Question of the Week: Reading Log

It’s time for Question of the Week, designed to inspire interesting discussions of enjoyable topics.

This week’s question: do you keep a record of the books you have read? Obviously, Goodreads is a giant website designed to do just that, but there are other methods.

The question was inspired by one of the other methods – I was at a Barnes & Noble recently and bemused by the giant wall of “reading journals” that you can use to keep track of the books you have read.

For myself, I’ve kept a spreadsheet of every book I’ve read since 2010, since it felt like I was reading less than I used to, and I wanted to keep track of it quantifiably. So I think in the last 14 years the most books I’ve read in a single year is 110, and the lowest would be around 40, though I think this year I will end up somewhere around 75.

-JM