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What to Read? Lists, Lists, Lists

July 11, 2008 at 10:47 am | In Reading Lists | 4 Comments

I love, love, love book lists. Some (my husband) might say that I’m obsessed with them. I have to admit that I am highly — almost psychotically — organized.

I have been not been in reviewing mode lately because I have been busy making new lists. There are certain themes that I am particularly interested in and will read almost any book on the subject.

So I decided to get systematic — another thing I love to do — and create reading lists for each theme to help me keep track of what I have read and what i need to read. I use List of Bests to make my lists; it has a few database hiccups but is a really wonderful web tool for organizing lists of books (or movies or albums or whatever you like) and then checking them off as you complete them. Here are the lists I’m working on.

I’ll be posting reviews as I go along. Of course, I am totally open for suggestions. I don’t believe that any of my lists are complete as they currently stand. You can leave title suggestions in the comments here or on List of Bests. I would also love to see other people’s reading lists, if they are on the web somewhere.

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I love reading other people’s lists — lists of books they’ve read, books they want to read, books they thing are the best of all time, etc etc.

But I don’t think it would be very effective to make my own “books I want to read” list, for the simple fact that once I started it would just grow and grow and grow, and become almost infinite, and correspondingly, the chances that I’d ever really read any book on the list would go down, down, down….

Comment by Bill the sci-fi guy — July 12, 2008 #
Ha, I know exactly what you mean!

Comment by Shannon — July 13, 2008 #
I don’t think you’re obsessed with lists, they just happened to be the latest obesession.

Comment by dylan555 — July 13, 2008 #
[...] tend to read authors I already like. Beyond that, I browse reading lists and look for books on themes I’m interested in or similar to books I already love. I don’t really read reviews before I’ve read the [...]

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