Happy Tuesday! Today is a Freebie day for Top 10 Tuesday. I am going completely random today with fiction chosen from the shelves in my house — as opposed to those on my NetGalley shelf and Kindle. 😉 I organize my shelves in a way that makes sense to me. Fiction is organized by genre and then alphabetically by author. I keep series in order of publication. If it’s Biblical or historical fiction, I organize chronologically and by location (example: European vs American. Old Testament and then New Testament). And then there is my Austen knock-off shelf which contains a variety of genres, but all tie into one of Austen’s novels. That’s alphabetically by author. I even have a shelf for signed books. So if I am in the mood for a mystery, I know which shelf to head to.
Confusing? Probably, but it works for me. At least I don’t divide my mystery into historical or cozy, etc. I’m not that obsessive or am I?
I am.
In the spirit of transparency, the books represented today are on shelves at my primary residence. We have a house in the woods that boasts a very small library. That’s where it really gets tick-y. That’s where the mass market cozy mysteries reside. Likewise, all the Grishams. Then there’s my husband’s western fiction, the American historical fiction/non-fiction that revolve around major events. Think Revolutionary War, Pearl Harbor, etc. I have a shelf for veterinary fiction. Yes that’s a thing. Small town fiction like Jan Karon. A shelf where humorous fiction (P.G. Wodehouse) coexists with short story collections. And last but not least, the shelf with North Georgia authors. Too much? LOL!
Enjoy my random and complicated system!
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Top Random Books from My Shelves
Austen Variations (or knock-offs) — Jane Fairfax by Joan Aiken
Autographed Books — The White Rose Resists by Amanda Barratt
Biblical Fiction/OT — Journey by Angela Hunt
Biblical Fiction/NT — Three from Galilee by Marjorie Holmes
Christmas Fiction — A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg
Classical Fiction — Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Contemporary Fiction (including romance) — Dearest Dorothy, If Not Now, Then When by Charlene Baumbich
Historical Fiction/European — To Love A Viking by Heather Gilbert and Jen Cudmore
Historical Fiction/American — A Flight of Arrows by Lori Benton
Mystery — Suspicious Minds by Christy Barritt
Suspense — Shadow of Doubt by Terri Blackstock
Speculative — The Ishbane Conspiracy by Randy Alcorn
