
Jamillah Knowles: Journalist, Writer, Radio Presenter & World Record Breaking Hula Hoop Dancer
These shelves are in my living room – there’s a stack more in my office but probably too hideous for public consumption and arranged in ways that make sense to me but tend to look like a crazy mess to the impartial observer. As you might see in the picture – the shelves are filled...

K Dynamite: Financial Market Specialist and Blogger
Above you will find 3 pictures of the three main shelves of my bookshelf. Some explanation is required: my wife, in an effort to avoid stacks of books piling up, frequently asks me to purge my shelf of unwanted items. Strangely, this has resulted in my bookshelf being mostly a time-machine snapshot from about 15...

Cenk Uygur: Co-founder and Main Host of The Young Turks, Journalist, Political Commentator and Activist
As you can see I have a lot of political books mixed with some Game of Thrones and Hunger Games. Yes, I want to decide to play great poker and I also want to know the real untold history of the United States. We have a couple of “intellectual” books on Pervs and Sluts. We...

Sally Wilton: Founder of the Lexi cinema and the Nomad roaming cinema
I love books, from my Mum’s classic green crime penguins to my Northern Nigerian ex library battered copies of Tintin’s adventures. Wine boxes make my bookshelves, a good excuse to keep on drinking as my collection grows and grows! Seamus Heaney for a reminder of my Irish countryside youth to Jim Harrison’s wonderfully evocative Brown...

Frances Teehan – Marketing & Publicity Bod at Oldcastle Books; Blogger of books, baking & culture; Book2Book writer or book-loving, face-stuffing culture vulture
One day, I long to have all my books together to form a masterful library with those sliding ladders and secret doorways. Until then, my vast collection is spread mainly across three locations: the bookshelves at my home in Guernsey; the boxes packaged upon leaving university which now dominate my bedroom in Guernsey; and my...