u/Confident-Evening520

Hi everyone! I am currently reorganizing my books (finally) and trying to sort them by genre. I'm having trouble though with categorizing a few.

For example, I have a copy of The Complete Works and Letters of Charles Lamb, which is mostly poetry, essays, and a few short stories, but I don't know where to "file" it, so to speak. Since it's only one author, I don't think it technically goes with Anthologies, but it also has different forms of writing - non-fiction, verse, prose, etc. - so I wouldn't really put it in either just poetry or just short story collections. I think there might be a little of autobiographical stuff with the letters, but I also wouldn't really put it with memoirs/autobiographies...I know it's not that serious, but this is seriously bugging me.

I also have another pair of books by a single author that are his collected works, but one book is just his poetry and the other is just prose (mostly non-fiction). They came in a little book box that shows off the spines together; do I keep the books together or do I just put the collected poetry with my poetry books and the prose with...I guess essays?

Any help will be deeply appreciated!! I fear I'm not going to make much progress if I can't get past this snag 😭