This is so cool

I want to go to Kansas City, MO just to see this library! Don't you just love it when someone thinks outside of the box?

This is from their website:

Community Bookshelf

Central Library parking garage

The Community Bookshelf is a striking feature of Kansas City's downtown. It runs along the south wall of the Central Library's parking garage on 10th Street between Wyandotte Street and Baltimore Avenue. The book spines, which measure approximately 25 feet by 9 feet, are made of signboard mylar. The shelf showcases 22 titles reflecting a wide variety of reading interests as suggested by Kansas City readers and then selected by The Kansas City Public Library Board of Trustees.


The 22 "Community Bookshelf" book titles (in order from West to East on 10th street):[1]
Kansas City Stories, Volume I Kansas City, Missouri; Its History and Its People 1808-1908 (Carrie Westlake Whitney) 1908
Tom’s Town, Kansas City and the Pendergast Legend (William M. Reddig) 1986
Goin’ to Kansas City (Nathan W. Pearson, Jr.) 1987
Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer (Rhodes) 1989
Mr. Anonymous, the Story of William Volker (Herbert C. Cornuelle) 1951
Kansas City, Missouri: An Architectural History, 1826 - 1990 (George Ehrlich) 1992
Journeys Through Time: A Young Traveler’s Guide to Kansas City’s History (Monroe Dodd, Daniel Serda) 2000

Kansas City Stories, Volume II Virgil Thomson, a Reader: Selected Writings 1924-1984 (Thomson) 2002
Mrs. Bridge (Connell) 1959
I Was Right on Time (O'Neil) 1996
The O’Donnells (Peggy Sullivan) 1956
Independence Avenue (Eileen Sherman) 1990
Stella Louella’s Runaway Book (Lisa Campbell Ernst) 1998
PrairyErth: (A Deep Map) (Least Heat-Moon) 1991
Messages from my Father (Calvin Trillin) 1996

Catch 22 (Heller)

Children's Stories Goodnight Moon (Brown, pictures by Hurd)
Harold and the Purple Crayon (Johnson)
Winnie the Pooh (Milne)
Green Eggs and Ham (Dr. Seuss)
What a Wonderful World (Weiss, Thiele, pictures by Bryan) 1995
Little House on the Prairie (Wilder)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Baum)
M. C. Higgins, the Great (Hamilton)

Silent Spring (Carson)
O Pioneers! (Cather)
Cien Años de Soledad (Marquez)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston)
Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury)
The Republic (Plato)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain)

(Building Entrance)
Tao Te Ching (Lao Tzu)
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Hughes)
Black Elk Speaks (Neihardt)
Invisible Man (Ellison)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee)
Journals of the Expedition (Lewis, Clark) + Undaunted Courage (Ambrose)
The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien)
A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
Charlotte's Web (White)
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
Truman (McCullough)