Organizing my TBR IX

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 use the Goodreads rating instead.

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• The Social Animal
  • Priority, 1. Interest, 3. Goodreads Ratings, 3.86.
  • Score: 2.62, remove.
• How to Fall in Love with Anyone
  • Priority, 3. Interest, 4. Friends’ Ratings, 4.
  • Score: 3.67, keep.
• Tell Me Three Things
  • Priority, 1. Interest, 2. Friends’ Ratings, 4.14.
  • Score: 2.38, remove.
• The Mists of Avalon
  • Priority, 3. Interest, 3. Friends’ Ratings, 3.87.
  • Score: 3.29, keep.
• A House at the Bottom of a Lake
  • Priority, 4. Interest, 4. Friends’ Ratings, 2.60.
  • Score: 3.53, keep.

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• The Underground Railroad
  • Priority, 2. Interest, 3. Friends’ Ratings, 4.05.
  • Score: 3.02, keep.
• Inheritance
  • Priority, 2. Interest, 3. Friends’ Ratings, 4.29.
  • Score: 3.10, keep.
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
  • Priority, 2. Interest, 3. Friends’ Ratings, 4.24.
  • Score: 3.08, keep.
• A People’s History of the United States
  • Priority, 4. Interest, 4. Friends’ Ratings, 4.67.
  • Score: 4.22, keep.
• Beyond the Queer
  • Priority, 2. Interest, 3. Friends’ Ratings, 3.50.
  • Score: 2.83, remove.

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• What is Yours is Not Yours
  • Priority, 2. Interest, 3. Friends’ Ratings, 4.
  • Score: 3, keep.
• The Color Purple
  • Priority, 2. Interest, 4. Friends’ Ratings, 4.44.
  • Score: 3.48, keep.
• Chemistry
  • Priority, 2. Interest, 4. Friends’ Ratings, 4.25.
  • Score: 3.42, keep.
• Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
  • Priority, 2. Interest, 4. Friends’ Ratings, 4.3.
  • Score: 3.43, keep.
• 20th Century Ghosts
  • Priority, 4. Interest, 5. Friends’ Ratings, 3.44.
  • Score: 4.15, keep.

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• Six Stories
  • Priority, 4. Interest, 4. Friends’ Ratings, 3.67.
  • Score: 3.89, keep.
• The Numbers Game
  • Priority, 2. Interest, 3. Goodreads Ratings, 3.99.
  • Score: 3, keep.
• The 5 Love Languages
  • Priority, 2. Interest, 3. Friends’ Ratings, 3.5.
  • Score: 2.83, remove.
• Queering Sexual Violence
  • Priority, 3. Interest, 4. Friends’ Ratings, 3.
  • Score: 3.33, keep.
• Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom
  • Priority, 1. Interest, 2. Goodreads Ratings, 4.27
  • Score: 2.42, remove.

TBR at Start of Series: 1282
TBR Today: 1437 (lolll help me)
TBR Now: 1432

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I removed a mere five books today, which is a sad 25%. 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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