Shelving Saturday

Shelving Saturday is hosted by Eastern Sunset Reads

This is a fun  new idea and I've been wanting to do it for weeks, so today I join her. And if you want to join, you can too just head on over to her awesome blog and check it out.

This week's question is how do you decide what genre shelf you put your books on, if you shelve by genre? Do you go by what the book store has it shelved under? Or do you read it and then decide for yourself where the book belongs?

Well, unfortunately I don't have any organization to my book shelves. I really ought to do something about that. Wait I do have one book shelve that is actually, sort of organized and the rest are just a mess.  

 This is my sort of organized shelf. We've got classics on the top the my Jonathan Kellerman collection and some John Grisham...Alright, the second shelf is not organized. Then the third shelf is books on writing and the bottom shelf that's really hard to see is religious books. 

 These are some of my other shelves, and, as you can see, they are just not organized at all, well, unless you consider that at least the series are together. 

So, in answer to the actual question: if I buy a classic, religious, or writing book, I will squeeze put it on my book shelf where it goes. And probably without reading it but those are pretty cut and dried genres. My other books...well they just go where ever, and even if I was organized I'd just take the bookstores word for it. 

So, how about you? Do you just throw your books on the shelf like me, or do you have a nice organized shelving system? And do you trust the stores genre shelving, or do you judge for yourself?