Options is a good way to look at it, there’s not much chance of me running out of things to read! Glad to hear you have a gianter TBR… I love videos on how many books so please do count one day! 😊📚💛
180 isn't bad! So many good books! And quite a few of my favorite classics, like Crime and Punishment and Oscar Wilde's plays. You still have a long way to go, but you've made good progress!
Think of them as adventures you have yet to go on !!! Hopefully each one better than the last 😃 ! I envy you that pile of books ! Have a great day and time reading Alice !
That's a super selection of books to choose from on a rainy day! I have read only one of those books and I own the same copy - One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich. It's a great, short read.
What a fun collection of books! I think half the fun of books is buying them and having them on your shelf. There is no shame in that! I was intrigued by the James Acaster book. If that is the same James as the comedian, I will want to check it out! He is hilarious!
Yes, it is the comedian, I find him hilarious! I bought it for my husband in a charity shop, but want to read to it so much myself! Thanks for your lovely comment. Collecting and buying and finding new treasures second hand is definitely a big part of the fun. 😊📚
@@rebeccamolyneux4532 great fun! I love reading a book in the right place. I’ve read some of the Agatha Christie books set in Devon when on holiday in Torquay.
@@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf definitely, I recently read The House With the Golden Door (set in Pompei) whilst on a cruise ship docked in Naples, with Vesuvius as the backdrop 🌋
Oh the piles are awesome! All good and I am pretty positive I have a close number of physical owned tbr- though I count my wishlist as a tbr as well as I plan to own them too. I’m encouraged you got this done without too long of a video- perhaps I will film this style as well. I haven’t read many on your tbr list but I have read a ton of Dick Francis and loved his older books so much but then they got more gory and graphic/ intense and I decided that was enough for me. Happy reading and thanks for sharing.
I think I have 4 physical, owned books on my TBR, though I'm in the middle of one right now. I might have a couple more... I can't remember if I put a few in storage before moving last year, or if I donated them, lol. I highly recommend prioritizing The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. That's been one of my favorite reads so far this year!
Oh thanks for the recommendation, I did try that one on audio but couldn’t make sense of the early chapters as I was listening at bedtime so got so confused- I’m really excited to try it in physical form. That’s a nice manageable TBR you have. 😊📚
Great video great collection. Just got all my books together and have over 300 books on Tbr most are second hand buys. Plan to reduce it over next 6 months with happy to DNF if no loving it. Great to see someone on book tube that has lots of second hand and paperbacks. X📖🤗❤️
Thank you, I love finding book treasure second hand! Most of these books I would say are second hand or passed on by family members. A few are new, but there’s nothing quite like finding a pre-loved book to bring home on a shopping trip. 😊📚 Best of luck reducing your TBR too!
Only the plays and poems and under pseudonym ones sadly, all the good mysteries are all done! 😂 Thanks for encouraging me to do this again matey! 😊📚📚📚📚📚
Appreciate your candor here. :-) My own number is 160, so I have also been working on this. There were two books you mentioned that I have read. Dewey, the library cat, is just okay. (It is a quick, feel-good read that isn't particularly well written.) On the other hand, Join Me by Danny Wallace is hilarious, and an easy read. I have even given it as a gift to friends who enjoy reading humor. Happy reading!
I sort of started the channel to try to keep myself honest and hold myself to account to read my shelves more. Always glad to hear from others with TBRs over 100, makes me feel less bad! I’m looking forward to Join Me. 😊📚
Wow, that's a lot of books on your TBR! XD I think it's interesting you have a physical TBR. My TBR is just a list with books I want to read. If I'd have physical copies of all of them I'd probably drown in books. *lol* So you're actually doing great!
I better not get started on ebooks or I could get even more distracted from my shelves! Thanks Beki, I am pleased it has gone down, even if not as much as I hoped. 😊📚
No shame at all! Think of it more as a pile of wonderful possibilities. Anyway, I love these videos because it helps me examine my own bookshelf. Thanks!
I love that- it is my (very large) pile of possibilities. I do need to slow down in terms of space is pretty full up though! 😂 I love these videos too, I like to compare notes! 😊📚
Hi Alice, wonderful video. I’ve read a few of the books on your TBR. I liked the singing Sands by Josephine Tey. And I will Buddy read Bratt Ferrar with Nikki of Red dot reads next month. Will tell you how it went. I used to read a lot of Jonathan Kellerman but lately his books seem dated. Aloha
I’m looking forward to the Josephine Tey books as I’ve enjoyed her others so far. Let me know how you and Nikki get on with Brat Farrer. Thanks, Marilyn Maya. 😊📚
So many Red Dwarf novels, I loved that show when I was growing up... And as a grown to too. But I've never read a book in the series and now I'm wondering why not.
They are even funnier, because they are by the writers of the show and they kind of change and expand the episodes, I guess to take in what they couldn’t manage to convey in a short tv episode! Having read Better Than Life last week, I highly recommend them! 😂📚
Not to add anything to your TBR, but have you read any Steve Cavanagh yet? Something on your shelves reminded me of him. I really like his courtroom mystery/thrillers. Faves are Fifty/Fifty, where two sisters on trial for their father's murder and both accuse the other & Thirteen, where a serial killer is on the jury of his own crime. I loved the Christie Affair so much!! Both read it and listened to it. Ooh I really wanna read the Trees!
I’ve wanted to read Steve Cavanagh, I’ll add him to my list to explore when I get these ones under control a bit! 😂 Thanks, Kevvie for the recommendations.
Self inflicted shaming is a mandatory part of social media! 😂 Who is Dick Francis? I hope you have so many because you really like his books (and not because you used to like his books). I haven’t done my TBR check in at the end of July. I suspect I have now about as many unread books as you have.
I do really like Dick Francis. They tend to be mysteries or thrillers, usually but not always set in the world of horse racing, as the author was a former jockey. They are so gripping and I’ve read lots, but there are many still to go, as you can see! I look forward to seeing, or hearing about your TBR update, Elisabeth. 😊📚
If I had the space to do it, my place would be full of braille books. Sadly though thdse take up much more room than print, so I pass on any I read and don't intend to keep for reference. So a certain amount of reading is done electronically. One of the longest Harry Potter books takes up I think 16 braille volumes, so it looked like bedside table when I borrowed it as a teenager!
Wow that’s a lot of volumes. I’ve never actually encountered a braille book, I would be very interested to learn more about braille and how to read it.
@@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf RNIB have this newer but not necessarily better system of producing braille books, where each braille volume is split into two, so this 13 volume "The Victorian House" by Judith Flanders arrived all over the hallway floor in 26 of these pamphlets! I learned to read braille by touch since I was 5, but it's possible to read by sight.
Great video Alice! I'm too embarrassed to give my TBR number here so I'll tell you in a DM lol. Would you be interested in buddy reading the French HPPOA and Arthur and George together? There might be a few others we have in common but those .were the ones that caught my eye. Also if you haven't heard the story of Neverwhere in any format before, I HIGHLY recommend the radio drama by Dirk Maggs as your first format of the story, it is FANTASTIC and the cast is brilliant! Wonderful video as always :D.
Thanks Carolyn, I would love to buddy read sometime- especially Arthur and George! Somehow I already have buddy reads booked in to the end of the year, so in the interests of not taking on too much at once, would February work for you? I might be able to squeeze in another to December, but thats always a busy month life-wise. Thanks so much for the rec on Neverwhere. 😀
@@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf February sounds great! I ended up overloading with a few buddy reads and had a major reading slump and my buddies had to read without me (or at least ahead of me) so I decided not to do buddy reads for a bit so February will be great! Also no rush on French HP if you want to do that one too because I know you"d still have to read the first 2 and I'm on the tail end of rereading the books in English at the moment (I say in English like I have ever read them in another language🤣. I haven't and this will be my first ever attempt at reading a book in another language and I am excited but nervous!).
@@CarolynsReadingRamblings yes, great idea! I will definitely be up for reading the French HP together, as you say once I’ve read the first two. I did start book one in 2020 but I think I only got to about chapter 2 or 3. 😂 I’ll pencil in Arthur and George for February. 😊📚
I don't think you should feel any shame at all... you've done well to get it below 200 given all the library books you've read as well. As a rough guess I have about 65 books on my TBR book shelf. A few of them are at least 1000 pages or more and a few are less than 100 pages.... I think I need to get a move on it myself
Good idea to read some of them! I don’t really feel that much shame, as it was around 40 books fewer than last year, and bearing in mind how many books I’ve bought and, as you say, read from elsewhere, I don’t feel too bad. What I feel a tiny bit bad about is that I bought books about a week after making this video! 🤦♀️ I need to be stopped. I think I can get through a fair few by the end of the year though. (I hope!) Thanks for your lovely comment and good luck with your 1000+ page books, at least I only had one of those! 😊📚💛
I see Shift by Hugh Howie, have you already read Wool, and do you have the third book Dust? Its one of my favorite trilogies but I dont know how Shift would do on its own.
I’ve read Wool, and really enjoyed it, but when I tried Shift I couldn’t get into it at first but I’ve kept it to try again! I enjoyed the set up of the world in Wool so hoping to read the rest of the trilogy at some point. 😊
Please don't feel embarrassed! My physical TBR is 1035. I don't quite know how it happened, but it has. It does mean never feeling like I don't have something to read!
Amazing! That’s a lot of books to choose from. I’m pretty okay with the TBR being huge, I just think I need to work on it sometimes instead of prioritising everything else but my shelf! 😊📚📚📚
I tell myself that all the time, but is there really such as thing as too many? I've seen the backgrounds of your videos with the ever increasing book piles! 😂
I think I was pretty optimistic, and bought La Casa Torcida for 20p or 50p in a charity shop hoping I could improve my Spanish! I did do a Spanish module at University, but unless Crooked House involves asking for beer and a sandwich I've not got much hope, yet! 🤣
Wow, my head is still spinning. Thank you for sharing. 😇
Thanks for watching! 😊📚
Love having so many options of books to read. I wish I only had 200 unread books. Maybe one day I will count how many I actually have. 😊💙
Options is a good way to look at it, there’s not much chance of me running out of things to read! Glad to hear you have a gianter TBR… I love videos on how many books so please do count one day! 😊📚💛
Yes, please count them and make your own video... I'd love to see it! ❤️
Love it! I don’t even want to count my unread books. I have--a lot. I need to slow down on buying also and focusing on my unread books.
I can see the appeal of not counting, if I didn't count, maybe I could pretend that I can buy more! I may have accidentally already broken my "ban"! 😂
180 isn't bad! So many good books! And quite a few of my favorite classics, like Crime and Punishment and Oscar Wilde's plays. You still have a long way to go, but you've made good progress!
Oh that’s good to hear, I will have to get on with those ones. Thanks Anne. 😊📚
Think of them as adventures you have yet to go on !!! Hopefully each one better than the last 😃 ! I envy you that pile of books ! Have a great day and time reading Alice !
Thanks David, that’s a great way to think of the TBR! So many adventures still to come. 😊📚
That's a super selection of books to choose from on a rainy day! I have read only one of those books and I own the same copy - One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich. It's a great, short read.
Thank you for the recommendation Sandra, I may try to fit that into September as it is another short one. 😊📚
Let’s hope we like The Trees 🤞🤞🤞Great to have a nosey at your TBR xxxx
Yes fingers crossed for The Trees. 💛 Thanks Charlie! 😊📚
You're making good progress! Love following the journey of your giant tbr - we can all relate!
Thanks Rae, you can start up your own giant TBR once you hit the London book shops! 😊📚
@@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf it's dangerous for sure!! So much temptation 😂
What a fun collection of books! I think half the fun of books is buying them and having them on your shelf. There is no shame in that! I was intrigued by the James Acaster book. If that is the same James as the comedian, I will want to check it out! He is hilarious!
Yes, it is the comedian, I find him hilarious! I bought it for my husband in a charity shop, but want to read to it so much myself! Thanks for your lovely comment. Collecting and buying and finding new treasures second hand is definitely a big part of the fun. 😊📚
Two jump out for prioritising - Hamnet and Jamaica Inn ✨
That's good news as I have both of those scheduled in for buddy reads and another upcoming project. Thanks for your recommendations! 😀📚
@@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf I read Jamaica Inn last year as we stayed there for a weekend, even though its only 20 minutes from home!
@@rebeccamolyneux4532 great fun! I love reading a book in the right place. I’ve read some of the Agatha Christie books set in Devon when on holiday in Torquay.
@@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf definitely, I recently read The House With the Golden Door (set in Pompei) whilst on a cruise ship docked in Naples, with Vesuvius as the backdrop 🌋
@@rebeccamolyneux4532 Wow, that one sounds really special- what a backdrop for that book!
Oh the piles are awesome! All good and I am pretty positive I have a close number of physical owned tbr- though I count my wishlist as a tbr as well as I plan to own them too. I’m encouraged you got this done without too long of a video- perhaps I will film this style as well. I haven’t read many on your tbr list but I have read a ton of Dick Francis and loved his older books so much but then they got more gory and graphic/ intense and I decided that was enough for me. Happy reading and thanks for sharing.
Thanks Kristin, I would love to see your TBR on film too, it took longer to get the books out and put them back than anything else! 😊📚
I think I have 4 physical, owned books on my TBR, though I'm in the middle of one right now. I might have a couple more... I can't remember if I put a few in storage before moving last year, or if I donated them, lol. I highly recommend prioritizing The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. That's been one of my favorite reads so far this year!
Oh thanks for the recommendation, I did try that one on audio but couldn’t make sense of the early chapters as I was listening at bedtime so got so confused- I’m really excited to try it in physical form. That’s a nice manageable TBR you have. 😊📚
Great video great collection. Just got all my books together and have over 300 books on Tbr most are second hand buys. Plan to reduce it over next 6 months with happy to DNF if no loving it. Great to see someone on book tube that has lots of second hand and paperbacks. X📖🤗❤️
Thank you, I love finding book treasure second hand! Most of these books I would say are second hand or passed on by family members. A few are new, but there’s nothing quite like finding a pre-loved book to bring home on a shopping trip. 😊📚 Best of luck reducing your TBR too!
I didn’t realise you had so many Christie’s unread!
Loved this 😈
Only the plays and poems and under pseudonym ones sadly, all the good mysteries are all done! 😂 Thanks for encouraging me to do this again matey! 😊📚📚📚📚📚
@@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf anytime matey - I’ll bob it in the diary to remind you again next summer 😘
@@GemofBooks yay! 🤩😈
I’ve got a load of the same books on my tbr - we need to get through them together! Love it!
Yes! We can do this, Jack! 😂😊📚📚📚
Appreciate your candor here. :-) My own number is 160, so I have also been working on this. There were two books you mentioned that I have read. Dewey, the library cat, is just okay. (It is a quick, feel-good read that isn't particularly well written.) On the other hand, Join Me by Danny Wallace is hilarious, and an easy read. I have even given it as a gift to friends who enjoy reading humor. Happy reading!
I sort of started the channel to try to keep myself honest and hold myself to account to read my shelves more. Always glad to hear from others with TBRs over 100, makes me feel less bad! I’m looking forward to Join Me. 😊📚
Wow, that's a lot of books on your TBR! XD I think it's interesting you have a physical TBR. My TBR is just a list with books I want to read. If I'd have physical copies of all of them I'd probably drown in books. *lol* So you're actually doing great!
Thanks V! I do have a mental TBR of other books I’ve heard of that I’d like to read, but it’s best I don’t think about those right now! 🤪🤣📚📚📚
@@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf Haha! That's a very wise decision! *lol*
Honestly, I think my phsyical TBR is probably a lot higher lol......so don't feel to bad! Some great books in here.
Thanks, Andrew! I’m always really glad to hear that others have more than me! 😊📚
I have maybe 4 books on physical tbr currently but a LOT more as ebooks. 😂Nice video Alice, still great progress 🥰
I better not get started on ebooks or I could get even more distracted from my shelves! Thanks Beki, I am pleased it has gone down, even if not as much as I hoped. 😊📚
I didn’t know Minority Report was a book! I really like the movie. Now I need to get ahold of the book and read it. 😁📖
Yes it’s in a book of short stories! I hope to get to it soon. 😊📚
So so many ! Makes me feel faint!
A lot!
Enjoyed the video, you have a calm manner of speaking that is very engaging :) I have a relatively humble (by comparison) 100 or so to get through.
Thank you, good luck with reading your 100. 😊📚
No shame at all! Think of it more as a pile of wonderful possibilities. Anyway, I love these videos because it helps me examine my own bookshelf. Thanks!
I love that- it is my (very large) pile of possibilities. I do need to slow down in terms of space is pretty full up though! 😂 I love these videos too, I like to compare notes! 😊📚
Hi Alice, wonderful video. I’ve read a few of the books on your TBR. I liked the singing Sands by Josephine Tey. And I will Buddy read Bratt Ferrar with Nikki of Red dot reads next month. Will tell you how it went. I used to read a lot of Jonathan Kellerman but lately his books seem dated. Aloha
I’m looking forward to the Josephine Tey books as I’ve enjoyed her others so far. Let me know how you and Nikki get on with Brat Farrer. Thanks, Marilyn Maya. 😊📚
So many Red Dwarf novels, I loved that show when I was growing up... And as a grown to too. But I've never read a book in the series and now I'm wondering why not.
They are even funnier, because they are by the writers of the show and they kind of change and expand the episodes, I guess to take in what they couldn’t manage to convey in a short tv episode! Having read Better Than Life last week, I highly recommend them! 😂📚
Not to add anything to your TBR, but have you read any Steve Cavanagh yet? Something on your shelves reminded me of him. I really like his courtroom mystery/thrillers. Faves are Fifty/Fifty, where two sisters on trial for their father's murder and both accuse the other & Thirteen, where a serial killer is on the jury of his own crime. I loved the Christie Affair so much!! Both read it and listened to it. Ooh I really wanna read the Trees!
I’ve wanted to read Steve Cavanagh, I’ll add him to my list to explore when I get these ones under control a bit! 😂 Thanks, Kevvie for the recommendations.
Yikes! I feel like I'm catching up to you. It's a problem. 🤣
It’s a nice problem to have, but a problem nonetheless! 😂
That’s some list. I lost count how many books are on my TBR. Or maybe I just don’t want to know.
Probably best not to count! 😂
Self inflicted shaming is a mandatory part of social media! 😂 Who is Dick Francis? I hope you have so many because you really like his books (and not because you used to like his books). I haven’t done my TBR check in at the end of July. I suspect I have now about as many unread books as you have.
I do really like Dick Francis. They tend to be mysteries or thrillers, usually but not always set in the world of horse racing, as the author was a former jockey. They are so gripping and I’ve read lots, but there are many still to go, as you can see! I look forward to seeing, or hearing about your TBR update, Elisabeth. 😊📚
If I had the space to do it, my place would be full of braille books. Sadly though thdse take up much more room than print, so I pass on any I read and don't intend to keep for reference. So a certain amount of reading is done electronically. One of the longest Harry Potter books takes up I think 16 braille volumes, so it looked like bedside table when I borrowed it as a teenager!
Wow that’s a lot of volumes. I’ve never actually encountered a braille book, I would be very interested to learn more about braille and how to read it.
@@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf RNIB have this newer but not necessarily better system of producing braille books, where each braille volume is split into two, so this 13 volume "The Victorian House" by Judith Flanders arrived all over the hallway floor in 26 of these pamphlets! I learned to read braille by touch since I was 5, but it's possible to read by sight.
Great video Alice! I'm too embarrassed to give my TBR number here so I'll tell you in a DM lol. Would you be interested in buddy reading the French HPPOA and Arthur and George together? There might be a few others we have in common but those .were the ones that caught my eye. Also if you haven't heard the story of Neverwhere in any format before, I HIGHLY recommend the radio drama by Dirk Maggs as your first format of the story, it is FANTASTIC and the cast is brilliant! Wonderful video as always :D.
Thanks Carolyn, I would love to buddy read sometime- especially Arthur and George! Somehow I already have buddy reads booked in to the end of the year, so in the interests of not taking on too much at once, would February work for you? I might be able to squeeze in another to December, but thats always a busy month life-wise. Thanks so much for the rec on Neverwhere. 😀
@@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf February sounds great! I ended up overloading with a few buddy reads and had a major reading slump and my buddies had to read without me (or at least ahead of me) so I decided not to do buddy reads for a bit so February will be great! Also no rush on French HP if you want to do that one too because I know you"d still have to read the first 2 and I'm on the tail end of rereading the books in English at the moment (I say in English like I have ever read them in another language🤣. I haven't and this will be my first ever attempt at reading a book in another language and I am excited but nervous!).
@@CarolynsReadingRamblings yes, great idea! I will definitely be up for reading the French HP together, as you say once I’ve read the first two. I did start book one in 2020 but I think I only got to about chapter 2 or 3. 😂 I’ll pencil in Arthur and George for February. 😊📚
@@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf 🙌
Mine is over double this although going down.. Oh and no chance on the book buying ban with me and gem as friends 😂😂😂😈😈😈
May have been thinking of you when I said I know people with bigger TBRs! 😂 Yeah, you've already had spoilers as to how long this book ban lasted! 🤣
@@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf thought you may have meant me 😃🤣
There seems to be a few Charlaine Harris there 😁 I think I may have just a few more than you at the moment 🤣
Glad to hear that Ange! Definitely have a few Charlaine Harris to get through. Still looking out for book 13 of Sookie. 😊📚
I don't think you should feel any shame at all... you've done well to get it below 200 given all the library books you've read as well. As a rough guess I have about 65 books on my TBR book shelf. A few of them are at least 1000 pages or more and a few are less than 100 pages.... I think I need to get a move on it myself
Good idea to read some of them! I don’t really feel that much shame, as it was around 40 books fewer than last year, and bearing in mind how many books I’ve bought and, as you say, read from elsewhere, I don’t feel too bad. What I feel a tiny bit bad about is that I bought books about a week after making this video! 🤦♀️ I need to be stopped. I think I can get through a fair few by the end of the year though. (I hope!) Thanks for your lovely comment and good luck with your 1000+ page books, at least I only had one of those! 😊📚💛
I see Shift by Hugh Howie, have you already read Wool, and do you have the third book Dust? Its one of my favorite trilogies but I dont know how Shift would do on its own.
I’ve read Wool, and really enjoyed it, but when I tried Shift I couldn’t get into it at first but I’ve kept it to try again! I enjoyed the set up of the world in Wool so hoping to read the rest of the trilogy at some point. 😊
@@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf when I got to the end of Dust, I found the ending so completely satisfying that I kept all 3 for a future re-read. :)
@@girlsaint that’s great to hear!
Mum, don't take her to any more libraries!
Yes, I need to stop the libraries for a while.
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Hi Al. Thanks for watching.
Please don't feel embarrassed! My physical TBR is 1035. I don't quite know how it happened, but it has. It does mean never feeling like I don't have something to read!
Amazing! That’s a lot of books to choose from. I’m pretty okay with the TBR being huge, I just think I need to work on it sometimes instead of prioritising everything else but my shelf! 😊📚📚📚
Alice, I don’t know if anyone has ever told you this, but you have way too many books.
I tell myself that all the time, but is there really such as thing as too many? I've seen the backgrounds of your videos with the ever increasing book piles! 😂
@@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf 😂😂 yeah the number of books I bought for GarbAugust wasn’t a million miles from your entire TBR 😳
@@CriminOllyBlog I can believe that!
Do you read in Spanish as well as French? (I noticed you had a Christie in Spanish).
I think I was pretty optimistic, and bought La Casa Torcida for 20p or 50p in a charity shop hoping I could improve my Spanish! I did do a Spanish module at University, but unless Crooked House involves asking for beer and a sandwich I've not got much hope, yet! 🤣
@@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf 😂 that is a good charity shop find though!
I have…ummm…’more’ unread book than you. 😅😅
(If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor is excellent)
Good to hear! Plenty of reading choice. 😊📚📚📚 Thanks for the recommendation!