I don’t like this question because it forces me to question why I’m buying new books or requesting review copies when I have all these unread books …
Having said that, I didn’t buy as many new books last year. I also made an effort to only buy new books if I was going to read them right away (and I mostly succeeded).
Note: that only counts for paper books and paid eBooks, not free downloads. I will still download a free eBook if it looks interesting.
But back to the question: how many books are on my to-read pile?
My paperback to-read pile is about the same size as last year.
I bought two or three paperbacks last year that I haven’t read (although one is still stuck somewhere in the global supply chain, so I haven’t received it yet).
I have 87 books in my TBR folder on my Kindle.
Those are books I bought in 2021 or earlier (and paid for). There are another 211 books in the free folder on this Kindle (and who knows how many in the Kindle cloud).
I have 18 Kindle eBooks I bought in 2022 and haven’t yet read.
Oops, that’s more than I thought. A couple look like free books, so are perhaps they’re in the wrong folder.
One is a book I bought on someone else’s recommendation, started, but haven’t finished.
Three are books I edited (so I have already read them), and I bought the eBooks to support the author. I guess that’s only 15 I have to read …
So while my to-read pile is still ginormous, it has gone down this year:
I only (only!) have 17 books I’ve bought and haven’t read, but there are 40 books I have read from last year’s to-read pile. So my pile has decreased by 23 books.
That’s a win. (Well, I’m taking it as a win.)
So I have 105 eBooks to read, and an uncounted number of paperbacks.
