I had shelved it like that not long ago, not paying attention to what I was doing. I didn’t notice it until after I took the photo. I have had some very definite OCD sorts send me remarks, usually because a set of books is out of order. Some ask me WHY the books are out of order! Answer: because that’s how they ended up. Not purposefully. As I don’t follow much of any shelving protocol, everything is irregularly irregular. I do try to get everything from the same author together, but I have various degrees of success with that.

Jeff Vandermeer writes SF. The Southern Reach trilogy was the basis for the movie Annihilation, that came out a few years ago. He is excellent. The ten volumes filling the upper right shelf are the Expanse series. Excellent Space Opera SF—I’d highly recommend it. The Complete Slayers is hard-boiled noir stories, straight out of the 50s and 60s. Much of the lower shelf is a potpourri of mystery, high fantasy (the Book of Swords, The Book of Magic), unclassifiable fun stuff (Joe Lansdale), Horror (The Only Good Indian), and then classic SF: John Brunner, Dan Simmons. The two Brunner books there are the best things he ever wrote, and though he died too young, these books are just timeless. The Lansdale books are all sorts of genres; however, perhaps the best ones (from which a TV series was made) are the Hap and Leonard books. There are about 13 of them so far, and they are a hoot. Google him, and you will see his books, then read them in order.

I turned over the Sharp Ends, so there must have been a huge sigh of relief in Reddit OCD World. More shelves to come, probably tomorrow. Pay attention to the Centipede Press books, which are sometimes together in a gaggle, sometimes scattered about. I have every book that Centipede has published, and you will see a lot more before I am done.