Bookshelf

A bookshelf is a category of buy mode objects in The Sims games.

The Sims

Bookshelf Game The Sims Buyable Buy mode Type Skill, Fun

Bookshelves contain an infinite number of books. Bookshelves can be used by adult Sims to study cooking or mechanical. Bookshelves can also be used by child Sims to study for school; doing so eventually raises the child's school grade. Sims can also read books from the bookshelf for enjoyment.

Notes

• Custom content is not listed. Some bookshelves were available for download at TheSims.com (as the website has been shut down, said bookshelves can be downloaded here), and shipped with The Sims: Complete Collection. Those bookshelves are not listed here.

List of bookshelves

Object name	Game	Price	Size	Description	Notes
Cheap Pine Bookcase		§250	1x1	Description This plain, functional bookcase will keep the books and souvenirs off the floor. It does the job, but that's about it. Sims can improve their cooking and mechanical skills by reading books. Kids can also use books to study and improve their grades.	Fun: 1
Amishim Bookcase		§500	1x1	Description This bookcase offers quality you will not find outside of SimCity. Amishim Furniture specializes in large bookcases with extra-thick shelves, eliminating the worry of bowing or breakage over time. Whether your Sims are just reading their favorite book for fun, doing some serious studying, or trying to improve their cooking or mechanical skills, these shelves were built to last.	Fun: 2
Libri di Regina Bookcase		§900	1x2	Description The bold European design of the Libri di Regina turns ordinary reading and studying into a passion for the written word. Adds style and sophistication to any room. Manufacturer: Iliterati & Co.	Fun: 3
"The Swing" Bookshelf		§910	1x1	Description Another instant classic from Gliteri & Co. The Swing is full of life and vitality. Pressure-treated and steam-twisted wood gives a humorous twist to any interior. Designer: Beni Dingi	Fun: 3
Galvanator Bookshelf		§925	1x1	Description System Name: "Galvanator Bookshelf" Description: Industrial Strength Shelving Construction: Electrogalvanized zinc coated steel Artist: Nial Stiik	Fun: 3
Ornery Owl Pioneer Bookcase		§935	1x2	Description No self-respecting, educated homesteader was without an Ornery Owl bookcase. Shipped by flatcar, covered wagon or mule train, these heavy, ornate "book arks" were a real rarity and status symbol throughout the Old West. With the arrival of books and exotic "schools" years later, they also became increasingly useful.	Fun: 3
The Face of Shakespeare		§2,339	1x1	Description Are you a creative person seeking inspiration? Do you have a background in performing arts, but maybe lack some of that charismatic je-ne-sais-quoi? Well then this could be the answer to all your problems! Sharpen your wit, improve your charm by reciting your favorite play to this bust of the bard. He'll listen like no one else can.	Sims can also use the bust of Shakespeare on top to build Charisma. Fun: 3 Room: 3 +Charisma

The Sims 2

Bookshelf Game The Sims 2 Buyable Buy mode Type Skill, Fun

Bookshelves contain an indefinite number of skill and non-skill books. Bookshelves can be used by any Sim, child or older, to develop cooking, mechanical and cleaning skills. Sims can also read books from the bookshelf for enjoyment, or write in their diary. Teenaged or older Sims can read books to toddler or child Sims using the bookshelf.

List of bookshelves

Object name	Game	Buyability	Price	Size	Description	Notes
CinderBooks by Retratech	The Sims 2	Buy mode	§200	1x1	Description Basic and unassuming, these simple planks and blocks represent the foundation of knowledge and learning. Read of love and adventure on a lonely night or learn how engines work in an afternoon. Buy one today!	Type: Skill, Fun Fun: 1 Available colors: Knotty Pine, Old wood, Black
Craftmeister Booknook	The Sims 2	Buy mode	§250	1x1	Description Spy thriller, sci-fi, romance, horror, horror romance — all your favorite stories have a place on this set of shelves from Craftmeister. Made from reconstituted and regurgitated chipboard, the Booknook is a testament to recycling. Some assembly required, but no Fortran.	Type: Skill, Fun Fun: 1 Available colors: Oak, Black, Pine, Old wood, Mahogany
BiblioFile Bookcase	The Sims 2	Buy mode	§400	1x1	Description The BiblioFile Bookcase is a real space-saver for book lovers. Made of recycled pressboard, the BiblioFile is sturdy enough to hold all kinds of trinkets and volumes but lightweight enough that it won't leave those embarrasing [sic] dents in the carpet.	Type: Skill, Fun Available colors: Pressed Pine, Pine
Double-Helix Designer Bookshelf	The Sims 2	Buy mode	§650	1x1	Description For higher learning at a higher price, look no further than the volumes of the Double-Helix bookshelf. Whether you're a voracious reader or just want your friends to think you are, the Double-Helix is for you!	Type: Skill, Fun Fun: 1 Available colors: Frame: Dark wood, steel, Medium wood, Light wood Shelves: Green, White, Black, Blue, Steel
Novellas Nouveau Bookcase	The Sims 2	Buy mode	§800	1x1	Description With fluid form and classy curves, Novellas Nouveau is more than any simple "bookshelf." Its very design speaks volumes as to the tastes of its owner. With an air of authority and sense of sophistication, placing this work of art in the home will not only make the room look more intelligent, it might even broaden your mind.	Type: Skill, Fun Fun: 1 Environment: 2
Renaissance Bookcase by Literary Designs	The Sims 2	Buy mode	§950	1x1	Description Stack your Shakespeare with pride in this beautifully finished wood piece that really is much ado about something. Hard metal fixtures, engraved wood skirting and intricate claw feet make the Renaissance bookcase an enlightened residence for your most treasured books. Literary Designs, because your classics deserve a classic home.	Type: Skill, Fun Fun: 1 Environment: 2 Available colors: Red wood, Dark wood, Brown wood
Dahlen Library Bookcases	The Sims 2: University	Buy mode	§700	1x1	Description The perfect furnishings for any library or personal reading room... Dahlen's line of high-rise bookcases was inspired by his vast personal library and the city skyline outside his study window.	Type: Skill, Fun Fun: 1 Available colors: Oak, Black, Pine, Old wood, Mahogany
First Class Shelves by Well Bred and Co.	The Sims 2: Glamour Life Stuff	Buy mode	§900	1x1	Description A stellar book can be a rousing adventure tightly nestled within the fibers of paper and ink. First Class Shelves are a guarantee that your journey is one of luxury and leisure. Leave the heavy lifting, bore, toil and trouble to the porters and concierge -- for your literary delights, it's First Class all the way.	Type: Skill, Fun Fun: 1 Environment: 2 Available colors: Shelves: Maple, Dark wood, Gold, Red wood, Steel Supports: Gold, Steel
Books First for Learning: A Bookshelf of Education	The Sims 2: Seasons	Limited		1x1	Description Books First, the revolutionary new education system sweeping the community is now ready to enter the homes of working educators with A Bookshelf of Education. Knowledge can be obtained for any discipline via the Golden Book of Cornelius von Schtoop. Taking the first step to a life of learning is like the first step in a candy store-delicious.	Unlocked as a career reward at Education Level 5 Type: Skill, Fun Fun: 1
EDUKATE Shelf by Fun in the Sun	The Sims 2: Teen Style Stuff	Buy mode	§325	1x1	Description You know what most bookshelves are missing? Poles! Where others fail the Fun in the sun EDUKATE Shelf delivers in spades. With four sturdy poles and a curved frame, this shelf will spread fun from wherever it is placed.	Type: Skill, Fun Fun: 1
The Better Bookshelf by It Creations	The Sims 2: Teen Style Stuff	Buy mode	§375	1x1	Description It Creations knows that you're perfect and you don't need any stinking books to better yourself. Nevertheless, you have books lying around and wouldn't it just look nicer to have them all on a bookshelf? The Better bookshelf provides plenty of fashionable shelf space for all your books and smaller belongings, while also providing a sense of accomplishment and cleanliness.	Type: Skill, Fun Fun: 1 Available colors: White, Blue, Pink, Yellow
Higher Education by Darkness	The Sims 2: Teen Style Stuff	Buy mode	§425	1x1	Description If books take on the properties of the bookcase they are placed in, be careful when filling the Higher Education bookcase from Darkness. Some have said that a power lurks inside the wood used to make these shelves, although Darkness has claimed this to be nothing but exaggerated rumor.	Type: Skill, Fun Fun: 1 Available colors: White, Red, Purple, Grey
Bookworm's Delight	The Sims 2: FreeTime	Buy mode	§800	1x1	Description A bookshelf connoisseur's dream, a literary masterpiece! This bookshelf, while simple in design, is made from striking wood and is measured to hold the entire Encyclopedia America set in one shelf. Additionally, it comes with matching bookends, magazine holders, and several other accessories that will make book collectors squeal (or at least sigh contentedly) with delight.	Type: Skill, Fun Fun: 1 Available colors: Old wood, Black, Oak, Mahogany, Pine
BILLY Bookcase	The Sims 2: IKEA Home Stuff	Buy mode	§190	1x1	Description There is an ancient legend that a wild bookcase used to roam the plains, casting fear on the other bookcases with its wild colors and renegade ways. IKEA has tamed BILLY and made him available for the masses at a price that's almost criminal itself. Don't be afraid to take one of these wild ones home today.	Type: Skill, Fun Fun: 1 Available colors: Black, Red, Birch, Beech, White
TrekBuks Bookcase	The Sims 2: Apartment Life	Buy mode	§590	1x1	Description Are you looking for an educational journey of thrills and excitement? Want to polish off those rusty skills and get into the fast lane of success? This ultra modern influenced bookcase is sure to give your brain a charge by just being in your home.	Type: Skill, Fun Fun: 1 Environment: 1 Available colors: Dark wood, Light wood, Steel, Medium wood
Mysterous [sic] Looking Bookcase	The Sims 2: Apartment Life	Buy mode	§750	1x2	Description There is nothing really mysterious about this bookcase, but why does it seem like something is hidden behind it? Something important, that no one should see? Nah, it's probably nothing.	Type: Skill, Fun Fun: 1 Environment: 2 Available colors: Dark wood, Red wood, Brown wood, Old wood
Very Mysterious Shelving	The Sims 2: Apartment Life	Buy mode	§1,200	1x2	Description Many centuries ago, Morgana, and aspiring witch, married a man who was very suspicious of the supernatural. For their love to have a chance, she had to keep her craft a secret from her husband. It didn't take her long to figure out that he hated books almost as much as magic and spam, so she came up with this secret door to protect the pathway to her hidden chambers. Now that Morgana and her husband are no more, only a few people know how to activate the secret mechanism - maybe the secret is lost forever?	Must be placed on a wall. Doubles as a door. Sims will not autonomously use the door; the player must select the bookshelf and manually instruct Sims to use it. Type: Skill, Fun Fun: 1 Environment: 2 Available colors: Red wood, Dark brown wood, Old wood, Brown wood

The Sims 3

Bookshelf Game The Sims 3 Buyable Buy mode Type Storage

In The Sims 3, bookshelves hold books, but books must be purchased individually. The interface allows the player to move books into and out of the bookshelf. Unlike in The Sims and The Sims 2, where Sims can get the same books from different shelves, in The Sims 3, different bookshelves will have different books in them. (eg. Bookshelf 1 has a cookbook in it but not Bookshelf 2. The Sim cannot get a cookbook from Bookshelf 2, unless the cookbook is placed in Bookshelf 2.)

Library bookshelves

Bookshelves placed on residential lots automatically contain low level skill books, a toddler book, and several general books. Bookshelves placed on library community lots automatically contain a variety of books. Certain bookshelves when placed on a library will generate certain books.

• The Book Corral, Penningway Bookshelf, Cobalt Codex Bookshelf, and Tower of Biblio Triple Bookshelf will generate skill books.
• Classically Tasteful Literature Shelving, SolidShelf 9000, and Summer By The Sea Shelf will generate toddler books.
• A-Frame Bookshelf by Clap 'n' Board will generate comic books.

Note while the one-story and three-story bookshelves from Into the Future will generate skill books in libraries, the two-story bookshelf won't.

List of bookshelves

Object name	Game	Buyability	Price	Size	Description	Notes
Classically Tasteful Literature Shelving	The Sims 3	Buy mode	§175	1x2	Description Perhaps a tad old fashioned, this shelf displays your good taste in reading material. We hold fast that the good guys should be grand, the naughty villains cunning and all love stories honest and pure. In a rough world, let our shelves protect your happy ending.	Type: Storage
Back2School Bookshelf	The Sims 3	Buy mode	§250	1x1	Description Made to withstand the stressful rigors of academia, the Back2School Bookshelf boasts a shelf strength of over 400 tons – more than enough to hold all those overpriced textbooks you decided to keep because they might “come in handy someday,” but never do.	Type: Storage
21st Century Library Bookshelf	The Sims 3	Buy mode	§325	1x1	Description Everybody loves recycling, right? That’s why we took genuine 20th-century hardwood library bookshelves and smashed them to a pulp in order to create these all new 21st-century library bookcases! They look the same, just more modern!	Type: Storage
Shelves del Libro	The Sims 3	Buy mode	§350	1x1	Description This uniquely Spanish design expands the role of the traditional bookshelf to include more than just storing books. It can also shelve a variety of volumes, tomes, novels, leaflets, manuals, textbooks, paperbacks, magazines, and sacred scrolls.	Shelves del Libro has an environment score of 3. Type: Storage
The Book Corral	The Sims 3	Buy mode	§430	1x1	Description Rustle up all the books you plan to read someday, and display them in style with the Book Corral. Each flat shelf allows for quick and easy book retrieval, just like the kind settlers used back in the day.	The Book Corral has an environment score of 7. It is an essential component of any world because when placed in a library is fills up with skill books, allowing townies and NPCs to improve their skills autonomously. Type: Storage
Bookshelf Revisited	The Sims 3	Buy mode	§545	1x1	Description Renowned bookshelf architect, Hans Whippleton, offers his latest creation, Bookshelf Revisited. “I wanted to create a shelf that doesn’t just store books, but cradles them” he asserted. Whippleton’s approach seems to be resonating, as several Revisited knock-offs prepare to hit the market.	Bookshelf Revisited has an environment score of 10. The name appears to be a play on the Evelyn Waugh novel Brideshead Revisited". Type: Storage
Penningway Bookshelf	The Sims 3	Buy mode	§710	1x2	Description The Penningway Bookshelf presents a rich feast for the mind! This intellectual wonderland is first carved from an 800 year old redwood, then pressed from the pulp of recycled books to create a stunning place to store your novels.	Penningway Bookshelf has an environment score of 14. Type: Storage
The Constitutional Bookshelf	The Sims 3	Buy mode	§980	1x1	Description The Constitutional bookcase is based on the same model Benjamin Franklin used to hide his secret vault... the same vault that allegedly housed a trove of trinkets and treasure maps. Join the adventure by ordering your own Constitutional today!	The Constitutional Bookshelf has an environment score of 18. Type: Storage
Sturdy Shelf	The Sims 3	Buy mode	§1650	1x2	Description During the sci-fi craze of the 1950’s, visionaries often dreamt of a future filled with space travel, cell phones, and hover shelves. Well, two out of three isn’t bad. And until the hover shelf is perfected, most make due with a Sturdy Shelf.	The Sturdy Shelf has an environment score of 23. Type: Storage
Posture-Perfect Bookshelf	The Sims 3: World Adventures	Buy mode	§390	1x2	Description We’ve always been told not to judge a book by its cover. However, judging it by its posture is a whole different story. No one likes a slouching book, so help keep your favorite literary devices’ posture intact with the Posture-Perfect Bookshelf.	The Posture-Perfect Bookshelf has an environment score of 5. Type: Storage
Class-E Bookshelf	The Sims 3: World Adventures	Buy mode	§630	1x1	Description Some bookshelves skulk around hiding in dark corners and avoid meeting your eye. Some slouch stoutly against the walls with disaffected apathy. And some, like the Class-E Bookcase, stand tall and proud, commanding admiration as they grandly display the books they hold.	The Class-E Bookshelf has an environment score of 12. Type: Storage
FormFunk B-Shelf	The Sims 3: High-End Loft Stuff	Buy mode	§950	1x1	Description Humble materials. Color-impregnated Plexiglas. Simple repeated forms. This is the vocabulary of the design collective known simply as "FormFunk." This rhythmic and rigorous book display was featured in this year's "Objects of Desire" exhibition.	The FormFunk B-Shelf has an environment score of 17. Type: Storage
FormFunk G-Shelf	The Sims 3: High-End Loft Stuff	Buy mode	§950	1x1	Description Made as a clever companion for the B-Shelf, FormFunk once again displays their sense of humor mixed with rigor. Utility remains front and center in this delightful nod to mid-century cynicism and desire.	The FormFunk G-Shelf has an environment score of 17. Type: Storage
Precarious Shelving	The Sims 3: Late Night	Buy mode	§500	1x2	Description This artful display allows you to display all your prized books in a manner that looks as though it may fall over at any minute. It easily holds all of your glorious full-color coffee table books, from "A Love Letter to Cupcakes" to "Tran's Crossing: A Crossroads in Photos.	The Precarious Shelving has an environment score of 15. Type: Storage