Down the TBR Hole was originally created over at Lost in a Story.
Most of you probably know this feeling, you’re Goodreads TBR pile keeps growing and growing and it seems like there is no light at the end of the tunnel. You keep adding, but you add more than you actually read. And then when you’re scrolling through your list, you realize that you have no idea what half the books are about and why you added them. Well that’s going to change!
It works like this:
- Go to your goodreads to-read shelf.
- Order on ascending date added.
- Take the first 5 (or 10, if you’re feeling adventurous) books
- Read the synopses of the books
- Decide: keep it or should it go?
- Keep track of where you left off so you can pick up there next week!
Current “to-read” shelf: 949 titles
Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back – Michele Simon
Published: October 19, 2006
On TBR Since: March 9, 2012
This book is now 12 years old, and I’m pretty sure there’s newer material out there.
Stay or Go? Go
Running the Seven Continents: Tales of Travel and the Marathon – Clint Morrison
Published: December 1, 2006
On TBR Since: March 9, 2012
This might make a return someday, but for now, I’m going to let it go.
Stay or Go? Go
Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood – Maria Tatar
Published: April 20, 2009
On TBR Since: March 9, 2012
Professional Reading.
Stay or Go? Stay
Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children’s Literature – Julia L. Mickenberg
Published: November 1, 2008
On TBR Since: March 9, 2012
More professional reading.
Stay or Go? Stay
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales – Bruno Bettelheim
Published: April 12, 1977
On TBR Since: March 9, 2012
Classic professional reading, and one I’d like to read before the Tatar book.
Stay or Go? Stay
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen – Christopher McDougall
Published: May 5, 2009
On TBR Since: March 9, 2012
The moment has passed.
Stay or Go? Go
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World – Eric Weiner
Published: January 3, 2008
On TBR Since: March 9, 2012
Not quite a stunt memoir, but pretty close, since he takes a year to go traveling the world in search of “happy places”. And who couldn’t use some more happy?
Stay or Go? Stay
Wildthorn – Jane Eagland
Published: February 6, 2009
On TBR Since: March 9, 2012
Victorian era queer historical fiction. That’s a keeper.
Stay or Go? Stay
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything – Joshua Foer
Published: March 11, 2011
On TBR Since: March 9, 2012
Also something of a stunt memoir, but possibly a useful one.
Stay or Go? Stay
The 100 Thing Challenge: How I Got Rid of Almost Everything, Remade My Life, and Regained My Soul – Dave Bruno
Published: December 15, 2010
On TBR Since: March 9, 2012
– Insert joke about starting by getting rid of this here –
Stay or Go? Go
Six to stay, four to go.
March 9, 2012, was a big day for my TBR, it seems. And I clearly need to get going on my professional reading. My only Youth Services class in Library School was YA Literature, so I think at some point, I tried to put together a little crash course in Children’s Lit for myself.