Let's begin with Louisa May Alcott's beloved heroine. Jo March's bookshelf is easy because, in Little Women, she is perpetually reading. Her bookshelf, as detailed by Alcott in the novel, would look something like this:
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| Pilgrim's Progress, The Wide Wide World Macbeth, and The Pickwick Papers |
However, I think if Jo could time travel and read anything ever published, her bookshelf would look more like this:
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| 13 Little Blue Envelopes, On Writing, The Penderwicks, Self-Reliance and Other Essays, and The Uncommon Reader |
I always thought J.K. Rowling's Neville Longbottom, underdog-turned-hero in the Harry Potter series, would have been an avid reader. As a kid who's bullied and bears the brunt of a lot of jokes, even from his friends, he seems the sort to enjoy some escapism. However, he also grows a lot over the course of the series, on a kind of epic saga of his own. Additionally, he's a horticulture-lover, so I think his bookshelf would look like this:
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| On The Road, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Edible Wild Plantsand Useful Herbs, Everything You Need to Know About Snakes, Spud |
C.S. Lewis's Edmund Pevencie begins as the family rebel until the morality in the series beats it out of him. It does flare up on occasion, though, post Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and I think with that little bit of rebelliousness kicking around in his system, as well as his royal heritage in Narnia, his bookshelf would probably look something like this:
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| Tangerine, D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Edward III, The Hobbit |
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| Because of Winn-Dixie; Are You There, God, It's Me, Margaret?; Catwings; Mercy Watson to the Rescue; The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |
Who are some of your favorite book characters and what might their bookshelves look like?
