I was inspired by Charlotte’s recent posts to try this. If you don’t follow Charlotte, I highly recommend you do! She shares a lot of queer lit and is half of the team over at Reads Rainbow (which you should ALSO follow).
I’ve tried several TBR memes before, but I like the idea of ranking books with a numerical system! This first post is just going to be playing around a bit. Charlotte rates books based on how motivated she is to read it (1-5) multiplied by how interested she is in the premise (1-5).
I plan to start by using a similar system: priority (1-5) + interest in blurb (1-5) + average friend rating on GR (1-5) / 3. I’ll check out the final result and make my decision from there. I’m not going to make any hard rules, but my guess is a score of 3+ is good enough to stay. Very high ratings will get put on my tbr asap shelf. If none of my friends have rated the book, then I’ll exclude the friends’ ratings and only divide by 2.
- Annabel
- Priority, 2. Interest, 4. Friends’ Ratings, 2.5.
- Score: 2.83, remove (I think).
- P.O.W.ER
- Priority, 1. Interest, 2. Friends’ Ratings, 4.
- Score: 2.33, remove.
- An Unquiet Mind
- Priority, 2. Interest, 3. Friends’ Ratings, 4.
- Score: 3, keep.
- Night Falls Fast
- Priority, 3. Interest, 4. Friends’ Ratings, 3.
- Score: 3.33, keep.
- Exuberance
- Priority, 3. Interest, 4. Friends’ Ratings, n/a.
- Score: 3.5, keep.
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- Priority, 3. Interest, 5. Friends’ Ratings, n/a.
- Score: 4, keep.
- The Way I Used to Be
- Priority, 2. Interest, 4. Friends’ Ratings, 4.14.
- Score: 3.38, keep.
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
- Priority, 2. Interest, 3. Friends’ Ratings, 4.24.
- Score: 3.08, keep.
- Scott Pilgrim, Vol 1
- Priority, 1. Interest, 2. Friends’ Ratings, 3.76.
- Score: 2.25, remove.
- iZombie Omnibus
- Priority, 1. Interest, 3. Friends’ Ratings, 4.
- Score: 2.67, remove.
TBR at Start of Series: 1282 (lolll help me)
TBR Now: 1401 (LOLL HELP ME MORE)
I managed to remove four books today! As you can see, though, I’ve added uhhhhh over a hundred since the last time I did this. Which means I need to do this more often. Let me know if any of you decide to try Charlotte’s reorganizing as well, I’d like to see how it works for others. 🙂
This is such a smart way of culling your TBR! I might try this is my list is still a bit long at the end of the year.
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I’d love to see it if you did! It’s definitely a fun way to do it for me. 🙂
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I love a good methodology, especially when it involves numbers!!
This is actually really fun to read!! I am agonizing a bit over the amount of books in your TBR though – I thought mine was out of control but, phew, I’m an amateur.
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Aw yay, I’m glad you enjoy it! I looove numbers, so it’s def fun for me as well.
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