How I Organise My Bookshelf

I reorganise my bookshelf probably every time I get a couple new books and the struggle is real
because if my bookshelf doesn't look perfect to me, I will get annoyed every time I look at it. After I am 100% happy with the way my shelves look, I post some shelfies on Tumblr and always get the same question: please tell me how you organise your bookshel and make it look so pretty. Today I will.

Question Of The Day:

How do you like to organise your bookshelf?

I am really OCD when it comes to organising my bookshelf, because like I already explained, I will get really annoyed when it's not neat and organised in my head.

The biggest struggle is that I want everything together: the same heights, the same series, the same authors, the same colours. This is why I organise my bookshelf so often, I can't just put my new book somewhere at the bottom, no my precious new book needs a pretty place on my shelf, which usually means moving other books around, which means moving even more books around. Usually I end up taking all my books from my shelf and redoing the entire thing. Like I said: I'm really OCD when it comes to my books.



So how do I manage to keep my shelves so neat? 
» The first thing I do is have the same authors together, no matter what. Sometimes I look at people their bookshelfs and books by the same authors together and I can't stand it. Now I'm not trying to say there is anything wrong with that, it's just my opinion, please don't feel offended.

» The books authors release are often the same size, which is very, very pleasing, because having the same sizes together is the next thing I want. Now if you look at the picture, I don't always succeed in that. The thing is with the sizes. I want the biggest books in the middle of my shelf and than lower and lower. Does that make sense? Just look at the picture :')

» The next thing I try to do is have colours that match together on the same shelves. On my upper shelf it's all blue/black and white. My second shelf is all mostly black/dark coloured books. This is why it highly annoys me when books like Divergent or A Song Of Ice And Fire have every colour of the rainbow, I think it's so ugly, ugh...

» As you might have already seen: I put all my favorite covers and/or books to the front. This leaves less room on my shelf, but it does look very beautiful. This is just something you like or not.

» I also try to lay some books down to make my shelves look cool, like I did with my UK editions of Throne Of Glass. I think this looks really nice.

 Some things that highly annoy me

Now again, I do not mean to offend anyone, if your shelf looks like this, that's great for you, it just annoys me in some way. But hey, if everybody liked the same the world would be miserably boring right?

Rainbow Shelves. The reason why I dislike rainbow shelves so much, is because all different heights are usually next to each other and this would drive me insane. It looks so incredibly messy to me and in my OCD brain, that really does not work out well. Though I do think the colours often look really pretty together and I have actually seen some rainbow shelves that look really pretty. Most of the times, this isn't the case. Different editions. Now I know this is something EVERY bookworm hates. Owning different editions of books. I have this problem with my Shatter Me, Divergent and Raven Cycle books. Take my Shatter Me books for example. I have Shatter Me, Unravel Me and Unite Me in the usual paperbacks, but Ignite Me is an International Edition, which means it's taller. Same goed for my Divergent novels. Divergent is an other edition that Insurgent and Allegiant and I have Four in hardcover *cries*