With the amount I read, a monthly TBR is just too unwieldy. I really like making a weekly reading list every Saturday though. It's just hard for me to think more than like 5-10 books ahead.

I've encountered it only twice in my lifetime, once as an ebook where when I bought book 3 it was actually book 2, and once in a bookstore where what had the cover of a novel had the "guts" of a nonfiction book about child development. I think it's incredibly rare.

I've only started doing this fairly recently, and it is REALLY fun. I put together a whole Korean reading list for my trip to Korea last fall, but out of all of the books I found reading Beasts of a Little Land in the exact areas of Seoul where most of it takes place to be just perfect.

I also read Medicine Walk while on a camping trip with my dad in the same area the book takes place, which was also cool.

The only time I look up anything about authors is if there's some sort of controversy and I'm curious what that's about. It's not something unique to authors for me - I also do not generally look up anything about singers/performers/bands etc. I guess it's never seemed like an interesting thing to do.

I'm at 40 right now, and expect to finish one more today. Lots of good stuff this month. I've been mostly working through older works I haven't read yet by favourite authors.

Oh no! It's also included in the chonker Academic Exercises, which is a collection of novellas and short stories, if you can find that.

You could try Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk. The main focuses are magic, hunting a serial killer, and Faustian bargains.

I picked up I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokboki by Baek Se-Hee while in Korea a few months ago and found it fascinating. The author is a normal Korean woman suffering from depression, so maybe that counts for your bonuses? (I don't know if Korean is considered BIPOC or depression is considered a disability)

Purple and Black by K.J. Parker is one of the best fantasy novellas I've ever read, and is definitely snarky and funny while also being layered and interesting.

Give Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese a try.

I'm predominantly a library user for a few reasons: minimalism, frugality, and just generally not wanting to kill a tree. I pretty much only buy a physical book if there's no other way to read it.

I read about half fantasy, with the other half being a mix of everything. For fiction, I like a faster pace and really interesting characters. I generally read more female authors and prefer books with strong female leads. My favourite nonfiction books are generally about either animals/nature, or science. I do not like heavily-woke books, though some woke themes are fine.

I have no issue with it. I don't think someone has a moral obligation to buy multiple copies of the same book.

In addition to the newly-minted r/365book bingo challenges, I have three I'm working on this year:

• Backlog Challenge, where I finally read all the older works by three favourite authors, Mercedes Lackey, Neal Shusterman, and K.J. Parker. It's a lot of books but I try to do at least one per author every week, so I'm making progress.

• Complete the Pot Thief Series Challenge. I've been meaning to complete this series for a while, so I'm slotting in one per week until it's done. I have another series planned for after I finish it.

• Read 50 Nonfiction Books Challenge. I did this last year and found it so enriching to my life to be just constantly learning about all sort of different topics.

For straight numbers, I do a 365 book challenge because it's a nice round number.

Yes it does and no I don't care, I'd rather read than do chores.

It's been quite a while, but here's what I remember definitely reading for high school:

• Romeo and Juliet
• Macbeth
• The Outsiders
• Jane Eyre
• A Christmas Carol
• Lord of the Flies
• Treasure Island
• Stoney Creek Woman

My high school English program had more of an emphasis on short stories though, versus full-length books.

I wish I was!

I'm doing two straight-up numbers goals, 365 books overall, including 50 nonfiction specifically. I did the nonfiction project this year for the first time and it was great, I learned so much about so many different topics.

I also have a loose goal to go through the "backlog" of a few favourite writers whose work I haven't yet completely burned through - specifically, Mercedes Lackey, K.J. Parker, and Neal Shusterman.

Highest overall: 100 Boots by Eleanor Antin, clocking in at 4.69.

Highest actual book: Jade Legacy, 4.67.

Lowest: The Betrothed by Kiera Cass, 3.02. Kinda surprised as it wasn't THAT bad, definitely not the worst thing I've ever read.

This is out of 1,457 shelved books.

I buy books when the library doesn't have them, which is somewhat regularly if you read much outside of the mainstream popular stuff. My local library is absolutely phenomenal, and has almost everything I want to read, but I still usually need to buy about four or five a month.

I read all three of them so far, and they're all absolutely charming and cozy. I feel like super cozy books are very trendy right now and that's probably related to the popularity, though I really have no idea why they are so incredibly popular as opposed to other cozy books, as I would put them at like a 4 out of 5 - I liked them a lot and will definitely read any future translated ones in the series, but they never kept me up at night. Maybe Booktok is a factor?

365 books, one a day, including 50 nonfiction. I find the nonfiction very valuable as I did that this year for the first time and learned so much about a wide variety of topics.

I'm 36 and have been purposely reading more nonfiction for the last year because I want to learn more stuff, but my inclination is still to read mostly fiction. About 12% of my 2022 reads have been nonfiction, in a wide variety of topics.

My only change in natural reading habits has been gradually branching out to a lot of different genres. Historically the vast majority of my reading has been fantasy, but over the last couple of years I've been reading a lot of other stuff as well - sci-fi, mysteries, historical fiction, horror, and even some contemporary here and there.

I read a fair bit of modern sci-fi and mysteries and don't find that, though honestly I don't feel like I read enough older books to really compare.

If I'm interested in a book I place a library hold on it or buy it right then and there. I don't keep a TBR, and as far as I can tell people who do don't actually use them (I don't know what people actually do with them, but they often have more books on them than a person is realistically going to read in a lifetime). Basically, for me there's no such thing as a book I might want to read one day, it's either I want to read it now/when it comes in at the library, or I don't want to read it.