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Sort your books and audiobooks in Books on Mac
There are several ways to view and sort the books, audiobooks and PDFs in your library.
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In the Books app
on your Mac, click an option below Library in the sidebar. For example, click Audiobooks to see all your downloaded audiobooks.
In the menu bar, choose View > View As, then choose an option.
Grid: View items in a grid. For more sorting options, choose View > Sort By. For example, choose Sort Manually to drag items into the order you prefer.
List: View items in a list. To sort them further, click a column heading. Control-click a column heading to see other columns you can display and sort by.
Choose View > Show iCloud Books to show items you purchased but haven’t downloaded on your Mac. To hide them again, choose View > Hide iCloud Books.