Polls for Our Souls discussion

I organize my books by color

Color and then height. But all my Harry Potter books are in one separate shelf

By Size.

I don't have that many books. Many of mine are audiobooks in a cloud or from the library.

There was a time that I had almost 1,000 DVD titles. I was pretty proud of my, what I thought of as unique, organization. I would likely organize my books this way if I had the same number of titles.
1. By category/genre
2. Then by most closely related.
For example: "God's Not Dead" is between "Do you Believe", "To Save a Life", "Flywheel" and "Courageous"

My thought process was if someone saw a title on the shelf, then they would most likely like the 1 or 2 titles to the left and right of it.

The few books I do have are organized that way.

I put them together based off series and if they don't have a series they go in a drawer.

I sort them by colour so that my shelves are a book rainbow

By genre

Where they fit???

I unusually organize them by letter. Like A's go on the top of my bookshelf. They're not in alphabetical order, but they are in groups by their letters.

Roel ✿ wrote: "I sort them by colour so that my shelves are a book rainbow"

I like that idea!

i organize my bookshelf by author and year released by that author

Lauren wrote: "i organize my bookshelf by author and year released by that author"

that seems cool, but that also may take awhile

I have read shelves, unread shelves, and a variety of locations scattered about for thinking of reading. Other than that I just make em fit.

I used to do it by genre and alphabetically, but I changed it to a rainbow book shelf to make it more aesthetically pleasing. The only stack of books are kept together in one shelf are my Harry Potter books. Everything else is organized by color. Also, I separated by "read" books with my "tbr" books. But both stacks are color coordinated.

I had my own bookshelf for awhile. I organized it by, you know the CLASSIC STARTS books, I organized it by that,ABC order, or author. Or all 3 of those together! Quite a chaotic shelf.

I tried to organize by color, but that didn't end up well. I ended up just putting books in random places. I may retry soon, but I want to put my rating into all the inside covers, meaning I want to rate all of them, or else I'll just forget to later on.

Alphabetical by author and if it's a series then chronological. If the author has multiple series then the series names are alphabetized and then shelved chronologically.

I don't organize my books XD Well sometimes I do, but when I do (which is very rarely) I will organize them by author and color.

by color

I do it by genre and author, I used to work in book stores and it was a dream job for me!!!

I organize my book according to their height!

I organize by novels, unfinished series and series, after that i organize by alphabetical order for novels and unfinished series but by books in order for series

from fav series/standalone books to last favourite books

I have a bookshelf, and I organize alphabetically by author's last name like libraries do. I do a-z with the series first, then a-z with standalone books.

By genre:
Shelf one:Contemporary and non fiction (also historical )
Shelf two:Horror and mysteries
Shelf three:Distopian and science fiction
Shelf four and five:Fantasy and YA

PS: I also have a mini shelf for my Harry Potter books cause when I was little I loved them and try to convince myself that nothing could win HP.of course they are better books and I've learn that,but they will always have a special place. 🤗

I recently re-categorised my bookshelf into genres rather than alphabetical and omg it was so satisfying and made me so happy

I have all my hardbacks and my paperbacks on separate shelfs. I don't have a specific organizing method. I've put my series together and they are organized by height and color shifts. if that makes sense

I don't. I just have them memorized as to where they are located.

I kind of have a strange way to organizing my books. I have two shelves. On the bottom shelf is all my hardbacks and in front of them are my series that are organized by size. Then I have a shelf on top of that one with stand-alone books mostly organized by size and genre (ex I put mystery ,then horror, then true crime next to each other)

I organize my books by emotion, keeping series together.

I organize my books by color.
I used to organize them by the author's last name (like they do at a library) but I didn't like the way it looked.

i organize mine by size

I only own like four, so I keep them in a box.

Alphabetical by Author then their books.

My books are divided in narrative/poetry/drama, and non-fiction. Narrative/poetry/drama books are divided by Country, and in every Country's group by author and then by year published/written.
Non-fiction books are divided by topic, with topics shading one into the other (from linguistics to history of reading to literary criticism to cinema criticism etc.)
This is the bookcase for the books I have already read, together with dictionaries and reference books. The advantage of making business with Swedish mafia trafficking in furniture disguised in flat boxes is that you get to adjust the height of your shelves to the books, so all my Japanese literature can stay on one shelf even if one or two books are hardback boxsets taller than the divine small Marsilio editions in those amazing translations from Ca'Foscari scholars.
Then there are the still unread books on a nice coffee table next to the bookcase, the college books in the ugly small bookcase behind the armchair in the living room, the currently useful college books on my teeny tiny desk in a corner of my bedroom, and the pile of books I am currently reading on my bedside table.
I count on starting the invasion of the tv cupboard as soon as Himself is distracted gardening.

In the bedroom, I have all my favorite fantasy books, mostly paperback. They're mostly considered YA or even children's (.The Phantom Tollbooth) but others are kinda strange like Catherynne M. Valente. And let's not forget ALL The Moomin books!

In my dining room, I have shelves lining three walls where I keep mostly hardcovers, and they're separated by genre. This is the room where I've scored some pretty good novels & YA & fantasy at the annual library book sale.

In my living room I keep all those fantastic coffee table books that I've picked up throughout the years, These oversized treasures are separated by type...all my dog books in one pile, then books of famous illustrations in another pile, and so on.

Lastly, I keep all my comic collections in my office. The collected works of Calvin & Hobbes, Doonesbury, Pogo, Get Fuzzy, etc.

Ya know, I hadn't realized how many books I actually own until I answered this question.

I arrange mine by color. I have a couple of books that I put on a separate shelf because they don't go with the color theme.

I use a bookshelf. But i somewhat organize them like at a library, by Author's Last name. My mother and I share another bookshelf, which is HUGE. We organize it by who's read what, and when.

wherever they fit. and where i'm just feeling they vibe well there. I want to organize them by genre but i need some new bookshelves first.

I do them by emotion..... like my favorites are at the top left and my least favroites are at the bottom right.

arwyn_d wrote: "daughterofathenacarli wrote: "I do them by emotion..... like my favorites are at the top left and my least favroites are at the bottom right."

ooo snazzy"

thanks!!

I have one bookshelf for fiction, one for nonfiction. Now that they're full, favorites replace others that have to stay in a dark closet.

All my important hard- and paperbacks are packed away. The rest are in Kindle. My living room is so much bigger without 4 giant bookcases.

i like to organize by height! i'm a bit weird about organization and the way things look, so it's the most satisfying for me. i used to have them in rainbow order, but i like that my series all stay together when i do it by height.

Current favorites, then by hardback or paperback.

My physical books are organized in cathegories. There are scientific books and then stories, poems, in english, from my country, horror, fantasy, realistic, religious, etc.

ON goodreads I have a few shelves: just stories (emotion), mangas (graphic), scientific ones (science) and spiritual topics (interior life). Otherwise I would have thousand and thousands of shelves.

I used to have the BEST built-in bookshelf, but I moved recently so I have to get an actual shelf and I still haven't found a good proper one yet so I arrange my books in stacks and rows. I really just want to build a shelf into the wall again.

As for my method of arranging, it's just from biggest to smallest, hardcover first and paperbacks last.

By height. Tall books on the left and right and in the middle the shorter ones. That's how they look the most organised on the shelf. But I don't have that many books to begin with so it works. I get rid of the books I don't want to read a second time once in a while.

height or the ones i own versus library owned. i don't really sort them specifically, though.

Well, the very best have their own shelf. Then there’s a shelf of traditional old looking books even if not that readable; on another I have some lovely dusty-green colored ones that sort of match. There’s second tier good books. Greeks and Romans have their own, as does all the science. The art books are on the bottoms of the tall shelves for their gravity. Hubs has a nice collection of penguin books, and library of America, and he keeps all the Faulkner and Dostoevsky, and all the modern books he reads. We both have a Ulysses shelf. Then there’s all the other paperbacks - once good, almost good, science fiction, old school texts. The goofy bestsellers I used to buy, crime dramas, romance, etc, the ones I don’t even own up to reading, I just give away when I am done.