100 Books From Our New Home Library

When we did our cozy home remodel, we changed our learning room into a library. In my dream home, I would have a large library filled with built-in bookshelves from floor to ceiling. Instead, we have several places where we keep our books including what you see below.

Because our book space is limited, we’ve had to be ruthless in keeping our book total to reasonable levels.

We’ve weeded through our books continuously over the years so what is left is the best of the best.

Here’s a look at what we have in our library. Since the majority of the books are mine, my interests clearly shine through.

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Here is the overflow in the dining area. Not shown in these photos are the books in the office, Caroline’s room, or the bookscases in the basement. We have lots of books still, but there is no way to get them all in the actual library area. Our office has most of my simple living books, homeschooling books, and more theology books. Caroline has many books in her room. We have four large bookcases in the basement with theology, crafts, history, more children’s books, DIY, and all my Grace Livingston Hill paperbacks.

Here is how these shelves are organized.

I thought it would be fun to share some favorites from each section. You’ll notice I’m neither a trendy reader nor an intellectual out to impress anyone with my reading list. I tend to gravitate toward topics that deeply interest me. I rarely read things for “everyone should read this” type reasons.

Please note: In some cases, I have written an entire post about a series of books or type of book. In that case, I will link to the post rather than Amazon. In my website header, the drop down menu choice of “Books” will lead you to many of the book posts I have written.

Disclaimer: The inclusion of a book or author is not an endorsement of all the content and/or his/her entire body of work.

Art and History

History and Geography

Christmas

Music and German

This is where I keep hymnals, piano music, and my college German books and German Bible

Theology Reference

Theology

Practical Christian Living

Practical Christian Living and Parenting

Scrapbooks

From when I had the time to do scrapbooking…

Miscellaneous Sallie Favorites

Favorite Series and Antique Books

Picture Book Series

Children’s Bibles, Bible Storybooks, and Reference

Children’s Bibles
Puberty Books
The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories
The American Heritage Dictionary
Webster’s Thesaurus

Seasonal Picture Books, Fall, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Winter

I’ve written extensively about these throughout my site. Check the drop down menu of “Seasonal Learning” for links to many of the posts. Also see the menu item “Books.”

Children’s Series

Children’s Novels, Oversized Picture Books, and Anthologies

Picture Books

Children’s History and Geography

Children’s Science

100 Books from Our New Home Library

Cristy S

November 3, 2018 at 10:36 pm

Wow, what a great list!

And it is so very nice to see Christy on your list! I am a huge Catherine Marshall fan. ?

- Sallie
  
  November 9, 2018 at 11:08 am
  
  Did you watch the “Christy” TV show that was on during the 90s on CBS? It was really good. I was so sad they cancelled it.
  
  The later ones were horrible though. Ugh.
  
  This is the series on DVD if anyone reading this isn’t familiar with it.