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tbr stats
by readingtozero

tbr stats (march) + q1 goal check-in

Anyone else feel like March lasted for a grand total of six seconds? Six solid seconds though.

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march 2022

After closing out February with 459 books on my TBR, I was confident that it’d be smooth sailing in March. Instead, I discovered Libby and figured out that listening to nonfiction audiobooks on 2.8x speed really scratches the metaphorical itch on my brain (fiction though? absolutely not). So, whilst I read 35 books in March, my TBR only dropped by 11 to 448.

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Graphic showing a pie chart and the unread books I have for each year. unknown - 36 2017 - 4 2018 - 4 2019 - 15 2020 - 175 2021 - 185 2022 - 29

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Q1 Goal Check-In

Physical TBR under 300 – I need to reduce my TBR by 16 books a month to hit this target. Currently, I’m just shy of that and have reduced it by 46 out of 48.

Complete 25 by 25 – Since my 2022 goals post, I’ve only read Villette. We’ll see if in two months I can finish the other 7.

Read 200 books – I’m sitting at a healthy 106 right as of March 31st and I’m pretty stoked about that.

Read 50 classics – So far I’ve read 35! I’m fully in the classics mood and I cannot wait to read more.

Read 30 nonfiction books – I couldn’t be more on track with this. Thanks to all the audiobooks I’ve now read 26 nonfiction books. Next up is to conquer more of my historical reference texts.

Read 10 to buy 1 – Kind of. I’ve definitely bought ahead a few times and then caught up. It’s my goal though, so as long as it balances at the end of the year, who cares. Not me (who will almost definitely buy more books than I should at some point).

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Did you have any quarterly goals set? If so, did you achieve them?

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– matt

tbr stats
by readingtozero

tbr stats (january + february)

hi!!

this is going to be a bit of a long one as it’s technically three months worth of stats, so let’s dive right in!

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end of december 2021

at the end of december i just about managed to balance my tbr to match my starting figure of 494, and honestly, this was only achieved by putting the books i received as gifts/purchased in sales onto my 2022 tbr. how embarrasing.

my goal for this year is to reduce my tbr to 300, zero is definitely not attainable! i’m hoping that i’ll reel in my impulsive tendencies and make smarter choices, like actually reading my backlist.

currently my tbr is organised by purchasing year, with the exception of ‘unknown’ which is either books purchased before 2017, or ones that have just sort of appeared on my shelves over the years. all my starting stats can be seen below.

Graphic showing a pie chart and the unread books I have for each year. unknown - 47 2017 - 5 2018 - 9 2019 - 23 2020 - 197 2021 - 213

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end of january 2022

january was a pretty stacked reading month and i managed to read 40 books. alongside this, i also unhauled or dnf’d a further 13. but, this wasn’t enough to even balance my stats. i finished january with 498 books on my tbr and absolutely regretted not adding my end of year books to my starting stats.

Graphic showing a progress bar and my read vs remaining stats on my tbr. read: -0.8% remaining: 100.8%
Graphic showing a pie chart and the unread books I have for each year. unknown - 42 2017 - 4 2018 - 8 2019 - 20 2020 - 193 2021 - 201 2022 - 30

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end of february 2022

february involved a ton of library holds from last year coming in which i thought would be my downfall, but i actually ended up disliking and dnf’ing most of them and reading 31 books. i also had an unhaul session and so a total of 35 books were either dnf’d or removed, leaving 459 on my shelves. all in all, a pretty good turnaround!

Graphic showing a pie chart and the unread books I have for each year. unknown - 36 2017 - 4 2018 - 4 2019 - 15 2020 - 180 2021 - 190 2022 - 30
Graphic showing a progress bar and my read vs remaining stats on my tbr. read: 7.08% remaining: 92.92%

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are you trying to reduce your tbr this year?

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– matt