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I know this topic has been done before but thought it would be interesting to see people share items of interest that is on their bookshelves. In addition to the Waggett and Schemering books these are a few notable highlights on mine:


Days of Our Lives: The Complete Family Album: a 30th Anniversary Celebration by Lorraine Zenka(1995)

 

 

The Young and the Restless, Special Silver Anniversary Collector's Edition by Barbara Irwin and Mary Cassata(1998)

 

Y&R Most Memorable Moments by Irwin and Cassata (1996)

 


From Mary Noble to Mary Hartman : The Complete Soap Opera Book by Madeline Edmondson and David Rounds (1977)

 

Serial Monogramy by Christine Scodari (2004) 

 

The Q Guide to Soap Operas by Daniel Coleridge (2006). Please forgive me on this  on!

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I have a small collection that I add to from time to time, but right now, I have the complete family scrapbooks for AMC, GL, and ATWT, Schemering's GL book from its 50th anniversary, Worlds Without End, special AMC and B&B editions of People magazine, a neat book of random Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman stuff, and the recently-released Her Stories. Oh, and I also have Jeanne Cooper's, Bill Bell's, and Susan Lucci's autobiographies.

Do Peyton Place and Return to Peyton Place count? lol

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I own all the B&B books:

 

The Bold And The Beautiful: A Tenth Anniversary Celebration by Robert Waldron (informative in the same style of the Y&R book by Barbara Irwin and Mary Cassata)

The Bold and The Beautiful – In Celebration of 20 Years on Television by Eva Demirjan (an amazing labor of love!)

Becoming Bold and Beautiful – 25 Years of Making the Most Popular Daytime Soap Opera by David Gregg and Adrian Aviles (more glossy pictures than content)

 

Plus the PEOPLE Magazine Special Edition for B&B's 30th anniversary

 

For Y&R it is:

The Young and the Restless: A Special Silver Anniversary Collector's Edition by Barbara Irwin and Mary Cassata(1998)

 

And I've seen the GH and DAYS (???) books from the mid-1990s which were all really high-content and quality - like the ones for B&B and Y&R

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Guiding Light: 50th Anniversary

Guiding Light: The Complete Family Album

General Hospital: The Complete Scrapbook

The Ultimate Days of our Lives Trivia Book

Young and the Restless: Most Memorable Moments

Cooking with Days of our Lives

Days of our Lives: The Complete Family Album

As the World Turns: The Complete Family Scrapbook

The Ultimate Another World Trivia Book

Another World 35th Anniversary

Days of our Lives: A Tour Through Salem

Days of our Lives: 45 Year: A Celebration in Photos (I got at my local library for $1 and when I got home I realized it was autographed by Molly Burnett and Shawn Christian).

 

Plus I have several special collectors editions of various magazines.

 

Many of these I got from my mom years ago.

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I have been meaning to pick up those 90s coffee table books for some time but never got around to it. This is my small collection:

 

Guiding Light: The Complete Family Album - Julie Poll

Soap Opera Encyclopedia - Christopher Schemering

Lorelei's Guiding Light: An Intimate Diary - Beth Chamberlin

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I also have some soap-related autobiographies, Susan Lucci, Kim Zimmer, Jeanne Cooper among them.

 

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My collection includes the following:

 

Both of Me by Mary Stuart

The Wonderful World of TV Soap Operas, From Ma Perkins to Mary Hartman, Soap World by Robert LaGuardia

Whistling Girl by Ann Marcus

Writing the Soaps by Jean Rouverol

Super Soaps by Jane Cutler et al

Soaps by Manuela Soares

All My Afternoons by Annie Gilbert

Inside the Soaps by Paul Denis

Soap Opera Almanac by Ron Lachmann

Soap Opera Encyclopedia by Chris Schemering 

Soap Opera Encyclopedia by Gerard Waggett

Worlds Without End

OLTL, AW, ATWT, BB hardcover books

Kim Zimmer, Jeanne Cooper and Ruth Warrick autobiographies.

 

There are more, just have to dig them out.

 

 

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