I made a terrible life decision…

[Morrus]

I wasn’t an avid collector of TSR/D&D fiction but I did enjoy Dragonlance and the Menzoberranzan trilogy as a kid.

This has ended up being a D&D fiction and Tolkien section (just because Tolkien fitted into that space).

I have a ton of other fantasy fiction to work through too, of course. And a lot of sci-fi fiction. I have my work cut out for me!

Oh, and I don’t realise I’d managed a mini collection of history books too! Not really my thing so just a handful over the decades.

 

[timbannock]

It becomes a lot easier if you move into a coffin-sized apartment in LA. I had to dump 95% of my collection.

That said, I'd still organize it the same way whether it's the 30-40 books I have now or the many hundreds I used to own:

• By game
• Core rules on the right (as I'm right-handed)
• Rules supplements to the left of that
• Settings/adventures to the left of that
• "Tools" at the end (GM screens, etc.)

I tend to keep games relatively close together by genre, too, so my fantasy stuff is all next to one another, my sci-fi next to one another...but that's not a hard and fast rule. For example, all my *Borg games are in one place, and those obviously span a wide gamut of genres. It's simply because they are all the same size, so it's how they fit on the shelf that matters there (my book shelf -- yes, singular! -- has varying shelf heights).