What a beautiful thread.

Once I'll have my own house, the main priority will be the "Work Room" which will be lined up with huge bookshelves to stack up all of the books that I enjoy. I have a huge book collection in my grandparents house (probably over 2000 books in there) but they're mostly novels and in my native language. Nevertheless, I do have a couple of interesting books lying around in my own small case, scattered between all the novels and history books.

Livy, Polybius, The Alexiad, Art of War, Machiavelli, Musashi (Penguin Classics, unfortunately). In the big bookcase at my grandparents I have a copy of a book written by Eisenhower (forgot the name), The Last Lion (about Winston Churchill) and a couple of others from the 1950's about World War II.

My favourite is an old 1941 book written by Nicolae Iorga, an unpublished small history of Romania destined only for a very small circle of intellectuals. Somehow that copy slipped and ended up in my own hands. Alongside it sits a a translated copy of Charles Diehl - Byzantium, published and printed in 1940 and even after 70 years, it's remarkable how accurate the book is.

But nevertheless, once I will be set up in my own home, the library will be one of the major points.