Do you keep a book list?

[abecedarian]

I'd say that anyone with a LibraryThing or GoodReads account, which is quite a few of the people here, has done it.

I have accounts at both sites and I've not gone overboard to reconstruct my lifelist. By the time I found those sites, I'd gotten tired of the whole thing and figured no one but me cared about what I read as a kid.

 

[Fantasy Moon]

I've decided to use GoodReads to keep track of what books I own, and Listal for more of what I want to read or have read and don't own. My account needs more of a purpose than just racking up watched movie titles.

 

[justin]

After my post on here I decided to make a list of books I have read, there are still an awful lot I can't remember yet.

But I made the list (and the original post all by itself (not in this thread)) with a view to finding some more books to read. I expect they give an idea of my taste in books and I wondered if anyone could suggest some more based on my reading thus far? I would like to read some more heavyweight stuff than the list though. George Orwell being my favourite author.

Books I have read:

The Perfect Murder by H.R.F. Keating
Inspector Ghote's Good Crusade
Inspector Ghote Caught in Meshes

All Biggles Books by Capt W.E. Johns
A few Space books

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stepenson

Betty Blue by Philippe Djian

The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles

Coming Up For Air by George Orwell
The Cleargyman's Daughter
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
The Road to Wigan Peir
1984
Animal Farm
Down and Out in Paris and London

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol
David Copperfield

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

All Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Mysterious Island

The Robe by Lloyd C Douglas

The L Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks

The Alexandria Quartet by Lawence Durrell

My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
Birds, Beasts and Relatives
The Garden of the Gods
A Zoo in My Luggage
Menagerie Manor
Beasts in My Belfry
Marrying Off Mother: And Other Stories
Fillets of Plaice
The Drunken Forest
Catch Me a Colobus

Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Life, The Universe and Everything
So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish
Mostly Harmless
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
The Salmon of Doubt

Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

Taken on Trust by Terry Waite

Dudley Moore: The Authorized Biography by Barbra Paskin

My Booky Wook by Russell Brand

High Hopes: My Autobiography by Ronnie Corbett

Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry

Frank Skinner Autobiography by Frank Skinner

My Take by Gary Barlow

Bruce: The Autobiography by Bruce Forsyth

2001 a space odessy by Arthur C Clarke
2010: Odyssey Two
Rendezvous With Rama
Rama II

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Dune by Frank Herbert

 

[Forest Elf]

What do you mean? Are you wanting books read, books TBR, books we own, or books we wanna read? I can show lists of books read for the last three years, and books read this year..I even have a list where I tried to reconstruct my lifelist last year..that would take awhile to post!

I have the same question.

But I suppose it doesn't matter.

I don't have any list.

There is no way I could create a list of the books I've read. And I am not inclined to make a list of the books I own. There are just too many of them.

But I DID enjoy reading everyone else's lists!!

 

[BlueNinja]

I'm trying to make one but I don't find any good software to do that, do any of you know something like this?

 

[angerball]

^How about Excel, or any basic spreadsheeting program? You could also use LibraryThing (free for the first 200 books) or Goodreads.

 

[disconnected]

oh definitely!! i have a long list i can say about 200 right now, and still growing, books i want to read and as i read them i cross them out and put the dates next to them. i got a list from somewhere last year which i am trying to follow but then i get names of more books and read them too. i haven't read as much in the last semester, i think it was 15 excluding school books which i also read cover to cover (except 1 out of 5) and did an internship plus chores =/ trust me in my house thats a lot!!! i was also writing poems and my own book at the same time.

 

[Sleepy]

I'm trying to make one but I don't find any good software to do that, do any of you know something like this?

Softwarewise I can recommend the collectorz software. The price is reasonable and it's a lifesaver when it comes to huge book collections.
I wouldn't know what to do without it.

 

[BlueNinja]

Thank you for your recommendations, I've used BookCAT, but I will try Collectorz software too.

 

[daph]

book list

I keep a list of books that i want to read. I also save the book club list that we read every year in my book club. I enjoyed reading others' lists on here! Thanks!

 

[tZar]

Booklist

I never make any lists, and I have only found myself once buying a book I already had. I have about 2000 books in my library and I cannot help buying a couple every time I pass my local bookshop.
I pretty much know which books I own, where they are (no system though I try to keep fiction and non-fiction apart - somewhat ) and what I have read. I would just find it a waste of time to catalogue them all.

-tZar

 

[BlueNinja]

So you remember all the books you have, you have never bought a book you already have?

 

[tZar]

As I said, I once did - Death in Venice by Thomas Mann, which I then left in a bus for someone else to have. But no, besides that one I have never bought a book already in my collection.
I do not remember all the books by heart, but when I see a title I can tell you if I have it or not.

***Edited typo***

 

[Blindsided]

I write a few titles on a scrap piece of paper, and after a few months I go to the book store and pick them up

 

[sparkchaser]

I'm at the point now where I need to keep a list of the volumes of Civil War Official Records (Army and Navy) and Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology that I own. I'd hate to shell out money for a volume only to find out I already have it.

 

[UncleReader]

I keep my book lists on scattered note cards, most of which I lose and forget about. The ones that remain are the ones that end up deciding which books eventually get read.

 

[DeathDealer]

The books I've read so far:

The Tiger Rising
Right now, I'm reading Dogsong

 

[BooknaMug]

I have an excel file for each year that lists the book, author, and the dates I start and finish the book. So I know what I've read and how long it took me. And I've recently discovered GoodReads.com but haven't been using it so much for tracking as for finding new things to read and keeping a TBR list. It's a cool site and I will probably use it more in the future.

 

[jcsoblonde]

Well...it depends on what type of list. But I have a list of all the books I own/have read on LibraryThing. I love that site.

 

[Vanilla]

OMG, I so don't keep a booklist...I read so much and have read so much that that would be very difficult to do. As well I don't have the time with my extremely hectic life, although would be pretty interesting to know how many thousands of books I have read by now, lol.