I used to follow some booktubers who loved to revamp their bookshelves based on color, title, author, genre, or alphabetical order. The real debate here is: what’s your preference - neat and thoroughly organized or delightfully chaotic?
For me, the color or alphabet sorting feels like a headache waiting to happen. Instead, I prefer to sort my books by author and series, if applicable. It’s a system that just clicks with me.
What about you? Share your bookshelf organizing style, your reasons behind it, and any tips you’ve picked up along the way.
at my last apartment I did it by color, but could never find anything haha. At my new apartment, it’s by genre! That’s been SUPER useful. I’ve got my sci fi, russian lit, biographical, horror, mystery, short stories, social/cultural commentary & criticism, plays, fantasy, poetry, books about writing, language learning books, and about a million shelves for nongenre fiction (which is probably the least useful part, considering alphabatizing lol)