Curious to hear… how do you all sort your physical bookshelves?

I used to swear I’d only ever do author last name but as I’ve gotten into reading and collecting more, I now have them in their genres with my favourites more visible and the rest are sorted by “vibes” (like dragons, witches, werewolves etc) and then alphabetically by author. (YA gets sorted into the relevant genres like fantasy YA goes with fantasy instead of separating YA out.)

My only hard rule is an author’s books can’t be separated even if they write different genres. An authors books must stay together.

The size differences annoy me too so sometimes I separate within the vibes the hardcovers and paperbacks and then do them alphabetically in those sections.

Right now, I’m squeezing stuff in where it can fit so it’s not perfectly organized by vibes but we’ll see what happens as I get more space!

(I know sharing images on here is a lot of work but if you are up to it, shelfies welcome!)