Here are some of mine… and the shelves that I pseudo-constructed for them…
and then blogged about at the venerable Sunset Magazine, where I am interning this summer. Check it out here
I will always be a public library girl at heart, but I certainly have dreams for a bona fide home library one day. And I’m well on my way. This is what happens when all of your “textbooks” in college are novels and when you can’t stop wandering into used bookstores.
But I really do love my books. I only truly felt at home in my new room when these were all situated.
Sigh.
live in the layers 
You’re asking for creative ways to organize books on the Sunset blog – I’m sure you’ve seen this, but the piece “There is Nothing Wrong in this Whole Wide World” is probably the most aesthetically pleasing answer to that problem I’ve seen.
Pictures at http://www.superherodesigns.com/journal/archives/000453.html, and there’s an interview with the artist at http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/events/chriscobb2.html.
Awesome. Thanks, Max. Now I just need to start buying books for their spines rather than their covers. 😀