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I'm reorganizing my books in Calibre/Nook Shelves/Kindle Collections. I found that most categories I've come up with break down into a reasonable number of books. Except my "Adventure" category. Over 2/3 my books fall into that one. Does anyone have any suggestions for other categories I could use to subdivide this large one up a bit? I tried using "Action" and "Adventure", but I found that I could not reliably distinguish between these two. it was hit of miss where the assignment ended up. "Thriller" is another broad category that overlaps Action and Adventure. Once I've read a book, I can choose between these close categories pretty well. But where I really need the classifications is for books that I haven't read yet, so I can easily search for what I want to read next.

Most of my stuff I tend to classify as one of Action, Adventure, Thriller, Post-apocalypse, Future-dystopia, Fantasy, Crime, and Sci-Fi, trying NOT to assign to more than one category if I can help it.

Pretty much, one author tends to end up in one category. So I toyed with just grouping by author. But once I get away from the big authors that everyone recognizes, or haven't thought about a book for a while, I can't remember what type of book, say, "Warran Fahy" wrote (he's got one in my collection). So grouping by author only works for the highly recognizable names for me. You mention Clive Cussler, or James Rollins, and I know exactly what type of book to expect. But not necessarily "Andy Weir".

Any suggestions on how other folks tag things for best organization? I'm talking about an approximate 300 book collection at present.