Today I organized our 11 bookcases. Because they are spread throughout the house, and because they were mostly full of chaotic juxtapositions, it took pretty much all day -- about seven hours not including the break for lunch. But things are now finally organized into genres for the first time since... well... ever, really.
Our categories are:
Upstairs hall
- Poetry
- Plays
- Memoir
Office
- Books about Writing
- Books about Teaching
- Crafts & How To
- Special Topics (for me this is T. S. Eliot, John Keats, and Virginia Woolf, for him this is Kansas and geography books)
- Maps
Downstairs built-ins:
- History
- American Lit
- British Lit
- World Lit
- Dictionaries & Reference
- Language books
- Literary Theory / Philosophy / Psychology
- Travel Guides / Travel Writing
- Atlases
- Music books
- Interesting Nonfiction that does not go into another category
Living room:
- Piano music
- Oversize Books (mostly history)
- Architecture & renovation books
- Home & garden maintenance books
Kitchen
- Cookbooks
- Telephone books
- Recipe notebooks
Upstairs guest room #1
- Humor
Upstairs guest room #2
- Children's/YA
- Animal books
- Fluff fiction (good enough to keep, not good enough to go in any of the "Lit" sections)
- Valuable/Rare Books
- History sets + additional History
Landing:
- Religion / Theology
- Puzzles / Games
Our room:
- What we're currently reading
- What we are looking forward to reading
- What we just finished reading
- Personal favorites
They're all organized by which part of the house we think we'll use them most in. My next goal is to have them all loaded onto my page at LibraryThing at some point soon.
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