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This post is showing you the top 10 bookshelf organization ideas that will make you want to re-organize your bookshelves!
Presenting your books is one of the best things about owning so many books. There’s nothing better than walking into your room and seeing your precious books so beautifully displayed 😍.
Why You SHOULD (Re-)Organize Your Bookshelf!
Switching up and organizing your bookshelf in different ways refreshes your TBR and makes you want to read those books instead of buying more.
Not only this but re-organizing your bookshelves reflects you! It helps you sort out the books you want and don’t want. Ultimately, making your bookshelves more you!
Use your bookshelves to showcase your favourites but also make your shelves functional for you!
Bookshelf Organization Ideas
The great thing about these bookshelf organization ideas is that you can bundle them up. For example, I combine genre and author and it organizes my books extremely well!
1. Author
A very popular idea is to arrange your books via author! You can do this by favourite authors like I do or the author you own the most books of!
2. Alphabetical Author
Another choice, which most library’s do, is to organize your books alphabetically by author! This is possibly the smartest choice and if you have loads of books it’ll be very easy to find a book you are looking for.
3. Colour
Rainbow bookshelves are honestly the most aesthetic to look at! However doing this means you have to have really colourful books (and books in a range of colours!) Also, doing this will mean your book series are broken up.
4. Genre
I arrange mine via genre and author. Arranging by genre makes the most sense to me because they are grouped together in a category, which can bundle up the series and author within it.
5. Favourites
I LOVE this idea. it’s so cool and makes your shelves extra personal. Essentially you would have favourite shelves, favourite genres… anything you want.
6. Favourite Series
Put your favourite series on display! Just like the favourites idea, you can show your love of your most beloved book series!
7. Read and Have not Read
This is such a cool, interesting and probably destructive idea for a lot of people who hoard books 😂. If you have bunch of books on your shelves you have not yet read this is a great idea to help you read them! The more you see the group of unread books, the more you’ll want to get rid of them by reading them!
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8. Publication Year
Now I thought of this idea and thought it was so cool! To think you could have so many books on your shelves written a hundred or so years a go, but also a book that was written this year is insane! I guess it would be so cool to physically see the dates your books were published, especially if you’re interested in reading older literature!
9. Height
If you hate mismatched heights, like I do, this is for you! Have all of your bigger books on one shelf, or on side of the shelf depending on how you are organising your books.
Have books in a series of different sizes? Lay the bigger ones down and have the smaller ones stood on stop!
10. Paperback and Hardback
Keep your paperback and hardback grouped together. This is much more appeasing to the eye and overall I recommend this no matter how you organise your bookshelves!
That is 10 brilliant bookshelf organization ideas every reader should try.
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