BOOKSHELF ORGANISATION // empty shelves, unpacking my books & bookshelf tour

[Music] hey guys it's kira and welcome to another video i hope that you are as excited about today's video as i am because as you might be able to tell from the empty bookshelves behind me today we are going to be doing a bookshelf organization video which i'm just literally buzzing with excitement about although i am kind of daunted you might have seen one of my recent videos which was a bookshelf spring clean where essentially jay and i together took every single book that we earned off of our bookshelves decided which ones to keep which one's the getaway we ended up unhauling over a hundred bucks which is i think very impressive and then we packed all of our books into boxes which i'm just looking at on the floor in front of me and moved house so since we moved house we decided to go for some brand new bookshelves i decided to be a total booktube basic and go for the ikea billy bookshelves because why the hell not and we now have four empty bookshelves ready to be filled with books which just brings me so much joy because if you watched that bookshelf spring clean slash unhaul video you'll know that all of our books including the 100 books that we unhold were literally on one shelf so we were double even triple stacking books in some places and honestly there was just no room for organization of any kind i kind of gave up on trying to organize the books in any way because it was just totally pointless but now i have literally more space than i actually need so we have room to grow and i'm feeling very excited about the prospect of organizing bookshelves and of course i wanted to bring you guys along with me for the journey so without further ado obviously have my cup of tea have my bookshelves and importantly i have a lot of books so let's get to organizing i honestly feel a little bit scared because i feel like emperor palpatine with unlimited power i don't know what to do with my organization but i think the best place to start is literally just by going into a box and seeing what we've got in there so okay ah i'm so nervous i don't know what to do okay i'm just gonna try and like gather books and see if i can come up with some kind of order so let's grab a few okay so already i've got three completely different types of books i have two books by cj tudor which are thrillers i'm gonna put them there i then have the bear and the nightingale which is a fantasy and then girl interrupted which is a memoir so okay moving on what's next okay strange the dreamer i would probably classify as fantasy the storied life of aj fittery is contemporary call me by your name is contemporary the guernsey literary and potato peel pie society that is i don't know what that is i feel like that's historical fiction and clap when you land is contemporary okay the night circus definitely goes in fantasy then we have the catcher in the rye which is a classic house on the strand by daphne du maurier i think i'm going to have a do maurice section but i'll put that in classics for now winter girls is contemporary the song of achilles and cersei are both hmm where would i put these they're obviously retellings but i don't think i have a massive amount of retellings but equally i don't have a massive amount of fantasy and i guess this falls into fantasy because it is greek god-esque so i'm gonna go and pop that one in the fantasy section at least for now okay let's do this the most fun we ever had is contemporary expectation is contemporary and the name of the wind is fantasy submarine that's contemporary mine by emily merrill by this book is also contemporary and the sounds of the girls similarly to cersei and the song of achilles i think i'm gonna go and pop that one ahead in the fantasy section for now okay oh a nice little pride and prejudice um a mansfield park a persuasion and i said pride and prejudice what i meant was jane austen because there actually is not a copy of pride and prejudice but for a moment can we just appreciate these covers they are so so cute definitely my favorite austins i have half of her books in this collection but i absolutely want them all because i just think they're so pretty and of course this is going to go over in my fantasy section did i say fantasy i meant classic but what i'm thinking is that jane austen probably has enough to be her own section but time will tell okay chunky section right we have jodie pico by i literally cannot talk today my sister's keeper by jody pika that is a contemporary sky painted gold that is this is another one i'm like i don't know where to place it because it is beautiful so it definitely deserves attention but it is a historical fiction set in the 1920s and i don't have massive amounts of historical fiction so i'm going to put that one with the guernsey literary and particular field pie society and then see where they fit later on we have another daphne du maurier my cousin rachel and then some more classics handmaid's tale and tess of the derbyvilles okay born to run is a non-fiction so that can go with girl interrupted in memoir okay mrs dalloway by virginia woolf i haven't read this one yet but this is very similar in its internal and external cover design to the beautiful jane austen's and there is a full virginia wolf collection that i would absolutely love to have on my shelves but this is just the first one that i have purchased so i can go over there we also have shooting an elephant by george orwell which is a classic we have a few classics here actually two agatha christie's murder on the orange express and nemesis and then we have short stories by shirley jackson and on the road by jack kerouac boom okay a few more contemporaries now the power actually is a dystopian so can you see the indecision in my eyes right now because honestly where does this belong okay this is going in my i don't know where you go yet okay about a boy by nick comby is a lovely contemporary love that book and then little fires everywhere i've heard mixed things about what genre this belongs in but i'm gonna pop it in the thrillery section so next up we have the tattooist of auschwitz which is another historical fiction but also it's not really fiction it's based on a true story so for now i'm gonna put this one in the memoir section that is told by someone else i feel like it has an air of realism about it because it is based on someone's true life story so i think that fits with memoir okay next up we have this irritatingly tiny copy of the adventures of tom bombadil by tolkien which i'm just going to put to one side like some of the other books and decide what to do with that one later on hmm the beach by alex garland now i haven't read this one i have oh okay on the back it says utopia now from the basis of the film version with leonardo dicaprio i highly recommend watching if you haven't i feel like this is a book that starts off just feeling like a contemporary like travel novel and very quickly descends into the sort of divide between dystopia and utopia and i guess maybe like a thrillery element so i think i'm gonna put this one in the thriller section and i've also decided executively because i have the power the power here i do make myself laugh i'm gonna put the power in that section as well because this is gonna kind of be like my darker reads section so that's that next up we have the beautiful the most beautiful copy of emma ever to exist by jane austen so i'm going to put this one with my other jane austen books to begin with however i also have a new bookshelf downstairs in the living room which i have a vision of being turned into my favorites bookshelf so there's a chance that some of the books that i talk about today may end up being shifted around and moved and some of them may feature on my favorite shelf but for now i'm just going to categorize and see where it takes us you know no pressure here okay next up we have a few classicos we have beautiful little women and heidi the puffin in bloom editions i mean look at these covers i feel like i need to display these more prominently because whilst their spines are really cute the front covers are just exceptional let me see if i can find i know that they have been oh yeah illustration by anna bond anna bond is clearly very talented because i love these so i'm gonna put these just here for now see where we take them okay we have some battered editions of some classics so we have a pride and prejudice another pride and prejudice and a frankenstein by mary shelley so they can go in the classics section next up we have the beginnings of what is gonna be my stephen king shelf and i'm gonna go ahead and dedicate this here shelf to the stephen king collection because i feel it deserves its own shelf i think stephen king may one day be one that needs one of these larger shelves but for now i'm going to see if i can fit my full collection on there so in my stephen king collection so far there are more books somewhere in the boxes we have pet cemetery the shining and salem's lot all have these matching um spines so i'll put them together and then we have a copy of carrie in a really cool like i don't even know how to describe this design but there's a collection of his books that just have like a really bright color design and i think they look super cool so there's carrie and that brings me to my stephen king shelf next what do we have in the box beartown by frederick buckman is a contemporary then we have the choice which is another memoir about the holocaust and so that one can go in my memoir section we have cherry which i believe is a contemporary novel i haven't read it yet and then we have two more classics the snows of kilimanjaro by hemingway and a clockwork orange by anthony burgess so we're making our way through the box we're doing pretty well pretty well okay some romances i think romance is going to get its own shelf but i don't know where that elf is going to be to be quite honest okay so we have two taylor jenkins read after i do and forever interrupted forever interrupted is my favorite taylor jenkins read and not that anyone asked but my friend em from the uh channel a little writer m her favorite is after i do so she actually sent me this copy and they are both incredible because it's taylor jenkins read for crying out loud okay romance can just sit on the top shelf for now and then we have two books by different authors with very similar titles and covers we met in december by rosie curtis and one day in december by jersey silver okay all right we have everything i never told you by celeste ang which is from the same author as little fires everywhere so i'm gonna put this one in the same pile as that one which is my darker reads section next we have the style of sea by erin morgenstern which i just love this cover it's so cute i haven't read this one yet either but this one can go in my fantasy section and so can the first 15 lives of harry august which is i think a book about a guy who dies and then is reborn over and over and over again but i haven't read that one yet either okay next we have some interestingly sized classics and non-classics the first one is a spoonful of poison by agatha raisin which i'll probably put with my agatha christie's and then we have a copy of the catcher in the rye and white sargasso c so those are both little and old penguin versions so i'll find somewhere to group these together in a classic shelf next stephen king to add to the shelves is a doctor sleep so i'm going to shift this around actually the shining can go here then dr sleep although it doesn't have a matching spine can go next to the shining because it is the sequel to the shining okay and another stephen king we have his collection of novellas different seasons which includes the body which is my favorite one of his novellas as well as rita hayworth and the shawshank redemption which is also really really good i'm already thinking that potentially stephen is gonna need another shelf because he just has so many books i mean he has so many books like pile okay things my mother told me i believe is a romance haven't read it yet the perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky is i'm gonna put in contemporary but that would be another one that would be a big contender for my favorite shelf downstairs then we have an island christmas by jenny colgan which definitely fits into the romance category little pieces of you and me which i believe is a romance as well the great gatsby by f scott fitzgerald which is definitely a classic the book thief by marcus suzak which i believe obviously is a horse horoscope fortune faction historical historical fiction however the main character or the narrator rather is death i believe so i feel like it kind of walks that line between historical fiction and fantasy so i think i'm going to put it in this little section here and then the two lives of lydia bird by josie silva is another fabulous romance mistletoe and murder maybe you can go in darker reads section the institute by stephen king is obviously by stephen king and i'm gonna put that one and misery both obviously on the stephen king section i'm gonna put them next to dr sleep because they all have kind of bluey spines which i think looks quite nice okay then we have the course of love by elaine de berton and that one can go in the romance section and then a thousand splendid sons by colored hossini absolutely incredible book could be considered for my favorite shelf but for now i'm going to put this one in contemporary okay we are almost at the end of box number one so hooray okay next up we have four hardbacks first up is eat up by ruby tando which is an incredible memoir that goes on the shelf of memoirs then we have two contemporaries writers and lovers by lily king and such a fun age by kylie reed two books i read at the very end of last year and were both incredible so i can go on my ever increasing in size contemporary shelf and then we have christmas at the island hotel by jenny colgan which is a romance okay so now that i've gone through one box let's do some organizing because otherwise i'm just gonna end up with a horrific amount of piles of books and no organization so i'm thinking as of right now darker books are gonna go underneath stephen king because i think that they're a good match so what do we have on darker books cj tudor's two books which are really great i know there's some more books to go on this shelf we have two books by celeste eng which can go next to one another then we have the power mistletoe murder and the beach probably gonna come back and reorganize these by color after i've seen how many other books to go on these shelves then above stephen king for a lighter touch i may go for romances will i hmm will i yes i will i'm gonna put romances here so jenny colgan can go there in her rightful place and next to that one can go my other jenny colgan christmas at the island hotel and an island christmas then we can have the two jersey silvers which are the two lives of lydia bird and one day in december that we can have we met in december and then just these three books can perch there i'm actually gonna it's really annoying that taylor jenkins reads books are so okay they can just go here okay progress right big gulp okay now contemporary i know is going to need a big shelf so i'm thinking i'm going to move classics down bring them down a notch and contemporaries are going to start to take place on this shelf here so we will start with the hardbacks kylie reed such a fun age and the writers and lovers next up let's go with the perks of being a wallflower mine by emily merrill submarine expectation and the most fun we ever had they belong next to the texas being a wallflower because they're all blue we have a couple of pinky ones another blues by your name definitely need to invest in some bookends okay then we have some yellowy oranges another red another red and a couple more blues okay i'm deciding to leave classics until the very very end because that is probably the largest collection not really sure you can call it a collection as such but it's the largest number of books probably fall into that category so we'll do that last which is obviously me just stalling because i don't want to deal with him well okay next up what do we have we have memoirs which i don't have a huge amount of memoirs but i think they're going to be like a top shelf situation so there for now switch that around okay and then finally we have fantasies crossing into historical fictions so let's go with the very top shelf on the other side of that i'm gonna put the more pure fantasies on the top and then if i need to historical fictions can have their own shells that was very dramatic excuse me books i put you there for a reason okay and i'm now thinking that no no ignore me that's fine okay on to box there's nothing that a good cup of tea can't get you through although this is a very overwhelming task okay i'm opening the second box now obviously this little collection belongs in the fantasy section and this is where i'm running into problems because i've miscategorized okay these three which was the three greek myth retellings are going to be taken off of there and i will recategorize them later on but for now that can sit there and what else can i move i'm thinking lanny taylor and my two erin morgensterns are also going to move to know to what intent yet but i feel they belong elsewhere okay and i know there's another box that belongs with the lord of the rings and by box i mean book the silmarillion which is by tolkien as well um obviously can go with the two three four of the tolkien books and i also have one more on the way in the post which i'm reading for a tolkien read-along so that's fun next up we have a huge version of pride and prejudice which is also a recipe book which i just think is so cute so i'm actually going to put this one to one side because i think that this one would be better served elsewhere rather than on the shelves but i think this one might end up on the favorites just because although i wouldn't say pride and prejudice is my favorite jane austen i do love the fact that this is a recipe book as well and so it's my favorite copy of pride and prejudice someone can go over there but on that very same topic we have another pride and prejudice which can go with all the other jane austen books for now okay next up we have another memoir educated by tara west over which is incredible and that can go up to memoir city with all of the other memoirs and then we have some more contemporaries we went to the woods and normal people two incredible books and these can go in the hardback section of contemporary town oh that's too large too large and in charge okay next we have hmm where do these go the truance by kate weinberg is a dark contemporary and i'm wondering whether i may carve out an extra section for darker contemporaries for now i'm just going to pop it on the contemporary shelf but i do think that i have a particular penchant for dark contemporaries that i think distinguish themselves from the more light-hearted ones so included in that category would also be a little life by hanya yamagahara which again can go in there i don't know whether to really call that a contemporary because it takes place over such a significant amount of years that part of it i guess could be considered a contemporary in other parts more reflective but i guess it does to the intents and purposes of what we're doing today fit into the contemporary category alrighty then next up the immortalist by chloe benjamin it's another one that is kind of like part historical part contemporary because it starts in the 60s but then it goes right through until i mean like the last section takes place in 20 something so it's like goes from a time when you could say it's historical fiction to contemporary and it's definitely a dark contemporary so i'll just pop that one in there for now next up we have the time traveler's wife which i believe kind of falls into maybe the hmm it's definitely it is obviously about time travel but then largely feels contemporary from what i imagine about the book and where have i put this one i think will be very similar to the first 15 lives of harry august and so i'm gonna put them to one side and decide what to do with them later because that is what we do okay next up hot milk by deborah levy i think is a contemporary and then we also have the last tang standing which i think is a romance romance is already looking like it needs more space than i have given it so next up we have crescent city by sarah j maas which is definitely a fantasy can going fantasy city up here and then we have the one that got away by simon wood which is a thriller a large oh i hate it when books are just slightly larger than other books i hate it it's really a pet peeve of mine and then we have the dark descent of elizabeth frankenstein which is another retelling so that one can kind of go with these three greek myth retellings for now we'll see where they end up okay secret history by donna tartt is of course an incredible dark academia so that's gonna go i think i probably need a dark academia shelf so i'm going to start one and that will include donna tart the secret history and also the truance by kate weinberg and i can go here for now next up we have flowers in the attic by virginia andrews which is definitely going to fall into the darker reads section then what else do we have okay we have the memory police by yoko agawa which i feel like could be described as dark academia kind of falling into the dystopian end of the spectrum but it is kind of about what happens when knowledge and power i guess it's probably not like a classic dark academia it's definitely dystopian but i might put it in my dark academia section for now and we'll see what happens who knows next up we have sawkill girls by claire legrand which is a another darker dystopian contemporary kind of cross over so i'm going to put that to one one side for now next up is the confessions of franny langton by sarah collins which is a historical fiction so i'm gonna put that one with my other historical fictions which includes the potato peel pie society and a sky painted gold okay oh a gigantic book muse of nightmares by lanny taylor now where on earth did i put strange the dreamer where are you oh yeah i remember i took that off of the shelf okay that can just sit with strange the dreamer for now and then i have two more taylor jenkins read books we have seven husbands of evelyn hugo and daisy jones and the six so they are obviously gonna go in my romance section but i think romance needs a rejig so we will have daisy jones and the six there in the hardback section and then the seven husbands of evelyn hugo who goes next to it and then we have following that the other two taylor jenkins read and that means that romance has already taken up one shelf so i'm gonna move dark academia down a shelf and then if romance over spills we can just move straight across into this section we've got this okay the gracia by kim legit is a dystopian so i'm gonna put that one here next to the memory police for now and we'll just we'll just see what happens okay george r.r martin fire and blood he's definitely going to need a full shelf or at least like a large portion of a shelf so that's just going to go to one side for now until that time comes next up we have another romance it ends with us by colleen hoover so we're moving into romance shelf numero 2 and then what else do we have okay mexican gothic which i read for the dark academics book club so that one can also go in this section for now until i decide how to place them we have the guest list by lucy foley which will go in my thrillers slash dark read section and then we have the outside of our stephen king which of course goes with the rest of stephen king's masterpieces and stephen king may need a second shelf as well oh lordy okay next up we have two teeny tiny classics this one is animal farm by george orwell and the breakthrough by daphne divorce which we're just gonna go to the misc classic section for now along with two copies of the great gatsby by scott fitzgerald obviously classics all right next two contemporaries with the fire on high by elizabeth acevedo and eleanor elephant is completely fine this one is definitely a favorite of mine so that would along with normal people and perks of being a wallflower end up on my favorite shelf downstairs if that materializes but for now it can just slot in next to perks on my contemporary shelf whilst with the fire on how you can slot next to clock when you land because it's by the same author lovely next up we have two sets of books that are just huge collections we have i can even dislodge it from the base of the book my harry potter collection which i think may share a shelf with my game of thrones collection if they can all fit and then on that topic we have aforementioned game of thrones collection as well so they can just slide over here okay this might be my final stephen king this is my copy of it and if that is the case then all my stephen kings fit nicely on one shelf of four now but i know that they're definitely gonna i know i have more stephen kings i'm lying already i know that there's more there okay little darlings by melanie golding is thriller so i can go in my darker reads section and then we have two contemporaries my favorite two contemporaries the best two books ever written ever in my humble opinion and those are both of sally readings books conversations with friends and normal people which i do have two copies of so they can just slide in actually next to my other copy of normal people because why not those ones would probably be the ones that end up on my favorite shelf downstairs as well for anyone who's interested okay the last section of books from box number two what have we got oryx and crate by margaret atwood which is a dystopian and i'm starting to think that dystopian shelf needs to happen okay we have the outsiders by s e hinton which is a classic we have the hunting party by lucy foley which is a darker read and then we have two more stephen kings which this time i think might be my last two we have a selection of short stories which is the bizarre of bad dreams and then also green mile so that leaves me in a little bit of a pickle about what to do with my stephen king collection because it's not large enough to fill two shelves but it's too big to stay on one shelf so i'm just going to leave those books there for now and like everything else that i don't want to deal with will come right back to it and then my two lucy foley books can just slot right here basically taking that dark wreath section to full and that brings us to the end of box number two so let's move on to box actually that's a lie let's have a look i'm getting ahead of myself what can we do about this so george orwell animal farm is a definite dystopian oryx and craig by margaret atwood is a definite dystopian i know that muhammad's tale is in here and that is undoubtedly a dystopian and then we can categorize the gracia and the memory police both here as dystopians as well so i'm thinking that we start to form a dystopian shelf who's with me okay okay that makes sense but where do i want to put it let's go down here okay and then i'm pretty sure that i'm gonna maybe put like speculative fictions and like fantasies that kind of coincide with reality in this section as well so i'm also going to add in the first 15 lives of harry august and the time traveler's wife into this section along with the two margaret atwoods and my george orwell as well i also have realized that i have shooting an elephant by george orwell which i mentioned somewhere back here okay and that is a selection of short stories based on his experiences so i'm gonna put him up there in the memoir section as well okay and that brings us to the end of box number two i'm gonna leave the rest of my organization until i've got more books to clarify my decisions so let's move on to box three okay at the very top of this box we have some recipe books so just briefly there is a sourdough recipe book a vegan desserts recipe book a vegan on the go recipe book and a feed me vegan recipe book by lucy watson so i'm going to put these to one side because recipe books are not going to be living on the bookshelves anymore and then we're starting to get into what is a gigantic collection of classics so i'm gonna move some things around because i think classics are gonna be in this general area so without further ado let's scoot some books okay classics are going to start to live on this section so the first section of classics that we have is a really big collection of deluxe classics so let's get them out the box starting with emma by jane austen james joyce is a portrait of the artist as a young man and jane eyre by charlotte bronte oh and then frankenstein by mary shelley dracula by brian stoker and we've always lived in the castle by shirley jackson we then have heart of darkness by joseph conrad the haunting repel house by shirley jackson sense of sensibility by jane austen and sherlock holmes a complete collection huckleberry finn by mark twain the master of margarita by mikhail bogakov and great expectations by charles dickens some ones that have previously lived with our deluxe classics but aren't officially deluxe classics are the odyssey by homer and then two copies of watership down by richard adams and then the final deluxe classics are dubliners by james joyce one flew over the cuckoo's nest by ken casey lord of the flies by william goulding storm of steel by ernst younger alice's adventures in wonderland by lewis carroll and wuthering heights by emily bronte okay so this is good news because it means that we do have space to extend this collection which i know will be music to both mine and jay's ears i'm now going to just rearrange these slightly to put matching authors next to each other so at the front we're going to have the both of my jane austen's which are seven sensibility and emma we then have two james joyce's dubliners and the portrait of the artist as a young man so they can sit next to one another we also have two shirley jacksons heart of darkness no that's a lie heart why do i want to say heart the haunting of hill house and we have always lived in the castle and then finally not matching authors but matching surnames we have emily bronte and charlotte bronte with jane eyre and wuthering heights so they can go next to each other as well okay now i'm just going to try and decide like which ones look nice next to each other so okay so that's all of those books we then have this little collection of classics which includes frankenstein the picture of dorian gray and dr jekyll and mr hyde which i'm just gonna put at the beginning of this show for now other than they move at a later date oh my god ghosts okay next we have some non classics so we have the queen's gambit by walter tevis which is so difficult because it feels historical but also like i think at the time it was written it was contemporary so i feel like that goes in the contemporary section i could just go my contemporary shelf for now then we have the family upstairs a recent purchase of mine which was recommended to me by a lovely girl called jess who i sold one of my books to from my last video about bookshelves and then she recommended this book to me so that one would go in darker reads but we are still deciding where that's going to go because it's quite an expansive collection we then have another darker book which is the people in the trees by hanya yamagahara which is contemporary again but also dark so i'm going to put that next to a little life for now thing that's matching authors and then when god was a rabbit is another contemporary that i still need to read next up we have stephen king on writing so another stephen king that i need to rejig and then we have a heart-shaped box by joe hill which is a darker read so i can go there for now we then have two beth o'leary books the switch and the flap share which is so exciting and i cannot wait for her next book to come out literally this month the road trip is coming out and i'm so excited so these are romances so i'm gonna put these here but i'm thinking what i may do in just a moment is do a little bit of a romance shift and have some more difficult romances which would include things like taylor jenkins read um and like colleen hoover that are like romances that touch on darker topics and then more fluffy romances which would include things like beth o'leary so that's where i'm thinking i'm gonna go with that okay okay okay right well next we have the power of now by eckhart tolle which is a self-help kind of spiritual book so i can go in the non-fiction section then we have paperweight by meg haston which is contemporary the bell jar by sylvia plath i think could fall into classic and the mountains echoed by colored hossini can go next to a thousand splendid suns and then we also have two more contemporaries paperweight and the curious incident of the dog in the night time both contemporaries and contemporary already needs another shelf wow okay next up the poppy wall i think would count as fantasy so that can go up there then we have the color purple by alice walker which is obviously a classic they're packed by jodie pico where did johnny pico's other book go that's contemporary we then have station 11 which i understand to be a dystopian so that one will go in my dystopian shelf down here and then we also have the lovely bones by alice sabold which i think where does that go i have other books like this it is a darker read because it's about murder but it's also like really interesting it's more about like personal experience than the murder itself but for now i'm just gonna put that there and then we have another one by donna tartt the gold finch which will obviously go with the secret history wherever the heck i put that secret history where are you where did i put that okay that's that i found it okay that's not in a real a proper section just yet okay next i have the bridgeton series lovely now that will get its own shelf um i'm probably just going to put it down here for now near the romances on its own little section because that definitely deserves this infection definitely is not in the right order though and that's the end of box number three so now i think i'm at a point where i really need to organize and think about what on earth is going on so let's get the box out of the way and think about some organization let's start with the romances because i think i can do something with this section okay so light-hearted romance definitely includes beth o'leary and it definitely includes jenny colgan and then darker romances i think josie silva probably contains more of a like dark theme in her books we have like a couple that meets and then they're separated and then they actually find out that one of them's going out with the other one's best friend and then they know each other for years and all that kind of stuff and then the other one is about someone who loses their partner on their birthday and has to come to terms with that so i feel like they're definitely a bit darker then we have we met in december that can definitely stay in the light-hearted then we have the course of love now that one's recommended people who are fans of sally rooney so i'm gonna put that one in the more like difficult romance section and then i'm going to assume that these other three are just going to go in light-hearted i haven't read them yet so time will tell i suppose what to do next hmm what do we have here genuinely a loss i don't know where to go next shall we look at dystopians no dark academia [Music] okay let's do it do what you ask i don't know organize books perhaps i just don't know what goes where and when and how oh right okay i've made a decision george rr martin can be up here leading on from fantasy which means that game of thrones also goes here so we have game of thrones feast for crows [Music] i think this is these okay and then after that i'm gonna put just the harry potters for now just because they're similarly of a fantasy type genre okay so that's that um the adventures of tom bombadil can just sneak in here for now [Music] okay have i lost my mind you're asking possibly okay classics this is where i'm lost i'm confused i'm thinking will it fit though this is the question will it fit stephen king where do i put you stephen king on writing could rightly live in the memoir category up top but the other stephen king's i think i'm gonna have to just make a second horror section which can then include these other three dark books that can't fit on my darker reads section yeah are we saying yes [Music] but what to do with all of these other books i just can't fully categorize so we're looking at here the muse of nightmares strange the dreamer my dark academias mexican gothic sawkill girls the star of sea i'm just like where do i want to put those where do you come from where do you go what did he come from okay let's make some decisions here i need to make space on the contemporary shelf could it so okay mine by emily merrill can definitely go in the darker romance category call me by your name that could probably go darker romance or just romance i guess the pact is definitely darker romance because it's all about uh murder suicide pact but then i want to keep the two jody pickers together so ignore that writers and lovers that can definitely class as darker romance i think so that can go over here and then the most fun we ever had that could maybe go in darker romance also making room then for these two books here okay [Music] the truance was the dark academia also is about a romance and kind of like an obsessive romance and how it influences a whole year of a girl's life and how everything that she does kind of depends on her connections with these two people who then are also connected with each other so i think that could be counted as dark romance also so that's that keep saying okay as if i've made a decision when we all know that i have not classic something here just gonna run across but are they gonna run across is that the right decision okay change my mind a lot of the rings is going to go on this shelf here because this is the shelf of collections because we have game of thrones harry potter it kind of makes sense to put a lot of the rings on there as well the adventure of tom bombadil i don't think i'm gonna put on my shelves i think i'm gonna do something else with this maybe put it in somewhere else in the house because it's so small and it's kind of irritating to fit on a shelf so there's one decision and that then makes room on the top shelf for a little bit more fantasy which means i can then replace strange the dreamer as well as muse of nightmares on the top shelf here in my fantasy section okay and perhaps on that shelf as well i can then put the stylus c and the night circus i know i took all of those books off the top shelf but i'm now making space and i think that's where they should go so there's a decision i made one i'll wait for your round of applause thank you okay next up we have mexican gothic mexican gothic mexican gothic where do we put you where do you want to go do i continue my darker read section i think that makes sense so from darker reeds then i can pop in mexican gothic i can also put my two donna tarts and possibly also the dark descent of elizabeth frankenstein i think these would all fit in a darker reads section okay we're making progress we love to see it okay i know it's probably a stretch but i think that the confessions of franny langton the guernsey literary and potato peel pie society a sky painted gold cersei the song of achilles and the silence of the girls could all be to some stretch of the imagination classified as historical fiction and therefore i'm going to put them on a historical fiction section kind of towards the bottom just because i don't read much historical fiction so they don't seem to really fit anywhere else and so i'm just going to put them together okay now i think classics moves down a section but why classics can stay where it is okay classics can stay where it is so we have classics here and we're gonna have classics here also okay soft little girls that can go my darker read section because it is a darker read congratulations to me for deciding that okay classics okay let's start jane austen town jane austentown can be here we also have pride and prejudice and we have another two jane austen's they could go there do i have enough jane austen's for them to all just go on the end of this shelf i think i do okay there we go that feels good i support my own decision here i wish someone else was just telling me where to put these books i don't like having this much power but i think it's time to open up the fourth and final box so box number four is largely jay's box but that will mean there's a lot of classics in it as well so i'm just gonna empty them all out and then see where we can put everything basically so without further ado let's move to it okay we have a collection to begin with of patricia highsmith books a lot of british isis books okay there are one two three four five six seven patricia highsmith books these are murder mysteries the count of mr ripley series specifically um and i think there are some other ones as well these might just be oh yeah it says six ripley books of five ripley books and then two other patricia high smiths which is strangers on a train and the cry of the owl so these are gonna stay at the collection where that collection goes is for future me to decide okay then we have a dostoevsky and the iliad so jay has quite a lot of dostoyevsky speaking of the devil we have another dostoyevsky and then we have done quixote i always forget how that's meant to be said but i think it's ksa um so that's that what else oh like his patricia high smith's jails they have a large collection of cormac mccarthy books so we have one two three another patricia hyde smith four corvettes five corvex [Music] six cormax six core max and that can go next to the patricia highsmiths loving it okay next up we have another dostoevsky we have leopard by thomas e d lampedusa which i have never read and then what else do we have lots of books that's what okay dead souls by google another vulgar cub another bulgar curve robinson crusoe by daniel defoe this is part of the penguin english library collection so that will stay together wherever the rest of those books are and then we have lolita which you can go there as well i think this is non-fiction so this can go up here with memoirs and other such books and we have riders of the purple sage by zayn gray don't know anything about that book we have oblong which is one that jay just read and really really liked and then we have more books okay american psycho by brett ethan ellis and then jay's very limited number of contemporaries or historical fictions rather which are fatherland hhh and munich now i'm going to go ahead and put these with my historical fictions because we both have such a limited collection that they can definitely all fit on one shelf next up we have one of our largest most beautiful and most prized collections and that's our russian classics so let's reach in i'm gonna have okay i've been through this collection so many times but essentially we have dr shavalga by boris pasternak life and fate by vasily grossman master of margaritaville bulbakov crime and punishment by floydo dostoevsky war and peace by leo tolstoy and anna karenina by leo tolstoy so that's that and that's gonna just go to one side for now whilst i arrange everything god that's heavy this is definitely a workout alrighty next up we have the rest of the penguin english libraries so this is a collection that we have of one two three four five six seven eight books but it's very extensive there are so many books in this collection we have robinson crusoe the secret agent lady elderly secret north and south far from the madding crowd the christmas carol the call of the wild and the scarlet letter and i do just love how these books look i actually really like how they look stacked sideways so i might kind of do that with them but we shall see what happens okay next up we have dina lent dosh which is a german language learning book and that can go up on the non-fiction section as well another collection of classics that we have is these for rugged and modern classics including two patricia high smiths and two daphne du mauriers there's rebecca jamaica in strangers on a train and the talented mr ripley so that kind of also just hurts there for a moment okay penultimate pile here we have mark twain the adventures of tom sawyer we have to die in spring which is i think about world war one so that could go in historical fiction as can berlin by anthony beaver then we have dostoyevsky we have a boulder cup we have goggle we have patricia high smith which can go with the other patricia high smith those two there okay the final pile okay let's do this [Music] right we have another watership down book this is tails tails from watership down we have the idiot we have empire of the summer moon that is a non-fiction let me go back here we then have brave new world by aldrs huxley which is definitely a dystopian dystopian shelf it's vulgar carve and dickens and that brings us to the bottom oh i did drop two books whoa cold mountain i know jay loves that and then fight club fight club i think contin counts as a darker read so i'm gonna put that there okay now to organize can any more books fit in the darker reads section should i put both of donna tarts they can definitely fit there and i guess both of hanya yanagihara's books are darker wreath that's a little life and the people in the trees and then what else do we think so many decisions you know okay dystopians moving up the shelf i don't need dystopians all count as darker reeds and therefore they can slot in here historical fiction's going down here okay okay all right okay let's do this all right i think that maybe next up i'm gonna move down a little bit and see where life takes us so let's shift things down a gear and get on with it that is getting very cold now disgusting but also kind of want to keep drinking it but welcome to the fourth bookshelf we have left backs back back shelf behind we've left the other bookshelves back behind and we're moving on to the fourth bookshelf which i think kind of makes sense to be classics and mostly jay's stuff because this is kind of going to be the filming space so those are my books and jay's books are going to kind of be over here so let's start with some collections i think beginning with the wonderful russian classics so they can just slot in there and i think that they can be followed very closely by the varago modern classics which very neatly match my copy of the great gatsby which is a gold covered one and i think also this hardback and this softback of watership down they just kind of like go i think so they can kind of slot in here and i think next to them we'll put this lovely selection of penguin english libraries that looks pretty i think do i have one more book i can slot in there just to book it out slightly perhaps perhaps perhaps perhaps we can put them maybe this copy of deep water by tricia smith and then that can just kind of yeah i like that okay next up we're going to move to classics again okay what classics do we have j has a lot of russian classics so i'm gonna try and find ones that have matching spines and just go from there because that makes sense to me okay that's not really a classic that's not really a classic either okay so we have some red spines red spine please be vintage collections another vintage and then we have some oxford on a penguin world classics black spine um this is a black spine that is otherwise maybe that leaves and then these go next to the other daggers and i'll switch it around so we have two daphne du mauriers here there's the house on the strand and my cousin rachel which are by daphne du maurier so i kind of want to put them with the other ones especially because they're from the same publisher so that kind of works like that and then that's another virago modern classic from patricia highsmith so that can go there that finishes that section off nicely so back to finding matching spines okay oh blue spines mix it up slightly and then we have another red spine that's a blue spine but it's tiny so i can go there for now okay red spine blue spine white spine that's not matching anything else red psycho you're gonna go i'm gonna put psycho elsewhere i think we have white and a where do i just put that red one blues are gonna go to the end because there's a tiny bug and then we have some dostoyevsky and other russian classics that have these like yellowy spines oxford that's kind of miscellaneous the capture in the ride that can go elsewhere sc hinton the cold purple the belgian so i'm thinking like i have some gatsby's here two copies of the great gatsby as well as a copy of the catcher in the rye the outsider the bell jar and the color purple and these all to me are modern classics so i'm thinking that maybe oh and also this one by virginia woolf mrs dalloway is another modern classic so those ones are going to go over here on a modern classic shelf okay okay what next i'm thinking i might put these two heidi and little women also in that little modern classic selection i know that they're not modern classics but those modern classics also comprise some of my favorite classics like the great gatsby and the color purple and the outsiders so i'm thinking that these can go in there as well and just slot in nicely in that little section okay now i have two agatha christie's another copy of the catcher in the right and also the wide sargasso sea so i'm gonna put that on that shelf as well with some of my books just for now see what happens later okay next up what do we have here oh god to see and where did the iliad go oh that's over there okay so the odyssey can go here with this miscellaneous book and then these two copies of watership down and the tails from watership down can go here as well in a little miscellaneous section and then i have another copy of frankenstein and also the one from agatha raisin a spoonful of poison and i'm just gonna put them one on that shelf that was my shelf okay moving on one more shelf for jay and we're going to take it down slightly lower and that one is going to be his collection of patricia high smiths and also his collection of comic mccarthy's and then finally two miscellaneous ones which is the riders of the purple sage and cold mountain which i haven't read but i've seen the film and i kind of want to read it so there you go also have i left anything out oh yeah american psycho now i guess that could go on his miscellaneous shelf next to cold man oh my god that was nearly a disaster i think i'm done wow that was fun stressful but fun and what makes me so happy is that we have two of the smaller shelves left empty and then one two three four five of the larger shells left empty so we have like the equivalent of six full large shelves still with no books on them and there's still some space on some of these shelves and it just makes me so happy because i've been so used to the stacking books and the shelves being like full immediately so the fact that we actually have some space to grow our collection just makes me so [Music] happy [Music] so [Music] [Music] so there we have it my bookshelves are full of books and i'm so so happy about it as i'm sure you could sense from the intense levels of stress that i had from trying to decide where to put which books it's been such a long time since i've had the opportunity to organize shelves it felt so alien and yet so exciting and liberating because i can do whatever i want with these shelves i'm very happy with the rough order that i've got these books in and just the fact that i now have a space where i can literally see every book that we own without having to lift out piles of books that are stacked in front of piles of books and in front of other piles of books and i can literally just look at the shelves and find whatever i want i'm sure i'm gonna be like altering the organization and maybe find some little decorative pieces to have on the shelves as well some fairy lights and all of that fun stuff and i think i will also film a bookshelf organization tour that's maybe a little bit more aesthetic once i have finalized the organization of these shelves but for now i hope you enjoyed seeing me unpack all of the shelves and figure out where on earth i wanted to put all of the books and all of that fun stuff because i certainly enjoyed doing it thank you so so much for watching and if you have any recommendations for like a good system for organizing books either by genre by color by category by some other magical system then definitely let me know in a comment down below because i'm very much open to exploring all of the different organization methods that there might be out there because i literally have no clue what i'm doing but i'm gonna have a fun time organizing these shelves and just seeing where they go and where they grow with our literary collection that now actually has space to expand so thank you so so much for watching and i'll see you next time [Music]

Channel: Ciara Foster

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Id: XBC3IH6eez4

Length: 80min 42sec (4842 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 10 2021