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how long is your To Read list, Beehaw?
3 years ago by alyaza [they/she] to c/literature
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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
I've heard! ID fascinates me on the whole so I imagine it's great, thanks for the motivation!
More than I would ever bother to count or set a number to.
The struggle is real.
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.
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.
I keep a running list (via tags) on Libby. I have about 100 books listed to be read. I do not read them in order though. I pick my next book based on my mood.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’ll let you know when I find the end of it. I really like collecting books.
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.
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.
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.
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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).
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