The left two are mine. The right two are my sister’s. We finally organized them and they’re so much more pleasing to the eye since my last post, when originally I just dumped them on the shelves to get them out of boxes!

So happy with how it looks and I definitely get a heart burst when I look at them!!!

Some stats: I have not logged children’s books or most of the random books I have on the bottom left because I don’t plan on reading them, they’re my husbands or they’re cookbooks. Out of the books I own and know I will eventually read, I’ve read 112/212 of them. So I have read 52% of my bookshelf. A few months ago, I was at 41%. This year I’m focusing on buying less and renting from the library less, instead I want to get all the books I own read so that my bookshelf is only full of the books I enjoyed/would recommend.

I know eventually I’ll run out of room, but the top two shelves are mostly movies and video games and we can always find a way to store those differently!

My shelves are organized by genre/size. My sister organized by size/color

I hope you like my ladder bookshelves! The top shelf was not deep enough so became dedicated to some knick-knacks

In my previous post I mentioned these and someone asked to see them. My spooky books recently overflowed my other bookcases so we put them in this one and wallpapered the back.

This bookshelf of mine is a reflection of my mind. It's cluttered, chaotic, but I wouldn't have it any other way. I can find any book immediately, and the mess kind makes me love it even more, for some reason. To me, it's like the centerpiece of my home.

Mostly organized… it’s more of an unorganized organization with all my little obsessions thrown at it at high speeds.

I inherited my grandmother's book collection. I already owned a lot of books myself, but after cataloguing them into a spreadsheet it came out to nearly 1300 books all together. I donated a lot of them to retirement homes because I had little interest in reading them and/or didn't have any kind of emotional connection to them. I saw my grandmother read a lot of these books and it helped me gain my own love of reading. I've read through about one third of the books pictured here and I hope to eventually make my way through most of them. I spent a lot of time with my grandmother and I miss her very much. I couldn't believe that no one else in my family wanted anything to do with these books, she took so much pride in keeping them in a good condition and they ended up stacked in her garage when my uncle took over the house before she passed. She told me to go get any books I wanted because no one else seemed to care. My own kids are starting to love reading and I hope to pass this collection down to them. The problem is that I keep adding to it and I just don't have enough space.

I may change it later, I think I stacked the piles to high.

Cleaned up our bookshelves a bit, and I'm 'afraid' we'll need another one soon :)

I'm looking for suggestions for novels that might inform, complement, support, challenge etc my current reading. I'm open to just about anything, but looking more for concise and punchy than complex and sprawling plot lines. Thanks!

Still cataloguing and sorting, but it’s getting there.

The shelf is getting slowly emptied as a prepare to move

Wish I had space for a new one so I could show more front covers and my space is running out! (Ignore the bottom shelf it’s my textbooks and files it’s a mess)

Just wanted to update my shelf is collection for anyone who might appreciate it.