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?
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I split them by Genre - Science Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction & Misc.
Bold Font is for books I’ll need to buy. Regular Font for Kindle Unlimited selections.
I keep the list on a word doc at work and a physical list in my billfold
That is pretty much the entire system. About 35 titles on the list currently. Some titles though are the 1rst books of multiple book series or trilogies.
By originally date published, oldest to newest
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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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.
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.
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 don’t organize it. I page through my kindle library til I find something that appeals to me at that moment. Figuring out a thing to read has never been a problem for me!
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.
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.
My tbr is over 3000 books on Goodreads so . . . no real system.
My TBR is well past 100 books and I read at least 50 pages/day and tackle 3 or 4 books at a time.
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.
I don t organise it. I think almost everyday I add a new book to the tbr. I just read what I m in the mood for/ what seems interesting/ I see recommended a lot
My TBR is 45 books, it was over 200 at one point. I did a huge declutter and I’ve DNF’d more this year than any other year. It’s not a bad thing, I just had a lot of free books that weren’t really my style.
Actual organising, the physical books sit on a shelf however they fit. The kindle books sit in a collection called TBR.
I have a few ways of deciding what to read. A monthly mini TBR of 12 books, I don’t always stick to it. I also have a D20 TBR (gives me an excuse to use said D20) which is similar but I put books that I’ve been hanging on to for ages on that list.
I have a list of my kindle TBR from lowest page count to highest. Currently that’s how I pick my next read, it’s going well.
Stack them face down and spine to the wall so all you see are white pages. Take the one off the top (you won’t remember what it was if you have a large pile). Read at least 20 to 50 pages. If it doesn’t capture your interest you move it to the bottom of the pile or discard.