I separate the books by location. Some are on a chair, some are on shelves, some are on a desk, and others are on the floor.

War and Peace and Anna Karenina in the same Russian literature class. I’m not a fast reader, so this class was like a full-time job.

Deaths of Despair by Anne Case and Angus Deaton. It’s about the high rates of deaths in the U.S. from alcoholism, opiate overdoses, and suicide. I like economics, demography, and politics. This covered a lot of my interests.

All my programming books are like this. I get to page 80 on maybe 20%, page 200 on maybe 5%. I started buying used books to keep the costs down and avoid library fines.