Organizing my TBR VII

I was inspired by Charlotte’s 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.

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• My Life with Bob
  • Priority, 3. Interest, 4. Friends’ Ratings, n/a.
  • Score: 3.5, keep.
• Seven Tears at High Tide
  • Priority, 1. Interest, 3. Friends’ Ratings, 4.
  • Score: 2.67, remove.
• Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves
  • Priority, 2. Interest, 3. Friends’ Ratings, n/a.
  • Score: 2.5, remove.
• Bluets
  • Priority, 2. Interest, 3. Friends’ Ratings, 3.6.
  • Score: 2.87, remove.
  • I think I might start with something else by Maggie Nelson, and then reevaluate.
• The Boy in the Earth
  • Priority, 1. Interest, 2. Friends’ Ratings, 3.
  • Score: 2, remove.

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• Otherwise
  • Priority, 1. Interest, 3. Friends’ Ratings, n/a.
  • Score: 2, remove.
• Ariel
  • Priority, 2. Interest, 3. Friends’ Ratings, 3.17.
  • Score: 2.72, remove.
  • I don’t know if I realized this was poetry. I may come back to it after I read more of Plath’s work.
• Unholy Ghost
  • Priority, 3. Interest, 5. Friends’ Ratings, n/a.
  • Score: 4, keep.
• ‘Salem’s Lot
  • Priority, 3. Interest, 3. Friends’ Ratings, 3.56
  • Score: 3.19, keep.
• Deep Salt Water
  • Priority, 2. Interest, 3. Friends’ Ratings, n/a.
  • Score: 2.5, remove.

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• All Is Not Forgotten
  • Priority, 3. Interest, 4. Friends’ Ratings, 1.
  • Score: 2.67, remove.
• The Hidden Machinery
  • Priority, 1. Interest, 2. Friends’ Ratings, n/a.
  • Score: 1.5, remove.
• Little & Lion
  • Priority, 2. Interest, 3. Friends’ Ratings, 4.
  • Score: 3, keep.
• Middlesex
  • Priority, 2. Interest, 3. Friends’ Ratings, 4.07.
  • Score: 3.02, keep.
• The Rest of Us Just Live Here
  • Priority, 2. Interest, 3. Friends’ Ratings, 3.95.
  • Score: 2.98, remove.

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• Shrill
  • Priority, 5. Interest, 5. Friends’ Ratings, 4.18.
  • Score: 4.71, TBR ASAP.
  • I have a copy of this, which automatically makes the priority a 5!
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Priority, 2. Interest, 3. Friends’ Ratings, 4.25.
  • Score: 3.08, keep.
• The Girl Next Door
  • Priority, 2. Interest, 3. Friends’ Ratings, 4.38.
  • Score: 3.13, keep.
• I’ll Give You the Sun
  • Priority, 1. Interest, 2. Friends’ Ratings, 4.29.
  • Score: 2.43, remove.
• A Court of Thorns and Roses
  • Priority, 3. Interest, 3. Friends’ Ratings, 3.75.
  • Score: 3.25, keep.

TBR at Start of Series: 1282 (lolll help me)
TBR Today: 1429
TBR Now: 1418

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I removed eleven books today! That’s 55% of the books I looked at. I also added one to my TBR ASAP shelf, which means I should read it in the next year or so (I also own it, so). I’m really excited that I’ve started doing this, since it’s clear there are so many books I’m no longer interested in that are bogging down my TBR. 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. 🙂

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