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Melinda L Miller's avatar

I love The Great Wall. I'd love to shelves my books in the order they were written, or by when they were set.

I see in the photo Tolkien is next to the Quran, which is obviously by time setting.

Has anybody tried this in their home library? I'd love to chat about this.

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Erik Rostad's avatar

Yeah, the first two photos are my home library and the 3rd is Landmark Booksellers.

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Weston R. Newbell's avatar

Love this! I've unintentionally followed this method by putting books one after the other once I'm finished reading them. It really does bring back memories of when you were reading it.

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Jason Codner's avatar

Hi Erik, think The Great Wall is a fantastic inspiration and what I’m picturing when I eventually finish my own ‘Great Books’ project. When I eventually get to finish putting the list together i will post it on my Substack, oh you were one my inspirations for starting!

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Erik Rostad's avatar

That's awesome!

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Josh Koehn's avatar

I like this article.

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