var library = [ { title: 'Bill Gates', author: 'The Road Ahead', libraryID: 1254 }, { title: 'Steve Jobs', author: 'Walter Isaacson', libraryID: 4264 }, { title: 'Mockingjay: The Final Book of The Hunger Games', author: 'Suzanne Collins', libraryID: 3245 }]; var sort_by = function(field_name, reverse, initial){ var key = initial ? function(x) { return initial(x[field_name]); } : function(x) { return x[field_name]; }; reverse = !reverse ? 1 : -1; return function (x, y) { return x = key(x), y = key(y), reverse * ((x > y) - (y > x)); } ; }; var newobj = library.sort(sort_by('libraryID', true, parseInt)); console.log(newobj);