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.
My main shelf has most of my books in it with some partitions for English books (most books from my childhood and teens are German), favourites, books in other languages, and nonfiction (divided into psychology, art, and politics).
I also have separate shelves for poetry, my TBR pile, and a random board on the wall on which I’ve arranged some older books by colour to look like a rainbow, just for the aesthetics. If you have a small enough room, you’ll always find your books either way.