--- product_id: 4101584 title: "My Ideal Bookshelf" price: "₹ 4173" currency: INR in_stock: true reviews_count: 11 url: https://www.desertcart.in/products/4101584-my-ideal-bookshelf store_origin: IN region: India --- # My Ideal Bookshelf **Price:** ₹ 4173 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** My Ideal Bookshelf - **How much does it cost?** ₹ 4173 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.in](https://www.desertcart.in/products/4101584-my-ideal-bookshelf) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description My Ideal Bookshelf [La Force, Thessaly, Mount, Jane] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. My Ideal Bookshelf Review: The Illusion That My Brain Is Expanding Too - What a brilliant idea! And how will you leverage this idea with your team at work, your family and friends, your small group and your social media followers? The co-creators of "My Ideal Bookshelf" have served up a unique coffee table book that, at least momentarily, is more compelling than YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest. The idea: invite over 100 leading cultural figures "to share the books that matter to them most; books that define their dreams and ambitions and in many cases helped them find their way in the world." So, for example, Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers: The Story of Success , "The Tipping Point" and other books, shares 12 books that have influenced him. His next book is about crime, so he acquired 150 books on the subject. Gladwell writes, "I haven't read them all, and I won't. Some of them I'll just look at. But that's the fun part. It's an excuse to go on desertcart. The problem is, of course, that eventually you have to stop yourself. Otherwise you'll collect books forever. But these books are markers for ideas that I'm interested in. That's why it's so important to have physical books. "When I see my bookshelf expanding, it gives me the illusion that my brain is expanding, too." Across the page from Gladwell's book journey commentary is an original painting of his ideal bookshelf--showcasing the book spines creatively sorted by color and size. Amazingly, artist Jane Mount created 100 original paintings for this impressive work. You cannot resist browsing this book! Hmmm. I wonder what's on Atul Gawande's (author of The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right ) bookshelf? Have I read any of his favorites? Another writer, Andrew Sean Greer, confesses that he steals ideas from other books and "I have finally forgiven myself for not reading everything in the entire world." A chef and writer, Gabrielle Hamilton (one of the few to include a Bible, the King James Version), writes, "I think all of these books give the reader permission to break the rules." Then referencing Jackson Pollock and e.e. cummings, she adds, "You can't start out using all lowercase letters and no punctuation. You have to know all the rules first. Then you can play." Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage , by Alfred Lansing, was one of pro skateboarder Tony Hawk's picks. His theme--the importance of perseverance. An illustrator and artist, Oliver Jeffers, opens his profile with this: "I picked all of these books because I think you should always judge a book by its cover--or its spine, in this case." With a nod to high tech, Nico Mulhy, a classical music composer, showcases his iPad favorites on an iBook screen, painted sparingly with low tech brushes. The mega writer James Patterson crammed 18 picks onto his ideal bookshelf. His profile enlightened: "For better or worse, I get right into the story. It's like that rule of real estate, `Location, location, location,' except for me it's `Story, story, story.' I think it'd be disastrous if everyone wrote the way I do. But I think it's good that somebody does." The challenge was too overwhelming for Francine Prose, a writer, to pick her ideal bookshelf because "there are a gazillion bookshelves in my house." So she picked her all-Chekhov shelf. That was interesting, but more so her commentary about the difference between short-story writers and novelists (and baggy writing). "But then I remember that Chekhov wrote six hundred stories. And that he died at the young age of forty-four. David Gates asked this about Charles Dickens, but you could ask it about Chekhov, too: `Was he a Martian?' He was not from this planet." "Sometimes I meet ministers, and I always say to them," writes David Sedaris (a writer), "'If I had a church, I'd read a Tobias Wolff story every week, and then I'd say to people, "Go home."' There's nothing else you would need to say. Every story is a manual on how to be a good person, but without ever being preachy. They're deeply moral stories; the best of them read like parables." I bought "My Ideal Bookshelf" when it was published last November and I've savored this morsel, page-by-page, over many insightful evenings. Some closing thoughts: * I love books and I'm in good company. * Whew! I've hardly read anything! Where did I miss that one? * What fun--to inspire others to read with such a visually-pleasing invitation to browse 100 bookshelves. So what's on your ideal bookshelf? The graphic on the last page invites you to fill in the titles of 10 books you can't live without. I made my picks and staged my photo--and I'm already remorseful about 10 other books I ignored. Review: You Are What You Read - I love this book. Imagine your bookshelf published. You are what you read. The Ideal Bookshelf is a very interesting perspective on favorite books of people from a variety of successful, creative, artistic careers. A wide range of creativity is represented; from Tony Hawks the professional snowboarder to the poet Jorie Graham. The idea is to relay to the reader how and why certain books influenced these individuals, in their own words, and perhaps get you to ask a few questions of yourself. Do your most memorable books affect your lot in life, or does your lot in life determine what you read and relish? Is your bookshelf were to be published would you be honest, or maybe pick books that make you look deep, insightful, smart? Either way you are influenced by the books you put on your bookshelf. But would you have the confidence to make it public? These showcased individuals did. An illustration accompanies each bookshelf narrative creating a colorful picturesque coffee table book. What is on your bookshelf? ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,066,377 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #772 in General Books & Reading #1,071 in Journalist Biographies #2,768 in Essays (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (87) | | Dimensions | 7.3 x 1 x 9.25 inches | | Edition | First Edition | | ISBN-10 | 0316200905 | | ISBN-13 | 978-0316200905 | | Item Weight | 1.88 pounds | | Language | English | | Print length | 240 pages | | Publication date | November 13, 2012 | | Publisher | Little, Brown and Company | ## Images ![My Ideal Bookshelf - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/8161SmAMrCL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Illusion That My Brain Is Expanding Too *by J***N on April 20, 2013* What a brilliant idea! And how will you leverage this idea with your team at work, your family and friends, your small group and your social media followers? The co-creators of "My Ideal Bookshelf" have served up a unique coffee table book that, at least momentarily, is more compelling than YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest. The idea: invite over 100 leading cultural figures "to share the books that matter to them most; books that define their dreams and ambitions and in many cases helped them find their way in the world." So, for example, Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers: The Story of Success , "The Tipping Point" and other books, shares 12 books that have influenced him. His next book is about crime, so he acquired 150 books on the subject. Gladwell writes, "I haven't read them all, and I won't. Some of them I'll just look at. But that's the fun part. It's an excuse to go on Amazon. The problem is, of course, that eventually you have to stop yourself. Otherwise you'll collect books forever. But these books are markers for ideas that I'm interested in. That's why it's so important to have physical books. "When I see my bookshelf expanding, it gives me the illusion that my brain is expanding, too." Across the page from Gladwell's book journey commentary is an original painting of his ideal bookshelf--showcasing the book spines creatively sorted by color and size. Amazingly, artist Jane Mount created 100 original paintings for this impressive work. You cannot resist browsing this book! Hmmm. I wonder what's on Atul Gawande's (author of The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right ) bookshelf? Have I read any of his favorites? Another writer, Andrew Sean Greer, confesses that he steals ideas from other books and "I have finally forgiven myself for not reading everything in the entire world." A chef and writer, Gabrielle Hamilton (one of the few to include a Bible, the King James Version), writes, "I think all of these books give the reader permission to break the rules." Then referencing Jackson Pollock and e.e. cummings, she adds, "You can't start out using all lowercase letters and no punctuation. You have to know all the rules first. Then you can play." Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage , by Alfred Lansing, was one of pro skateboarder Tony Hawk's picks. His theme--the importance of perseverance. An illustrator and artist, Oliver Jeffers, opens his profile with this: "I picked all of these books because I think you should always judge a book by its cover--or its spine, in this case." With a nod to high tech, Nico Mulhy, a classical music composer, showcases his iPad favorites on an iBook screen, painted sparingly with low tech brushes. The mega writer James Patterson crammed 18 picks onto his ideal bookshelf. His profile enlightened: "For better or worse, I get right into the story. It's like that rule of real estate, `Location, location, location,' except for me it's `Story, story, story.' I think it'd be disastrous if everyone wrote the way I do. But I think it's good that somebody does." The challenge was too overwhelming for Francine Prose, a writer, to pick her ideal bookshelf because "there are a gazillion bookshelves in my house." So she picked her all-Chekhov shelf. That was interesting, but more so her commentary about the difference between short-story writers and novelists (and baggy writing). "But then I remember that Chekhov wrote six hundred stories. And that he died at the young age of forty-four. David Gates asked this about Charles Dickens, but you could ask it about Chekhov, too: `Was he a Martian?' He was not from this planet." "Sometimes I meet ministers, and I always say to them," writes David Sedaris (a writer), "'If I had a church, I'd read a Tobias Wolff story every week, and then I'd say to people, "Go home."' There's nothing else you would need to say. Every story is a manual on how to be a good person, but without ever being preachy. They're deeply moral stories; the best of them read like parables." I bought "My Ideal Bookshelf" when it was published last November and I've savored this morsel, page-by-page, over many insightful evenings. Some closing thoughts: * I love books and I'm in good company. * Whew! I've hardly read anything! Where did I miss that one? * What fun--to inspire others to read with such a visually-pleasing invitation to browse 100 bookshelves. So what's on your ideal bookshelf? The graphic on the last page invites you to fill in the titles of 10 books you can't live without. I made my picks and staged my photo--and I'm already remorseful about 10 other books I ignored. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ You Are What You Read *by T***A on November 17, 2012* I love this book. Imagine your bookshelf published. You are what you read. The Ideal Bookshelf is a very interesting perspective on favorite books of people from a variety of successful, creative, artistic careers. A wide range of creativity is represented; from Tony Hawks the professional snowboarder to the poet Jorie Graham. The idea is to relay to the reader how and why certain books influenced these individuals, in their own words, and perhaps get you to ask a few questions of yourself. Do your most memorable books affect your lot in life, or does your lot in life determine what you read and relish? Is your bookshelf were to be published would you be honest, or maybe pick books that make you look deep, insightful, smart? Either way you are influenced by the books you put on your bookshelf. But would you have the confidence to make it public? These showcased individuals did. An illustration accompanies each bookshelf narrative creating a colorful picturesque coffee table book. What is on your bookshelf? ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Perfect gift for a bookworm! *by M***N on May 18, 2019* Absolutely love this book and have gifted it several times. So interesting to see which books have helped frame perspectives, and the illustrations are awesome. Just a fun read and something to easily pick up and put down. Highly recommend. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.in/products/4101584-my-ideal-bookshelf](https://www.desertcart.in/products/4101584-my-ideal-bookshelf) --- *Product available on Desertcart India* *Store origin: IN* *Last updated: 2026-05-07*