Lexicographers turn almost always to that standard order-er of language, the alphabet.
Only by rote memorization are we able to use it successfully as an ordering tool at all. Michel Foucault devotes an entire volume specifically to the study of order. More recently, engineer Henry Petroski addresses compulsion to order in his book-length study of the history and design of bookshelves. These means of ordering ring familiar. In any case, organizing a collection of books or any other group of objects does not occur randomly.