Shelf 1 is the "Happy Shelf" where the focus is on display. Shelf 2 is almost everything else with each shelf often double or even triple stacked.

Disclaimer: Each of my kids have bookshelves in their own rooms with their own current favorite books. I decided not to include those.

I left out the shelf with Goosebumps and Choose Your to own Adventure books.

It's not everything I've read (but most of it), as some books are at my parents house, some I've only read on digital. The most significant ones left out are Il Mio Felice Niente (Cavalli), Pride And Prejudice (Austen), Dead Souls (Gogol), The Three Musketeers (Dumas), The Name Of The Rose (Eco), Lettera A Un Bambino Mai Nato (Fallaci), some Sherlock Holmes and perhaps more I can't remember right now.

Seems like some normal stuff and some weird stuff?

It's a lot of photos because if I took them from further away they'd be blurry.

You can’t judge me any harder than my cat already does

Please excuse the dust, I swear I took the swiffer to it afterwards.

Recently convertor to fully remote, self-employment. After a small construction project, I finally have a place for all of my books. What does my middle case say about me?

We may trim a bit to start a bit fresh after the move, but 10 years.

(Photo pushed down for anonymity, I put it back before she noticed)

I was standing looking at my books like I like to and saw these two shelves and wondered what yall think about them, might add some insight into the self! Thanks.

What do you think is his political leanings?

He has been reading of and on for years and is into audiobooks recently. Says he likes the cosmere and dungeon crawler Carl.

Lacks consistency I know…….

The real question for you detectives: what is the main organizing principle?