Right now, I have mine separated by genre but not alphabetized in any way. Instead, they are arranged according to height and width and how they appeal visually to the eye. Heavier books like my thesaurus and rhyming dictionary (yes, I own a rhyming dictionary, my poetry major is showing yet again
) are on the bottom with Harry Potter and some psychology books, the next shelf up is for poetry anthologies and then smaller collections of poetry from single authors, then a stuffed hedgehog and the LSAT study guides (I thought, for a short while, of applying to law school), and the third shelf is for fiction from older eras that I've already read for class or for pleasure with a stuffed monkey on top, the next level up is for my favorite sci-fi books and books I have yet to read. The top shelf, at the moment, has a box full of my late great-grandmother's recipes, a prayer book that I saved from being discarded from my synagogue, a picture of my great-grandmother, grandmother, mother and me (4 generations of women, I call it), and Russian nesting dolls with a Little Red Riding Hood theme.All around these books are little green army men, a set of Winnie the Pooh toys my boyfriend bought me, and pictures of me and my boyfriend and me and my best friend. With my new book acquisitions, however, I'm going to have to move some things around and possibly sacrifice some cute weirdness for more space for books.
Another question I could then pose to you, in addition to how you arrange your own bookshelves, how do you think I should rearrange mine? Any suggestions?
