Last summer, I did a TBR Roundup (and a Haul Roundup, but we’ll talk about that later!) where I evaluated 6 months of TBR posts and made pie charts to show how many of them I actually read. I was originally going to do this every 6 months (which is why today is covering July through December of 2018), but after today’s post, this will become a quarterly post—so expect the next one in April!
Anyways, we’ve got a lotta TBRs to talk about, so let’s jump in!
July — 21 books listed:
17 read in July:
– Nyxia (DNF)
– Contagion
– Mirage
– Eragon (DNF, had read before)
– Anna and the French Kiss
– The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
– You
– Hush Hush
– The Hunger Games
– Twilight
– City of Fallen Angels
– A Quiet Kind of Thunder
– Clockwork Angel
– Sawkill Girls
– Our Stories, Our Voices
– Pet Sematary (DNF, trying again later)
– In Other Lands (DNF, trying again later)
4 read after July:
– Toil & Trouble
– Clockwork Prince
– Heir of Fire
– Senlin Ascends (DNF, trying again later)
0 still on TBR!
August — 20 books listed:
11 read in August:
– Next Year in Havana
– The Opposite of Innocent
– Toil & Trouble
– Gerald’s Game (DNF)
– Bad Man
– To Be Honest
– Sadie
– Rule
– Clockwork Prince
– Senlin Ascends (DNF, trying again later)
– Heir of Fire
6 read after August:
– Worlds Seen in Passing
– I Do Not Trust You
– The Sisters of the Winter Wood
– City of Lost Souls
– Clockwork Princess
– Queen of Shadows
3 still on TBR:
– The Book of Hidden Things
– The Grey Bastards
– The Girl in the Green Silk Gown
September — 34 books listed:
18 read in September:
– I Do Not Trust You
– Strange Grace
– We Sold Our Souls
– The Good Demon
– The Sisters of the Winter Wood
– Phoenix Unbound
– The House by the Cemetery
– Nightingale
– Kill Hill Carnage
– Damsel
– (Don’t) Call Me Crazy
– Priest of Bones
– City of Lost Souls
– Clockwork Princess
– Queen of Shadows
– Vicious
– Kill Creek
– Worlds Seen in Passing
12 read after September:
– What if it’s Us
– Doorbells at Dusk
– Home and Away (DNF)
– Blanca & Roja
– The Toy Thief
– Odd One Out
– Imagine Us Happy
– That Night
– Suspended in Dusk II
– Empire of Storms
– The Kiss Quotient
– Fairest
4 still on TBR:
– Uncharted
– The Grey Bastards
– Beneath the Citadel
– Wild Hunger
October — 31 books listed:
18 read in October:
– What if it’s Us
– Doorbells at Dusk
– Blanca & Roja
– The Toy Thief
– Home and Away (DNF)
– Odd One Out
– Imagine Us Happy
– That Night
– A Very Large Expanse of Sea
– Suspended in Dusk II
– Garden of Eldritch Delights
– Bedfellow
– Finding Baba Yaga
– IT (DNF)
– Empire of Storms
– Tower of Dawn
– Dead Leaves
– Fairest
4 read after October:
– Evenfall (DNF)
– Song of the Dead
– Girls of Paper and Fire
– Darkest Hours
9 still on TBR:
– Beneath the Citadel
– Bones
– Wild Hunger
– City of Heavenly Fire
– The Bane Chronicles
– Godsgrave
– Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
– Certain Dark Things
– Shatter Me
November — 21 books listed:
8 read in November:
– Empire of Sand
– Night Shift
– The Kiss Quotient
– Asylum
– The Language of Thorns
– Check, Please! Vol. 1
– Evenfall (DNF)
– Girls of Paper and Fire
4 read after November:
– Dear Heartbreak (DNF)
– Kingdom of Needle and Bone
– Kin
– The Faithful
9 still on TBR:
– Kingdom of Ash
– The Shadow of What Was Lost
– The Mansion
– The Scorpio Races
– Vengeful
– Small Spaces
– Children of the Dark
– Shatter Me
– The Girl from the Well
December — 18 books listed:
14 read in December:
– Snow in Love
– Kingdom of Needle and Bone
– In an Absent Dream
– The Girl King (DNF)
– Song of the Dead
– Merry Inkmas
– NOS4A2
– We Should All Be Feminists
– Unwind (DNF)
– Dear Heartbreak (DNF)
– The Faithful
– Hark! The Herald Angels Scream
– The Gilded Wolves
– The Battle of the Labyrinth
0 read after December!
4 still on TBR:
– Slayer
– Kingdom of Ash
– The Shadow of What Was Lost
– Small Spaces
Overall Results:
Overall, I’m not too proud of my results for this roundup! My last roundup was actually better, with 63% read in their intended month, 15% read later, and 19% left on my TBR (okay, so that last one isn’t much worse right now than it was back then!).
Since I’ll be doing this every 3 months from now on, I think it’ll be easier to remember it and use it to motivate myself to finish my future monthly TBRs! Fingers crossed, anyways.
Keep an eye out next week for the haul roundup version!
Kathy @ Books & Munches
January 14, 2019DESTINY. I have an idea. I’m.. going to mail you about it – since that tends to work better if I need to remember stuff, haha. :’)
Molly
January 14, 2019Oh my goodness, I love your pie charts!!! I’m not sure I will ever be this organized. Color me impressed.
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
January 19, 2019Haha thank you!! I love making them!
Mischenko
January 14, 2019This is amazing and so organized! I wish I could do this. I wanted to start doing a spreadsheet last year, but never did. Maybe I’ll try again. You’ve inspired me. ♥️
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
January 19, 2019Awww thank you, and good luck! ♥ It takes some time to get used to doing them all the time, but once you get into the habit, it can be really fun if you’re into them!
✩ Ashley ✩
January 14, 2019Really neat idea!! You’re so organized even if you don’t get to all of the books on your TBR. (Mine would be 90% put off / not picked up lol)
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
January 19, 2019Thank you! <3 Hahaha I am a little bummed my numbers weren't better, but at the same time, I'm kind of proud of how good they were!
✩ Ashley ✩
January 19, 2019Be proud!! ?
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
January 19, 2019Haha thank you ♥♥ you too!!
What's She Reading?
January 14, 2019I love this idea! It’s cool that it holds you a little more accountable for the books you list, but then you also get credit even if you don’t read a book right when you think you will.
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
January 19, 2019Thank you! Yeah, I almost didn’t include the “read later” ones, but then I thought, well, at least they DID get read, and it might be confusing to people reading the posts if it said “still on TBR” but I had reviewed it or something, right? Haha!
Kaleena @ Reader Voracious
January 16, 2019Ahhh you are still doing so well and I am glad this post will come up a bit more frequently! you know how much I love charts. Overall the fact you read all but 20% is still fantastic
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
January 19, 2019Awww, thank you! ♥ I’m hoping doing it more often will motivate me to stick to my goals a little bit better, since I’ll be thinking about it more often!
Annemieke
January 17, 2019I think you did pretty well considering how many books you had on your tbr every month. Don’t be too hard on yourself. <3
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
January 19, 2019Awww, thank you, friend ♥♥
alirenm
January 17, 2019This is awesome! And I love your pie charts! One of those posts that gets readers thinking.
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
January 19, 2019Thank you so much! 🙂