Just look at novelist Norman Mailer’s quixotic Brooklyn Heights apartment where he spent his final years, which was essentially a giant library.

Then there's @neilhimself's beguiling basement at his Minnesota home, filled with books, awards, a cat and, of course, gargoyle heads.

Novelist Hanya Yanagihara's one-bedroom New York apartment where she lives with 12,000 books and her art collection. She always arranges the books alphabetically. The flat has no dividing walls; instead, the vast, double-sided bookcase acts “as a kind of suggestion of a wall”.

Dylan Thomas’s Boathouse,where the poet worked during the last 4 years of his life. The first poem he wrote here was ‘Over Sir John’s Hill’,an interpretation of the view from his window. Rumour has it that his wife would lock him in the shed often,to ensure that he did some work.

Writers Joan Didion and John Dunne at their Malibu home surrounded by books, 1976.

The Royal Library of Alexandria or Ancient Library of Alexandria in Egypt, once the largest library in the world, where I lost a piece of my heart in January this year.

Fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld stores his books horizontally. His personal library reportedly houses over 230,000 books... mostly art books. Apparently when Karl reads a paperback, he rips out the pages as he goes. “I’m mad for books… It is a disease I won’t recover from,” he says.

Ray Bradbury's room full of books. Bradbury left his entire collection to the Waukegan Public Library in Illinois, his place of birth.

Roald Dahl's 6ft x 7ft writing hut. Dahl couldn't type and always used a pencil to write his stories. He described the hut as a “little nest, my womb”, where every writing day began around 10 am, after sharpening six pencils and using a yellow legal writing pad. #RoaldDahlDay