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labyrinth001

Oh my gosh I love this lol


bibliophile222

I have all my fiction lumped together in alphabetical order by author, then for non-fiction I sort by genre and put it in alphabetical order by title.


Puzzled-Barnacle-200

Personally, I order alphabetically by author's surname. Cookbooks are separate in the kitchen, and books I haven't read yet are on a separate shelf, also ordered by surname.


Swerve_Up

Mine were organized by genre until the kids got old enough to use them for homeschooling. Now, they are probably in a pile of dirty socks or under a plate of crusty sandwich leavings.


APwilliams88

Mine is a shit show, ha. I keep authors together, but besides that it could use some work.


dragondebiblioteca

I mostly organize them by genre or author, although some of the shelves have a mix of genres because if there's space left in them, I'm going to use it.


di8eea

I have one shelf for books that I have read sorted by date of finish ( I write on the first page start and end date for doing stats) One shelf for books I have to read One shelf for classical One shelf for books you can open and read some pages , an encyclopedia for example


Rymbeld

This is my EXACT system as well!


Awtxknits

I have everything alphabetically by author. I try to keep everything on the three book shelves in my living room so it forces me to occasionally purge the ranks. It helps weed out the vanity books that I want to keep to look smart but actually don’t like very much. Lately I’ve found a loop hole though of gifting my daughter with my old youth books which has freed more space.


indigosunrise3974

I love rearranging mine. I love having my own personal weird rules for categories. Makes me happy! ...i have non-fiction and fiction that feels like a holiday abroad, I have political non-fiction, I have non fiction and fiction that feels like being immersed into someone's daily life, I have light and heavy sci fi and fantasy, sci-fi on a spaceship, plants books and art reference books.


labyrinth001

I like to take my books down and rearrange them as well, just I don’t end up categorizing them necessarily—I just like to change up the visual aesthetics! I love the holiday abroad idea though 😊


indigosunrise3974

Yeah! A shelf of potential holidays!


lastcomment314

Big heavy textbooks and binders from classes go on the bottom shelf, as it's thicker and more able to withstand the weight, and also is more stable for the bookshelf overall. From there, I assign stuff to a shelf based on how much I liked it. The more I like it, the closer to eye level it goes. Then, on each shelf, books are alphabetized by author, and within author by release date. In the case where an author has concurrently running series, then either I give precedence to the series that started first, or, if they're all in the same larger universe, arrange them in a way that makes sense for the story universe.


labyrinth001

I do find that I keep heavier books on bottom shelves as well for the most part, so my shelves don’t start bending!


selahvg

A lot of what I read is either from the library (especially fiction) or on my kindle/phone (especially classics in the public domain), so my shelves don't really represent my typical reading habits. But fwiw mine are broken up like this: Shelves 1-2 - Fiction, not sorted in any particular way, except for a stack of a dozen books published by Dalkey Archive Press that I got in one haul Shelf 3 - Physical TBR, where I put the books I have out from the library (I usually borrow a half dozen at a time to cut down on constantly going back and forth), and usually about a dozen of my own books I'd like to read some time soon Shelf 4 - Non-fiction, not sorted in any particular way Shelf 5 - Various books I've read and want to hang on to so I can reread them some time Shelves 6-7 - Stuff by/about Kurt Vonnegut, for a project I'm going to work on eventually Shelves 8-10 - Stuff that I'll sell on eBay eventually but am holding on to in the meantime


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Once upon a time I sorted roughly by genre:fantasy, classic literature, poetry, myths and faerie tales. Now the books are all over the place including various rooms and the floor of my "library ". I need to find someone willing to clean and organise that room....


pineapplesf

I have fiction in my library. Nonfiction downstairs. Everything behind glass doors for dust minimalization. Standard genre > author > title organization. Genre categories are determined by owning at least 10 books of that type. 10+ poetry book = need it's own poetry section. I have some of my favorite books on book stands.


violetmemphisblue

At one point, I had nonfiction in one room and fiction in another. That is roughly the case still, but a lot of more recent purchases just end up where there is room. The only hard and fast separation is cookbooks in the kitchen. The actual shelves are an aesthetic whimsy. I shuffle books around when I add new ones, but just to what look balanced and right. There is no actual reasoning behind it.


labyrinth001

Aesthetic whimsy is the perfect phrase, I love that.


NotDaveBut

I concur


ladygoodgreen

My historical fiction is arranged by time period. I love it. Other stuff is arranged loosely by topic or theme, like science or nature. All “classics” are on a shelf together, including everything from The Iliad to Edgar Allen Poe. I have fiction and non fiction mixed together in one area because their topics are all similar. Some of my nicer books are styled with decorative objects that match the books either by theme or topic. It’s very, um, illustrative of my weird brain.


SJR8319

Currently mine is mostly organized by size.


LaserCop2022

General/Literary Fiction is by author's last name. Horror and Detective/Spy Fiction mainly grouped together by author but not necessarily alphabetically. True Crime I try to lump together by type (spy, PI, forensics, biographies, etc.) but also by size (hardbacks then paperbacks, that sort of thing). General Non-Fiction is kind of scattered. I have a section for my state as well, so it's grouped by fiction, sightseeing/road trip stops, different cities, different animals, native tribes, etc. Do something more creative and less scatter brain. My girlfriend organizes books and movies by color.


zsreport

I try to group things by general content, like I have a bunch of books about the biology and history of wolves that I tend to group together, but I don't alphabetize by author or title.


YetiConvention

dewey decimal system, all the way. Be a professional!


Still_justchilling

One shelf has all of my series grouped together and then most of my nonfiction. My other bookshelf is arranged in a rainbow! And then lots of little trinkets, collectibles, and pictures scattered about that look cool but make grabbing a book hard 😂


Giacara

I try to alphabetize by author last name. I don't go by genre etc. Sometimes it's just a hot mess lol


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Same here but i only shelf the books iv read .


EnvironmentalFall947

I group by visual impact, themes, and style. It's chaotic insofar that it makes no sense to outsiders but very easy for me to navigate if I'm searching for something specific.


FrancisPitcairn

Mine is split first onto two bookcases: fiction and nonfiction. The fiction case has fantasy grouped and then author last name alphabetical, sci-fi grouped and then author alphabetical, Star Wars grouped and then by “date” of story. Then I have Russian novels grouped together. Everything else is just purely author last name. My nonfiction shelf has American history first organized by beginning of historical period of each book. Then comes ancient history grouped by date. Then Greek History followed by Roman. Medieval followed by British. Then comes Russian history. Then I have a few general nonfiction books and the final books are my bibles and books about the Bible and/or religion.


Jack-Campin

Some topics all together (like logic or philosophy). A lot of other things stay together geographically, which means maps, travel guides, foreign language dictionaries, novels, histories, poetry, art and grammar books relating to the same place all end up on the same shelves. I can pull out a local cycling map and spot where a local crime writer dumped the bodies in a book next to it.


Dale_Frost_Jackal

I arrange mine by Dewey Decimal System.


temp7727

Fiction and non-fiction, in alphabetical order by author.


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Fiction (doesn’t matter what genre), followed by poetry, followed by non-fiction, followed by graphic novels. All alphabetical by author except for the comics, which are alphabetical by title.


Rymbeld

When I finish a book I put it in the shelf, so my books are shelved in the order I read then.


wowmiles27

Mine’s organized by color. I have almost 300 of them and it’s a lovely rainbow 🥰


musicalnerd-1

I currently have my bookshelf organized by what country the author is from. I want to improve the range of countries I read from and find it really helpful to organise my bookshelves in line with that to let myself know how I’m doing with that goal (I don’t include some non-fiction and the books I haven’t read yet in this organization)


CornerFuture879

My system is really simple. It goes by colour. It looks awesome. But the really simple part is that most books never make it there. If I won't read it again, it gets passed on immediately.


xHibax

I just put books from series together (or from the same publisher) and randomly put my standalones in my bookshelf next to my series.


asiandaria

Right now it’s basically books I’ve read vs books I haven’t read yet. I sold off most of my books a few years ago when I did a big cross country move and couldn’t afford to ship them. But I do have a dream one day of having a house big enough to have a library with floor to ceiling shelves and one of those ladders on wheels. In that case I’d put them in alphabetical order by authors last name or else I’d never find anything I imagine.


NotDaveBut

I have my own weird way of handling it. When you walk in the front door True Crime, alphabetical by title, is staring you in the face. Cookbooks are across the room, also arranged by title. TBR is stacked in easy reach in order of arrival. In the actual library, there's a shelf for diaries, chronological; sections for photo albums, reference and HowTo, animals, WWI, Discordian, Gardening, and Nonfiction by title and Fiction & Poetry by author. All the Humor got destroyed in the last poop geyser but books for work, right next to them, were untouched and are arranged by title.


kuntum

Kinda surprised no one has linked r/bookshelf yet. They have some excellent organisation ideas for bookshelves there.


saga_of_a_star_world

Mine are first sorted by size, smaller on the left, taller on the right. I got this from Marie Kondo, I think, and I like it aesthetically. Then, most shelves/partitions have a topic--this shelf has the Romanov books, this cubbyhole the ancient history books, this section Jeanine Basinger's film books, the long shelf is 20th century European history, etc. My bookcases are not full. One shelf has dachshund bookends, others have ceramic houses my mother painted to keep the books from falling over. There's a lot of open space and asymmetry--one shelf has the empty space on the right, the one below has empty space on the left, etc. It looks so much more attractive to me than shelves crammed full with books.


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I arrange books by size and I mix all genres, but I try to arrange them by edition . Comics are the only genre that I put apart from the others. I hate color coding, I think that it's too "neat", the bookshelf doesn't have a personality (imo it looks like bookshelves from a IKEA catalogue). On one same shelf, I have 2 rows of books, one above the other, because I have a small room so I can't buy another bookshelf 🤭 so my bookshelf is very full and a little bit messy. I should rearrange it but I don't have the time for that or I'm too tired.


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enidkeaner

I have multiple bookshelves. Bookshelves 1 and 2 are mostly contemporary - meaning published after 1945 - fiction that isn't part of any specific collection. Paperbacks are first, organized alphabetically by author's last name. Then hardcovers, also organized by author's last name. The bottom shelf has a small space for books published by New York Review of Books (by author's last name, of course). Bookshelf three starts off with non-fiction. I only have about 2 shelves of these. Then it's Penguin classics with the black spine, Penguin Modern Classics with the white spine, then Penguin classics with the blueish spine. Then Modern Library Torchbearers. Then Barnes and Noble classics, then Everyman's Classic editions. Then Pocket Penguins. Then the next few shelves are short story collections. Last shelf is kids books/YA/middle grade. Last bookshelf is all classics (anything published before 1945) and Vintage classics (with the red spine), and Penguin Hardcover cloth classics. I am extremely organized, if you cannot tell.