Hi and welcome back to Our Hobbies, Our Shelves, the new A+ series featuring tours of our home libraries.

Riese and Carmen provided very cool spreadsheets for their respective book tours, but I’m not going to do that! Sorry! But listen, I’m actually working on a very cool top secret (for now) project that involves spreadsheets and books, and whew, if I have to make another books spreadsheets, I might die???? I also already did a deep-dive on my home’s bookshelves earlier this year for Meg’s excellent Spaces & Places series. In case you missed that essay, the gist is: Dating a librarian rules and also the best system for organizing books is whatever the fuck makes the most sense to YOU.

Now, since I already did that first look at m...