Bookcases

Amanda Rutter on Tor.com (www.tor.com/blogs/2010/11/beautiful-bookshelves-how-do-you-sort-yours) asked about people's bookshelves and if or how you sort books. Rather than post a bunch of photos there, I'd thought I'd do it here.

My bf and I have a big house, but we combined two full households when we moved in together and there was almost no overlap in our media collections. Book cases are in more than half the rooms, ignoring the bathrooms and laundry room. We had a floor-to-ceiling unit custom built and installed last year which is not quite full yet, but only because I can't reach the top shelves.



Next to it is an older book case that lives behind the LR door and has a mix of SF/F and mystery books. The built-in contains almost all of bf's fiction and nonfiction plus the gardening, house, animal/pets, and cooking books.

In the opposite corner is one of the 2 to-read book cases, plus mystery/horror, loaners, and everything from (free and purchases) WFC2010 in the next case. The WFC2010 books are just above the hat (lower right).



There's a case of travel books in the library, children's/classics/languages/historical in the guest bedroom, and another to-read case in the MBR.

I took over the smallest BR as a book room. Here's a portion of the room:

 

       

There are some triple-deep books in the white shelves and, as you can see, the majority of shelves are double-stacked. Generally, an author's hardcover books are behind the pb versions. The other corner contains graphic novels, art books, manga, japanese language and related books.