Take an organizing cue from the Swedes with these front-facing stacks on stacks.

Here, the paperbacks play background to a tiny army.

If you're feeling the natural vibe, flip around all your spines for a season.

Save space and perch lamps inside your shelf.

Try a vertical mix of spines facing in and out.

Having a few books facing out adds texture.

Consider colorblocking by room.

Who needs a bookcase when you can craft a pyramid atop a table?

Take a lesson from this bookstore.

Add a strange objet — or three.

Alternate shelves with books and treasures, like the vintage cameras here.

All in the (color) family.

Floating shelves can make a dramatic statement.

Work around the architecture and keep vintage covers all grouped together.

When looking for a lived-in-home vibe, it's all about the comfortable lean.

If you have super-high ceilings, you might as well recreate the library from Beauty and the Beast.

There's nothing more soothing than a shelf full of books in earthy (and watery) tones.

See how many books you read in a year by turning around the spine each time you finish one.

Or, you could only collect neon books and set them up like dominos...?

Give each book its own cubby for some alone time.

That long, awkward hallway now has a purpose.

Show your love for authors from sea to shining sea.

High-up shelves are dramatic and just in reach.

Just months after her onscreen brother, Steven R. McQueen, left The Vampire Diaries, Nina Dobrev has announced that she too is leaving the show. This is a huge shocker, given that Dobrev has been the leading lady for six seasons, and The Vampire Diaries has already been renewed for next season. seasons. Does this mean that the series show is jumping the shark, or can Dobrev's colleagues step up to make the show even better? What will become of Elena? And who will Stefan and Damon fight over now? Hopefully we'll be able to see Dobrev in The Final Girls, a horror-comedy that debuted at the South by Southwest Film Festival, when it gets a US U.S. release date. For now, take comfort in her words to fans below. We'll miss you, Elena.

Dearest TVD Family, I've just spent the most beautiful weekend on Lake Lanier in Georgia with my own TVD Family, the cast and crew of The Vampire Diaries. I want to be the first to tell you that it wasn't just a holiday celebration, it was a goodbye party. I always knew I wanted Elena's story to be a six season adventure, and within those six years I got the journey of a lifetime. I was a human, a vampire, a doppelganger, a crazy immortal, a doppelganger pretending to be human, a human pretending to be a doppelganger. I got kidnapped, killed, resurrected, tortured, cursed, body-snatched, was dead and undead, and there's still so much more to come before the season finale in May. Elena fell in love not once, but twice, with two epic soulmates, and I myself made some of the best friends I'll ever know and built an extended family I will love forever. There's more to come before we wrap this up, and I promise you'll get to hear all about my experiences over the next month as we approach the season finale (I have given an exclusive interview for the June issue of SELF Magazine that I am excited for you to see!), but until then I invite you to hop on the roller coaster ride that is Elena Gilbert's life and join me as I celebrate her and prepare to say goodbye to her -- and to my work family -- as I move on to the next chapter of my life. I want to share this goodbye with all of you (this weekend's pictures were just the beginning). You, the wonderful fandom who gave more love, support and passion than anyone could have ever imagined seven years ago, when a young Degrassi girl from Canada showed up in LA to audition for 'that Twilight TV show.' ;-) I love you all. Fasten your seatbelts. If you think you know what's coming, you don't. Love, Nina

A photo posted by Nina Dobrev (@ninadobrev) on Apr 6, 2015 at 5:01pm PDT

“Gobble a lot of fiction very quickly and you soon find yourself suffering from the literary equivalent of a food intolerance. Oh no, you think, not another novel about X or Y. At these moments, only one thing keeps you going: the faint hope that the book in question might turn out to be the greatest novel ever written about X or Y.” Rachel Cooke writes for The Guardian about reading 80 books in four months and the process of judging the Folio prize.