every single book i own

no, seriously

vincent van gogh, oleanders, 1888, oil on canvas, met museum

a solid eight months after receiving the tool as a christmas gift, i set off to emboss every single book in my library with a personalized seal. each title page was to be branded as my personal property, a physical representation of my educational, literary, and pleasure-seeking pursuits.

there are two things you need to know about me. first, i’ve been an avid bibliophile since childhood — i taught myself how to read at the age of 3 and have been devouring stories ever since. as of today, i own almost 400 titles: biography, poetry, horror, thrillers, theory. second, i am extremely stubborn. i vowed to get through every single book in one day and after 11 hours was rewarded with nothing but palm-to-forearm soreness.

i compiled a complete inventory of my collection & am sharing it with you today. the literary holdings of an individual can tell you a lot about both their personality and interests — i don’t know what any of this says about me. confer amongst yourselves.

and, no, the 17 copies marked next to victor hugo’s les misérables is not a typo.

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• 1000 questions en Français

• 11/22/63 by Stephen King

• 1984 by George Orwell

• 19th c. Art (x 2)

• 19th C. Art - A Critical History

• 2 catalogues from Saint-Paul de Mausole

• A Bright Ray of Darkness by Ethan Hawke

• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

• A History of the World (in Dingbats) by David Byrne

• A List of Cages by Robin Roe

• A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle

• A24 Zines (x 7)

• African American Art by Sharon F. Patten

• Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

• Alice Neel: People Come First

• Amadeus by Peter Shaffer

• An Ode To People & Things by Gabrielle Asselta

• An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison

• Angels in America Parts 1 & 2 by Tom Stoppard

• Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell

• Art =

• Art History: A Critical Introduction to it’s Methods by Hatt and Klonk

• Art of Art Writing

• At Eternity’s Gate: The Spiritual Vision of Vincent van Gogh by Kathleen Powers Erickson

• Aux Confins de la Folie: La Maladie de van Gogh by Louis van Tilborough & Nienke Bakker

• Beat Poets

• Beds I’ve Slept In by Orion Carloto

• Beowulf

• Blue by Derek Jarman

• Brave New World by Adolphus Huxley

• Camp: Notes on Fashion

• Carrie by Stephen King

• Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

• Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

• Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch

• Check, Please! vols 1-2 by Ngozi Ukazu

• Christine by Stephen King

• Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art in the East Village by Ron Magliozzi

• “Club 57: For Art’s Sake” by Sofia R.C. Melendez

• Comet in Moominland by Tove Jansson

• Comment faire la revolution? by Victor Hugo

• Complete Stories by Flannery O’Conner

• Corpus Christi by Terrence McNally

• Craft + Consciousness: How to Write About Social Issues by Kavita Das

• Critical Terms of Art History

• Crush by Richard Siken

• Da Vinci

• Damn Fine Cherry Pie: The Unauthorized Twin Peaks Cookbook

• Dan and Phil Go Outside

• Dandy Style: 250 Years of British Mens’ Fashion

• Danganronpa 2: Ultimate Luck and Despair vol. 3 by Kyousuke Suga

• De Chirico: The Song of Love by Emily Braun

• De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

• Dead Poets Society by N.H. Kleinbaum

• Dialogues with Duchamp by Pierre Cabanne

• Dracula by Bram Stoker

• Drawing Of 3 by Stephen King

• Drum Taps by Walt Whitman

• Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture by Joshua Levine

• East of Eden by John Steinbeck

• Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell

• ELIHWNAEM: A Digital David Lynch Tribute Exhibition by Sofia R.C. Melendez

• Elise Cowen: Poems & Fragments

• Emma by Jane Austen

• Essential Monet

• Eurydice by Sara Ruhl

• Ever Yours: The Essential Letters of Vincent van Gogh

• “Everyone Should Watch My Favorite Movies Now” by Sofia R.C. Melendez

• Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O’Conner

• Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know About Curating* by Hans Ulrich Obrist

• Everything’s Eventual by Stephen King

• Famous American Plays of the 1940’s

• Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

• Fatal Interview by Edna St. Vincent-Millay

• Florence: The Paintings

• Floriography: An Illustrated Guide to the Victorian Language of Flowers by Jessica Roux

• Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews

• Francàis-Anglais Pocket Dictionary

• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

• Gal’s Gossip

• Gardner’s Art Through the Ages

• Glaze vol 4.

• Goblin Market & Other Poems by Christina Rosetti

• Good Omens by Terry Pratchett (x 3)

• Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood

• Gray’s Anatomy by Henry Gray

• Great Artists - Van Gogh

• Great Paintings in the Barnes Foundation

• Gustav Klimt by Giles Néret ( x 2)

• Hadestown by Anaïs Mitchell

• Hamlet by William Shakespeare

• Heartstopper vol. 3 by Alice Oseman

• Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination

• Hilma Af Klint and the Five’s Sketchbooks

• Hilma Af Klint: Paintings for the Future

• Hockney - Van Gogh: The Joy of Nature

• How Can We Lose When We’re So Sincere? by Sofia R.C. Melendez ( x 2)

• How to Be A Victorian by Ruth Goodman

• Howl by Allen Ginsberg

• I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are by Rachel Bloom

• Ile-De-France

• Impressionism: A Feminist Reading by Norma Broude

• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

• “In the Echo of the Corridor: Vincent van Gogh, the ‘Tortured Artist’, and How to Heal When the World is Against You” by Sofia R.C. Melendez

• IT by Stephen King ( x 2)

• James Dean: The Mutant King by David Dalton

• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (x 2)

• Jo van Gogh-Bonger: The Woman Who Made Van Gogh Famous by Hans Luijten

• Juliet Naked by Nick Hornby

• Kaddish by Allen Ginsberg

• Kandinsky: Around the Circle

• La Vie Quotidienne des Impressionistes

• Latin

• Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (x 2)

• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (x 17)

• Les Misérables: From Stage to Screen

• Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka

• Lichtenstein: Sculptures and Drawings

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

• Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shale

• Living with Vincent van Gogh by Martin Bailey

• Long Shot vol. 4

• Lord of the Flies by William Golding

• Louvre: Guide de Poche

• Love Letters

• Lust For Life by Irving Stone ( x 3)

• M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang

• Macbeth by William Shakespeare (x 2)

• Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault

• Maison de Santé de Saint-Rémy de Provence, Etablissement Privé Consacré Au Traitement Des Aliénés

• Marcel Duchamp

• Marie Antoinette: Serial Killer by Katie Alender

• Marisol and Warhol Take New York by Jessica Beck

• Marisol: Sculptures and Works on Paper by Marina Pacini

• Medieval Art

• Men Have Called Her Crazy by Anna Marie Tendler

• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

• MFA Boston Highlights

• Michelangelo

• Minor Characters by Joyce Johnson

• Misery by Stephen King ( x 2)

• Momofuku by David Chang and Peter Meehan

• Monet (Taschen)

• “Moss Grows Here” by Jaden Byrd

• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

• Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare (x 2)

• Museo del Prado: Catalogo

• My Friend van Gogh by Émile Bernard

• My Life, My Tapes: The Autobiography of FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper by Scott Frost

• Night by Elie Wiesel

• Nineteenth Century Art by Petra Chu

• No Fear Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

• Note to Self by Connor Franta

• Notes on Camp by Susan Sontag

• Oklahoma! by Rodgers & Hammerstein

• Old Mistresses: Women, Art, & Ideology by Griselda Pollock

• Old School by Tobias Wolfe

• On and By Warhol

• On Gauguin by Griselda Polliock

• On the Sublime and the Beautiful/Reflections on the French Revolution by Edmund Burke

• On Writing by Stephen King

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

• Oppenheimer: Object

• Orsay: Guide de Poche

• Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellman

• Oscar Wilde: A Life in Letters

• Oscar Wilde: His Life & Confessions by Frank Harris

• Othello by William Shakespeare (x 2)

• Outlawed by Anna North

• Palmistry

• Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humors by Noga Arikha

• Pearl by Tim Waggoner

• Penny Dreadfuls & Other Stories

• People We Meet On Vacation by Emily Henry

• Personal Recollections of Vincent van Gogh by Elisabeth DuQuesne van Gogh ( x 2)

• Philadelphia Museum of Art Highlights

• Poems & Letters by Keats

• Post-Impressionism

• Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen ( x 2)

• Radio Silence by Alice Oseman

• Raphael in the Vatican

• Readings in Nineteenth C. Art by Janis Tomlinson

• Rilke: Selected Poems

• “Robin Shall Restore Amends” by Sofia R.C. Melendez

• Rodin’s Monument to Victor Hugo

• Romancing Mr. Bridgerton by Julia Quinn

• Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare

• Room to Dream by David Lynch & Kristine McKenna

• Rumple Buttercup by Matthew Gray Gubler

• Science Illustration: A History of Visual Knowledge from the 15th c. to Today by Anna Escardo

• Scott Pilgrim vols. 1-6 by Bryan Lee O’Malley

• Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen

• Shakespeare’s Sonnets

• Skeleton Crew by Stephen King

• Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

• Solitaire by Alice Oseman ( x 2)

• “Something in the Static (Or, Why I Am the Way I Am)” by Sofia R.C. Melendez

• Spanish Among Amigos

• Starry Night: Van Gogh in the Asylum by Martin Bailey

• Stranger on the Earth: A Psychological Biography of Vincent van Gogh by Albert J. Lubin

• Street World: Urban Art and Culture From Five Continents

• Sweat by Lynn Nottage

• Ten-Thousand Dreams Interpreted

• Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

• The Agency of Access: Contemporary Disability Art & Institutional Critique by Amanda Cachia

• The Amazing Book is Not on Fire by Dan and Phil

• The Art and Life of Van Gogh: 1943 Loan Exhibition

• The Art of Michelangelo

• The Art of The Book of Life

• The Artist’s Way

• The Awakening by Kate Chopin

• The Barnes Foundation Handbook

• The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems (1937-1952) by Allen Ginsberg

• The Book of Mormon by Matt Stone, Robert Lopez, & Trey Parker

• The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller

• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

• The Crucible by Arthur Miller

• The Dark Tower: Gunslinger by Stephen King

• The Diary of Anne Frank

• The Diary of Frida Kahlo

• The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

• The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance

• The Frick Collection Guide

• The Future of the Museum by Andras Szanto

• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

• The Gothic Cathedral by Otto Georg Von Simson

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• The Green Mile vol. 2 and 4 by Stephen King

• The Harvard Classics: English Poetry from Tennyson to Whitman

• The Honest Art Dictionary by the Art History Babes

• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

• The Journals of Keith Haring

• The Letters of John Keats

• The Louvre: The Paintings

• The Maze Runner by James Dashner

• The Mentor journal (x 3)

• The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Masterpiece Paintings by Kathryn Calley Galitz

• The Miracle Worker by William Gibson

• The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

• The Oedipus Cycle by Sophocles

• The Outline of Art

• The Philosophy of Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) by Andy Warhol

• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde ( x 2)

• The Poems of Tennyson

• The Poetry of Petrarch

• The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book ( x 2)

• The Road by Cormac McCarthy

• The Romantic Poets

• The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur

• The Scorch Trials by James Dashner

• The Sculptures of Michelangelo

• The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer by Jennifer Lynch

• The Secret History by Donna Tartt

• The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair

• The Shining by Stephen King

• The Slave Who Loved Caviar by Ismael Reed

• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

• The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht

• The Tommyknockers by Stephen King

• The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice

• The Victorian Dictionary of Slang and Phrase

• The White Album by Joan Didion

• The Wild Iris by Louise Glück

• The World of IT

• The World of Van Gogh: 1853-1890

• They Both Die At the End by Adam Silvera

• Thinner by Stephen King

• This Must Be the Place (Americas Society)

• This Must Be the Place: The Adventures of the Talking Heads in the 20th Century by David Bowman

• To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

• Treasures of the Brooklyn Museum

• Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (x 2)

• Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ by Friederich Nietzsche

• Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier by Mark Frost

• Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare

• Ultimate French Intermediate

• Van Gogh and the Artists He Loved by Steven Naife

• Van Gogh by Marc Edo Trabault

• Van Gogh by William Feaver

• Van Gogh in Arles by Ronald Pickvance

• Van Gogh in Saint-Rémy and Auvers by Ronald Pickvance

• Van Gogh: A Retrospective by Susan Alyson Stein

• Van Gogh: Pioneer Collectors

• Van Gogh: Self Portraits

• Van Gogh: Success by Federico van Eck

• Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naiefe and Gregory White Smith

• Van Gogh’s Cypresses by Susan Alyson Stein

• Van Gogh’s Finale by Martin Bailey

• Vincent and Theo by Deborah Heiligman

• Vincent van Gogh, Letters to Émile Bernard

• Vincent van Gogh: A Biography by Julius Meier-Graefe

• Vincent’s Gardens by Ralph Skea

• Vincent’s Portraits by Ralph Skea

• Visitor’s Guide to France: Provence

• Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

• Walden by Henry David Thoreau

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

• Ways of Curating by Hans Ulrich Obrist

• Ways of Seeing by John Berger

• Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

• “‘We Didn’t Ask for Permission, We Just Did It’... Curated by Embajada” (Mishkin Gallery)

• Who Shot Van Gogh?: Facts and Counterfacts About the World’s Most Famous Artist by Alan Turnbull

• Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? by Linda Nochlin

• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

• Widow Basquiat by Suzanne Clement

• Wise Blood + More by Flannery O’Conner

• Woman On the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy

• Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis

• World of Art

• You + Fashion

• You Will Get Through This Night by Daniel Howell

• Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us by Ivy Ross and Susan Magsamen