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To Have and to Hold (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as collecting)
avg rating 3.63 — 26,193 ratings — published 2002
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as collecting)
avg rating 3.97 — 66,786 ratings — published 2010
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as collecting)
avg rating 3.45 — 14,517 ratings — published 2009
In Flagrante Collecto (Caught in the Act of Collecting)
by (shelved 6 times as collecting)
avg rating 4.38 — 34 ratings — published 2006
ABC for Book Collectors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as collecting)
avg rating 4.22 — 435 ratings — published 1952
The Cultures of Collecting (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as collecting)
avg rating 3.77 — 48 ratings — published 1993
The Word Collector (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as collecting)
avg rating 4.38 — 5,145 ratings — published 2018
Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as collecting)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,365 ratings — published 2014
Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as collecting)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,721 ratings — published 1997
Collector's Encyclopedia of Depression Glass, Eighteenth Edition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as collecting)
avg rating 4.30 — 144 ratings — published 1977
In a Jar (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as collecting)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,596 ratings — published 2020
The Amenities of Book Collecting And Kindred Affections (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as collecting)
avg rating 3.82 — 44 ratings — published 1918
Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as collecting)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,163 ratings — published 2010
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as collecting)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,890,371 ratings — published 1997
Star Wars Super Collector's Wish Book: Identification & Values (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as collecting)
avg rating 4.42 — 36 ratings — published 2002
Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as collecting)
avg rating 4.15 — 815,314 ratings — published 1817
On Collecting: An Investigation into Collecting in the European Tradition (Collecting Cultures)
by (shelved 4 times as collecting)
avg rating 4.00 — 25 ratings — published 1995
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as collecting)
avg rating 3.82 — 183,160 ratings — published 2009
The English Assassin (Gabriel Allon, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as collecting)
avg rating 4.17 — 46,539 ratings — published 2002
Max's Words (Max's Words, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as collecting)
avg rating 4.19 — 989 ratings — published 2006
Finders, Keepers: Treasures and Oddities of Natural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as collecting)
avg rating 4.29 — 49 ratings — published 1992
Collecting: An Unruly Passion: Psychological Perspectives (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as collecting)
avg rating 3.38 — 64 ratings — published 1993
A Pinecone!: (A Funny Fall and Winter Picture Book About Nature, Family, Imagination, and Collecting for Kids Ages 3-7)
by (shelved 3 times as collecting)
avg rating 3.97 — 472 ratings — published
Pirate Gold (Order of the Black Sun #27)
by (shelved 3 times as collecting)
avg rating 4.35 — 126 ratings — published
Notes of a heretic: Order of the Black Sun (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as collecting)
avg rating 1.86 — 7 ratings — published 2014
What's in Your Pocket?: Collecting Nature's Treasures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as collecting)
avg rating 4.42 — 531 ratings — published 2021
Tale of the black hound (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as collecting)
avg rating 3.62 — 13 ratings — published 2014
Ice Station Wolfenstein (Order of the Black Sun #1)
by (shelved 3 times as collecting)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,351 ratings — published 2014
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as collecting)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,026,235 ratings — published 1890
Memory Jars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as collecting)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,485 ratings — published 2021
A Guide Book of United States Coins 2018: The Official Red Book (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as collecting)
avg rating 4.23 — 592 ratings — published 1959
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 3 times as collecting)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,801,604 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as collecting)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,701,196 ratings — published 1998
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 3 times as collecting)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,381,524 ratings — published 2000
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 3 times as collecting)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,258,947 ratings — published 2007
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 3 times as collecting)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,953,868 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as collecting)
avg rating 4.58 — 5,082,754 ratings — published 1999
Dewey Bob (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as collecting)
avg rating 3.96 — 455 ratings — published 2015
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as collecting)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,333,733 ratings — published 1954
More (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as collecting)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,617 ratings — published 2012
The Clue in the Old Album (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #24)
by (shelved 3 times as collecting)
avg rating 3.87 — 6,729 ratings — published 1947
The Autograph Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as collecting)
avg rating 3.16 — 13,533 ratings — published 2002
Possession (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as collecting)
avg rating 3.90 — 86,995 ratings — published 1990
Books (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as collecting)
avg rating 3.23 — 2,333 ratings — published 2008
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as collecting)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,286 ratings — published 1995
On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as collecting)
avg rating 4.17 — 727 ratings — published 1984
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as collecting)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,907 ratings — published 1995
Mabel's Museum of Wonders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as collecting)
avg rating 4.36 — 32 ratings — published
Searching for Wocks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as collecting)
avg rating 4.11 — 126 ratings — published 2026
The Wind in the Willows (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as collecting)
avg rating 4.03 — 250,092 ratings — published 1908
“This has led some scholars to suggest that collecting is a way of managing fears about death by creating a form of immortality. This is consistent with a popular theory in social psychology called the terror management theory (TMT). TMT grows out of an existential predicament--that people, like animals, are mortal. But unlike animals, we are aware of our own mortality. Knowledge of the inevitability of death and its unpredictability can produce paralyzing fear. To cope with this potential terror, cultures provide beliefs, rituals, and sanctioned strategies for managing it. One of these strategies is the belief that some part of ourselves can live on after we die. Producing or amassing something of value is one way to accomplish this. Thus a collection offers the potential for immortality.”
― Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
― Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
“Since you are gone, I collect the stars each night - building my own night sky, so I have something to hold onto forever.”
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