" Ivan Turgenev.
17. "The Lord of the Rings" by JRR Tolkien 18. "The Catcher in the Rye" by Jerome Salinger.
19. "Three Comrades" Erich Maria remark.
20. "Doctor Zhivago" Boris Pasternak.
21. "Heart of a Dog" Mikhail Bulgakov 22. "Alice in Wonderland" Lewis Carroll.
23. "The Brothers Karamazov" Fyodor Dostoevsky 24. "Sherlock Holmes" (total 60 works) Arthur Conan Doyle.
25. "Three Musketeers" Alexandre Dumas.
26. "Captain's Daughter" Alexander Pushkin.
27. "We" Evgeny Zamyatin.
28. "Inspector General" Nikolai Gogol 29. "Romeo and Juliet" William Shakespeare.
30. "The Old Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemingway.
31. "Dark Alleys" Ivan Bunin.
32. Faust by Johann Wolfgang Goethe 33. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
34. Bible 35. "Trial" Franz Kafka 36. "Golden Calf" Ilya Ilf, Evgeny Petrov.
37. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
38. "Quiet Flows the Don" Mikhail Sholokhov.
39. "Generation" P "Viktor Pelevin.
40. Hamlet by William Shakespeare 41. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
42. "Two Captains" by Veniamin Kaverin 43. "Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Keezy.
44. trilogy about a dunno Nikolai Nosov.
45. "Oblomov" Ivan Goncharov 46. "Monday Starts on Saturday" Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.
47. "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" Mark Twain.
48. "The Gulag Archipelago" Alexander Solzhenitsyn 49. "The Great Gatsby" Francis Scott Fitzgerald.
50. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury.
51. "The Wizard of the Emerald City" Alexander Volkov 52. "All about the Moomin-Trolls" Tove Jansson.
53. "History of One City" Mikhail Saltykov - Shchedrin.
54. "Lolita" Vladimir Nabokov 55. "All Quiet on the Western Front" Erich Maria remark.
56. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" Ernest Hemingway.
57. "Triumphal Arch" Erich Maria remark 58. "It's hard to be God" Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.
59. "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" by Richard Bach.
60. "The Count of Monte Cristo" Alexandre Dumas.
61. "Martin Eden" Jack London 62. "Moscow - Petushki" Venedikt Erofeev.
63. "Tales of Belkin" Alexander Pushkin.
64. "Nausea" by Jean-Paul Sartre 65. "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes.
66. "White Guard" Mikhail Bulgakov.
67. "Demons" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 68. "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri.
69. "Fight Club" Chuck Palahniuk
70. "The Cherry Orchard" Anton Chekhov.
71. "The Castle" by Franz Kafka 72. "The Name of the Rose" umberto eco.
73. "Lord of the Flies" William Golding.
74. "Outsider" Albert Camus 75. "Notre Dame Cathedral" Victor Hugo.
76. "Plague" by Albert Camus 77. "Slaughterhouse Number Five, or the Children's Crusade" by Kurt Vonnegut.
78. "The Dawns Here Are Quiet" Boris Vasiliev 79. "Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka" Nikolai Gogol.
80. "The Golden Cloud Spent the Night" Anatoly Pristavkin 81. "Picnic on the Roadside" Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.
82. "About Fedot - Sagittarius, Daring Fellow" Leonid Filatov.
83. Animal Farm, George Orwell
84. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
85. "Scarlet Sails" Alexander Grin.
86. "Gifts of the Magi" Fr. Henry 87. "Cunning Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha" Miguel de Cervantes.
88. "Iliad" and "Odyssey" Homer.
89. "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe 90. "Three Men in a Boat Not Counting the Dog" by Jerome K. Jerome.
91. "Ward number 6" Anton Chekhov 92. "Winnie the Pooh and all - all - all" Alan Milne 93. "The Twelve" Alexander block 94. "Kolyma Tales" Varlam Shalamov 95. "Pit" Andrey Platonov 96. "Letters Roman Friend" Joseph Brodsky 97. "The Black Man" Sergei Yesenin 98. "The Noise of Time" Osip Mandelstam 99. "Gulliver's Travels" Jonathan Swift 100. "Cases" Daniil Kharms.

When forming a home library, one must understand that not all books can be purchased. Most of them are convenient to take to read in the state, municipal or school library. But there are some books you should have at home too. What kind of books should be in the home library?

Fiction. In almost every home library, she plays a leading role. Only here you should not “litter” the house with one-day books and cheap fiction. Put on the shelves only those books that have sunk into your soul, which either you yourself or one of your family members re-read from time to time or at least leaf through to remember your favorite episode, favorite quatrain, apt statement. If you use such a filter, then you will almost certainly put several masterpieces of world classics, volumes of lyrics, and a couple of books that at first may seem unremarkable, but nevertheless capable of touching the thin strings of your soul. Find a place for children's books too - they will become your children's friends and instill in them a love of reading, even if you read to them at first.

Reference literature. It is difficult to find a person who has never had to turn to reference literature for help. Spelling and explanatory dictionaries will not forever gather dust on the shelves. Other reference books will also come in handy, especially if a small “pochemuka” or an inquisitive schoolchild grows in the family. It is important to include in the home library reference literature on those areas of knowledge in which one of the family members is of particular interest. Collections of recipes, reference books on home economics, crop production, and computer technology will not be superfluous. If a pet lives in the house, it's a good idea to have reference literature on keeping and raising pets.

Popular science literature. Books on history, technology, psychology and pedagogy can be useful in every home. Choose the best and most useful, the authors of which are trustworthy.

Philosophical and religious literature can also be part of the home library.

A special place in the home library can be occupied by collectible and souvenir publications, second-hand literature.

Interesting fact:

Folios produced before 1850 are considered antique. Books published from 1851 to 1960 are actually second-hand books. Books that were published after 1960 are more correctly called second-hand.

What books should be in the children's home library. Animal books

Kind, touching books about our little brothers can evoke the strongest emotions in children: tenderness, admiration and even tears. Such books should be in every home where there is a child. Communication with animals, even through a book, is a great way to instill in a child all the best feelings. These are wonderful benefits of kindness, love, tenderness and affection.

Stories about animals by E. Charushin ("Tyupa and Tomka", "In our yard", "Big and small", etc.), L. Tolstoy ("Stories about animals"), A. Chekhov ("Kashtanka" and other stories), A Kuprin ("Watchdog and Zhulka", "White Poodle", "Elephant", "Golden Rooster", etc.), B. Zhitkova ("Brave Duckling", "About the Elephant", "About the Monkey ", etc.), M. Prishvin ("Pantry of the Sun", "Stories about Animals"), V. Bianchi ("The Fox and the Mouse", "Like an ant hurried home") and others.

What books are in the library? Arriving in modern book depositories, one can get lost in the diversity and many directions of writings. A very common type of literature are scientific and popular science works. These books are intended for schoolchildren, students, they help to learn about the world around, physical phenomena, space, flora and fauna.

Handbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias are widely known. Textbooks remain popular. Reference publications include statistical collections and linguistic dictionaries from different languages, as well as explanatory ones.

The most sought after are classical works. The main number of these masterpieces is studied in the school curriculum. How many wonderful quotes for any life situation are drawn today by our contemporaries in the works of the classics! Good and evil, truth and lies, nobility and meanness, justice and impunity, love and betrayal, wealth and poverty - this is a huge list of problems raised in this kind of literature. Of the Russian classics, it is impossible not to mention L. Tolstoy, A. Pushkin, F. Dostoevsky, I. Bunin, A. Chekhov, M. Lermontov. World classic writers are V. Hugo, O. Wilde, A. Christie, E. Zola, W. Shakespeare. This is not a complete list of classics, whose work deserves reading and reverence.

Documentary literature occupies a special place in the assortment of libraries. In some cases, it is manuscripts. On the shelves of many book depositories you can find very old editions. Among the many publications in Russian there are books in foreign dialects. Also on the shelves you can see bibliographic indexes, dissertations, abstracts.

What books should be in the home library for the child - a reminder of the child. What books should be in the children's library

The following categories of books are most often found in home children's libraries:

• Books for the little ones.
• Russian folk tales, fairy tales of the peoples of the world, legends and myths.
• Tales of Russian and foreign writers.
• Poems of Russian and foreign poets.
• Readers.
• Educational books, various teaching aids.
• Encyclopedias.
• Adventure Library.
• Classic books for older children.

For a uniform replenishment of literary wealth, create a card index or rubricator. With it, it will be easier for you to track which category of books is missing in your collection.

Fortunately, today books do not have to be “gotten” or exchanged for waste paper. Book lovers in the 21st century can freely buy them - the market offers a lot of publications, both modern and second-hand and even antique, in any covers and bindings, in any format.

Today you can form your home library in accordance with your tastes and interests, and this is wonderful - for a long time the existence of books, most people were deprived of this luxury, because books were inaccessible to mere mortals, only monarchs could read, know and the clergy, and books cost unimaginably expensive. In the 21st century, your home library can be whatever you want, and nothing can limit your imagination. Organize your books by author, category, and subject—or by spine color. Give books to your friends and receive gifts from them. Be proud of rare editions in beautiful bindings.

It's nice that you can buy any book without even leaving your home. At your service - all the wealth of world literature in any design. Ascetic multi-volume books in classic binding, limited edition gift books, handmade in leather bindings with stones, metal, wood and embossing, antique vintage and rare modern editions - the shelves of your home library can hold any book, and there will never be too many of them.

You can spend the evening not at the usual TV, tablet, phone, but how nice it is to take and read a book on a winter evening.

1. "Dead Zone", Steven King

The hero of the book, John Smith, gets a concussion, this happens when there was a collision on the ice. After that, the hero of this book begins to suffer visions, discovers psychic abilities in himself ...

2. "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

Today, this work is not criticized for excessive fantasy, this novel helps a lot in solving psychological problems, the author considers the themes of responsibility and love. And the novel itself won the hearts of millions of people ...

3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

There are five daughters in the Bennet family, all of them need to be married well, of course, this is not easy. The author psychologically supports the girls and is sure that every girl can meet "Mr. Darcy".

4. Manyunya, Narine Abgaryan

This book is great for bringing back childhood. A warm, affectionate book full of adventure, sunshine, sweets! We all come from childhood.

5. "35 kilos of hope", Anna Gavalda

The book is about a thirteen-year-old boy who loves to craft, and his grandfather is an idol for him, and he also dreams of getting into a lyceum where boys study and make something.

6. The Green Mile, Stephen King

The Green Mile is a suicide block in the colony, there is no way out in this prison, only one - the electric chair. But everything changes when John enters the prison...

7. "I am not afraid" by Niccolò Ammaniti

The state of the soul is measured not by the number of years in the passport, but by how many good deeds a person has done or negative ones.

8. “Suitcase”, Sergey Dovlatov

9. The Thirteenth Tale, Diana Setterfield

Our heroine of the book, moves to the house of the writer and unraveling the secrets of the house, realizes that her situations in the house and secrets are very similar to her own life.

10. "Airport", Arthur Hailey

The airport becomes detached from the surrounding world, where many people gather, everyone lives a “whole life”.

11. Nowhere, Neil Gaiman

To get into a certain secret world, you need to open the door where she is - no one knows.

12 The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins

This is a tournament between people in the world of the future, whose name is Panem.

13. Five Orange Quarters by Joan Harris

The heroine of the book inherits: an album with recipes, and her brother a farm. A girl can solve riddles about her family by reading a book.

14. Vague Smile, Francoise Sagan

A novel about how the destinies of a lawyer who ceases to enjoy life and a young student crossed paths. It would seem that feelings have nowhere to come from, yes ...

15. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

16. The Help, Katherine Stockett

A cheerful girl comes to a boring town who dreams of becoming a writer...

17. The Multiple Minds of Billy Milligan by Daniel Keyes

The protagonist of the novel, the consciousness was divided into as many as 24 parts ...

18. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The book is a prerequisite for the script of the film of the same name, recommended reading.

19. Pasinks of the Universe, Robert Heinlein

20. "P.Sh.", Dmitry Khara

Oleg works hard, one fine day, he finds a travel agency that offers an unusual tour, but only for those who are prepared.