This post is a response to The Guardian’s poll on home library. Most of the readers (37%) organised their home library according to genre. This is followed closely with ‘alphabetically by author’ (18%) and ‘totally random’ (14%). Check out photo contributions from the readers to The Guardian. My favourite is definitely ‘Literary Spectrum’ (the one featured in the article) because I have never seen a personal collection of books that are arranged by colour.
I organise my books according to genre. However nowadays my books tend to be randomly placed due to the lack of shelf space. I have a L-shaped built-in bookshelf. If you look at my ‘shelfies’ (below), the books that are lying horizontally are newer than those that are standing.
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- From left to right: Classics, general fiction, romance
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- From left to right: Suspense, Young Adult, Fantasy, Travel & Language.
How do you arrange your collection of books? Cast your vote in the poll below.
SS Readers Corner 
I haven’t seen many L-shaped bookshelves around. I think your shelves are very cool. The Literary Spectrum is beautiful!
Thanks. I love your blog because it gives me so many ideas for my own blog. 🙂
Aw thank you! That just made my day a million times better! 🙂