So...no party. Not really. (Though I did enjoy a lovely dinner.) But it is my birthday, and I'm in the mood for a meme. And what better meme could there be than a Bookshelf Scavenger Hunt? Better than cake!

Bookshelf Scavenger Hunt
(gakked from the lovely Book Rat)

Sticking just to the books on the bookshelf my dad made for me....

Find an author's name or title with the letter Z in it
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress XXII, edited by Elisabeth Waters (of course)


Find a classic
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster


Find a book with a key on it
A Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (on the back cover, anyway)


Find something on your bookshelf that's not a book
No picture, alas, but I do have a lovely turquoise, cream, and gold tea cup.

Find the oldest book on your shelf
I think the most worn and aged book on my shelves is When Knights Were Bold by Eva March Tappan, printed in...1911, perhaps?


Find a book with a girl on the cover
Highballs High Heels by Karen Brooks, Gideon Bosker, & Reed Darmon


Find a book that has an animal in it
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams


Find a book with a male protagonist
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler


Find a book with only words on it
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe


Find a book with illustrations in it
Beauty and the Beast by Max Eilenberg, illustrated by Angela Barrett
(want to view the illustrations?)


Find a book with gold lettering
Sunshine by Robin McKinley


Find a diary (true or fictional)
Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey (edited) by Lillian Schlissel


Find a book written by someone with a common name (like Smith)
Castles by Alan Lee


Find a book that has a closeup of something on it
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams


Find a book on your shelf that takes place in the earliest time period
Plato's Symposium (385-375 B.C.)


Find a hardcover book without a jacket
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott


Find a teal/turquoise colored book
The Jane Austen Handbook by Margaret C. Sullivan


Find a book with stars on it
Tiny specks of stars: Dark Ladies by Fritz Leiber


Find a non-YA book
Illusion by Paula Volsky ('cuz why not?)