Sorting Complete Audiobooks, Not Tracks

I have an iTunes sorting question but it is not about ordering tracks within an audiobook but about the ordering of complete audiobooks in the Books > Audiobooks view.
For several authors I have many audiobooks and what I want to do is have the audiobooks library sorted first by author and then have them ordered chronologically within the author. I have been using Get Info and trying to enter information in the various fields to make this happen but can't figure out how iTunes does the sorting.
It is very confusing to me and I cannot find anyplace that it is explained.
I'm using iTunes 11.11 and OS X 10.8.5.

Unchecked tracks are skipped during normal track to track playback and are usually excluded from syncing to devices. I use them for things like bonus interview tracks which I will keep in my library but don't want to play accidentally when listening to the album. There is a preference to hide the checkboxes if you don't have a use for them.
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Sorting of Multi-Disc Audiobooks not corretly - iTunes 11

Hello all,
After i upgraded to iTunes 11, my audiobooks are not sorted correctly now (Like it was before the update).
Before it was sorted like:
Disk01 Track01
Disk01 Track02
Disk01 Track03
Disk02 Track01
Disk02 Track02
Disk02 Track03
Disk03 Track01
Disk03 Track02
Disk03 Track03
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Disk02 Track01
Disk03 Track01
Disk01 Track02
Disk02 Track02
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Disk01 Track03
Disk02 Track03
Disk03 Track03
But i cann't change the track number. I have about 400 Audiobooks with Multiple-Disks and Tracks.
If i click on "List", the Sorting is correct.
If i change one Audiobook to "Music", the sorting is correct. But that is not a solution, because i have more than 200 Music CDs there.
Furthermore, I want iTunes 11 to sort the Audiobooks by the Author. This makes much more Sense!
what i mean e.g.: All audiobooks of J.R.R. Tolkien should be sorted by "J" and not like it is now, by the name of the novel.
I want the "Audiobooks" to be sorted by the same way as they would be (and are) sorted in "Music".
I spent so many days to get it sorted perfectly in iTunes 10. And now its all gone.
I would appreciate it very much if someone could help me.
Best regards,
Chris

Apple devices have always sorted audiobooks on the name field, instead of the disc number and track number values. This has normally made it tricky to listen to non-iTunes sourced audiobooks. It looks like iTunes 11 has now taken on the same rules. See Audiobooks on iPods for some possible workarounds.
Took me some time to "see" your problem because my books still order sensibly in iTunes. I routinely fix the track numbers so that multi-disc albums/audiobooks have consecutive track numbers. For audiobooks I recycle the disc numbers as series numbers for books that are part of a series. Together with suitable sort names I get the series listed together, in the right order, with the tracks of each book in the right order, in iTunes and on my iPods.
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How can I get iTunes to sort using the defaulted numbers in List View. The header cannot be clicked in List View, but can in Grid View. Is there any way it can be clicked or tricked into sorting using them? It's very handy. Thanks.

If you click on any column header, it will sort the entire library in numerical or alphabetical order based on the listing of whatever column header has been clicked on.
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Where is the Safari 5.0.5 "Do Not Track" setting?

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Having trouble trying to install itunes 10.5. Receive message saying 'There is a problem with this installer package. A program required for this install to complete could not be found. Please contact product vendor'

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Sorry for the typo my "b" key was not working correctly.
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When I sent these to my iTunes-iBooks it chooses to sort them by Sort Name (not the Name, but an entirely different field). I was able to mass delete Sort Artist, but not Sort Name. It is currently putting the series information in as Sort Name.
As you can reasonably understand, I want to KEEP the series information as part of the metadata, but not have iTunes sorted by this, as it makes it impossible to find books by the title or "Name" of the book.
Is there any way to force iTunes and iBooks to sort by Name only?
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Additionally, I have close to 400 ebooks- I REALLY don't want to have to manually delete the Sort Name from each of these and honestly I'm afraid to lose the series data which took forever to input correctly.
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alias pacman-disowned-dirs="comm -23 <(sudo find / $ -path '/dev' -o -path '/sys' -o -path '/run' -o -path '/tmp' -o -path '/mnt' -o -path '/srv' -o -path '/proc' -o -path '/boot' -o -path '/home' -o -path '/root' -o -path '/media' -o -path '/var/lib/pacman' -o -path '/var/cache/pacman' $ -prune -o -type d -print | sed 's/$[^/]$$/\1\//' | sort -u) <(pacman -Qlq | sort -u)"
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HT1711 purchase complete album, 1 track cuts off before complete how do I fix

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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
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If perchance you can't find your install Disc, at least try it from the Safe Boot part onward.
If 10.7.0 or later...
Bootup holding CMD+r, or the Option/alt key to boot from the Restore partition & use Disk Utility from there to Repair the Disk, then Repair Permissions.
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Reboot, test again.
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