Lisa Scottoline, a best-selling author of thrillers and historical fiction, loves to pay it forward to other authors by buying their books, writes Nora Krug for The Washington Post.

As much a reader as she is a writer, Scottoline’s home on a Chester County farm is filled with books in almost every room.

She has so many of them, that she has gotten creative in how she stores and displays them using book carts and even furniture like her tufted lounge chairs for the overflow.

Scottoline estimates that she has about 5,000 books and even has engraved plaques to label the different sections of her library.

“It makes me feel like a fake librarian,” she joked.

Today, she is a celebrated author, but she has never forgotten the lean years when she quit her job as an attorney to take care of her daughter and write.

She is forever grateful to the readers and bookstores who supported her in those early years.

That is why it is important to her to support other authors as well.

Her library includes a Nancy Drew collection, books by Philip Roth, and mystery novels by Michael Connelly, David Baldacci, Lee Child, Alafair Burke, and Laura Lippman.

See photos from the book tour of Lisa Scottoline’s home and learn about her research and writing processes at The Washington Post.

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