EditorialA carved skull sits on a bookshelf on the top level of the two-level study at Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s home in Atlanta on Jan. 14, 2023. (Dustin Chambers/The New York Times)
EditorialJonathan Cervas' bookshelf at Carnegie Mellon, where he is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Pittsburg on Friday, May 27, 2022. (Ross Mantle/The New York Times)
EditorialA bookshelf where employees are encouraged to leave their favorite titles, at the offices of Substack in San Francisco, March 16, 2022. (Lauren Segal/The New York Times)
EditorialLee Tae-kyung with a photo album taken from a bookshelf at his apartment in Seoul, South Korea, on March 19, 2021. (Woohae Cho/The New York Times)
EditorialA copy of the German Constitution, center, on Franco A.’s bookshelf at his home in Offenbach, Germany, July 9, 2020. (Laetitia Vancon/The New York Times)
EditorialTrash is turned into an artsy junk vessel, perfect for holding dried flowers or pens, or can stand alone as a statement piece on a bookshelf, in New York on June 15, 2020. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)