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How many books are on your TBR pile?

How many books are on your TBR pile?

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Goodreads – 220
On hold at 2 libraries – 20
Hard books at home 10

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Emily

My physical one about 40. My Goodreads one over 1,000. Lol.

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Colleen

I have over a thousand! I know I will never read all these but I can try! ?

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Nettie

it is always good to have a back up plan, lol

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Donna

A bunch!

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Ruth

100’s. Between what I own, and Goodreads. Plus, I have a notebook I write down other recommendations…

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Colleen

I have a notebook too for Rec’s I want to check out.

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Missy

I’ve been screenshotting all of the recommendations on this page plus others and made a album on my camera called Library so I can look them up later.

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Emily

@Missy I do the same thing.

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Electra

Wayyyy to many to count!! And I added 3 more ?

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Barbara

A millionty-seven

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Donna

Lol?

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Marla

155 at the moment.

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Marla

I know @Linda I know. I see them on here and think “oh that looks like I would want to read it”. And off I go and add it to the ever growing list.

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Bev

About 80 and then I started a “might want to read” list for when I am done with those…. about 75 on that list

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Autumn

Physical books- 32
Ebooks- 13
Goodreads- too many!

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CarolAnne

Stopped counting years ago!

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David

30

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Sharyn

About 200 last time I counted. 🙂

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Jeannine

184 ???

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Bonnie

I don’t even add more books to my tbr shelf on Goodreads anymore, my working list is my hold list at the Free Philadelphia library and the max I can put on hold is ten.

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Cindy

Pile?!?!? I don’t have a pile – I have TBR shelves, more than one actually LOL :).

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Onix

Too many, even on my shelf I don’t know the exact number. I have a bookshelf where the top 3 shelves are all to be read (front and back of the shelves) , plus a pile on a stand next to my bed, a pile on the floor, a couple on my bed, a couple that I brought with me to work, the 5 that I just got from penguins first to read emails and that’s not including my good reads list

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Miki

Recently I bought two shelves for my TBR.

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Nettie

About 24 in my immediate list, 125 on a wish list, and growing. this is why I will only read what I enjoy and can quickly let go ones that don’t grab me, I won’t waste my time on a “struggle”

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Rosanne

More than 200 – time for some purging! I find books on it from 3 years ago and when I look at them I wonder why I ever put them on my TBR in the first place!

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Sabrina

80+

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Gina

Around 200 and I have quit buying so many until I get it at least down to 100.

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Leah

…over 3000.

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Cheryl

Too many lol

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Debra

Kinda like my weight, it ‘fluctuates’ depending on who’s asking. 😀 😀

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Christy

Too many to count… And they’re physical books I own!

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Sandra

Don’t ask, don’t tell.

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Brandy

Lost count ?

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Debra

Over 1000 e-books!

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Moh

132

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Kayrene

300 + in five stacks.

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Margarita

Honestly…..I am afraid to check

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Beverly

Depends on which room i’m in.

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Jerry

Enough to get me thru a 6 month Blizzard. I hope anyway……

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Holly

2000+

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Marianne

175 that I actually own – about 300 in total

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Kimberly

17

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Deborah

Way too many!

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Ματη

Almost 3000.

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Emily

Too many to count ?‍♀️

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Maria

Too many too even try and count! I swear I add to it daily!

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Anita

I graduated from a pile to two six foot bookcases about a year ago and they are full.

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Rosalie

Well over 600. Mostly on my Kindle.

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Rosemary

My soulmate! I’ve found you at last!

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Jessie

175 right now.

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Sydney

Four for this month and 6 for next month

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Kathleenellen

… stacks and designated shelves, flat surfaces..stopped counting years ago..

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Gill

Lost count…..

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Jackie

How high can you count? ,?

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Lorraine

37

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Sheila

I have no TBR pile…yet lol

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Judy

I have list in a notebook, list in notes on phone, books in wish list in 4 different Libraries, list on stickums in wallet and list that I don’t even know where the list are!

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Alexis

135 currently. Lol

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Kimberley

Too many to count

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Bron

I only have about 15 on my active TBR pile. Those are the books I have already bought and haven’t read yet. How many on the written list though…uh…like 200? 5,000? It’s scattered across notebooks, and sticky notes, and memory, and phone lists, and scraps of paper, and amazon wish lists, hahaha!

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Jeannette

Uhm … let’s just say, a lot.

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Annette

A lot.

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Bron

Haha, all of your answers are cracking me up <3

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Sarah

Enough that I would need to tunnel out from under them if they ever all fell on me …

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Daniel

I’ll need all the fingers in all of your hands, fellow readers, to be able to count them… And maybe also your partner’s, best friends’ and work colleagues’ while at it… No, seriously, I have a notebook and a huge screenshot album on the phone with thousands of entries over the years… All that on top of a couple of hundreds at home. A curious mind has no borders and wants to travel, even through paper

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Melissa

Are we talking about lists of things I want to read…or the piles of books that I have bought but not read yet?? For the piles of books, it is currently, 2 book cases, 7 crates, and a whole lotta books piled on the floor…and in storage. LOL For lists, I have lists saved on my library account, and probably thousands on goodreads. I work at a library – the TBR lists/piles grow exponentially! 😀

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Nichole

804

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Kaitlin

Uhhh….around 600 the last time I checked. ?‍♀️

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Arden

I have about 400 in a TBR spreadsheet. Library only for me.

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Anna

I have 50+ in my possession ?

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Nancy

Physical pile 34. Excel spreadsheet list 248.

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Colleen

You are very organized ??

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Lorraine

Geez, you guys make me feel like a slacker!! Lol

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Nettie

Lol, when it comes down to it you can only read one book at a time, haha

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Demi

1881 on my tbr

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Andi

50+ physical books at home
131 on Goodreads
~250 on Amazon wish lists
I don’t even know how many from lists I’ve pinned on Pinterest

I am selective in the books I actually choose to read, but really, if you put a book in my hands, I will read it. ?

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Colleen

Me too!

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Ellie

This question just made me count, and on my Kindle it’s 114. On my physical bookshelf, god knows lol

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Dawn

Kindle is backed up 15 or so on the shelf. many written down in a notebook waiting to add to goodreads and amazon wishwish

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Ginny

A lot.

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Rosemarie

127

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Lisa

More than 50

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Kelly

TOO many??‍♀️

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Katie

612 ?

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Steve

Fearful of an actual count. Let’s just say many.

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Nicole

16 actual books (hardback and paperback) and I don’t know how many on my kindle lists

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KatKat

About 570, includes audiobooks. ?

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Kim

I have no idea! 30-40 with real pages. Maybe 5 or so audio books. 1,000 give or take on Kindle/cloud, a bunch on Goodreads and in my mind. ???
I am almost positive I will never, ever get to all the ones in the cloud.

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Janet

Haha.

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Melanie

Thousands. I can never die.

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Betsy

Piles all over the house–in addition to numerous bookcases full of books, both read and unread. There are so many we sometimes wonder if they mate in the night and reproduce. 🙂

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Kim

New meaning to “book love”. ?

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Betsy

Besides being an avid reader, I’m a quilter . . . which means I have lots of fabric, too.

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Ma

So many! 😀

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Melissa

I’m so happy to read the comments written. I thought I was the only one. Love you guys! I have piles and piles of books in my bedroom and some on shelves in other rooms of the house too.

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Louise

About 20, more than that and it starts to irritate me.

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Zoe

Too many to get read in this lifetime, but I keep adding more!

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Luca

Three: any more and I start to feel I “have” to read them, then it feels like work.

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Stephanie

Not sure but I’ve just been told it needs planning permission….

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Sydney

Tons

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Sari

Over 7000 if I remember correct. Or it is the amount of to be read-list in my Goodreads profile.

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Mark

Hundreds

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Laura

Too many to count.

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