Forget selfies, we want to see your shelfies

Selfies may have dominated 2013, but we think a snap of your bookshelf is far more interesting. We asked to see your shelfies and you didn't disappoint. Here's a selection of our favourites

• Writers' and critics' best books of 2013

Woke up last Sunday and decided to rearrange the bookshelf. Too many books have spines in white though, or various shades of grey (ehm - 50).

Love the words

Part of our small home library in the dining room. Spaces between books are the ideal home for spirits.

More bookcases in other corners, bedroom and loo but will spare you those

Shelves were especially made in the shape of individual boxes, to accomodate not only the books, but also my collection of porcelain cats and mugs bought around the world.

This is homemade with chipboard. Although it looks curvy all the sections are actually straight. And sorry for the laundry pile in the background..

We could only fit 3 bookcases in our living room. So they're double stacked. Someday, all these books will have a place of their own.

i have recently moved, and these are the start of a new collection. slowly, slowly.

My library outside New York City.

Passion for reading, all things wooden and typography.

On a boat, space is limited and this shelf holds my absolutely essential reading and re-reading. As you would expect from a poet there are Bloodaxe anthologies, plus the collection I just edited (Maps & Legends) and a few spare copies of my own book - but also my touchstone books including JB Priestley's English Journey, and Rolt's Narrow Boat, both great travelogues full of humanity and opinion.

My office wall exposing sundry interests.

My partner and I collected these Penguin paperbacks in the 1980s and 90s

We moved a few months ago and all the books came out and on to the shelves in a mess. When I heard that Iain Banks died his books were given some order.