 Flashman14  | 04 Jan 2017 11:50 a.m. PST |
Are your historical novels in with the history books of the same period? I.e., War & Peace in with your Chandler and Nosworthy and Napoleonic Ospreys? Red Badge of Courage between Catton and Foote? Hornblower and Aubrey/Maturin novels in with your History of the British Navy? You get the idea. |
| teboj17 | 04 Jan 2017 12:08 p.m. PST |
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John Leahy  | 04 Jan 2017 12:15 p.m. PST |
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| The Beast Rampant | 04 Jan 2017 12:46 p.m. PST |
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| Weasel | 04 Jan 2017 1:06 p.m. PST |
Separate. Military stuff goes downstairs in the office/gaming room, novels go upstairs. |
| robert piepenbrink | 04 Jan 2017 1:10 p.m. PST |
Mostly fiction goes on the Great Wall of Fiction, history in the History Block, and certain other books in The Bookcase Which Explains Everything, but there are exceptions. The Great Wall is alphabetical by author and biographies and criticism go on the Great Wall with the authors' works. And if I keep a piece of non-fiction purely for the better understanding of the fiction, it too goes on the Great Wall. For example, my copy of THE LONG WEEKEND goes next to the Peter Wimsey books, with my map of Oxford next to GAUDY NIGHT. My copy of DEATH IN THE CITY OF LIGHT goes next to Janes' Koehler & St Cyr novels, and there's a map of Pennsylvania next to LORD KALVAN OF OTHERWHEN. It's an odd system, but it keeps books where I need them and can find them,which is the point. |
| Huscarle | 04 Jan 2017 1:17 p.m. PST |
Yes, although I have over 7000 hardbacks & paperbacks, they are generally kept separate. I keep my books generally in alphabetical author order, although rulebooks and Ospreys, et al are kept together. |
| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 04 Jan 2017 1:19 p.m. PST |
Chandler? David and Raymond shall never meet. |
| Joes Shop | 04 Jan 2017 2:04 p.m. PST |
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| Cornelius | 04 Jan 2017 2:28 p.m. PST |
I do not have historical novels |
 etotheipi | 04 Jan 2017 2:43 p.m. PST |
SWMBO has them all tagged and sorted in the shelves by Dewey, so … no. |
| rustymusket | 04 Jan 2017 3:46 p.m. PST |
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| KSmyth | 04 Jan 2017 6:24 p.m. PST |
Generally separate, unless I become desperate for space. |
| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 04 Jan 2017 9:07 p.m. PST |
Oops,HISTORICAL novels? Sorry. But still no. Horrifying anecdote: Anne Fadiman (daughter of Clifton) relates a story about how a couple she knows rented their house one summer to an interior decorator. They returned to find he had reshelved all their books--by size and color. Took them months to put them right. |
| Martin Rapier | 05 Jan 2017 12:06 a.m. PST |
My more serious military history books are separate, but a lot of the paperbacks are jumbled up with novels, albeit often in groups. By and large I read fiction on Kindle these days, and any physical books are only kept for nostalgia (like my collection of Len Deighton originals) or as there is no alternative (Patrick O Brien). |
| Pictors Studio | 05 Jan 2017 7:13 a.m. PST |
The few historical novels I have are sometimes shelved with my history but not always. It depends. |
| Porthos | 05 Jan 2017 7:15 a.m. PST |
I have always experienced two problems: the number of books and the size of books. So now I have bookcases with most of the history on the ground floor and the other books on the first floor (which in America is the second floor). One bookcase is in a hall upstairs and needs to be protected with a piece of hardboard against an enthousiastic cat who want to scratch his nails. In order to find the correct book I try (but unfortunately cannot succeed)to arrange books according to period. Perhaps there should be a law saying historical books all need to be the same height ? (;-)) |
