How to organise your TBR pile

Step 1 – capture everything

Walk past your shelves with the barcode scanner and add every unread book to Want to Read. Add the ones you keep hearing about by search. The point is a single, complete list – no more mental inventory.

Step 2 – one shelf, many lists

Your Want to Read shelf is the master queue; custom lists are the slices: comfort reads, book-club picks, a series in order, October horror. A book can sit on several lists at once, and classics can sit next to new releases. Cover mosaics make each list scannable at a glance.

Step 3 – prune without guilt

A TBR is a menu, not a contract. If a book has survived 3 culls unread, let it go. And if you start something that is not working, mark it DNF – it leaves your queue but stays in your history.

Step 4 – picking the next read

When you finish a book, resist the bookshop reflex for a moment: your queue already has the answer. And when it genuinely does not, browse 27 genres or the hand-picked lists curated for your country in Explore.

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