How you organize your books collection?

I'm probably not of much help as I have a small library at home. Dark green walls, wooden bookshelves, an antique writing desk (bought at a flea market), the whole nine yards. I have more bookshelves than I have closets.

The library is the limit, though, whatever does not fit in there I give away, so I go through my books every 2-3 years and decide what to keep and what not to keep. Lately I've been buying mostly Kindle books, though.

I donate the books that I don't read anymore to charity so someone else could enjoy them.

Bookcase comes to mind. My books are on a bookcase tucked away in a corner of my dining room and are arranged in alphabetical order by the last name of the author.

Books relevant to my work and roughly 12 dual language dictionaries ranging from Turkish/Kurdish to Spanish/German and, of course, Merriam-Webster and OED are on a bookshelf in my office.

Then, in pride of place in my living room I have another bookcase with my treasured possessions. The Bible of the World (includes Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Christian and Muslim extracts), my father's missal, the Bible, Shakespeare's plays, a couple of Kipling's books, most of Beatrix Potter's books and a selection of world atlases.

Funny, as anal as I am about my CDs, my books are kinda all over the place. I try to keep those by the same author together but don't try all that hard.

they are kind of all over the house on several book cases. i tend to put certain authors or subjects in certain locations, but for a lot of it the primary concern is size.

Bookcases, man. I have several, including an entire wall bookcase in the office. They're not well organized. Half of them are 'organized' by color, the other half-- I'm the only one who can find anything.

To coin a phrase - books do furnish a room. I have all my books prominently displayed on bookshelves. All other furnishing is subsidiary to this.

As for how I classify my books - I separate fiction from non-fiction, with the exception that my Penguin Classics get a section to themselves. Fiction is grouped by author, and in order of publication within that author. The way that authors are assigned shelf-space is mostly decided by gut feel. Non-fiction is divided into three categories: history (by far the largest), science and the rest. History books are filed in chronological order of the periods they relate to.

The vast majority of my books are paperbacks, by the way. As well as being cheaper, I actually prefer them to hardbacks.

Mind you, all too many books end up on the floor, on in a piles on my writing desk or my bedside table.

i just store them in a plastic storage box, no special organization.