So I just devised an elaborate organization plan to help me get through my TBR cause i realized i own 16 (16!) Unread books. I put a book buying ban on myself till I’ve read every single one of these books. I’ll be reading 3 at the same time no more no less, all of these 3 books will be different vibes/genres from eachother and from the group of 3’s before them. Everytime i finish a group of 3’s i get starbucks or an energy drink as a reward. Will this scheme fail? Probably, idk how efficient reading 3 different books at the time is as opposed to one. How do y’all get through big TBRS?
I have an order, but it’s kinda random, and if I feel like reading one more than another I will.
The order is more for when I don’t know which book to pick next but I want to read something.
I don’t know, I simply keep them on a specific shelf and read whatever tickles my fancy at the moment.
i have a ‘read next’ list. which is no more than 10 books that are loaded on my tablet and ready to be read at a moment’s notice.
i have a general TBR list which is a bit over 600, which i check when my ‘read next’ list needs to be refilled.
and i also have a subsection in the TBR list ‘complete’ for series that are done and i don’t have to wait for sequels to.
By originally date published, oldest to newest
I don’t care about TBR anymore. There are way too many. So I have hundreds of books in lists that WBNTR, would be nice to read. But I know I will never read them all, so I stopped thinking about it.
I have too many. They’re organised roughly by fiction and non fiction though, as I tend to read one of each at a time, so it’s easy to see what’s what.
Wait…we’re suppose to organize them!? 🤣
Save into goodreads and we are done
I don’t usually keep a TBR, but I have one right now because I have a number of books I want to finish before year-end, and my strategy is simply not reading anything that’s not on that list unless or until everything is finished. I expect it to take me pretty much right up to December 31st or a couple of days before.
I will say, I see the massive TBRs people have on Goodreads and it just seems pointless and stupid. I don’t see what value a 1000+ book TBR has if you only read 20 books a year.
I have about 300 on my GR TBR list because I want to keep track of the books I want to read. I read about 25 books a year but still intend to get to the others. What do you intend to do after 31 Dec; stop reading completely or start looking for new books to read? If you choose books based on previous recommendations or following an author, that’s still a TBR, just less concrete.
In a spreadsheet. I have 3 tabs; Jewish non-fiction, non-fiction, fiction. I also put in;
- Genre
- Title
- Author
- Notes
- Does the library have it/Do I own it?
- Publisher if from academic press so I can watch for sales
I have two complementary systems:
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An ever-growing list of books I want to read on Goodreads. In the past it grew faster than I went through it; this year I’ve been pretty good about reading books from the list, so it’s hovered around 200 books all year.
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Piles of unread books left haphazardly around the house. I get around to reading some of them eventually.
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Wow. 16 books. Those were the days.
I own an estimated 2000 TBR. And still they keep creeping in…
I generally just grab whatever I’m in the mood for.
Fewer than a dozen of these I consider keepable. Reference. Collectible.
I only barely organise mine and that’s stretching the definition of the word tbh. I have hundreds of unread books and I’m a huge mood reader so I’ve never ever managed to stick to a plan or system. the only thing I really do is loosely keeping track of upcoming sequels and such because I’m trying to kick the habit of buying a series when I haven’t even read the first book. so I have a little mental pile of “try to read these asap maybe” and that’s pretty much it.
My tbr is over 3000 books on Goodreads so . . . no real system.
My physical TBR is 32 books. They’re all on the same shelf and a half (the other half of the shelf is occupied by reference books), and once I read them they get shelved properly elsewhere. My rule is that if the shelf is full, I’m not allowed to buy any more books until there’s physically room for them. Love this system because it also makes it really easy to see what I haven’t read yet when I’m ready to start a new book.
I threw it out a few weeks ago, including a few books I had only just bought the week before. So far haven’t missed it at all.