My new townhouse has built-in bookcases in the master bedroom, which are currently about two-thirds filled with unread fiction hardcovers and trade paperbacks. Also in the bedroom are three small home-made bookcases filled with paperbacks, and the overflow from them is stacked on my dresser. In the office I have several shelves of unread non-fiction books.
And in the spare bedroom I have several boxes of unread books I need to unpack and add to these shelves. Last night I sorted through them, and maybe later today I’ll actually unpack them.
And maybe someday I’ll actually get the rest of my library unpacked and sorted. But first I have to get more bookcases.
To the left of the Dresser. It’s mostly full of books that have the first two books in a series out, and I’m waiting for the third or whatever. For example, what’s his name who wrote Elantris? And Lois McMaster Bujold’s Subtle Knife.
Plus some random history books for salting between my SF and fantasy. I buy like five at a time, one tends to go in the pile and stay there. It’s growing slightly.
I have about 100 books in my ‘to read’ pile. Some are stacked by my bed, some stacked sideways on a bookshelf, some are scattered around the living room.
Organization skills? I has none. If I had a bigger bookshelf, I’d dedicate some room just for them.
I have several books strategically deployed but no single “pile.”
Bill Bryson’s “A History of Everything”, Simon Schama’s “A History of Britain 1603-1776”, Stephen Fry’s “The Liar” and “Making History”, and finish Winston Churchill’s “Memoirs of World War II.”
I actually recently created a “bookshelf of shame,” where I went through all of the books that I had bought but not read or started but not finished, then consolidated them together onto one shelf. There are about 200. :smack:
I’ve got a stack of ~12 books waiting to be read in my room, and another 15 on my “books I don’t own but will get from the library when I have time” list.
I have 500, more likely 1,000, to be read, so a pile would probably kill me. So, when I need one, I just scan through my shelves for something that catches my eye, though sometimes I do reading projects, getting all the way through a series I haven’t done yet.
I used to read stuff in the order I got it, and even had a list, but it all got out of control after kids and work. My database has a read field, so someday I’ll create a to-read file from there.
When I get books from the library I do have a little stack, and sometimes when I pull out books for a trip, and don’t finish them, I keep them out on a stack.
Yes, it’s a stack of 8 books on top of the piano.
Currently with The Da Vinci Code on the top.
Although that’s for one reason only - it’s the right width to go under my right foot when playing to comfortably reach a rather high sustain pedal.
Also, this doesn’t mean there’s no unread ones elsewhere!
To the side of my front door their is a square side table in the corner which currently has 21 books in three ( uneven ) stacks. These are all history books of one sort or another, most acquired in one fell swoop in a buying spree from Amazon a little while back. I’ve read 11, 10 to go, with a 22nd ( biography of Louis IX ) currently residing in my bathroom, a little less than half finished. On the table the finished books are haphazardly stacked with the unfinished in no particular order.
Meanwhile in the trunk of my car there are two bags, one from Barnes and Nobles, the other from Borders. In them are several fantasy/sf novels, titles of most of which were picked from various recent threads in this forum. Mr. Norrell and Jonathon Strange is currently at work.
So yep, stacks or pseudo-stacks. I’m not a terribly organized guy most of the time.
A bit of curiosity overcame me while reading a few posts here: what is your to read “pile”? Note that isn’t “What is in your to read pile?”; I’m wondering if you have a literal pile of books, a box stashed somewhere, shelved, or something else. Is it a somewhat organized queue or a general set of books that you select your next book from?
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23 plastic storage boxes holding about 80 pb each. Organized in reading order.
What can I say I’m a thrift store and book addict.
actual books. they are in a bin under the piano bench. the others are in, i believe, 3 paper cartons… could be 4; labeled books to read. i move books from the box to the bin when space opens up.
books only go on the library shelves when they are read and i’m going to keep them. that way when someone looks upon them and asks “did you read all of them?” i can say, “yes”.
Not a pile actually, which implies a jumbled heap. I have two stacks. One on top of the nightstand with about a dozen unread books. And one under the nightstand with another twenty or so lower priority books to read.
Strange, or not, but books from the lower stack rarely get promoted to the top. I tend to put newly purchased books there. It’s kind of like the lower stack are in a sort of purgatory.
