Hey!
So as booklovers, something that is obviously very important to us is our beloved bookshelves.
I've met some people who sort their bookshelves by colour, some by genre, some by favourite authors, the list goes on!! I thought it my be interesting for me to share how I personally like to organise my bookshelves.
With over 400 books, it can be super difficult and time-consuming trying to organise them in a particular way, especially when I'm always coming home with new books to add to the shelves! Also, during the year while I'm at uni I live at a college, so will always take a bunch of books from my shelves at home with me for the year. Because of this, lately my shelves have been pretty all over the place!
I have three bookshelves at home, which are semi-organised by genre and favourite authors. So the majority of my fantasy series, which are generally my favourite books, are all together on one shelf, among a few stand-alone contemporary favourites. On another shelf I've tried to collect all of my classics together, although there is also a small section taken up by childhood books that I've kept for the memories!And on the final shelf is all of the left-overs! This by no means is for the books I don't like as much, some of them happen to be my favourites too, but as there is a little extra room on this shelf it is usually where my newly bought books go.
Like many other book bloggers and booktubers, I also like to have a little section for my TBR books. I don't tend to stick to a very rigid TBR pile, but I do always have a small collection of books I'm super excited for and in the mood to read, so these sit on top of one of my shorter bookshelves.
And finally, at college I have a bunch of my favourite books to make it feel like home, plus the new books I've bought recently and am super excited to read! There is also a few classics I've had at home for a while that I brought with me, as I'm trying to get through more of my abundance of classics!! I may do a blog post later on of all of the books that I've brought with me to college.
Please let me know in the comments how you organise your bookshelves, or if they're a bit higgeldy piggedly like mine!!
Love always,
Ari
Oh wow! 400 books?! That is absolutely amazing. I honestly envy you. I wish I had that many (unfortunately they cost so much that I haven't been able to buy any for awhile but when I get a job I plan on doing so). I think I'd most likely be a lot like you if I had that many. I'd definitely line up my top favorites. Or maybe the rainbow theme is wicked. There's so many ways you could organise it!
ReplyDeleteHaha I know, it's crazy! The vast majority of them come from op shops and garage sales at like $1 each but I definitely get a bit over excited!! Yeah the rainbow theme would be so cool hey! xx
DeleteI also tend to mix up the way I organize books every once in awhile. Like you, I have a TBR shelf. My main problem is that I absolutely can not split up authors so that kind of limits me organizing by color or genre, haha. Nice post!
ReplyDeleteI agree with the splitting up authors, I could never do the colour theme because of that. Like, what if you had to split up a series?? Thank you so much!! xx
Deleteorganising shelves is SO SO HARD AGH. XD I organise mine by colour, because it's honestly my favourite thing in the world to look at colour-coded bookshelves. <3 But I also have a second very small bookshelf where I put my series because I HATE splitting up series! (I wish series all just came with one colour spine, hehe). But omg the struggle of bringing home new books and having to rearrange shelves?! I UNDERSTAND. XD
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That would be so pretty!! Smart to have a separate shelf for series too! xx
DeleteI so wish there's a rhyme and reason to the way my books are shelved. I just rearranged them a couple of weeks ago, but I have no organizational method. Lol. My bookshelves at the cabin are colour coordinated, though. :)
ReplyDeleteHaha I understand that entirely! Oooh that must be so lovely to look at! xx
DeleteI love when people organize their shelves by color, but I could never do that.... I mean, you'd have to split up series right?!?!?! Anyway, I have my shelves a lot like yours. Series together, childhood favs together, a row of contemporaries, a row of fantasy, I also have a row of books I brought home from BEA. I haven't decided how to separate those yet. It's always nice to hear how people organize books... thanks for sharing :)
ReplyDeleteThank you!! I know, I could NEVER split up series! Even though it looks amazing. xx
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