"Put a fresh breeze up there on your fiction shelves among all the neurotica."

Given a chance, a dendro-chronologist could knock Halvdan the Black off his timeline or even relegate him to the fiction shelf.

Reached late yesterday, Mr. Sharpton said, "The book should be put on the fiction shelf wherever it is distributed."

Inside the library, young children find a cozy reading corner or gather near the fiction shelves, underneath two tall wooden trees that form a canopy.

Now they cluster around the fiction shelves.

Yes, Mr. Frayn says that it should be filed by librarians on the fiction shelves.

There are plenty of examples of this sort of alternative history on the fiction shelves.

A reader who moves from the fiction shelf to the stacks of reportage and commentary may experience cognitive dissonance.