this is not a poem, it's just a list of books on my bookshelf

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Moby Dick
The Mouse That Roared
The Mouse on the Moon
That Was Then, This Is Now
The Hobbit
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
The Incredible Journey
Northanger Abbey
The War of the Worlds
Romeo and Juliet & West Side Story
Around the World in Eighty Days
Cheaper by the Dozen
Inherit the Wind
Pygmalion & My Fair Lady
Major Barbara
Our Town

How to Live Well without Owning a Car
"Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" [indefinite loan]
How Starbucks Saved My Life
Made to Stick
The Invisible Gorilla
Mountains Beyond Mountains
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Running Out of Time
The Great Gatsby
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
Wise Blood
The Scarlet Letter
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Time Traitor
Fundamentalism and American Culture
Egypt, Greece, and Rome
Racist Culture
The History of White People

The Prodigal God
The Republic
Augustine's Confessions
Light from Distant Stars
The Spirit of Early Christian Thought
Spiritual Friendship
Disruptive Witness
Party of One
Booked
Tenth of December
Fierce Convictions
On Reading Well
Me, Myself, & Bob
E.L. Doctorow Collected Stories
The Evangelicals
 The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage

Love Your God with All Your Mind
The Four Loves
Good Posture: Engaging Current Culture with Ancient Faith
Imagining the Kingdom
Liturgy of the Ordinary
No Argument for God
Christianity
Silence
Till We Have Faces
Peter Pan
Julius Caesar
Frankenstein
Treasure Island
Sophie's World
The Night Room
Paper Towns
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Beginning Again
Dante's Inferno
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Pride and Prejudice
Silas Marner
Wuthering Heights

Ginger Pye
The Silver Pencil
Wishbone's Dog Days of the West
In His Steps
The Portal
Not Quite Human #1: Batteries Not Included
Not Quite Human #2: All Geared Up
Not Quite Human #3: A Bug in the System
Not Quite Human #4: Reckless Robot
Not Quite Human #5: Terror at Play
Not Quite Human #6: Killer Robot
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
A Wrinkle in Time
HELP! I'm Trapped in my Teacher's Body
Mary Poppins
Freaky Friday
Dear Napoleon, I Know You're Dead, But...
A Little Princess
Pippi Longstocking
The Root Cellar
Travelers Through Time #3: Back to the Day Lincoln Was Shot!
The Ugly Princess and the Wise Fool
Jennifer Murdley's Toad
No More Dead Dogs
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
The Chalk Box Kid
The Family Under the Bridge
The Wizard of Oz
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Mouse and the Motorcycle
1001 Ways to be a Best Friend
The Orphan of Ellis Island
The Whipping Boy
My Side of the Mountain
The Story of the World Volume 2: The Middle Ages
The Wish Giver

Freddy the Politician
Freddy and Simon the Dictator
Illustrated Classic Editions: The Time Machine
Pictorial Pilgrim's Progress
Mystery of the Fat Cat
The Wind in the Willows
Guide to Home Video and Movies
The Magic Bicycle
Freddy the Detective & Freddy Goes To Florida
Pilgrim's Progress
Dear Graduate
Evil Plans
Switch
The Literature of America
Steve Jobs
The Vanishing American Adult
Onward

Phillip's Book for Great Thoughts & Funny Sayings
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Mad's Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions
What Now, Charlie Brown
All Quiet on the Eastern Front
The Rise of Silas Lapham
Favorite Inspirational Poems & The Greatest Thing in the World
The Shaggy Dog
Editing for Better Movies
Unforgotten Years
"A Charlie Brown Christmas": The Making of a Tradition

Holy Bible
The Big Hike
Left Behind
Are We Living in the End Times?
Just Shoot Me!
How to Make Good Movies
Holy Bible
Holy Bible
The System Bible Study
Holy Bible: New Scofield Reference Edition

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