I want...

... to live across the street from this place and not have a job so I could spend all my time in there.

It is the Kansas City Public Library

List of books on the wall:

• Kansas City Stories - 2 volumes
• Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
• Children's Stories
• Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
• O Pioneers! - Willa Cather
• Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
• Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
• The Republic - Plato
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain READ IT
• Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
• The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
• Black Elk Speaks - by Nicholas Black Elk as told to John Niehardt
• Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
• To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
• Journal of the Expedition - Lewis and Clark; Undaunted Courage - Stephen E. Ambrose
• Lord of the Rings - J.R. Tolkien
• A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
• Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
• Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare READ IT
• Truman - David McCollough

I also found this rather interesting article about the conception of this place.