How many have you read? (Reading the books on our group bookshelf) Showing 601-650 of 1,453

[Bat-Cat]

Katy wrote: "Yes, the 205 count includes 2018 books."

Katy, that you for the clarification.

[Darren]

to end 2017: 83/205=40%

have 18 slated for 2018, so hopefully I can reach 100 in a year's time...

[Renee]

July 2016 19/152 = 19%
July 2017 69/189 = 36%
Dec 2017 89/201 = 44%

Went up 8% since July, so not too bad. Pretty good end of the year. Getting to 100 read would be a goal for me too Darren!

[Bat-Cat]

Darren wrote: "to end 2017: 83/205=40%

have 18 slated for 2018, so hopefully I can reach 100 in a year's time..."

Just to let you know, Darren, the total book count for 2017 is 201 not 205. I just check and Katy verified it. That's good news for you as it brings your percentage up to 41%. Yippee for you!!!

[Darren]

Bat-Cat - you're assuming I haven't read any of January's books already! ;o)

[Terris]

Well, I'm up to 170/201, which is 85%, with 15 on the list for 2018! So, I'm getting up there! And there are 12 that I don't even want to read. Of course, I've been working on this since high school ( over 40 years!!)!! So, everybody, just keep reading :)

[Bat-Cat]

Darren wrote: "Bat-Cat - you're assuming I haven't read any of January's books already! ;o)"

Hi Darren. Well no, I actually wasn't assuming that. I was just remarking that if you are calculating through the end of this year, the 4 books slated for January would not be included in the totals up to 12/31/17 whether you have read them or not. I happened upon this realization while doing my own calculations and corrected my error. Just thought I would pass on the info.

By the way, very nice to talk with you again and glad you are still here. :-)

[GW]

To date I've read 135 of the book shelve's listed books. Of course, I have read many of them over the last 25 years and not part of the book club's suggestions when they are up. Classics are still fun and I love looking for new titles to read off the monthly lists.

[George P.]

Melanti wrote:
"J_BlueFlower wrote:...
Oct 2017 88 out of 198. = 44.4%.
Nov 2017 92 out of 201 = 45.7%
Dec 2017 93 out of 201 = 46.3%
(Something str..."
Where are you looking? I'm seeing 205.

Does it maybe make a difference whether you are counting the books selected for future months or not? Perhaps that's the difference in count. I wouldn't count the future ones.

[J_BlueFlower]

George wrote: "Does it maybe make a difference whether you are counting the books selected for future months or not? Perhaps that's the difference in count. I wouldn't count the future ones. ..."

Yes, that is the solution to the mystery, and I agree not to count them. I was just looking at the totals of the listropia page. The total for December is 201, so it was back in November, I made a mistake.

[George P.]

I plan to read A Room of One's Own in the next couple weeks, which will make 101 out of 205 (49.3%). I would like to move up a couple of the other dozen in the shelf which I haven't read but are in my next 200 to-reads, so I could get above 50%. Also want to try to read at least 2/3 of the future picks. Though not as high as many of you I think half is pretty good.

[Melanti]

J_BlueFlower wrote: "I wouldn't count the future ones. ..."

I'd never considered not counting them!
I start counting as soon as I know what they are.

[siriusedward]

Piyangie wrote: "Rosemarie wrote: "I am at 155 of 205 after 30+ years of dedicated reading and two years on goodreads. That makes it 76%, so I am getting close to 80%. Maybe in 2018.
There are a few books that I am..."

Mine too.And some more are there.I don't remember them just jow.

[Bat-Cat]

Updating "How Many Have You Read" for 2017:

1/1/16 ~ 34/130 ~ 26%
1/1/17 ~ 54/168 ~ 32%
1/1/18 ~ 66/201 ~ 33%

Happy Reading To All in 2018!!! :-)

[Bobbie]

As of 1/1/18, I'm counting 64/205 or 31%

[Jane]

Is there a way I can print out the bookshelf? I'm sooooo old school. 🙄

[Emily]

Terris wrote: "Well, I'm up to 170/201, which is 85%, with 15 on the list for 2018! So, I'm getting up there! And there are 12 that I don't even want to read. Of course, I've been working on this since high schoo..."

That is awesome! I just re-did my tally and I'm at 138/205 which is 67%. I feel pretty good about that but still have some work to do!

[Melanti]

Jane wrote: "Is there a way I can print out the bookshelf? I'm sooooo old school. 🙄"

There's no compact list, in one piece. The group has read enough by now that the names & authors no longer fit into a single post, and things like the group bookshelves & listopia aren't printable.

I have a list on my personal challenge thread - Posts 3 & 4 here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

You'll have to expand spoilers and copy/paste, and sort it (and perhaps delete my comments on some of the ones I refuse to read), but it's the most printable list that exists that I'm aware of.

[Katy, Old School Classics]

Jane wrote: "Is there a way I can print out the bookshelf? I'm sooooo old school. 🙄"

I wonder if there is a way to import it into a spreadsheet and print from there? I know I can do that with my own bookshelf. Let me work on this a bit and I'll see what I can come up with.

[Darren]

er... you can just print from your browser

the drop-down allows you to display up to 200, but you can just change that manually to 205 or greater so that they're all listed at once:
https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...
then er... print.

[Melanti]

Darren wrote: "er... you can just print from your browser

the drop-down allows you to display up to 200, but you can just change that manually to 205 or greater so that they're all listed at once: .."
True, though that's not very compact, so it'd waste a lot of paper & ink.

[Melanti]

Katy wrote: "I wonder if there is a way to import it into a spreadsheet and print from there? I know I can do that with my o..."

You could shelve & flag all the current & past group reads, export your bookshelves, and filter the shelves column for that tag. That'd be a lot of work, but it'd give all sorts of info - number of pages for the default edition, pub dates, etc.

[Katy, Old School Classics]

I might try it.

[Marilyn]

I typed the New School Shelf into a spreadsheet yesterday and it didn't take long. Keep in mind that I love to make lists so my concept of time may be different.

[J_BlueFlower]

Melanti wrote: "Katy wrote: "I wonder if there is a way to import it into a spreadsheet and print from there? I know I can do that with my o..."

You could shelve & flag all the current & past group reads, export ..."

A fast way to do this is to make a fake account, and click the “want to read” on the listopia list and then go though the rest of the steps. This way you skip the tagging each book, which is the time consuming part.

[Katy, Old School Classics]

Marilyn wrote: "I typed the New School Shelf into a spreadsheet yesterday and it didn't take long. Keep in mind that I love to make lists so my concept of time may be different."

Okay, wow.

[Darren]

the vanilla bookshelf listing (see message 626) Copies/Pastes easily into a spreadsheet btw

[Carlo]

I find making a note of the total number of unread books is useful because the % of read books can increase and you think you are doing well until you realise that the number of unread books has also gone up at the same time!

apr 17: 48/174 = 28%, unread = 126 (joined date)
dec 17: 92/201 = 46%, unread = 109

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

Trying to read the entire shelf is the definition of Catch-22, by the way it's a book on our shelf. We add forty books to the shelf each year, how does one stay even let alone catch up?

I average reading about 60 books per year. currently I have 42 unread books on our shelf. If I read nothing but our new books and those unread books, it will take two years to completely read our whole shelf.

I think the best goal is to pick a percentage of the shelf you would like to read, for me it's 85%, I've hit 80% once. I'm currently reading two group books, I should have them both finished in about 10 days, but on the first we add three. Resulting in a drop of one, leaving me at 43 books unread, when I'm at 42 now.

Unwinnable, but so much fun trying.

[Melanti]

Bob wrote: "We add forty books to the shelf each year, how does one stay even let alone catch up? ..."

I only manage to break even since I've read about half the group reads before they become group reads.

[Pink]

Yep me too, luckily we keep picking books I've already read!

[Maria]

I have just joined the group this month and definitely will be trying to catch up. It will be fun even though 100% is not a must for me since there are some books that I will definitely not read.

It is really nice to have a list of great books to check up when looking for something to read!

Many of the books I read a long time ago but so far I have only read 33 out of 201 :(

[Jane]

Thanks, all!

[Sara, New School Classics]

Like Melanti, I had read over half of the books before they became group reads--and it is still an impossible task to keep up. Realizing that should make us all just relax and enjoy them as we read them.

[Rosemarie]

I agree with you 100% Sara!

[Joseph]

71 as of 12/31/2017

--54 on 3/6/17

[Sara, New School Classics]

Wow, that is true progress, Joseph. Hope you enjoyed them all.

[Joseph]

Sara wrote: "Wow, that is true progress, Joseph. Hope you enjoyed them all." I definitely enjoyed MOST, and certainly none that I regret reading.

[Luke]

I've read 116/208 (56%), and currently plan to read 16 more.

[katie]

As of 12/2017

89/208 = 42.78%

I read a few this month, doing better than I thought, nice! I'm still hoping to do better this year and maybe get over 50%?

[Laurie]

January 1, 2018

132/205 or 64%

I will probably decrease my percent this year since I plan to focus more on books by women writers, and I'm not sure how many group reads I will attempt. Fortunately I've already read all of January's books, so I didn't fall behind any yet.

[[deleted user]]

So far I have read 42 of the books listed. I have read most of Dickens, Tolstoy, and Dostoyevsky. I just need to catch up on the "current classics" list. I also read a lot of history books which slows me down in the other categories. For example, I finished "Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943" by Antony Beevor. (I had read "Life and Fate" by Vasily Grossman, previously). Anyway, every reader knows that books spin a web which causes us to explore an ever-expanding list of books to read.

[Kathleen]

Don wrote: "So far I have read 42 of the books listed. I have read most of Dickens, Tolstoy, and Dostoyevsky. I just need to catch up on the "current classics" list. I also read a lot of history books which sl..."

That is so true about the web, Don. Someday I hope to say I've read most of Dickens, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky--I bet they enhance your history reading too!

[Pat the Book Goblin]

I’ve read exactly 60 on that list. I surprised myself!! I want to read at least 10 on that list this year including War and Peace, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Bleak House and a few shorter ones like the Pearl and the Awakening.

[George P.]

George wrote: "I plan to read A Room of One's Own in the next couple weeks, which will make 101 out of 205 (49.3%). I would like to move up a couple of the other dozen in the shelf which I haven't read but are in my next 200 to-reads, so I could get above 50%.."

I've done a new count and I'm now at 116 or 56% when I finish "If on a Winter's Night..."! [tied with Aubrey] I hadn't counted some of the shorts (because I don't usually mark those as "read" because they're not real "books". Also I'll have 3 out of 4 of the Feb reads because I've read a couple of them before.

[GW]

Just found this link so the actual number of books has changed since 2014, but I have read 132 of the current Goodreads books with several on the way. Why stop now, I'm having so much fun on GRs.

[Duane]

168 out of 208. 81%

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

168/208 - 40 unread as of 1/27/18 -

[Rosemarie]

171 out of 208

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

My hat is off, that is truly fantastic!