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AT-AT Bookends

AT-AT Bookends
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Keep your Star Wars book collection organized with these AT-AT bookends from MokuShop. Each walker is hand-assembled from layers of laser-cut wood and painted in a shiny metallic silver. As a bonus, they include a Darth Vader figure with a leash for his Imperial pet. Just keep its legs away from Rebel snowspeeders.

Concrete Square Bookends

Concrete Square Bookends
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There are lots of kinds of bookends out there, but we rather appreciate the minimalism of roughfusion’s concrete cubes. These 3″ blocks are heavy enough to hold paperbacks upright and look great sitting on any bookshelf. Available in grey, natural, or charcoal.

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Raygun Bookends

Raygun Bookends
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These metal bookends from Pendulux look like the rayguns that astronauts and aliens might have used to battle each other in a 1950s sci-fi movie. They’re made from cast aluminum, iron, and brass and are perfect for displaying vintage comics, books, and magazines.

Stormtrooper Bookends

Stormtrooper Bookends
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If there’s one thing we know about Imperial Stormtroopers in Star Wars, it’s that they’re not very good at their jobs. Perhaps they’d be better at holding up your books instead of defending the Empire. This pair of resin bookends features a duo of white-clad soldiers doing their best to keep your books from falling over.

Katana Bookends

Katana Bookends
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Mustard’s playful metal bookends make it look like you’ve pierced your collection of books with a samurai sword. The trick to the illusion is that the metal hides inside of the end books, and the faux sword parts hold in place with magnets. They’re perfect for storing your copies of Bushido and The Art of War.

Wood Kraken Bookends

Wood Kraken Bookends
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A pirate ship meets its ultimate nemesis with these wooden bookends from MokuShop. They’re perfect for housing books about adventures on the open seas. Each one is laser-engraved with intricate details engraved on its surface, and has a non-slip cork bottom.

Fender Guitar Bookends

Fender Guitar Bookends
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Looking for a gift for a musician or audiophile? Check out Fender’s guitar body bookends. Available in Telecaster, Stratocaster and Bass variants, each set of bookends is made from the same materials as the company uses to make its iconic guitars.

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Star Wars Faux Marble Bookends

Star Wars Faux Marble Bookends
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Gentle Giant made the Empire classy with these faux marble bookends of Darth Vader and a Stormtrooper. Each bookend stands 6.5″ tall and is made of polystone and hand-painted. They’re built on a 90ยบ angle so you can use them on either side of your shelf.

Rick & Morty Portal Bookends

Rick & Morty Portal Bookends
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Wubba-lubba-bookworms! Hold your tomes in place with BoxLunch’s exclusive Rick and Morty Portal Bookends. One half sees Rick running through the familiar green portal while poor Morty is slightly left behind on the other half.

Yoda Bookend

Yoda Bookend
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The Ancient Jedi Master uses the power of The Force to keep your collection of sci-fi books from tumbling over on your bookshelf. Hallmark’s single metal bookend might not hold a huge library, but is a cool gift for Star Wars fans. (photo: frmacleod/reddit)

Iron Skull Bookends

Iron Skull Bookends
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Your books will never fall over again guarded by this pair of human skull bookends from UrbanTradingPost. Each one is made from painted cast iron, and weighs more than 3 pounds. The matte black is our fave, but they also come in white, grey, silver, or gloss black.

Star Wars AT-ACT Walker Bookends

Star Wars AT-ACT Walker Bookends
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Transport your books to the tropical planet Scariff with Gentle Giant’s awesome pair of AT-ACT Walker polystone bookends. The walker measures 9.5″ x 5″ x 12″ when both halves are together. Each pair is hand-painted and individually numbered.

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Layered Earth Bookends

Layered Earth Bookends
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Artist Garth Borovicka hand makes these beautiful and substantial bookends from layers of wood whose rings symbolize the gradual passage of time on our planet, each topped off by a tiny diorama representing varied ecosystems.

Duello Gun Bookend

Duello Gun Bookend
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The perfect bookend for all your old cowboy books, this cast resin weapon is based on a vintage revolver, embellished with intricate flourishes. Buy two and have an old-fashioned shootout between the ends of your bookshelf.

Tail & Nose Bookends

Tail & Nose Bookends
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A pair of bookends made from two-thirds of a skateboard, complete with screws, trucks and wheels. You can also just get the tail. Available in four colors, but strangely, red isn’t currently an option.

Direwolf Bookends

Direwolf Bookends
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Protect your George R.R. Martin collection with a pair of direwolves, sitting patiently by to scare off all who dare to try and swipe your books. Based on the wolves who guard the crypts at Winterfell.

Book Binder

Book Binder
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Christoffer Martens’ Book Binder are the only pair of bookends we’ve seen that lets you organize books even without a bookshelf. It’s made of lacquered wood or raw oak and an elastic textile band.

Shark Bookends

Shark Bookends
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Knob Creek Metal Arts handmakes these killer shark bookends – perfect for standing up your collection of marine biology books or your Jaws and Sharktopus discs. Hammerhead also available.

Vintage Roller Skate Bookends

Vintage Roller Skate Bookends
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Artist Breck Armstrong seems to have a knack for breathing new life into found objects. Like he did with these 6 lb roller skate bookends that will look good and keep your big reads from getting away.

Falling Books Bookend

Falling Books Bookend

While tablets are all the rage for reading books these days, there’s still something nice about having actual books on your shelf. Art Ori’s clever bookends turn your books into a tiny action scene.

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