Samantha's TBR Tag

A while ago, I was tagged by Diamond at Dee's Reads to do this post on my TBR pile. This tag was created by  Rachel @ A Perfection Called Books and Dana from Dana Square. I was horrified at having to give a close up look at my enormous TBR pile, but this is really such a cool way to examine them and look at other bloggers' piles!

How Do I Keep Track of My TBR Pile?

Well................................................................Um..................... Different piles of TBR piles in all honesty haha. This only applies to books I own and need to use soon for some reason (Others that I don't have but want to read or have but have no pressing need to read sooner than anything else go on my actual bookshelves, Goodreads shelves, and Amazon wishlists; Kindle books are almost solely review books and those all go on a calendar and/or spreadsheet). Currently, I have a pile of TBR books for I Heart YA Fiction, another 2 or 3 for Fresh Fiction, 2 for books I need to read for my honors thesis, 1 for books I need to read for class this semester (which include some YA books for certain papers I'm writing), and one for market research which consists mostly on NA books since I read a lot of NA manuscripts for my internships. That's not confusing at all right? 

 

Is my TBR pile mostly print or ebooks? 

*eyes numerous piles* *eyes Kindle app* Erm. Probably somewhere around 60% print, 40% ebooks. Roughly. Vaguely. 

 

How do I determine which book from my TBR pile to read next?

Schedule of when it needs to be read takes precedence over most things. However, I typically like to just group them up in month release date, and if I'm ahead enough, I can give into my severe mood reading tendencies and just pick which I want to read first from that month's pile.I also prefer print books, so if I have a print of something, I will  usually read it before an ebook if the release dates are close (because it seems to read faster that way for some reason). For school reading stuff though, those books trump absolutely everything, so those are first. 

A book that's been on my TBR list the longest?

There are probably some older than this that I don't remember, but I know A Tale of Two Castles by Gail Carson Levine (Middle Grade) has been on my shelf (both physically and in my head) for years (like at least 8 in my head, 1 or 2 on my shelf). I love her books, but it's so hard for me to squeeze in books that have zero obligation for me to read in (because there's so many I have other purposes for reading other than pleasure, like ones for review or research). 

A Book I Recently Added to My TBR pile? 

 This one sounded super funny, but I'm a bit nervous about the central girl versus boy story line. I'm worried it might be a little too gender stereotypical (but still hoping it won't be!).

A Book On My TBR Strictly Because of the Cover?

 

 I seriously added this just because I think the cover is really cute. I read the synopsis when I added the picture to this post, and I definitely love the sound of it, but originally, it was just for the cover candy. 

A Book on my TBR I Never Actually Plan on Reading?

 

 I only noticed this one when the hype started up about the movie, but I'm so burnt out on this genre that if I EVER get to this, it probably won't be until like 50 years have passed. Plus, the synopsis just doesn't appeal to me that much. No matter how good or bad people say it is, I'm honestly most likely never going to read this.

An Unpublished Book on my TBR I'm Excited for: 

(two-way tie)

 

Don't these covers look so pretty together?! I'm excited for Forbidden because it's looking at a time in history I have read very little about, and Talon because hello, Julie Kagawa and dragons, yes please thank you. I'm even more excited that I have ARCs of both of these, so no waiting. 

A Book on my TBR That Basically Everyone Else Has Read But Me: (two-way tie)

 

I'm actually starting Fangirl in October, because a book club I'm in is reading it! So that's exciting! I'll get to Daughter of Smoke and Bone some day. 

 

A Book on my TBR That Everyone Recommends to Me: 

(three-way tie)

I own all of these, and I will read them eventually!

A Book on my TBR I'm Dying to Read:

I love this series, and I'm excited to see how it all ends!! Plus, I just love when author friends write a book together.  

The Number of Books on my Goodreads TBR Shelf:

884. I actually wish I just had a giant list of all the books in my TBR pile that I own that I could just add to, but at this point, making a list like that would take forever.

I now tag:
(If you haven't done this already)
Crystal @ Crystal in Bookland
Christina @ Ensconced in Lit