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.

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 ...

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