TBR Mountain Decimation Challenge

[Scarlet]

I was reading this topic and was like 'is it even possible to read so many books in a lifetime?' I like to keep my TBR as small as possible, in fact until I started the 100 fantasy book challenge my TBR was only 10 or 11 books, now it's 34 and I think it's a lot, how can you do it?? I mean when you finish a book and want to choose the next..do you view all thousand and something books or just pick randomly??

[Amanda]

Sometimes I look through my tbr pile and request ten or more from the library. I choose based on the genre, average ratings, and availability from the library.

It would probably be less time-consuming to just pick randomly.

I envy you your 34 books ;)

[Rachel]

I was doing this challenge before, not in this group, but I think I may tranfer my list here sometime in the near future. It needs to be updated with some books I added to my GR TBR list, but I don't currently own those recently added books. Maybe I'll start next year or at least after school ends this semester.

[Scarlet]

Amanda, I took a look on your TBR, and noticed that you tend to add the whole series, take my advice and only add the first book, if you liked it add the second and when you finish the second add the third and so on..this will help a lot, because there is a big chance you won't like the series or just change your mind after three or four books, and then you won't have to hunt down the remaining books to remove them..also when you choose a book to read don't depend on ratings because then you will end up with the lowest rated books ever and you will not feel like reading them but would be reluctant to remove them and you end up with a thousand and something TBR..don't envy me, my TBR will probably grow with time, hopefully I'd keep it manageable at least

[Becky]

27 books on my TBR as of now. Although, thats misleading. Those are books that I've come across on Goodreads and though "oh that looks interesting." I'm also doing our 100 Best Fantasy Books of all time, and trying to read through the Nebula/Hugo Awards and SF Masterlists for kicks and giggles. So, estimating here. I'd say I have 200 books tbr if you don't count sequels (which I dont, too depressing otherwise). Thats an adequate level for me, and sometimes I just go out and randomly pick a book. I try not to let the virtual tbr bother me too much :D but its always nice to know that there is something there!

[Hélène]

I'm doing the 100 Best Fantasy Books challenge too, hoping to "decimate" my TBR : I counted I had read 42 of them and had a dozen more on the TBR. So that's my first goal with this challenge - killing two birds with one stone.

[Maggie]

my tbr is heading toward 300

ugh...I forget now what I said I would do, but obviously I am not doing whatever it was...lol

[Louise]

wow - my owned TBR is around 900 books... 90 might be a little too much for me to read in a year.

[Jason]

LOL. You're set for some time, then, Louise! I have a huge list, too. Not just here at GR, either. I probably have close to the same number in ebooks and physical books.

[carol. , Senor Crabbypants]

How's everyone doing? Feel free to take a book off the list and nominate it for monthly reads, if it hasn't been read before.

[Valerie]

Well, it's kind of like a hydra...

[Sharon]

Carol wrote: "How's everyone doing? Feel free to take a book off the list and nominate it for monthly reads, if it hasn't been read before."

Would you believe I am actually dealing with a TBR stack (though a virtual one mostly) for the first time in my life? Never had one before ... can't remember any time I have ever had a book that was unread in my house for longer than maybe 2 weeks ... I have now had one paperback for 2 weeks I haven't touched, 3 library books out of a dozen from the library trip almost a month ago ... 4 in my Kindle on the library download and 6 more on the TBR in my Kindle.

KINDLE and the INTERNET has done this to me! After a lifetime of no TBRs ... NO FAIR!

[carol. , Senor Crabbypants]

Ha, Sharon... yes, that was my experience before starting GR--I never had a TBR list, just a list of books I was waiting to come out ("next book released July 2012"). Then I joined GR and got lots and lots of great ideas, and now have a TBR list that is probably over 200 books. It's kind of a fun problem to have.

[Bill]

Not well at all... I am reading books from the stacks, but addiing more than I'm reading.

[Hélène]

Kernos wrote: "Not well at all... I am reading books from the stacks, but addiing more than I'm reading."

Yes, that's the Danaides'torment in reverse. I bail the bath by drops and fill it by buckets! Having at last started reading Sullivan's Crown Conspiracy, I was so pleased with myself... until I had a passing thought of buying the five next ones! No doubt he would be glad to hear it, but that doesn't help with the Mountain Decimation :(
Oh, well... :)

[Sheila]

I keep thinking, if only no new books would be published for 6 months or a year, then I could catch up! But the though of no new books makes me panic, so yeah. :P

[Valerie]

I think I've plateaued at 140 tbr-available (at home/at libraries)/35 tbr-owned at any one time. :/ There's also a 25-cent rack at my library that can double as a book exchange... at one point when the library was closing a librarian literally stuffed an Alice Hoffman and V.C. Andrews in my hands, and I have no idea how to file them.

My mountain is a book volcano that continuously spews book lava. Whyyyy.