Library-Grade Sorting

Title Sort

Alphabetize book, movie, and song titles while respecting leading articles, parentheticals, and abbreviations.

Ignore initial articles:

Move initial articles to the end

For example, The Silmarillion → Silmarillion, The

Ignore initial parentheticals

For example, sort (They Long to Be) Close to You as if it were just Close to You. Output will still show the full title.

Abbreviations first

For example, sort as { M.A., MP, Mrs., Metamorphosis } instead of { M.A., Metamorphosis, MP, Mrs. }.

Titles: