Sentence examples for on our shelf from inspiring English sources

And so for 2009 we've made what we're already certain is a foolhardy vow: to read "2666," by Roberto Bolaño (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), a nine-hundred-page behemoth, acclaimed as one of the best novels of 2008 but as yet untouched on our shelf.

This book, taped back together, sits on our shelf, a reverberating symbol of our union.

"People are saying," Mr. Campbell said, " 'Why should we buy the spare parts and put it on our shelf?

I got a Delia book – she looks extraordinarily young on the front cover – and it's still on our shelf in the kitchen.

Still on our shelf are tattered Merton volumes from undergraduate days at Columbia, and I have never regretted one iota the path he signaled.

The progress of his editions on our shelf was like a cartoon of evolution, a slug crawling from the surf to become a mammal, a monkey, and then at last a hairless noble fellow gazing into the future.

OK, so we all have at least one Motown compilation on our shelves, and some of us have even shelled out for that eight-CD Atlantic retrospective.

The books on our shelves tell the stories of our lives, in one way or another.

"They just arrive on our shelves".

Which books are going on our shelves?

We wore them on our shelves as fragile icons.