Sorting Audiobooks by Series

Is there a way to treat audiobooks like the music? I would like to be able to see all books in a series. As of right now I can only see all of my books in one list but with 20 plus books listed I never remember which one goes with which series and in what order. I'd like to be able to keep them in the audiobook section though I do understand that if I really wanted to could make a playlist for each series. Just wasn't sure if there was another way.

Use the supplementary fields attached to the files.
Choose a track and do Command I in iTunes on your computer.
Select the Info Tab and make sure the track Numbers are in the right order and that they all have the same Album title.
they will then group just fine.

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