/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.938622]

Help me /lit/ you're my only hope.

I need to organize my personal library, this is all the space I have and as you can clearly see it's not the best. It's a bitch to organize, so I need some suggestions. Basically my entire system is fucked, I've got halfway through series, books, and authors etc and just left them. Now I need some way to make a reasonable system out of this clusterfuck. Posts of all my books follow.

[Anonymous No.938630]

The pile on the left are all random non-fiction, autobiographies, a few encyclopedia's, old schoolbooks, travel guides, art books, video game guides etc. Not really what I'd call lit but they're books nontheless, they don't really need organising they can just be stuck in their own little corner.
At the top right the piless are:
Chris Ryan (YA books)
Anthony Horowitz (Again YA)
The Wizards Apprentice series (Kids books, but major nostalgia value for me)
Warhammer 40k (Fire warrior and Nightbringer)
Lian Hearn

Those books laid out are:
The Assassin (White)
The Genius (Red)
Dexter omnibus (First three books)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

[Anonymous No.938637]

The piles here (moving from Lian Hearn, the tallest pile and going towards the right)
Sherlock Holmes
Chuck Palahniuk
Trashy Horror I never read as a child
The Hobbit and LOTR

Laid out are:
The Road (Cormac McCarthy) (I heard 'The Road' discussed on /lit/ a few times and picked it up, not sure if it's the right author though)
A Simple Plan
American Psycho
Frankenstein
Ender's game
Casino Royale
Less Than Zero
The Coma
House of Leaves
Wide Sargasso Sea
Pride and Prejudice
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
Death of a salesman

[Stagolee !0Pey/QLK3E No.938644]

>one suit

[Anonymous No.938657]

Right now I'm not sure whether to organize by Genre or by author, and where to stick 'in use' books so to speak.

I was thinking of throwing all my non-fiction into that shelf above the wardrobe, but I'm not sure it will all fit. I hate mixing categories, but with the space available it looks inevitable. I wouldn't feel right sticking it with the pulp crap I'm never going to read again. And I wouldn't feel good sticking it with anything good either.

Also, should I stack vertically or just horizontally. I don't have enough room for two rows horizontal, but vertical just seems like a chore to browse.

Any suggestions /lit/?

[Anonymous No.938664]

>>938644

> My face when he thinks I only have one wardrobe.

[Anonymous No.938683]

>>938630
What's YA?

[Anonymous No.938694]

>>938683

Young adult books, basically shit that's not good enough to be called a real book.

[Anonymous No.938699]

>>938694
Oh. Why would one have that in their "library" then? Unless one was like twelve or something.

[Anonymous No.938718]

>>938699

This was my reaction to the thought of throwing away a book. Also, as mentioned for the kids books, they have major nostalgia value. I like looking at them and thinking that at one point they were deeply engaging to my mind. You know, keeps things in perspective so I don't end up acting like an e/lit/ist.

I might throw away those trashy horror books though. Those were a gift. And suck. Even when I was a kid I knew they sucked.

[Anonymous No.938730]

>>938718
>I like looking at them and thinking that at one point they were deeply engaging to my mind.
Then you were a really fucking stupid kid, I don't remember ever reading children's books of any sort because they were utter shite.

[Anonymous No.938747]

>>938730

My apologies for not coming out of the womb clutching a copy of Lolita. We all started somewhere.

[Arcueid Brunestud !ARCIkc4cG6 No.938766]

>>938747

That's what you get for asking hipsters to help you out with your books.

[Anonymous No.938789]

You needed to start an entire thread to ask strangers to help you organize your own book collection?

What the fuck is the world coming to?

Do what I do: don't organize them at all.

[Anonymous No.938807]

>>938789

You don't organize your books at all, and YOU ask what the worlds coming to?

[Arcueid Brunestud !ARCIkc4cG6 No.938823]

>>938789

>Do what I do: don't organize them at all.

When you have three books total, this is easy to do.

When you have fifty or more, you start trying to organize them, so that you don't have to fish through a huge stack of books.

But no one on /lit/ really reads anyway so yeah.

[Anonymous No.938839]

>>938823

>herp derp I read moar den u i have fifty books

lol

>>938730

You're a cunt.

[Anonymous No.938868]

Just toss them in. One of the great pleasures of a home library is searching for a particular book and browsing through the rest you own, some of which you'll have completely forgotten about, and rediscovered.

[onionring !Rrxa7zePwI No.938871]

i just throw all the old books into boxes and stash them under me bed.

[Arcueid Brunestud !ARCIkc4cG6 No.938880]

>>938871

nnnnnnooooooooooo

[Anonymous No.938903]

>>938868

If I had better space I would, but as it is they end up three rows behind each other so I have to completely remove the first row to even glance at the back row, then shit ends up laying across the top of the rows and shit just turns ugly fast.

[Anonymous No.938912]

>>938747
>implying Lolita isn't entry level bullshit

[Anonymous No.938928]

>>938622
Do what Amir (The Kite Runner) does. Just keep them organized in the space you have, and put additional books in cardboard boxes.

[Anonymous No.938930]

>>938912
>>938912

> Implying hipsters go above entry level.

[Anonymous No.939122]

OP here, eventually organized everything in a series/same author at the backs of the boxes sticking stickie-notes above them with the author or series name, then put general shit on the front rows.

So yeah, sage away.

[Anonymous No.939265]

Organized by color... cause it's fucking logical.

[Arcueid Brunestud !ARCIkc4cG6 No.939282]

>>939265

Genre and title, much?

[Anonymous No.939307]

>>939282
Much to much.