But, since my library's become disorganized since the infusion of about 1/3 or my mother's library (the rest donated or taken by my brother), the best I can do is label the box "books" and sort it out when I get to the new place. Most of it's not fiction in any case (unless it's an acquisition I made in the last 4 years). All my SF hardbacks (with the exception of Heinlien and recent McCafferys) are in boxes in the attic (about 15 of them). The paperbacks are in 2 very large boxes in the basement, which need to be re-packed since they're too heavy to lift, and I don't think one of them has a top on it. Even with all my fiction in boxes, I had 2 rooms in this house full of bookcases (that are also filled). It's my non-fiction "research" library, with subjects as diverse as hard sciences, philosophy, mythology, computer science/software packages, psychology, spirituality, divinitaion, and nature/zoology. Oh, and art books - LOTS of those big coffee table books of reprints of paintings etc. I tend to collect books on/from Pre-Raphaelites, Art Nouveau, and modern SF artists.

What I kept from my mom's collection are her mythology books, some of her American and English Lit books (she did teach English Lit in college), her literary criticism (some of them), plays and screenplays (by various "big name" playwrights - I now have all of Tom Stoppard's plays, for instance), books about the craft of writing, complete Jane Austen, quotation, slang and rhyming dictionaries, and her fancy art books (her taste tended more towards Michalangelo, Picasso, Impressionists, and Albrecht Durer).

My brother scarfed up the Compact OED (I wanted it, but I wasn't going to argue with him - we were very civil with each other about the estate items), and some other more esoteric criticsm books that I had no interest in, and we donated most of her Regency-Era research library.