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This thread will explain how our bookshelf works to anyone who finds it daunting.

I will explain what shelves we have, what's on them, and why. You'll learn a lot in this thread.

Let's start out by listing each important shelf and summarize the titles assigned.

action-series (49)
Better-than-average series of the 1960s & 70s. William Arden, Mike Barry, Andrew York, Philip Atlee, Ian Fleming.

classic-series (28)
The pre-eminent series of the entire genre. LeCarre's 'Smiley' series, Deighton's 'Palmer'; Hall, McCarry.

classic-standalones (71)
Superb, individual, non-series books like 'The Day of the Jackal' or 'Black Sunday'.

currently-leading-the-field (17)
Authors who form the current crop of 'luminaries' in the genre (Steinhauer, Silva, Furst).
*If you want to add a new Jack Reacher novel, here's where it goes*.

mens-adventure (54)
Lurid, high-testosterone series like 'The Executioner', 'the Destroyer', 'Death Merchant', 'The Eliminator', etc.

nonfiction-classics (12)
Established, iconic works of research or journalism; such as 'Dispatches'.

nonfiction-newer (34)
Assortment of recent entries to the ranks of non-fiction. Things like 'Operation Mincemeat'.

'prolific moderns' (61)
Authors like Robert Ludlum, Clive Cussler, Colin Forbes, Gerard de Villiers, et al.

'prolific & obscure' (89)
All sorts of obscure and unheard-of from the 50s, WWII, and earlier. If you need a new discovery, here they be.

newcomers (83)
The most active and busy author-zone today. All the 'recent arrivals' with accompanying hoopla. Un-vetted, wet-behind-the-ears. The ones everybody's yakking about.

tradecraft (7)
Skill building, esoteric-technical-topics, lore acquisition.

authors-in-residence (126)
All the books published by our authors-in-residence.

Alphabetical quick-ref of all 273 authors represented on our bookshelf:


Aaron, David
Albrand, Martha
Alexander, Sirius
Allbeury, Ted
Ambler, Eric
Ameringer, Charles
Ameringer, Charles D.
Anderson, Jack
Anderson, Steve
Anonymous
Anthony, Evelyn
Arden, William
Ardies, Tom
Atlee, Philip
Bagley, Desmond
Ballinger, Bill S.
Battles, Brett
Beeding, Francis
Bell, Ted
Berenson, Alex
Bernstein, Carl
Bird, Kai
Blissett, Luther
Blum, Howard
Borchgrave, Arnaud De
Bourne, Joanna
Boyd, William
Brooks, Russell
Brown, Henry
Brownell, Daniel
Bruno, James
Buchan, John
Budiansky, Stephen
Burns, Jimmy
Butler, Smedley
Cahir, Thom
Caillou, Allan
Canning, Victor
Cappa, Gerard
Carr, Alex
Carroll, James
Carré, John le
Carter, Nick
Caruso, A. Brooke
Cavanaugh, Douglas
Cave, Roger
Chapman, Peter
Chesterton, G.K.
Chomsky, Noam
Clancy, Tom
Clifford, Francis
Cohen, William S.
Collins, Larry
Companies, Marinelli
Condon, Richard
Condon, Richard W.
Connelly, Max
Conrad, Joseph
Cooper, James Fenimore
Cornioley, Pearl Witherington
Croft, Roger
Cumming, Charles
Cussler, Clive
Dasch, George
Davidson, Lionel
Davies, Leslie Purnell
Day, Peter
Deighton, Len
Denson, Bryan
Diehl, William
Dipper, Alan
Downing, David
Downing, David
Draitser, Emil
Dressler, Craig W.
Dulles, Allen W.
Duns, Jeremy
Egleton, Clive
Egleton, Clive
Ellis, Arun D.
Ellsberg, Daniel
England, Stephen
Fairclough, Bill
Feilitzsch, Heribert von
Ferdowsi, Farsheed
Fitzgerald, Connor
Flannery, Sean
Fleming, Ian
Fleming, Peter
Follett, Ken
Foner, Philip S.
Forbes, Colin
Forsyth, Frederick
Fox, George
Freemantle, Brian
Fry, Helen
Fuller, Jean Overton
Furst, Alan
Garth, David
Garve, Andrew
Gifford, Thomas
Gilmour, Paul
Giovannetti, Alberto
Goulden, Joseph C.
Grady, James
Granger, Bill
Greene, Graham
Guha, Puja
Hagberg, David
Haggard, William
Hall, Adam
Hall, Roger
Hamilton, Donald
Harris, Richard S.
Harris, Thomas
Hart-Davis, Duff
Havelland, Roy
Hayes, Jack
Haynes, Gary
Hemming, Henry
Hendee, Jim
Henderson, Mark David
Hennessy, Gamal
Herr, Michael
Higgins, Jack
Hillhouse, Raelynn
Hilton, James
Hinckley, Kent
Hood, Joshua
Hood, Joshua L.
Hood, Joshua M.
Household, Geoffrey
Hummer, Ron
Hynd, Noel
Ignatius, David
Innes, Hammond
Innes, Michael
Jamali, Naveed
James, Ian St.
Jenkins, Geoffrey
Jr., Alex Drinkwater
Jr., Barrington Moore
Jr., William F. Buckley
Judd, Alan
Kane, D.S.
Kannard, Brian
Kanon, Joseph
Kaplan, Andrew
Keefe, Patrick Radden
Kent, Gordon
Kephart, M.J.
Koestler, Arthur
Kyle, Duncan
Lagercrantz, David
Latham, Aaron
Levin, Ira
Lewytzkyj, Borys
Littell, Robert
Ludlum, Robert
Lynds, Gayle
MacKinnon, Colin
Macintyre, Ben
Martell, Dominic
Mather, Berkely
Mathews, Francine
Maugham, W. Somerset
McCarry, Charles
McCoy, Alfred W.
McCurtin, Peter
McIntosh, Christopher
Mcnamara, Joseph D.
Mellen, Joan
Milton, Giles
Moore, Robin
Morcan, James
Morgan, Ted
Morrell, David
Morton, James
Moss, Robert
Muhammad, Khalid
Mulley, Clare
Murphy, Warren
Napier, Bill
Nathan, Robert Stuart
Niesewand, Peter
Orgill, Douglas
Orlov, Alexander
Paillole, Paul
Parr, Edward
Pascente, Fred
Pease, William D.
Pendleton, Don
Perry, Thomas
Popov, Dusko
Press, Paladin
Price, Anthony
Price, Anthony
Radosh, Ronald
Reaves, Sam
Reiss, Bob
Richmond, Clint
Rimington, Stella
Roche, Douglas
Rogers, J.R.
Rose, Geoffrey
Rosenberger, Joseph
Ross, Thomas B.
Ross, Thomas Wynne
Roy, Archie
Ruz, Christopher
Salinger, Pierre
Scarpetta, Frank
Schechter, Peter
Sebastian, Tim
Sela, Owen
Seymour, Gerald
Seymour-Jones, Carole
Shabka, Omar
Shackley, Theodore G.
Shimmin, Graeme
Sierer, Barry
Silbert, Leslie
Silkstone, Jack
Silva, Daniel
Sivertsen, Vetle
Slater, N.J.
Smith, Martin Cruz
Snell, Edmund
Sparkler, Sandra
Sparrow, Elizabeth
Speer, Albert
Spoelstra, Jon
Steinhauer, Olen
Stevens, Tim
Stevenson, William
Stoll, Clifford
Talib, Khaled
Tarrant, John
Thomas, Craig
Thomas, Ross
Thomson, Keith
Times, The New York
Trenhaile, John
Trevanian
Trew, Anthony
Trew, Antony
Tyler, W.T.
Urban, Mark
Uris, Leon
Valtin, Jan
Villiers, Gérard de
Wager, Walter
Wallace, Edgar
Watts, Andrew
Watts, Andrew
Weinstein, Allen
Weisberg, Joseph
Weiser, Benjamin
West, Rebecca
Westhoff, Jeffrey
Weston, Roger
Weston, Roger
Wilford, Hugh
Wilkinson, Burke
Williams, Alan
Williams, Allan
Williams, Valentine
Willnow, Evan
Wise, David
Woods, Randall Bennett
Yates, Dornford
Young, Lesley