TSS: A guided tour of the TBR and a contest with prizes!

Last week I mentioned that I had a huge TBR in addition to the library stack. I thought I'd show it to you today. Now, this is only the "most urgent" of the TBR books. There are 163 of them. Plus probably another dozen scattered through the house either being read or having been carried off by Mike or the boys, so let's say 175 total. There are more in the living room and hundreds more in the basement. I am working on getting rid of some of them, and in fact I have 15 books taking up most of the chair I am sitting in making typing very uncomfortable. I will be listing them on Paperbackswap when I finish this post. At the end of the year there will be fewer books on those shelves, no matter what I have to do to get rid of them (read them or give them away.)

So. This is the full set of shelves. It's located in our bedroom and the top of it becomes a handy dumping ground for mail, keys, hairbrushes, etc. I cleaned that stuff off before taking the picture. AND I PUT IT ALL AWAY! And then I cleaned the rest of the room except Mike's nightstand and the top of my dresser! And then I vacuumed!! I know, right?

They are pretty well organized, but not strictly alphabetically, as some concessions were made for maximizing shelf space. On top you have Romances on the left, and paranormal on the right. You can see the remainder of the Weather Warden series, Harry Dresden, and the last two Kitty Norvilles, among others.
This first part of the top shelf is reserved for young adult fiction. This isn't all the YA in my TBR collection, as I have loaned some Laurie Halse Anderson and Sarah Dessen to a friend.


Then we have regular fiction, mostly alphabetically except for the hardbacks that are too tall for my shelves.

After that is non-fiction. The first stack are the short ones, and by that I mean physically top to bottom. This takes up less horizontal room in a stack. They are in no particular order. After that they are alphabetical, starting there with Armstrong. The bottom shelf is cockeyed, sorry about that. The shelves are at the end of my bed and hard to photograph well.



And at the very end, another stack of romance.

Now, the Contest. I dare you to show me your TBR. You don't have to show me all of them, just the most important ones to you. (And yes, these are the important ones to me.) Tell me how yours are organized. I know a lot of you have done this in the past, but I'm sure your stacks have changed. Leave me a link to your post and I'll draw a winner on September 1st.

The Prize: Any item of your choosing from the Made by Lisah shop including the custom name or team banners* OR any two books off my Paperbackswap shelf. I'll be adding more books to the shelf this week, but being PBS they may not be there on the 1st.

* please, no more than 12 or so letters if you choose this, or you won't get your banner until 2015!