Bookshelf reorganisation! // different ways to do it

Hey everyone! How are you? I hope you’re good. Yesterday, I reorganised my bookshelves. I do that from time to time to spice things up. I don’t want to get bored with the look of them. I tried a few different ways of organising, but ultimately decided on one. Let me show you!

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BEFORE

To give you an idea, I started with a shelf for my favourite books (bottom right) . The rest of my books were organised by colour in rainbow order.

 

* I’m sorry for the quality of some of these photos. Both the lighting and my phone were working against me and I just wanted to get on with it. *

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ALPHABETICALLY BY AUTHOR

The first thing I tried was alphabetically by author. I wanted to give something that wasn’t by colour a go and this was the first thing I could think of. In the end I thought it looked quite messy. If you didn’t know, you wouldn’t think it was organised. I did like the look of the shelf with the llama, but that was it. I thus tried something else.

 

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BY GENRE

After that, I divided my books into piles based on their genre. I thought it would be a fun idea. Based on the look of the piles though, I had a feeling I would find it too messy again. I decided not to bother putting them on my shelves and moved on to the next idea.

If you’re curious to know what each pile is, let me give you an overview.

Starting at the top, then going left and down to the pile with A Monster Calls, continuing to the right, and then the bottom row starting from the left again:

• classics
• reality with some fantastical / sci-fi elements
• non-fiction
• historical fiction
• mystery / thrillers
• fantasy (3 piles)
• contemporary (2 piles)
• dystopian
• sci-fi (2 piles)

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BY RATING

Then I pondered over what it would look like if I organised by rating. I quickly realised I read a lot of these books quite some time ago, though. I would probably give them a different rating now, so where do I put them?

On to the next idea!

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BY HEIGHT

Then I thought of going back to organising by height. That’s how I used to have my shelves, before the rainbow. However I came to the conclusion I have to many books with a different height to make it look pretty.

• Dutch paperbacks (already a bunch of different sizes)
• Dutch hardcovers
• UK paperbacks
• UK hardcovers
• US paperbacks
• US hardcovers
• graphic novels
• etc…

They just don’t make books the same sizes! Again, I knew it would be too messy for my liking. And thus…

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THE RETURN OF THE RAINBOW

I decided to go back to organising by colour. I just love the way it looks! I mixed all my books together and started the rainbow in a different place. So in my defense, it does look different!

And that’s the end result!

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What do you think of my shelves? Would you have chosen something else in the end? 

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