According to bookwyrm, there are 161 books in my TBR. I need to go through and prune it though, there's probably a bunch I added that I'm not really interested in anymore.
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Same here, 208 for me on my bookwyrm To Read list, with some of them only there because I haven't deleted them yet. Shouldn't be more than 10 I would not want to read any longer though I guess.
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My list currently stands at 582, although some of those are the first/next in a series, so there's probably another 100 you could add on there.
When I go to add a book to my TR list and find it already there, I add it to my shortlist, which is another list I generally ignore.
Do you use anything in specific to track your to-read list?
I'm currently using Goodreads (“Want to Read” is a shelf, “shortlist” is a tag) but I'm definitely open to alternatives* - I was a user before Amazon bought it and nowadays it's so slow (and the Android app is even slower) that it's unpleasant to use. I'm not a fan of the redesign either; the functionality I actually use it for is now further away.
* I started making one myself, but I already have too many side projects. Bookwyrm has been mentioned here a few times and looks interesting. I'd looked at other potential replacements before and they all seemed to suffer from not having a good enough database of books.
Quite a long while ago mine went from a few to dozens to hundreds to... basically ALL the interesting books.
I don't have a list as such now. I simply pick up whatever book interests me most at that moment when a slot becomes available.
Currently, it's around 75 books. It used to be over 200, but I realized there are only certain books that I will actually read, so I narrowed it down.
A majority of these books have already been released, and there are some that I'm just waiting to be released (and of course there are some that I want to read but don't know when they are going to come out).
10 books. I had hundreds in my TBR list on GoodReads and when I switched to StoryGraph a few months ago I wanted a fresh start.
Too long...
Want to read some Malatesta, a book about ID Software, and This is How You Lose the Time War, but my nature makes this difficult. I always think like "Wow I want to read" and then will continue sitting on some game or website instead lol
If it helps, I read the ID Software book a few years ago and it was great.
I've heard! ID fascinates me on the whole so I imagine it's great, thanks for the motivation!
i'm under no pretenses i'll ever get through mine. goodreads clocks it at 443, and that's not counting the 10 books i'm on and off reading right now in varying capacities.
Somewhere around ~150. much like my music listening wishlist, I've come to terms with the fact that I will never, ever get through all of it
I find if I plan too far ahead I start to get distracted with what I'm currently reading. If I see an interesting book, I might make a note of it, but I think maybe 10 books ahead, let myself catch up, and then pick some new ones.
I do have to stop myself from weekly half price trips though.
I try not to overexpand my list because until I have the time to tackle all of it, I might lose interest in the selected topics. We grow over the years and our interests change with us. This is why I limit my list to a year's worth of books.
Same here but only a month or two. Sometimes 6 months go by and I realize I have only been reading a single author, sometimes it's all over the place. But I don't think I plan hundreds of books ahead of time at all, based on this thread I'm maybe odd man out.
I recently cleared out my To Read list because it was getting overwhelming to comb though. Down to 8 now, but I still keep picking up random books off Libby.
Usually about three books long. Not because I read really quickly, but because I only remember the last three books in my pile.
I’ll let you know when I find the end of it. I really like collecting books.
I just passed 200 recently. I don't mind a long list because either i have books i really want to read already on hold at a library or I will use a script to randomly pick one.
- Fiction: 348
- Nonfiction: 297
For a total of 645.
More than I would ever bother to count or set a number to.
I was thinking my list was a decent size.... Lol.
It currently contains the final book of the scholomance trilogy, the silmarillion, and the Witcher series. I have them all (and about 10000 more to choose from), just need to finish one of the two I'm currently reading before grabbing another to replace it.
@alyaza I currently have 72 books in mine.
admittedly, mine is as long as it is in part because i included any book i have in my ebook reader in it--and that's a lot of books i've never even touched. but even if i pruned it of that stuff i'm definitely sure mine is longer than yours--i think it'd clock in at about 200. luckily i try to read about 40 books a year, lol
@alyaza I usually only read around 3-4 per year, but I'm due up for a more serious grind (especially now that Reddit's enshittifying further).
Bold of you to assume I didn't give up on counting halfway through grad school. :P
I'm not gonna count, but I would estimate somewhere around two hundred. Every time I need a new book, I just head to the list and find one that seems interesting. My progress on the official list is "hampered" by the fact that roughly half the time I'll go for a book not on my list instead.
But, I've got a lot of time on my hands so I expect to get through them all eventually. At least, I'll keep reading as fast as I keep adding.
My brother is trying to get me into reading. He gave me a list of books to read and at some point im going to go through this list and read them
-The Rook - Daniel O'Malley
-The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
-The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch
-Malhazan (the series) - Steven Erikson
-Mistborn Trilogy - Brandon Sanderson
-The Stormlight Archive - Brandon Sanderson
-The First Law - Joe Abercrombie
I'd personally like to add in some mystery/detective fiction novels to that list, but I figure I'll get caught up some of the popular fantasy novels he enjoys for now
-The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
-The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch
These two are both brilliantly-written starts to what would be exceptional series, but they're not finished and may well never be - just a caveat emptor if that kind of thing bugs you.
Scott Lynch's Gentleman Bastard books stand alone so it's not so much of a problem, but Patrick Rothfuss seems to be having too much fun with other projects to deliver the final part of his trilogy.
Brandon Sanderson, on the other hand, is astonishingly productive. His world-building and plotting are top-notch and that his writing doesn't sparkle like Rothfuss isn't a problem (personally) since they tend to be long books and I'm not the speediest of readers.
That's a pretty big list
Overly long, I like putting books on my "To Read" list and then promptly forgetting about it.
Used to be 1000+ as it had accumulated for something like 15 years but early 2020 I made use of time I had available to go through it and trimmed out a lot of stuff that no longer appealed to me.
Got it down to under 200 but now it’s close to 400, but! All stuff I want to read and will get to once I’ve got the time and don’t have reading to do for courses I’m taking.
107 books. Why did I do this to myself?
Not too bad. 7 books, three having question marks to indicate that I may not, in fact, read them. I've got a few on top of that if you count the "in progress" section.
Way too long, I just keep adding more than I can keep up with. I could probably cut books that I added years ago an no longer would be interested in... Currently 545 books
My to-read list is an ever growing calamity, but I'm only ever consciously aware of handful of books near the top of it at a time, which keeps me sane and moving forward.
I used to keep a list but I don't bother anymore. It's never hard to find a new book to read. I usually have my next read started within a few minutes of finishing the last.
I have a general idea of a few books that I want to read soon, and a loose sense of hundreds of other books I might get to eventually, but I'll never read them all.
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