ITunes 11 not sorting multi-disc audiobooks by disc number

I just updated to iTunes 11, and for some reason, my multi-disc audiobooks are not being ordered by disc number in the Books view. Instead, it goes track 1 of disc 1, track 1 of disc 2, etc.
The tracks have the disc numbers in their metadata, so why aren't they being sorted that way?
This issue does not occur for music tracks, however. Puzzling, eh?
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Re: iTunes 11 not sorting multi-disc audiobooks by disc number
Dec 10, 2012 2:17 AM (in response to Jawshooah)
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