How RRPL Librarians and Staff are breaking into their own TBR lists and suggestions for you:

• Reading whatever comes next from library holds – especially audiobooks from the Libby app, where you can place holds on free ebooks, audiobooks, even magazines with your library card
• A preview reading – start reading and if you don’t like the book, put it down!
• Taking on challenges – Book Riot’s Read Harder Challenge, PopSugar’s Reading Challenge
• Reading what’s trending – following bookshops, libraries, and book influencers online
• Rereading favorites in anticipation of new releases
• Following favorite authors and their latest releases
• Having a new hobby that lends to learning from nonfiction books
• Book club reads – at the library we lead : True Crime Wednesday, Black Fiction Book Discussion, LGBTQIA+ Book Discussion, and Adult Rocky River Readers Book Group (check out all our book discussion groups on page 9 of the Inside View)
• Mood reading – books chosen depending on the current mood of the reader, often from their physical stockpile of books at home

Most used TBR trackers & list makers:

• Our very own catalog – log into your RRPL account and create your own Lists straight from the catalog!
• Fable – a free, interactive, social media like app with book clubs, challenges, reading streak tracker, and a rating system for you to use when you’re finished with a title
• The Storygraph- loved for it’s stats keeper, this app will even help pick your next read based on your reading history and it’s also loved by mood readers
• Tertulia – free to use but will direct you towards lists made up by book lovers and links to purchase books listed

To DNF or not to DNF:

• The spectrum of readers who DNF (do/did not finish) their books goes from one end of being self proclaimed completionists, unable to put down a book even if it’s not that great, to the other end where readers decide there are too many books and too little time to spend on a bad one.

Whatever your reading style may be this year we encourage an overabundance of holds and checkouts from your local library!!