How many have you read? (Reading the books on our group bookshelf) Showing 1,101-1,150 of 1,453

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Karen Michele wrote: "I read most of the under 100 page stories/books on the list over the summer plus a few more of the longer ones, so I'm all the way up to 249 out of 272 or 91.45% read. I am counting books I have re..."

I agree. That's an amazing percentage. I also count any that I have ever read.

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Shakti Singh Rathore wrote: "45 completed from the shelf till August."

Great job!

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Amyjzed wrote: "I'm popping by to take a break from a lengthy assignment (some may say procrastinating...!) so:

- I've read parts of the Epic of Gilgamesh (I should read the whole thing... especially since I was ..."

I enjoyed reading your entire post. The verbiage was fine, hee hee. I teach middle school. We primarily focus in literature on short stories and read one novel a year together. Several other novels are required as independent reading. We are being pressed to push harder and harder books into lower grades and to accomplish this by using excerpts from larger texts. Personally, I find that frustrating. I would rather work with a complete short story like "The Possibility of Evil" by Shirley Jackson than use excerpts of books like Emma or Frankenstein. We are literally being pressured into teaching a Unit that pairs "Flowers For Algernon" the short story with selected chapters from Frankenstein. We start in two weeks. I will have to see how it goes.

[BAM doesn’t answer to her real name]

I'm staying consistent. I read a few and a few get added so I still have about 4 remaining to read from the list. I'm usually really lucky that what gets picked I've already read.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I've only read 59! But I do have most of the books shelved "To Read" or on my wish list.

I've read:

Night
Howards End
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Pillars of the Earth
The Cricket on the Hearth
The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories
Flowers for Algernon
The Secret History
Hamlet
A Room with a View
A Wizard of Earthsea
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
The Haunting of Hill House
Three Men in a Boat
Heart of Darkness
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Memoirs of a Geisha
A Wrinkle in Time
The Remains of the Day
In Cold Blood
The Lord of the Rings
Lord of the Flies
Animal Farm
The Metamorphosis
The Martian Chronicles
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Hobbit or There and Back Again
The Tell-Tale Heart
At the Mountains of Madness
Mrs. Dalloway
Love in the Time of Cholera
Peter Pan
The Invisible Man
The Secret Garden
The Handmaid's Tale
The Grapes of Wrath
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
To Kill a Mockingbird
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Brave New World
Frankenstein
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
A Study in Scarlet
1984
Fahrenheit 451
The Caine Mutiny
The War of the Worlds
The Maltese Falcon
Rebecca
A Christmas Carol
The Great Gatsby
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Dracula
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Time Machine
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

I liked some of those more than others, but I would agree that they are all classics (or, in the case of the more modern books, on their way to becoming classics).

[Sandra]

I only gave a quick look, but it seems I read 46 of them.

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Sandra and RJ you are both at a good place, and I envy all the great reading you have ahead of you.

[J_BlueFlower]

I recently read
Antigone
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The Magic Shop
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Pale Fire
The Happy Prince

total 154 read and 121 unread (including November’s books) out of 275. That is 56.0%

[Piyangie]

I've read only 94 at present. There are few books from the shelf that I'll be reading in the next few months. Hopefully I can pass 100 soon. :)

[Kay]

I've read 89! But have to admit that many were read long, long ago and I don't really remember them. Several of them were started but not finished. Just curious, who put this list together and how were the more contemporary choices chosen? It's an excellent list.

[Laurie]

Kay wrote: "I've read 89! But have to admit that many were read long, long ago and I don't really remember them. Several of them were started but not finished. Just curious, who put this list together and how ..."

Kay, these are all books our group has read as a winner of a monthly poll, So all books were chosen by group voting. If you go to the group bookshelf, it shows what month and year each book was read by the group.

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Kay wrote: "I've read 89! But have to admit that many were read long, long ago and I don't really remember them. Several of them were started but not finished. Just curious, who put this list together and how ..."

Yes, Laurie gave a good explanation. One more thing, you can vote in the polls for future books to read. There is also a nomination process, that I find a lot of fun, that is about to start on 10/1.

[Lynn, New School Classics]

July 2018 67/227 = 29.5%
July 1, 2019 114 /266 = 42.9%
Aug 1, 2019 119/269 = 44.24%
Oct. 1, 2019 123/275 = 44.7 %

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Idit wrote: "I got confused few times while counting, but I believe I’m at the exciting number of 99 books from your list"

Idit have you broken 100 yet??

About counting, it takes a little time to set up, but I have a shelf called "Catching-up-with-classics" and now when I finish a new group read it goes on that shelf. It takes a little time at the beginning to set up, but makes things much easier for me in the long run.

If any of you are using a desktop version of Goodreads rather than the app, you might like to vote on our Listopia.

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...

[Cleo]

Lynn wrote: "

Excellent Cleo! That is a nice percentage of the list."

Thanks, Lynn! I should shelve them like you mentioned above. Great idea!

[Pink]

Dec 2017 146/205, 71%
Mar 2019 180/253 71%
Oct 2019 191/273 70%

My percentage is starting to slip!

[Sue]

Pink wrote: "Dec 2017 146/205, 71%
Mar 2019 180/253 71%
Oct 2019 191/273 70%

My percentage is starting to slip!"

Dang Pink! I know that will happen to me soon. It gets harder and harder to keep it moving it at the higher percentages. When that starts happening it's good to focus on how many you've increased it by. You read 11 since May. That's great!

[Sue]

Lynn wrote: "July 2018 67/227 = 29.5%
July 1, 2019 114 /266 = 42.9%
Aug 1, 2019 119/269 = 44.24%
Oct. 1, 2019 123/275 = 44.7 %"

That's great progress Lynn!

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Sue wrote: "Lynn wrote: "July 2018 67/227 = 29.5%
July 1, 2019 114 /266 = 42.9%
Aug 1, 2019 119/269 = 44.24%
Oct. 1, 2019 123/275 = 44.7 %"

That's great progress Lynn!"

Thanks Sue. You're right about the challenge of keeping up a percentage. My goal is reach 50% and try to stay there. It's slow going.

[Aprilleigh]

I was at 57/240 or 24% at the end of 2018, so my goal was to reach 30% by the end of 2019. I stopped keeping track in February because I was still at 24% and it was a little depressing (to be fair, I had a lot going on the first half of this year).

So this morning I take another look and find I'm at 105/278 (the 278 titles on our shelf include everything selected through the end of 2019). That's almost 38%!

I have another 6 titles on my list for this month alone (2 are short stories in a collection I'll likely finish today). I haven't decided what I'm reading for December yet, but it looks like I'll easily hit 40% by the end of 2019. Yay!

[BAM doesn’t answer to her real name]

For some reason I keep sticking to about needing to read five books to be at 100%. I’m about 60% through Lonesome Dove, and I have two books on the shelf that will not hold my star 🌟 ratings. Does anyone else have that problem?

[Aprilleigh]

BAM wrote: "For some reason I keep sticking to about needing to read five books to be at 100%. I’m about 60% through Lonesome Dove, and I have two books on the shelf that will not hold my star 🌟 ratings. Does ..."

Weird. I can't say I've had that problem, but I ran into one the other day that just would not hold the date I finished reading it. It shows up only if it's in a list, but not on the book's main page (or in the review if I edit it).

[BAM doesn’t answer to her real name]

A hats an outstanding increase in your statistic! Great job

[BAM doesn’t answer to her real name]

I’m having difficulty tracking down a cheap copy of Joan of Arc. Any suggestions?

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Aprilleigh wrote: "I was at 57/240 or 24% at the end of 2018, so my goal was to reach 30% by the end of 2019. I stopped keeping track in February because I was still at 24% and it was a little depressing (to be fair,..."

24% to 38%!! Way to go. That is a huge increase. Congratulations on surpassing your goal of 30%.

[Rosemarie]

I don't know if you read ebooks, BAM, but it's available as an ebook for 99 cents on an ipad.

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

BAM wrote: "I’m having difficulty tracking down a cheap copy of Joan of Arc. Any suggestions?"

Free online
In two volumes on Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2874
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2875

You can find it free elsewhere also.

[Terris]

I just got it for free on Amazon. It came as Volume 1 & Volume 2.

[BAM doesn’t answer to her real name]

Thanks everyone!

[Lynn, New School Classics]

My goal for 2020 is to reach the point where I have read 50% of the books from our Group Bookshelf and to hold it at least at 50%. I also want to try to read 40 books from the bookshelf, either existing books or new ones.

July 2018 67/227 = 29.5%
July 1, 2019 114 /266 = 42.9%
Aug 1, 2019 119/269 = 44.24%
Oct. 1, 2019 123/275 = 44.7 %
Nov. 30, 2019 126/278 = 45.3%

[Jazzy]

1 Dec 2019
120 for sure, although I think I read a few more.
:)

[J_BlueFlower]

I recently read
A Christmas Memory
The End of the Affair
The Dead
total 159 read and 123 unread (including January’s books) out of 282. That is 56.4%

[George P.]

I've now read 147 and am working on The Mill on the Floss for 148, so apparently I'm at 52%. My percentage slipped a bit from March; i'll try to stay above 50%.

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

I am still holding at about 80% but it is harder to hold it. I don't have a group read on my December reading, that could change, so this is my year end numbers-

229/282 - 53 unread as of 12/2/19 - 81.20%

[BAM doesn’t answer to her real name]

I have three books remaining! Finally got over that 5 book hump. I also found copies of those three books so I'll be caught up soon I hope. I've been fighting this shelf all year long

[Ryan]

I've read 67 (24%) with 6 on my list for 2020.

[Darren]

I can do my "year end" report now,

since I last reported 53.9% in mid-August:

3 more have been chosen that I'd already read (easy life!):
Valley Of Fear, The Dead, Utopia

2 read with group:
A Pair Of Blue Eyes, The End Of The Affair

4 Catch-Up:
20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Midnight's Children, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Vanity Fair

154/278 = 55.4%

[Sara, Old School Classics]

My last check in February, I was at 189/250 - 75.6%

Today I am 217/278 - 78.5%

I seem to hang pretty steady in the 75-80 percentile. Unfortunately, the number of reads I need to catch up is growing. I have 44 books on the list that are on my TBR. I have 17 books that I do not intend to read. I hope this next year I can cut the number down. I will have to try to read with the group steadily and also cut off some of the ones that I have already missed. Well, perhaps some of those will make the Revisit the Shelf picks.

[Laurie]

I will do an end of year check in. I was at 61% on my last check in on 1/1/19

I've read 173/278 or 62%. I have a fair number of books and short stories already on our shelf slated for 2020 so maybe I can improve my percentage. We'll see how I do with the new group reads.

[Joseph]

100 of 282 (35%) as of 12/30/2019
(nice tidy number to end the year)

-- 81 of as of 12/31/2018
-- 71 as of 12/31/2017
-- 54 as of 3/6/17

[Sue]

My Quarterly/year-end update:

June 2016 14/148 - 9% (when I started the group)
Dec 2016 44/168 - 26%
Dec 2017 85/201 - 42%
Dec 2018 137/244 - 56%
Sept 2019 168/269 - 62%
Dec 2019 180/278 - 65%

I can't believe I'm still able to increase my %. Like Lynn, my original goal was to reach and maintain 50% by reading the short story group read and one other group read a month.

[Sara, Old School Classics]

Congratulations, Joseph. It is a nice, tidy number.

Sue--Wow, you have made some marvelous progress from 9% to 65%! My numbers barely change now that have reached the 70 percentile. New books get added at about the same pace that I tick old ones off, so I remain pretty static.

[Sue]

Sara wrote: "Congratulations, Joseph. It is a nice, tidy number.

Sue--Wow, you have made some marvelous progress from 9% to 65%! My numbers barely change now that have reached the 70 percentile. New books get ..."

Thank you Sara. I can't believe it myself. Keeping static is great at higher percentages. I'm so curious about which books on the list you won't ever consider reading.

[Sara, Old School Classics]

I wouldn't never consider them, but they are so far down on my list I doubt I would live long enough to get to them:

You will see a trend here, Verne and Wells have been tried and are not favorites for me:
The War of the Worlds
Around the World in Eighty Days
The Island of Dr. Moreau
From the Earth to the Moon
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The Invisible Man

I attempted this one and ditched it, maybe Asimov is above my intelligence level:
Foundation

because I don't seem to enjoy this kind of book:
Siddhartha
Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Another author I have tried and not liked:
The Call of Cthulhu
The Left Hand of Darkness

A little too old to want to visit these for the first time:
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Mary Poppins
Matilda
The Jungle Book (maybe this one, if there is time)

I hated Lolitta enough to never give him another try:
Pale Fire

Neither of these sounded appealing to me and then I read a good number of negative reviews. I'm thinking not:
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

[Sue]

Sara wrote: "I wouldn't never consider them, but they are so far down on my list I doubt I would live long enough to get to them:

You will see a trend here, Verne and Wells have been tried and are not favorite..."

Most of the ones you mention, I'm not very interested in either. I would never had wanted to read Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea but for its prominence in All the Light We Cannot See. I purchased it way back when I read that years ago, but never got around to it. I hope to get to it next year.

I did love The Invisible Man, but I don't think I'll like many more of Wells'. I finished If on a Winter's Night a Traveler and found it a frustrating experience. I also finished Siddhartha and Thus Spoke and didn't like them very much.

For the most part, I'm not interested in Children's books as an adult either. I never vote for new ones and haven't read most of the ones on the shelf. That being said, The Secret Garden and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland blew me away. I loved those two so much.

[Terris]

I finally got my count to come out right with the Bookshelf's numbers and I am at: 247/282 = 88%!!
I am about to finish For Whom the Bell Tolls and I just started The Lord of the Rings, so I'll have a couple more to add on soon!

Some of the ones that I may try to catch up on are:
Villette
Utopia
A Pair of Blue Eyes
The Idiot
Ben Hur

And maybe:
Pale Fire
Walden

And the rest -- Forget It!

We'll see.... ;)

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

I currently have 52 unread group books. Of those 17 are of no real interest to me at all. That still leaves 35 to read. I have accepted the fact that I will never completely read the shelf.

[Sara, Old School Classics]

Yes, the hard part was admitting that I would never be 100% and making myself believe that I should be fine with that. Only 35 to read is awesome, Bob.

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

I might be able to deal with 35 but we will add 40 more this year. I need to hope I can tread water and be happy to still be at 52 unread this time next year.

[Terris]

Bob wrote: "I might be able to deal with 35 but we will add 40 more this year. I need to hope I can tread water and be happy to still be at 52 unread this time next year."

I'm just hoping that I've read all the new ones that get put on the list in 2020! ;)