Divide your hardbacks and paperbacks for a cleaner and more streamlined look on your bookshelves. It is also helpful if you're a visual person.

If you're a reader who tends to associate certain stories with their covers, stack your books by colours, try an ombré pattern, or opt for a rainbow look.

Organising by genre and subject makes it easy to find the right book you find interesting.

Group together your mysteries, travel memoirs, 18-century English literature novels, cookbooks, etc.

The alphabetical organisation is ideal if your collection of books is so huge it’s essentially a mini library.

It works well if you remember book titles and author names more than genres and plot points.

Gather all the books you haven’t read yet and place them in their own particular To Be Read section, so they don’t get lost among the other titles.

Organising your books by contemporary or classic is useful if you have a diverse collection of old and new books.

You can define contemporary and classic as you desire, for example, living and deceased authors, books written before and after a certain date, or books published in specific pe...

Bookstores around the world use this method because it is simple, effective and classic.

Group non-fiction books together and keep the other books in another spot.