An idea I got from The Toddled Dredge (via K for Kat). Here’s what she said:
“So here today I present to you an Unread Books Challenge. Give me the list or take a picture of all the books you have stacked on your bedside table, hidden under the bed or standing in your shelf – the books you have not read, but keep meaning to. The books that begin to weigh on your mind. The books that make you cover your ears in conversation and say, ‘No! Don’t give me another book to read! I can’t finish the ones I have!’ “
I just posted photos similar to these recently, but there’s no harm in putting them up again! This is only a tiny fraction of my total TBRs. Last I counted I had about 60 here. In total I have listed on LT here 337 if you’d like to take a look and scold me about what I haven’t read and totally should (please do, those piles are intimidating!), but that doesn’t include all the books that have arrived at home since I left. I’m sure I’m not alone with my TBR mountain range though!
Here are my shelves (including my DS, PSP, and a couple of PC games if any of my readers are gamers):
And my little TBR pile, which are supposedly the books I’m reading next.
I haven’t been doing so well with the little TBR pile. At least it feels that way; I read 6 books that weren’t on it last week! Now I’m just hoping to finish the two I’m reading before tomorrow night so I can take a couple off the top for my trip. My reading at home will be all ARCs. I’m not going home again for six months, but my parents are coming to visit me somewhere in between, so I’ll definitely be supplementing these 60 with books from my huge stacks there.
Do you have crazy unread piles too?
I highly, highly recommend The Tea Rose! And I’ve been meaning to pick up The Luxe, too.
I find some great reads there!
Here is my BTT post!
gautami tripathy’s last blog post..Booking through must read unreads!
Well, I say you definitely have some great books there but I know what you mean whith those piles of them waiting on the shelves for their turn. I have some 400 books on my shelves unread and each and every one of them is the one I absolutely have to read next, lol!
lilly’s last blog post..June Reads
Nice photos! But that reminds me – somewhere I’ve got a copy of Shadow of Colossus that I was supposed to read and review, but never got around to (shame on me). Guess I really need to keep a closer eye on my TBR pile.
JLS Hall’s last blog post..Booking Through Thursday: Curse of the Unread?
Yup…I do. And it only keeps getting crazier, lol.
I spot Everything Is Illuminated! That’s one of my all-time favourites.
Nymeth’s last blog post..Salamander Dream by Hope Larson
Yes, I do have crazy unread piles, so I can totally relate. I keep bringing more in too!
Kathy’s last blog post..Blog Improvement Project – Mid Year Review
Yes! My piles are so out of control! I don’t even dare do this challenge, and to tell you the truth, I can’t. Most of my older TBR piles are back on the mainland in boxes in a storage unit. Thanks for sharing yours. It does make me feel better to see so many other people “hoarding” books!
Becky’s last blog post..Rejuvenate & Renew Challenge Update: 7/6 to 7/12 and a Giveaway!
You have some great titles there!
Janet’s last blog post..Booking Through Thursday: Unread
I definitely have a TBR that’s out of control. I’m sure I won’t read them in this lifetime, but I’m having fun
Yvonne’s last blog post..Booking through Thursday – Unread
Oh yes, I have crazy piles too! I stopped counting because I got scared when I realized that it would take me a few of years to read those… not counting the ones I keep buying! I comfort myself with the idea that, in the event of a gigantic disaster I will have something to read for a while!
Kay’s last blog post..BTT + What’s on your desk?
I got a small stack of DS Lite & PSP games on the bottom of my bookshelf as well. It fits there so snugly
uncertainprinciples’s last blog post..Booking Through Thursday – Unread
I don’t feel so bad now.. I bet you and I are neck and neck in our TBR Mountain Race.
Marie Burton’s last blog post..Friday Fill-In- Guess the Queen
My husband suggested I take a photo of our house from the outside for this meme with a caption saying that this was the only way I could fit all my unread books in one photo. I seem to add faster to my collection than I can read them.
Literary Feline’s last blog post..Short Story Saturday: "Asal" & "Better Half" by Sana Krasikov
Mine’s up to 245; I hope to have some pictures of it by next week.
There are some books in your piles I really enjoyed (Bonk, The Tea Rose, The History of Love, Everything is Illuminated, The Mists of Avalon, The Meaning of Night), quite a few which are also on my TBR pile, and only a few that I wasn’t crazy about (The Road, which isn’t bad, but which is I think overrated; and Jean Plaidy’s Katherine book, which I think I read in a compendium and found kind of boring, but then I don’t much care for Plaidy’s prose.)
Fyrefly’s last blog post..Ian McEwan – On Chesil Beach
Yep, crazy piles here too!
Beth F’s last blog post..Where Are You? / Teaser Tuesday (July 14): Inventing Montana by Ted Leeson
The amount of unread book I have waiting for me is seriously embarrassing. If only there were enough hours in the day to read them all, I would be a happy girl!
Zibilee’s last blog post..The Gilded Chamber by Rebecca Kohn – 384 pages
I posted a picture of my pile too. It could’ve been bigger, but I was afraid it would topple over and injure someone.
Have fun!