Question: What's on your table?

One obsession J and I share is coffee table books. We love looking at them and studying random facts and looking at funky pictures. I have spent hours in Barnes and Noble scanning different books that are interesting, intriguing and humorous. J and I have a stack of books on our make-shift coffee table (pics coming soon, I need some opinions) and when we are bored we always find something interesting that we didn't know before. So I'd like to say "Thank you" to our coffee table books. Thank you.As I am typing this Josh and I are talking about our desire to grow our coffee table book collection. As you can see here our collection is small and actually one of our books happens to be my favorite Real Simple magazine. Side note: I adore Real Simple magazine! Coolest ideas for organizing and decorating. Love it!This is one we are interested in and actually I remember my mom having this book when I was a kid. Dennis Kitchen searched the US for the smallest towns and compiled them to make Our Smallest Towns: Big Falls, Blue Eye, Bonanza & Beyond. J is really interested in one book that showed the development of one small town into a larger town over 30 years, but we couldn't remember it's title. While we were thinking I remembered this book and thought it could be a good substitute, plus I wanted to share it!

One of my guilty pleasures...I always go in and look at the newest Post Secret released and laugh at some of the funny and weird things people write. There are some pretty appalling things turned into and published in Post Secret, which could make this book not so coffee table friendly. Post Secret is defiantly rated PG-13, so if you are interested in checking it out some of the material is pretty rough.Still, it was written by real people with real issues and submitted it anonymously...keep that in mind.

I love...LOVE...Annie Leibovitz's photography. She's phenomenal, you've probably seen her work in Vanity Fair. She is well known for the controversial pictures of Demi Moore while she was pregnant and most recently Miley Cyrus. This book brings all of her photography from her childhood and present career into one place. I swear on my life...every time...I'm serious...every time I am in Barnes and Noble I sit on the ground by the photography section and look at all the beautiful images she has produced through the years. Side note: She has images of The Rolling Stones (the early years) Bob Dylan and Andy Warhol just hanging out and The Queen, yes...as in...God Save The Queen.

What about you guys? What coffee table books do you like or inspire you? Please share!