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I recently got new bookshelves for my room, and I’m just loving them. Spent the afternoon putting up my books and sharing it on my blog . One of my friends asked a question and I thought it would be a great BTT question. So from Tina & myself, we’d like to know “How do you arrange your books on your shelves? Is it by author, by genre, or you just put it where it falls on?”

Considering that I just, not three weeks ago, bought new bookshelves, I recently had to decide this very thing for myself. I was very concerned with arranging my books because I wanted it to be clean, organized, and also logical. I was full of questions like, “if I have series and nonseries books by the same author, do I arrange the series’ in alphabetical order in accordance to the other titles and then place them in series order after that?” Is it obvious that I over think every little thing? I am sure it is. I just want my order to make sense, but the more I try to make sense of it, the more confused I get in my own head!

I don’t want to split my books up by genre or make a distinction between fiction and nonfiction. I want all of my books to blend seemlessly, you know? I don’t want to have one shelf for fiction and one for nonfiction in case I run out of room for one and have TONS left for the other! My whole plan would wind up ruined because I would have to use the other shelf for overflow and they would combine anyway.

So, no to that.

I also don’t split my books up by hardcover or softcover. Again, I worry that the same thing above would happen. Plus, I have some books that are in the same series that are in hardback and some are in paperback. If I made a distinction by cover style, I would end up splitting series’ and that would be no good either.

I chose to simply do my books my author last name. Starting with A and ending with Z, my books are arranged quite simply. When a book is in a series, I use that to place it within the alphabetical scene and then arrange them by their series number regardless of their title. So, you see, I have answered that troubling question above quite easily. However, there is always a kink. Some of my books tend to be rather tall, so I have had to abandon them within my scheme and over lay them on top of the other books.

I do need to rearrange because I have gotten a large influx of books that are currently unshelved.

Unfortunately….

I’ve run out of space. I need to buy another shelf. After that, I will commence with emptying all of my shelves and re-alphabetizing.

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