read every book I own

Total owned: 563
Total read: 222

For a result of: 39.4%

I’m tracking everything on Shelfari, too. 4 days ago

I read a couple of books, got rid of a few that I didn’t care for once I started reading them. Then I get notified by paperbackswap site that a few wishlist books were available for trade, so . . . more books. Instead of the amount decreasing, it’s gone up. But, in my defense, the books on their way to me look really good, including Garbage Land and James Patterson’s new book, Private: #1 Suspect (really looking forward to reading that one ASAP!).

At least the books I’m getting are from credit I already had on the site and didn’t cost anything. 4 days ago

I’ve just finished reading ‘Can You Keep A Secret’ by Sophie Kinsella last night.

The previous book was ‘Such A Perfect Sister’ by Donna Hay. Another good book. 1 week ago

I don’t have many books right now, as I moved across country, but have purchased a few new ones, so maybe I should start there since it’s not so overwhelming at this point.
Happy to say I finished one of them. Maybe this is a good idea for a big shelf of books: just pretend you only have one shelf of books to go through, get it done and then move on to the next shelf, or arrange them in such a way that you start with the books that appeal to you first. I guess any reading at this point is progress :) 2 weeks ago

In 2011 I got to Good Omens and The Journal Of Douglas Allen Deeds: The Donner Party Expedition (part of a box set of Dear America books).

So far this year, I’ve gone through A Game of Thrones. I’m working on the rest of the series; I ended up buy three more of them…I suppose I can count those towards this goal when I finish them. I’m hoping to get through one every two weeks, and at about 1000 pages for the trade paperback, I think I’ve already read more this month than I did in the last three or four months of 2011.

In other news, my list of owned and unread books keeps growing and growing. I have only myself to blame. It’s disappointing to know that my read to unread ratio is still out of whack. On the other hand, who can say no to more Sharpe books? (I feel a Sean Bean’s Characters appreciation marathon coming on…) 2 weeks ago

I organized all of my books on Goodreads.com and found that I have 288 books unread that I actually plan on reading in the future. (I was very bored at the time and probably should have been reading one of these books instead counting and listing!) Anyways, too many books unread for me to buy any more. These don’t even include the books that I’m currently reading; right now I’m in the middle of 5 different books. I like to bounce back in forth between different genres.

I’m in the middle of the following books:
- Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter, by Blaize Clement (cozy mystery)
- Sympathy for the Devil, edited by Tim Pratt (short stories, horror?)
- Nightmares and Dreamscapes, by Stephen King (short stories, horror)
- Heist Society, by Ally Carter (young adult)
- Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in the Happiest Kingdom on Earth, by Lisa Napoli (memoir) 2 weeks ago

It’s actually going well, have finished quite a few. Now if I could just stop buying more books I might actually complete this ‘Thing’ one day…. 3 weeks ago

Seven to go! 3 weeks ago

-Jonathan Stroud – Bartimaeus Trilogy
-Markus Zusak – The Book Thief
-Bernhard Schlink – The Reader
-Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray
-Jules Verne – Around the World in 80 days
-R. L. Stevensen – Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
-Charles Dickens – Great Expectations
-Herman Melville – Moby Dick
-William Goldman – The Princess Bride
-Frances Hodgson Burnett – The Secret Garden
-Patty Dann – Mermaids 4 weeks ago

how many books I had. Gladly, from the list I’ve already read “The picture of Dorian Gray” and “The importance of bein Earnest” by Oscar Wild. Still go to:

Oliver twist and Great expectations. by Charles Dickens

Emma,
Persuasion,
Mansfield park,
Sense and sensibility by Jane austen

Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky

Dracula – Bran stoker

Little women – Louisa May alcott

Madame bovary – Gustav Flaubert

Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf 18 months ago

8 free* books arrived on my doorstep today. Time to start reading again!

*Free Amazon vouchers courtesy of Swagbucks. 1 month ago

Total owned: 572
Total read: 221

For a result of: 38.6% 1 month ago

Lorenzo Carcaterra. Sleepers Nonfiction 3/5
Sara Paretsky. Total Recall Mystery 3/5
Daniel Trammet. Born on a Blue Day Memoir 3/5
David Hartwell, ed. Year’s Best Fantasy Fantasy 3/5
Glen Cook. The Black Company
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Reliquary Horror 3/5
Esther Friesner. Here Be Demons Fantasy 3/5
Marilynne Robinson. Gilead Fiction 4/5
Paul Collins. Banvard’s Folly Nonfiction 3/5
Daniel Keyes. The Minds of Billy Milligan Nonfiction 3/5 1 month ago

Well one surprising outcome of moving to London is that I find I suddenly have lots more time on my hands for reading. This is because I have a 45 minute commute to work and back on the tube every day – so that’s an hour and a half to read every day.

On top of that, having moved into a shared flat, I didn’t have room for all of my books in my new place, so I only brought the books I’ve never read and I have been working my way steadily through them. Since October I’ve read the first two Girl With a Dragon Tattoo novels, The Constant Gardener, Carrie Fisher’s autobiography, Naomi Wolf’s Promiscuities, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, PopCo, The Witch of Portobello, and probably others that I have forgotten. Once I’ve read all the ones currently on my bookcase, I’m considering treating myself to a Kindle! 1 month ago

This is going to be very difficult for me. At this point I have 68 books that I own and havn’t read. Also, my ratio of books I read to books I buy seems to be about 3 to 1. And this is only counting real books, not books I have on my kindle. I’ve decided not to include kindle books at all (sort of cheating, but whatever.)

So all I have to do is not buy anymore REAL books, and try to read more of the books I have on my shelf.

Or, I could give away some of the books I own, making the task easier. We’ll see… 1 month ago

ok so i have to make of list of books that i currently own and have not read… i havent made the list yet but that will help narrow it down.. then i have to read them.

3. read them!

4. and stop buying books! (i just bought the nicolas sparks book love story because i saw the preview for it and it looked like it might be good) 1 year ago

LIST OF BOOKS I OWN BUT HAVE NOT READ
1. American Psycho: Brett Easton Ellis
2. Battlefield of the Mind: Joyce Mayer
3. Bell Jar: Sylvia Plath
4. Buddhist Path to Simplicity: Christina Feldman
5. Circle of Friends: Maeve Binchy
6. Columnist: Jeffery Frank
7. Daughter of Time: Josephine Tey
8. Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff in Love: Richard and Christine Carlson
9. Fellowship of the Ring: JRR Tolkien
10. From the Corner of His Eyes: Dean Kootnz
11. Glory Field: Walter Dean Myers
12. Goodbye Mr Chip: James Hilton
13. Liquidation: Imre Kertesz
14. Lover: Marguerite Duras
15. Merrick: Anne Rice
16. Mona in the Promise Land: Gish Jen
17. Naked in Bagdad: Anne Garrels
18. Natasha: David Bezmozgis
19. Oral History: Lee Smith
20. Parched: Heather King
21. Sundiata: an Epic of Old Mali: D. T. Niane
22. Transit of Venus: Shirley Hazard
23. Wanderings: Siam Potok
24. You Shall Know Our Velocity!: Dave Eggers

PARAMETERS / TO DO LIST
1. Continue to update list of books (as needed)
2. Go through and read them (give away ones I don’t plan on rereading)
3. Limit books that I purchase (realistically I can’t say not to buy books) 1 month ago

Previous Parameters:
1. organize books into piles, read, need to read, already read but don’t plan on reading again so i am giving them away. have done all this, I have piles on the floor of my (which is probably not the best place to put it) but anyways this is done

2. post list of books online.. i have done this… I will be posting the updated list in a bit when I am done with this update

3. read them!I have read 13 books last year, not quite that good but yeah
The Beach House: James Patterson
Best of Court TV Cold Killers: David Jacobs
Bound Feet Western Dress: Pang-Mai Natasha Chang
Brave Eating Girl: Harriet Brown
Enough Already: Peter Walsh
The Happiness Project: Gretchen Rubin
The Last of the Savages: Jay McInerney
The Long Road Home: Danielle Steel
One Flew Over the Cuckcoo’s Nest: Ken Kesey
The Road from Coorain: Jill Ker Conway
The Sociopath Next Door: Martha Stout
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: David Sedaris
A Walk to Remember: Nicholas Sparks

4. stop buying books ok i did not do this at all.. I bought at least 5 of these books this year (of the ones I read) umm… so its not too too good… 1 month ago

of course I loved it… It is such a good book.. I must have read it in 2 or so days… so yeah… of course I cried 1 month ago

Well, this week I got rid of 3 books, but two I re-read before deciding to get rid of them. I feel like I more often report on this than reading books I actually keep…But each time I do this, it raises the percentage of books I still own that I’ve read, right? 1 month ago

I own so many books and I keep buying books, and there are books I’m re-reading (that I own) and…this is never ending. Maybe if I just list the books I own? I have too many books to read and not enough time! I’ll keep it at it. It’s going to take some time. 1 month ago

read this book mostly because of work. Its very interesting and puts a lot into perspective.. Very good read… 1 month ago

i counted and organized the 78 books on my bookshelf this morning…this could take some time!! 2 months ago