Grab a piece of scratch paper and see how you stack up when it comes to your to-be-read (TBR) books!

  1. How do you keep track of the books you want to read?
    1. In a spreadsheet.
    2. Piled up by my bed in a Leaning Tower of Books that threatens to topple in the middle of the night and bludgeon me into a different sort of posthumous literary fame.
    3. On paper. Paper never killed anyone.
  2. How long do books typically stay on your TBR list/pile?
    1. Are you asking for the mean or the mode? I can give you both.
    2. Um, until I read them?
    3. No more than a few months.
  3. What sort of relationship do you have with your TBR list/pile?
    1. Pure unadulterated love—The only thing more fun than the upkeep of my list is actually reading.
    2. Overwhelming—I never leave food out after midnight, but I swear they multiply when I’m not looking.
    3. Love/hate—I love it until I accidentally return a library book with my list stuck in the middle of it.

Scoring: For each “a” answer, you get 3 points. Each “b” is 1 point, and each “c” 2 points.

4 Points or Less: Meg from Little Women
TBR the old-fashioned way has a certain charm. But before your spouse/roommate/cat gets fed up that your TBR piles have spread to the bed/bathroom floor/window ledge, and leaves your sorry, old-fashioned butt, maybe you oughta buy one more bookshelf to house your TBRness.

5–7 Points: Goldilocks
Most of the time, your TBR setup is juuust right. Sure, your dog might chew up your list every now and then, and you might have 17 different lists strewn about the house. But overall, you have a healthy, laidback relationship with your TBR. So just get back to reading, already.

8 Points or More: Hermione Granger
If TBR tracking were an Olympic sport, you would so totally medal. Just don’t admit to any of your bookish friends that sometimes, it’s more fun thinking about what you want to read than it is doing the actual reading.

Which TBR type are you?

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