No doubt they have a seating chart.
Even so, sometimes in my library, books find themselves unequally yoked with strange fellows, with whom they may have a spat, or even duel when my back is turned.
I find, for instance:
Edward Said's Orientalism seated next to an anthology of the Early Church Fathers.
A biography of John Calvin next to Chuck Colson's Kingdoms in Conflict.
Aristotle standing next to Aquinas.
Lydia McGrew's Hidden in Plain View standing next to Elaine Pagel's The Gnostic Gospels.
James Watson next to Hugh Ross.
Carl Sagan standing to the left of Bill Dembski.
David Hume and Richard Swinburne.
Gandhi and Vishal Mangalwadi.
Books by John McWhorter and Ibrim Kendi cheek to jowl.
No wonder I come in in the morning, and my office is a mess. They've probably been squabbling all night!