To quell my excitement re: the forthcoming episode, and distract me from more mundane tasks I have decided to post my analysis thereof.
The shot is of a bookcase, and it is fun exercise for my geek muscles to describe it.
In the first chunk we have nine volumes, one of which is unidentified/filler.
Filler
The War of the Worlds - Wells, who was the inspiration for much Who, this particular book was read by the Master in the story Frontier in Space. Wells himself appeared in the otherwise truely dreadful story Timelash. This featured moments like a latter day TUatW, with as many Wells references squeezed in as possible.
The Time Machine - Obviously Wells again, and obviously an inspiration for the whole series. In the TV Movie (not canon, not canon, not canon), Sylvester McCoy's, and possibly Paul McGann's, Doctor reads this.
Love's Labours Lost - Shakespeare, as seen in The Shakespeare Code, the prequel to Love's Labours Won, the lost play which played a significant role in TSC.
Monty Python's Big Red Book - This should of course be blue, and be Monty Python's Big Red Bok Python-Who links are somewhat tenuous. John Cleese appeared in the excellent City of Death, and Douglas Adams, did a lot of work with Graham Chapman, and may have contributed to MP'sBRB. 1
A Journal of Impossible Things - John Smith's book in Human Nature.
Poker - If we turn the image upside down this becomes a little clearer.2
The French Revolution - Lefebvre perhaps? Susan returns it (and complains of errors) in An Unearthly Child, it is later seen in a lab of Coal Hill School in Remembrance of the Daleks.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Either the real fiction work by Douglas Adams, or the fictional Encyclopedia featured in same. Douglas Adam's worked on Doctor Who a lot during the Tom Baker era, and many ideas found their way from one to the other.
The second section contains six volumes.
Origins of the Universe - by Oolon Coluphid, which Tom Baker reads in Destiny of the Daleks, thanks to an intervention by Douglas Adams. The book was apparently "wrong on the first line."
Everest in Easy Stages - Read by Tom Baker in The Creature from the Pit.
The Type 40 TT Capsule Operation Manual - Must be mentioned a few times, but I presume it is the same volume found by Peri, propping open a vent in Vengeance on Varos.
Bridget Jones's Diary - by Helen Fielding, I am unaware of any Who link.
Black Orchid - A book featured, and given to the Doctor, in the Peter Davison story of the same name.
Understanding Telebiogenesis - Telebiogenesis is a science mentioned by Nyssa in Castrovalva, she knows very little about it, a fact which distresses her as it pertains to the rather traumatic regeneration she has just witnessed.
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There are other books, but they appear to be missing, to give the impression of full shelves these books are repeated, sometimes reversed.
The above is not all my own work, I posted this on the Doctor Who Forum and was given a number of corrections, see also specific footnotes crediting additions made on my fathers advise.
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1 See Michael Palin's Diaries: Credit due to my father for pointing this out.
2 Credit due to my father for pointing this out, and providing the image.
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