Rearranging books is a very soothing lockdown activity 🌈 pic.twitter.com/6bDjeCJIPa
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 21, 2020
Chris Calderon sent me the question, “How many titles can you spot in J.K. Rowling’s new color coded personal library collection?” The link goes to the Rowling tweet in April, one she made during the first Covid Lockdown in the UK. I had corresponded with Nick Jeffery and others at the time and I vaguely remembered that he was working on identifying as many titles as he could. I shared Chris’ question with Nick, he shared his remarkable findings, and I asked for and received permission to post them here.
After the jump, then, Nick Jeffery’s list of the identifiable books in the Rowling bookshelves as of her April, 2020, tweet. In addition, Nick shares his compilation of identifiable titles from the 2000 Bloomsbury Goblet of Fire Adult Edition book cover photo, a discussion we had here — with much less success – in August 2019: ‘Name That Not Quite Legible Book Title! The Mysteries on Rowling’s Bookshelf.’ The Jeffery lists do not allow us to add these authors and titles to the Literary Likes List, but they are suggestive and encouraging, believe me, for Serious Readers of Rowling-Galbraith.
Thank you, Nick! Everyone else — prepare to be astonished and delighted. Enjoy — and please do share the titles you have identified, as well!
The April 2020 Tweet Library Book List: Sixty Five Titles, Twelve on Literary Likes List
- Folio Society limited editions:
- Folio Society:
- Barnes and Noble collectors editions:
- Canterbury Classics Leather:
- Harper Collins collectors edition
- General Editions:
Jane Austen by David Nokes
“Bridesmaid Revisited”: shouldn’t that be “Brideshead Revisited”?
Yes! I fixed it — though the typo was funnier, no?
Thanks for the catch!
Splendid work – thank you, Nick Jeffery, for compiling it, and both for passing it on!
Various of those spines have clear evidence of reading, too (unless she buys or otherwise receives books second-hand which someone else has read, or loans some out before reading them herself… admitted everyday possibilities).