Friday Question #22: How do you organize your shelves?

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Happy Friday, BookishFirst Readers!

The BookishFirst team have been tackling some spring cleaning and reorganizing our bookshelves while we social distance.

How do you organize your shelves? By read/unread, genre, color, etc.

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Mostly by the sizes of the books!

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Organized chaos. My books are placed where they are placed and there is no system of organization. But if you ask me where a specific book is, I can easily find it haha.

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Hello…hope everyone is safe and healthy.

I organize my shelves by date read. That makes it easier to find a book if someone wants to borrow it. :slight_smile:

I do have one shelf and a round decorated tub for TBR books.

Thanks for the fun question.

Elizabeth @ Silver’s Reviews
http://silversolara.blogspot.com

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Since a majority of my books are digital copies, I maintain my “shelves” on Goodreads. I have at least 15 different shelves to organize my e-books. Some of them are: Read, Currently Reading, Want to Read, Giveaways, NetGalley, DNF, To Review after Pub., To Review on Amazon, BookishFirst Won, BookishFirst to Review.

I don’t keep too many physical copies of books unless they are complete sets (i.e. hardcopies of all Harry Potter, etc.) Otherwise, they get donated once I’ve read them.

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I try to organize my shelves by genre.

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I might be a tad obsessive. My fiction shelves are first divided into read, unread that I purchased, and unread ARCs, and then each section is alphabetical by author. My nonfiction shelves are organized by topic, and then alphabetical by author. :upside_down_face:

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I have several bookcases. Two are for read books organized by authors’ last names and one of unread books that is in utter chaos that I can just grab a book from.

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Oh boy. I bet this will be unpopular. I don’t save books. I read them, then pass on to cousins and the books make the rounds amongst family then end up donated. I only have books I am reading, or waiting to read in my home. I have one coffee book on birds that I use to figure out which birds are at my feeders. I have always felt books should be shared.

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Though I have donated most of my books the ones I have remaining are by genre. Religion/spiritual, mystery, history/politics, travel/world info, Psychological thrillers, books that have just touched my heart. I have a tub downstairs marked “to be read“:+1::hugs::books:

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I organize into 2 large groups: thrillers/mystery/suspense and non. Then in alphabetical order by author. Main shelves are replenished from other TBR shelves. I do not keep many read books. I usually recycle at a used bookstore or donate to library. I do keep just a few that are special to me.

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I change my shelves constantly! It calms my anxiety to just sit and organize my books. I only have TBR books because I sell/give away my read novels and organize them by “want to read first” or by genre.

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I organize my books as read and unread. I do try to only keep books that I love or enjoyed enough to want to reread and donate the books that didn’t appeal to me as much. Somehow I still have loads of books. And then all of my read books are organized by genre so I can find them more easily.

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I am way too Type A to organize my shelves in any way other than alphabetical by author’s last name :laughing:

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Alphabetical by the last name of the author

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If it’s a semi large series it gets its own shelf. Other than that generally by binding and size.

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I organize by author and by genre. Stay safe everyone! :heart_eyes:

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I love this tub idea for TBR’s! Thank you so much! This is really going to help me keep my ARCs organized!

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This is beautiful<3 I absolutely love this.

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Glad you like the tub idea.

It is one of those old wash tubs, and we painted it. :blush:

Have fun.

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