Organizing My Kindle Library + Book Recs

If you’ve been reading my monthly wrap-ups, you’ll know that this is a post I’ve been meaning to publish for months—I just never got around to it. But I’m glad it’s finally happening! Similar to Organizing My Bookshelf, this article will review the titles I have on my Kindle, provide my organization process, and recommend books I think are worth reading. Let’s get started!

I had never categorized my books on Kindle before—they always appear in order of books I had most recently opened. I let my home page stay that way, but while going through each book, I filtered them in alphabetical order to figure out what I wanted to do. You can’t delete books on Kindle (or if you can, I just haven’t figured it out), so I focused on organizing them the way I wanted to rather than separating them into “this brings me joy” or “this doesn’t bring me joy” categories.

Beforehand, there was no method to my Kindle’s organization; I just had them in order of most to least recent. And while that was certainly convenient, it also made my library messier with every new book I added. So the first thing I did was re-order my books in alphabetical order of author’s last name because if I have multiple books from the same author, they will all be categorized together. After that, I began sorting through the books and creating collections based on my library.

For the first time, I used the collections feature to organize my shelves, and it was so much fun! The first collection I made was on my actual device for my ARCs to keep them all in one place. I created the rest of the collections on my laptop with the Kindle app.

I started with the basics—a collection for my favorites, non-fiction, novel research, books I haven’t read yet. Then, I added various genres based on the books I had. I had little to no books in my library in some genres, so I would combine them for some collections. Ultimately, with 80 books on my Kindle in total, I ended up with eleven collections in the end. Keep in mind that some of the books belong to multiple collections despite the percentages. Also, these do not include ARCs since those are under the docs label.

• All-Time Favorites: 12 (15%)
• Contemporary Adult | New Adult: 22 (27.5%)
• Contemporary Middle Grade | YA: 14 (17.5%)
• Fantasy | Sci-Fi: 16 (20%)
• Historical Fiction: 5 (6.25%)
• Horror | Mystery | Thriller: 5 (6.25%)
• Jewish Books: 18 (22.5%)
• Non-Fiction: 21 (26.25%)
• Novel Research: 7 (8.75%)
• Plays | Script: 2 (2.5%)
• To Read: 12 (15%)

ARCs

• All of Us Villains by Amanda Foody and (TW: violence, gore)
• Cool for the Summer by Dahlia Adler
• Crossbones by Kimberly Vale
• The Ivies by Alexa Donne (TW: adult/minor relationship mention, bullying, homophobia mention, murder, sexual content mention, violence)
• The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri (TW: abuse, confinement, death, gore, misogyny, suicidal thoughts (mild), violence, xenophobia)
• The Problem with the Other Side by Kwame Ivery (TW: racism, ableism, homophobia, sexism, gun violence)
• The Witch King by H.E. Edgmon (TW: violence, transphobia, abuse, sexual harassment)

Contemporary Adult | New Adult

• Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers (TW: depression, anxiety)
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (TW: classism, racism, arson)
• The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood (TW: sexual harassment)

Contemporary Middle Grade | YA

• As If on Cue by Marisa Kanter (TW: antisemitism)
• Concrete Rose by Nic Stone (TW: gun violence, police brutality, racism, gang violence, incarceration)
• Dear Martin by Nic Stone (TW: gun violence, police brutality, racism)
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (TW: gun violence, police brutality, racism, gang violence)
• Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli (Creekwood #2) (TW: biphobia)
• Love Is a Revolution by Renée Watson
• She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen
• Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli (Creekwood #1) (TW: homophobia, forced coming out)

Fantasy | Sci-Fi

• Ash by Malinda Lo
• The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros (TW: antisemitism, antisemitic hate crimes, internalized homophobia)
• Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan
• The Raging Ones Duology by Krista & Becca Ritchie

Historical Fiction

• Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa (TW: military occupation, colonization, apartheid, violence, genocide)
• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (TW: racism, violence, abuse, confinement)

Non-Fiction

• The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé

Well, this post wasn’t as long as some of my others, but I still had a lot of fun organizing my Kindle Library and sharing the process with you. Although I don’t have as many books as I do on my real-life shelves, I hope that the recommendations I gave are sufficient. I’ll definitely do another version of this post, but next time, with Apple Books! I have a lot more in that library, so there will be more content there.

In the meantime, I’d love to hear from you guys! Do you have an e-reader/electronic form of reading? What’s your favorite method of reading? What’s your favorite book on your e-book shelves? Let me know in the comment section!

Until next time!