How random? Well, among the books on the left are Ed Piskor's Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 3, Marvel's X-Men: Grand Design—Second Genesis, Fantastic Four: Grand Design and History of the Marvel Universe, Chris Claremont and John Bolton's Marada the She-Wolf, some Jules Feiffer graphic novels and more.
To the right? Things are even more random. In fact, only one of these books is actually a comic book: Tom Scioli's Jack Kirby. As for the rest, most of them are at least about comics, like Jon Morris' League of Regrettable Heroes, Mark Fertig's Take That, Adolf! and TwoMorrows' Swamp Men, The Quality Companion and Matt Baker: The Art of Glamour. There are also a pair of collections of pin-up art from comics artists, Jim Silke's Jungle Girls and Bruce Timm's The Big Tease.
And then there are a couple of books in there that are not really comics-related at all, but book-books I apparently stuck there because I didn't have anywhere else to put them. These include Stephen Bissette's Cryptid Cinema (which, though fun, wasn't exactly what I expected given the title), a Suicide Girls coffee table book, Giant Monsters of Filmland and Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders, a book I bought from the gift shop at the Cleveland Museum of Art when the Morgan Library & Museum's exhibit of the same name was there in 2018.
Above this hodgepodge of a shelf, you'll see a few recent DC books lying sideways with their spines out. I didn't count that little shelf, which is too short for even a digest-sized comics collection to stand up in, as a shelf of its own, so it doesn't get a post dedicated just to it. I'm not sure what that little shelf is meant to hold, but I've just been sticking books I don't have room for elsewhere there.
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