Another month, another opportunity to take stock of my overflowing shelves!
In early September, I wrote a post called Counting Up the Books, talking about two things I love: BOOKS and NUMBERS. That was the beginning of a monthly feature for me, in which I tally up just how many unread books there are in my house and on my Kindle.
My September starting point was 598:
As of October, I’d made some progress after culling and donating a bunch of books, plus making the decision to omit non-fiction books from my total — since, let’s face it, I’m a fiction lover through and through, and I feel no urgency at all about getting to all those non-fiction tomes (as interesting as they may seem) any time soon.
As a result, my past two month totals, adding in new books and subtracting books read or given away, were:
October: 539
November: 548 (yes, that’s an increase…)
And here we are at the beginning of December… and, well, my Black Friday/Cyber Monday/used book store mania is clearly showing. Here’s the latest count, which clearly tells me that I’m heading up and not down:
Just to be clear: I actually read more than five books during the past month! But a lot of those were library books, and while I adore the public library, reading library books doesn’t help get my bookshelves under control.
How are your shelves doing this month?
Don’t forget to join me for Shelf Control on Wednesdays, where we highlight books from our shelves that we really want to read!
I just added up all of my books that are on my TBR pile. I have 270 books and just bought a bunch more π¦
We should start a support group — people with too many books! π I think one of my next projects should be to go through my Goodreads TBR list and weed out all the books I”ll never actually read.
I need to do a massive culling of my books
I’m relieved to see someone in a similar state — though I’m even worse. *clears throat* 1132 books owned/unread. Gaaah.
Oh my. That’s quite a lot! π I’d have to convert my kid’s room into a library…
I’m moving back in with my parents after a long time away, so my dad has been building new shelves on nearly every wall!
Yea…I was making progress too until recently! Time to re-evaluate (again!) for the new year I think.
Me too. Best of intentions — poor follow-through! π