Alphabetical and Series

How Can I accurately but my books in alphabetical order?
Here are a few that are not alphabetical:

"Answer is Jesus, The"
This is between:
"Gospel of John, The"
and "Escape the Coming Night

10: How to Live and Love in a World That has Lost It's Way"
This is between:
"The Heaven Answer Book"
and "How to Study The Bible

These are listed this way:
How To Study The Bible > Hymns of the Faith > Harbinger:......

And then if I have books that are in a Series. How do I get them to appear on the "Series" page?

Any help would be appreciated.
Thank You

1. When you edit your book details, there's an option to set how the title sorts. I've added a few screenshots to show you what it looks like.

You can switch between First Character and Manual. If it's set to Manual, the sort character is highlighted. Click the pencil icon to change it - in my example, I want "Value in Art: Manet and the Slave Trade" to sort under Manet for some reason, so I selected the M of Manet from the title.

By default, 'The' and 'A(n)' are usually automatically excluded, though sometimes things can get a bit screwy, as your examples show. :)

2. Series are work-level data, so there's a few steps if your book isn't showing.

First check to make sure your book is combined with any other copies. It may not be showing on the series because it's a stray with a title variation, but the main work is there.

Then, if that's not the case, go to the Work page for the book and scroll to the Series section. There you can use the edit button to add it to the appropriate series.

Oh, another thing! Double check which column your library is sorting by, especially if the sort character appears to be correct. :)

>1 RandyCH: It is impossible to inspect what's going on since you have a private library. Generally, there's no need to put the articles at the end. That's what 'Title Sort' field is for. It is normally set automatically, recognizing articles and putting the sort at the first letter of next word. At least for English it works perfectly fine, probably not for other languages, but that's why you can set it manually too.

Normally, only letters with diacritics and such cause sorting in weird places. I'd check were you sort character is set for those books. That seems the most likely culprit. It's probably not at the beginning. If you moved the articles to the end after you entered the book, that would mess up the sorting. The system would still be think it needs to sort as if the article is at the beginning, so the 5th letter