Ask a Designer: How Can I Display My Books Without a Bookshelf? Here, we bring your home design questions straight to the experts—interior designers.

If you own a lot of books but they don't all fit on a shelf, you may be running out of space. Instead of donating them, here's how to store books without a bookshelf.

“The books on your shelves say who you are,” says private librarian Christy Shannon Smirl.

I would be lost without bookcases. Literally. Because all of Dan’s books, enough to keep a small village reading for decades, would bury me. And figuratively. Because I have found ...

For a display like this, choose titles you want people to notice, as display boxes are a chance to show off your taste. What do you think so far? Be the first to post a comment.

To help them decide what stays and what goes, she suggests that they think about each volume’s day-to-day use and why they’re buying and acquiring books in the first place.