[suupaabaka]

I just took an inventory of the books sitting on my shelves that I have yet to read, and came up with 23.

To me, 23 books that I've bought and haven't yet read seems a bit extreme.

How about you? How big is your pile? :)

[Eventine]

Assuming my system is correct I have 42 purchased but unread books. I've not bought many books this year and read a lot, so I'd say towards the end of last year that number would've been closer to 60.

I don't see it as an issue - I'll get through them all eventually (assuming I don't get hit by a bus any time soon)

[Banger]

I don't know... 300?

[suupaabaka]

I don't know... 300?

You have 300 unread books on your shelf? That might take you a while to get through...

:eek:

[vicki_girl]

I don't a have a "To Read" pile...not enough disposible income. I do keep a list though. Right now it's 10 pages long, two columns. Of course my list includes every title in any series I'm interested in....

Doing a quick skim through, there's got to be at least 300.

[Michael B]

My list is a lot shorter than most; it is about 10 but it includes one that has not yet been printed and another that I am waiting to appear in paperback.

On the other hand, there is also list of rereads, say about 5.

[ArthurFrayn]

It's several hundred books.It's depressing.I'm looking at 5 years of reading when I look at my shelves. The only way I get around this, is to approach the pile merely as suggestions, subject to revision, at whimsy.To look at the pile as a must accomplish goal, just makes me want to sweep the lot of them in a box and put it out with the trash.
I do try to set up a loose agenda for the year, but newer, shinier books always creep in and bump others back.
I just had a big feeding frenzy that I haven't listed yet. It's highly likely a number of these new acquistions will be read this year over books that have been in the TBR pile for centuries.

[Archren]

Mine is about 120, bought but not read. Which means that if I totally ceased to acquire new books, I'd probably get through them in a year and a quarter, or so. But that is, I've come to realize, really unrealistic. I'm always going to get new books, even when I'm trying not to.

Still, at least I managed to keep the situation under control by NOT going to the LA Time Festival of Books over the weekend. Yea though it called to me, I sternly resisted the temptation. :)

After all, ReaderCon is coming up in only a couple months here. ;)

[FuzzBunneh]

I'd say mine is about fifty books, including classics, non-fiction and non-genre fiction. Of those fifty, I'd say about 30 of them are really on my to-read-in-the-near-future list; the twenty others (mostly classics) are just.. there, because I felt like buying them and "reading them before I die". I should have a bit of time before I need to start panicking.

Of the 30 on my real to-read list, I'd say I'm really looking forward to about 20 of them.

[Gildor]

I try and keep it hovering around the 15 to 20 mark, I then just select a book that fit my mood, and proceed from there. I then usually stock up every few months or so.