I have 1231 titles to read

I guess I won't get them all done this year. Actually, reading them all is a bucket list item for me. Still, I want to start in earnest and would appreciate all the support I can get. I don't intend to set numerical goals for the year. I will try not to buy anything new or read anything new, at least for the rest of this year.

Welcome to the ROOTers, David.

I found in the past years setting a goal for my self is very stimulating to try and reach that goal. So maybe it could help you too.

Good to find someone with a taller TBR pile than me, though I'm still buying books so am likely to catch up soon. According to LibraryThing I have 1226 books to read!

Good luck with the reading and ROOTing.

Oh. I didn't realise people actually added all their books. I've only added (some of) the books I've read.
Crikey, it could take me months to get all of them entered. I might be better off spending the time reading some!
Historically I have probably bought / read books in about 8 : 1 ratio which is a shame as I feel guilty just looking at my over stacked shelves.

>4 myleslee: You don't have to enter them all at the same time. It took me a few months to do so. But I loved adding them with as much information for Common Knowledge as I could find. And by handling everyone of them I found some books I did not remember owning. It could be fun, but it is not a thing you have to do. You could only add the ones you are reading.

>4 myleslee: I added all my books, even the ones to be read. That way I know what books are available for me to read!

Welcome to the group coach and happy rooting! Many of us are in the same situation!

I've added all that I own: print, electronic, audio, and visual. I gave audio and visual materials their own currently, to, done categories. I add borrowed books, print or electronic, that I am reading. I have added - and I'd would be interested in feedback to this - music that I am "borrowing" - music streaming on Spotify or Amazon. For some reason, I don't add records for movies I borrow or stream to Library Thing, though nowadays I guess I could.
Anyway, I input to this forum will be only for paper books, e-books, and audiobooks.

Always nice to see someone with a similarly-sized TBR! (Mine is about 1,350!) Good luck this year, can't wait to see what treasures you find on your shelves!

David, do you have a goal in mind? A certain number each month?

I didn't intend to make one. I've seen the others in this group, though, and have begun possibilities. I am afraid of setting goals because I have a bad habit of not keeping them. I am trying very hard to come up with goals that I will be able to meet. I haven't been realistic enough in the past but I should know my reading abilities by now.

I do it this way.

Last year I read a total of 75 books.
My ROOT goal was 24 ROOTS
I read 44 ROOTS and those extra ROOTS counted for the group total. There are always members that start but lose interest and they don't return to the group.
So you could set a modest goal and read past it. But, hey, there are no rules in this group. If you don't feel comfortable with setting goals it is perfectly all right to go ahead and just enjoy the reading!

>12 connie53: I second Connie's suggestion of setting a modest goal and reading past it. That's what I do :)

I do love seeing people with even more books on the TBR shelves than I have! Makes me feel a little better about my own -- what is it now? -- 873.

(And I think it took me a full month to catalog all my books on LT when I first joined. It was worth it, though. It's a very, very handy way to keep track of what books I own, and what I have and haven't read..)

I made on Excel a complicated grid based on four major categories and the number of titles I have in each. Here is my first round. It looks neat. The other rounds will be more complicated. I let Library Thing pick the titles, signing off, then on, and choosing what popped up in random titles. I expect to finish them reasonably quickly, despite the presence of a famous chunkster. I am not going to predict how many I will get done this year.

Genre Fiction J. M. Dillard Specters
Ramsey Campbell Obsession
Literature Victor Hugo Les Miserables
Nonfiction Philip Henry Sheridan Personal memoirs of P.H. Sheridan, General United States Army
Graphic Novels John Constantine, Hellblazer : original sins

I just realized something. I own several e-book anthologies of the complete works of authors such as Joseph Conrad, H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, etc. I intended to count any work originally published as a separate volume as a separate work. That means, I think, that I have a lot more books to read than I first estimated.

I would count them separately too, David. How many books do you have if you count them?

I had considered figuring that out and now I will. I may need a week to a month to finish this project, or maybe a dull day.

When I read in the Delphi Shakespeare, I made separate entries for each play I finished. I think I will do the same to the books in the other Delphi titles, perhaps then deleting the entry for each anthology as a whole, since I probably won't read every title in them.

I have considered doing this for my Library of America titles, but I think that would be wrong, since they aren't often longer that Dickens or Hugo.

>6 Tess_W: oh definitely me too! That way, I can check my LT catalog when I'm in a bookstore to make sure I'm not buying a duplicate... every once in a while I forget if I already own it :-o

>14 bragan: me too ;) And I probably have about the same # as you do...

Also, Welcome, Coach, & Happy ROOTing!

Thank you! Nice to know you are ROOTing for me!

>20 Coach_of_Alva: hee hee.. :-}

My list for 2016:
J.M. Dillard Specters
Ramsey Campbell Obsession
Victor Hugo Les Miserables
Leslie S. Klinger, editor The new annotated H. P. Lovecraft
David West Shakespeare's Sonnets
Philip H. Sheridan Personal Memoirs
Fritz A. Buckallew A Pitcher's Moment: Carl Hubbell and the Quest for Baseball Immortality
Paul Jenkins John Constantine Hellblazer 9
Amy Stewart Girl Waits with Gun
John Wyndham The Midwich Cuckoos
Mark Twain Prince and the Pauper
Stanislaw Lem Solaris
William C. Davis A Government of Our Own : the Making of the Confederacy
Ella Leffland The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Minette Walters The Breaker
Malcolm Lowry Under the Volcano
Tim Pat Coogan Michael Collins: The Man Who Made Ireland
Michael Mignola Hellboy in Hell: The Descent
Tom Piccirilli A Lower Deep
Eugene Ionesco Exit the King
Anton Chekhov The Darling and Other Stories
Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games
Ellen Datlow Lovecraft's Monsters
Douglas Southall Freeman Lee's Lieutenants. Vol. 2, Cedar Mountain to Chancellorsville
Giuseppe Lampedusa The Leopard
Franz Kafka The Castle

That's a great list, David!
I recognize a lot but have only read books by two of your writers, Minette Walters and Suzan Collins. I like them both very much. So enjoy!

Looks like a great list - good luck w/ it!

Thank you both. I repeatedly logged in and out of the Library Thing site and chose unread titles that appeared in the section that showed random picks from my library.

Looks like a great list! I just read the Midwich Cuckoos last month and liked it.

Thanks for the encouragement. I saw the George Sanders movies based on it and am excited to read the book.

I am in some trouble. I am stuck on my chunker, Les Miserables. I am two thirds along and I do want to finish it. I have run into one digression too many. I have been trying to read them in order. I will instead in the order I please. I will handle my chunker by reading two hours in it on two days in a week, faster when I am past the digressions. Otherwise, I have finished the two 1980's horror thrillers at the top of the list and found them disappointing. I need to devote separate nights to West's Shakespeare and Klinger's Lovecraft, both of which I am far into.

>28 Coach_of_Alva: sounds like you have a good plan laid out for finishing the chunkster! Good luck w/ that and your digressions! :)

Thanks!

>28 Coach_of_Alva: good plan, Coach!

It was a great plan I wish I had carried it out. I have made a "No YouTube" resolution for this year so maybe my 2017 ROOTing will end up less embarrassing.

The final pathetic results:
1 Judge Dredd Classics: The Dark Judges John Wagner Various Artists ***1/2
2 Specters J.M. Dillard ***
3 Obsession Ramsey Campbell ***
4 Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson Scott Brick, narrator *****
5 Almayer's Folly Joseph Conrad ***
6 Outcast of the Islands Joseph Conrad ***
7 Nigger of the "Narcissus" Joseph Conrad ****
8 Complete Voodoo Vol. 1 Craig Yoe, editor, designer ***
9 Pietr the Latvian Georges Simenon David Bellos, translator ***
10 Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift David Hyde Pierce, narrator *****
11 Carter of 'La Providence' Georges Simenon David Coward, translator ***1/2
12 At the Mountains of Madness H. P. Lovecraft Edward Herrmann, narrator ****1/2
13 Late Monsieur Gallet Georges Simenon Anthea Bell, translator ****
14 Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien Georges Simenon Linda Coverdale, translator ****
15 Man's Head Georges Simenon David Coward, translator ****1/2
16 Herzog Saul Bellow Malcolm Hillgartner, translator ****
17 King James Version Audio Bible: The Book of 2 Kings Zondervan, publisher Richard McGonagle, narrator ****1/2
18 Cure of Souls Phil Rickman ***1/2
19 Dracula Bram Stoker Full Cast *****
20 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad Kenneth Branagh, narrator *****
21 Lamp of the Wicked Phil Rickman ***1/2
22 Prayer of the Night Shepherd Phil Rickman ****
23 At the Mountains of Madness H. P. Lovecraft William Roberts, narrator ****
24 Red Tree Caitlin R. Kiernan Katherine Kellgren and others, narrators ****
25 Christmas Carol Charles Dickens Tim Curry, narrator *****

Twenty-five books is very good, and it looks like many of them were very good, as well!

Thank you for the kind words. I hope next year is better for both of us.