I love spying on other people’s bookshelves, not only to judge their reading tastes (😆) but also to see how they organize things.
I tend to re-arrange my overflowing shelves every few years and I’m about due. I currently have three primary categorizations:
POTUS books, shelved sequentially from George Washington to Joe Biden (stemming from my big POTUS reading project)
Non-fiction, shelved by author last name
Fiction, shelved by author last name
I’d like to have more non-fiction categories, however, as I sometimes have a hard time what I’m looking for—non-fiction author names don’t come to me as readily as novelists, for some reason.
So I might end up with with something like this for my non-fic books:
Biography/History
Psychology/Self-Help
Nature/Science
Culture/Tech
These are the non-fiction niches I read most—yours are likely different. We’ll see how it shakes out in the coming weeks.
Okay, your turn! How do you organize your shelves? No judgment, even if you organize by color.
I usually organise it in genres like the biographies go together but in subsets like the sports biographies go together, world leaders’ biographies, memoirs are stacked together and so on.
And I usually stack the ones I have read vertical and the ones on by TBR horizontal.
I don't. It's all chaos.
Okay, I do a little but there's no set system to it. I know where everything is... so along as no one else tries to come and "organize."