So I read a bit but sometimes I get story fatigue or book fatigue especially if it’s a monster. So recently I’ve started working on just having multiple books ready to go to read whenever I fancy one of them over all.
Right now I’m reading 3-5 at a time.
Master and Margarita
Tatami Galaxy
Mistborn
Kowloon: Generic romance
Land of the Lustrous
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Like 3 usually
Only 1.
Usually 2 or 3.
I keep one book that’s on a lighter side just for reading in bed. I’m usually too tired to concentrate on anything heavy, but I always read before I go to sleep. Even if I manage only a few pages.
Usually 1 at a time. Occasionally I will do 2 if I’m reading a nonfiction and a fiction book
2-4, especially if I’m listening to an audiobook
Usually I try to stick to one but can go up to 3 depending on how I am feeling about the books I am reading.
Usually 2, always in different genres. I’m usually reading a cozy mystery and a sci-fi book. Right now, it’s a Stephen King’s Holly and a cozy from the Bakeshop series. Good balance to each other.
One at a time. I will get lost and start mixing up storylines and characters if I attempt more, lol.
I almost always have at least 2 going at once.
I usually just read one, maximum two. That doesn’t count the reading that I do for school, though.
An ebook and an audiobook. But when the audiobook is super long (30+ hours) I’ll add another into the mix. So right now I’ve got The Shadow Rising and Jade City for audiobooks. The book on my Kindle is A Study in Scarlet Women. It’s a nice variety but I kinda wish I’d saved Jade City as a “main” instead of with a Wheel of Time book.
I keep it to a single screen on my kindle, so no more than 8.
They all have to be very different though.
And never more than 3-4 fiction.
Usually 3-4.
One or two actual books, either physical or on Kindle. If I’m doing 2, it’s because I’m doing fiction and non-fiction at the same time. (Currently on book 3 of The Expanse)
One audiobook for walks, bus rides, train rides, and bike rides. (Just finished the first Wild Cards book and it was good but very dark, so taking a break with some podcasts right now)
One graphic novel/comic book, usually working my way through a series. (Right now I’m alternating between volumes of The Invisibles and Powers)
Usually 4-5 fiction and one or two non-fiction, but the total can vary a little up and down.
Am I the only one who reads like…..7. Now I’m reading
* The Catcher in the Rye
* The Pigeon
* The Story of Philosophy
* Inner Work
* Amusing Ourselves to Death
* Meeting the Shadow
* No Longer at Ease
I haven’t really thought of it but I think unconsiously, my maximum number of books to read at the same time is 10. I just choose a book based on my mood or how concentrated I am. For example, I read the Story of Philosophy when my brain is knife-sharp so I can soak in EVERY word ( the writing is superb (੭˃ᴗ˂)੭ !) and the Catcher in the Rye when I’m eating or when I need to take a break from non-fiction because book fatigue is a real thing!
Used to be 1 out of preference to stay in one world, now around 3 because I like to read whenever I have a spare moment—so any book too heavy to carry I read at home, one book I will commute with to read on the train, and one library-borrowed ebook on my phone for any other time I’m out and needed to pack lighter.
Right now, I’m alternating between three.
I had 11 at the start of this week. Cut it down to 8. I try for 3-5 but always end up in the 8-10 range.
One by one but i read fast and i refuse to start a book before finishing the one i’m already reading.
One ebook, one paper book and one audiobook. So 3.
I find that if I’m reading more than two books at once, I’m not really reading any of them.
I’m reading 1. I also have a Robert frost book of poems that I’ll open and read, almost in the fashion of YouTube shorts lol. And I’m perpetually reading “A Quiet Mind” by Shoukei Matsumoto. It’s my anxiety medication. Lol
I’m amazed at how many people are saying they read more than 1 book at once lol. I get deeply invested into one book a time!
2
1 book and 1 manga or graphic novel concurrently
Three to five books. I need a range as I’m not always in the mood to read particular genres. At the moment I have two ebooks on the go, one hardback, one audiobook (only for walking to and from work as well chores around the house) and one manga series via an app.
I read 2 or 3. An audiobook is almost always in the mix, but right now, I’m actually READING 3:
● Persuasion (again), Jane Austen, a classic!
● Invisible Girl, Lisa Jewell, the thriller!
● Shubeik Lubeik, Deena Mohamed, a beautifully illustrated graphic novel – I actually bought the hard cover of this one, which I rarely do!
Usually four. One audiobook I can listen to around the kids, one that is adult that I can’t, one ebook on my kindle and one physical book.
Right now it’s Catching Fire, Life and Death, New Moon, and 2nd Chance.
I like to read just one at a time, to be fully focused on the story. Also because I will inevitably prefer one and read it until the end without reading another.
About 5. Do we count Webnovels? Then about 20. Do we count Manga and Comics? Then about 500.
Right now I’m reading three .. glad to know I’m not the only one…
But when a novel got me curious, like it’s a mystery or something fast paced, like I can’t put it down, I would finish it first to satisfy my curiosity.
5. Post War: History of Europe, Hyperion, Book of Disquiet, Meditations, Against Interpretation
I usually have 2 going at once: 1 physical and 1 kindle
2 usually. 1 audiobook at work or walking and 1 paper/ebook elsewhere
normally 2. a physical copy / on my phone that i’m reading and one audiobook
I always read 1 book at a time and one book per month on average. And I really like reading but books are so costly these days…and audiobooks are two times more expensive. Can anyone tell me how do I get books for cheap?
Between four and twelve. I think fourteen was the record, but that was an outlier caused by a lot of new releases in the same week that I couldn’t not have. I have a purring cat in my lap so I’m not going to type out the current list. 🙂
I usually try to read 2 at once because my book pile of shame is too big lol but sometimes I focus more on just reading one because I don’t feel like reading the other at all
2 max. If I’m reading 2 at a time they have to be different genres
In an ideal world I would limit myself to 3 (Fiction, light non-fiction, dense non-fiction) but in Reality I usually sit at 5-6. Highest I’ve gone is 8 though I think
At any given time, between three and four books.
I typically read one at a time — the ADHD, y’see — but this past week I had 3 going at once and actually have done all right with each of them, much to my surprise. I read a lot of books over the course of a year but I generally tackle one at a time.
The 3 I’ve been reading:
* In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (finished just last night)
* Man Tiger by Eka Kurniawan (I’m doing a “read the world” challenge in 2024 and this was the book I chose for Indonesia)
* A Lesson in Thorns by Sierra Simone (I need fluff in my reading life)
I’ll have up to a dozen going at once. (This includes books I’m reading for pleasure, books that I’m teaching my students, books that I’m reading aloud to my kids, and audiobooks.)
3 to 5 and I try to have one of them as an audiobook for when I’m doing chores or something
Two or three. Definitely three sometimes if one of the books is large and or nonfiction.
I think I have about 3 going at once most of the time but they’re usually different genres or I would get storylines confused. One of the 3 is an audiobook.
Generally two — one at work and one at home, that way I don’t run the risk of carrying something back and forth and forgetting it in the opposite place than I am.
37 books at once. I lay them all out flat on the floor and read one sentence from each until the last, then I return to the first book and restart the process with the second sentence and so on.
Only one cuz I end up confusing some parts of one book with another and it just messes me up