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I normally like to let chance determine what I'm reading next. All of my TBR are stacked on top of one of my short bookshelves and I pull out between 5-8 of them and then play eenie-meanie-minie-moe to decide. It helps me read books that I normally would put off a while longer though.

Lately though, between all the monthly book reads, the Fall Challenge and the 1001 List, I end up reading whichever books fulfill the most of my commitments to GR. Luckily that means I still get to play eenie-meanie 4-5 times a month.

I have 2 baskets on the floor in my bedroom. TBR #1 and TBR #2
I keep a list on excel but I'm constantly rearranging the order. (I did it today as a matter of fact)
I just found out a library book is "in transit"
and I have 2 bookcrossing bookrings coming my way so I had to insert them in my list.
Right now, my list goes as far out as December.

Reading this over I've decided
this should probably go out on the OCCD thread.

Pretty much whatever I'm in the mood for. Usually there is a title that just feels right, and I go with it.

I'm with Emma ~ just whatever I'm in the mood for. I'm in a face to face book club, so I make sure I start that selection in time to finish it before the next meeting. Other than that, it's whatever book in my huge stash of TBR's is calling to me.

With the amount of books I have piling up, I've put myself on a somewhat flexible list, but I have sort of ranked them and intend to try to stick to the order. Before recently, I would just always pick up my newest books and read those and ignore the ones I already had sitting around.

I usually read whatever sounds interesting. Whatever I have been hearing about, or whatever screams at me from the bookshelf at the library or bookstore. I subscribe to a couple of book clubs at so I often read those after trying them out too.

It depends what i'm in the mood for. I aways end up changing my mind several times.I'll have a series book I'll want to get to then decide on trying to do a group discussion, then I'll get a total random book from the shelf or library and decide on that.I don't know how many times i'll put books in a pile one stacked on top of the other for the order i'd like to read them in then again change my mind.Like right now i'm on a scary book kick and got a few from the library but i may ecide to read something else i just never know day to day what i'll feel like.

I am one of those strict, faithful readers who will read anything from my favorite authors so they come first in my book. If they have a new one coming out, I'm getting those automatically. I may not read them right then, but I want to have them. If it's someone I never heard of, most times it's out of curiosity or word of mouth that causes me to get their books. Word of mouth reaches me easily since I'm an author and in the industry too.

I hear about many upcoming books from authors before the general public because I'm in those circles. So, I already know what I may want to check out or not before the book even hits the stores. Usually it's just interest that turns me onto a book. I don't care if the person is someone I've read before or if they're new or anything like that. It's just what I'm into in the moment.

If I want to read something, I'll get it. But I read mysteries, thrillers and suspense. I rarely read horror and I can't stand romance unless it's in a mystery or thriller. I do not read the romance genre so I don't look at romance books at all. So, as long as it's along the lines of what I read then I go for it.

I've got a pille of 10 books at my bedtable... those are my to read next picks. when i take a book from the pille I had another. I created this systeam this year so that I dont leave some tbrs to long on my shelf. I try to keep the bedtable pille whut variety enough so I can take a book from diferent moods.

Actually is proving to be a good system.

As with Logan, I currently choose my next books based on group reads, lists that have caught my attn (1001, Lost Lit), and then squeeze in the others that are sitting on my shelf as time allows.

Sometimes it's because I have gone to the library and they happen to have the one I have been wanting to read and know that it's gotta be returned within the next two weeks.

I used to go on bookbrowse.com and check out what books were being recommended and check them out on a stroll through Borders or B&N and that became my next book.

Now, it's anyone's guess since so many of the most recent reads have come from recommendations of this group and the book club of which I am a member. I also have friends who are always finding me at the gym and bringing me books they think I must read.

Most often, the four or so books I am reading at one time cannot be in the same genre.

I usually read whatever I'm in the mood for. But I give priority to library books or book club reads, since those read to be read by a certain time.

I am crazy OCD and read books in the order I aquire them, although the group reads here move up to the top of the list. Other than that, I follow the list. The thought of leaving one or two books on my shelf longer than the rest really bothers me.

Most times I'll have a stack of them on my desk and read from the top down- Or I'll go to the library and randomly look at the shelves in serch of a good book I haven't read yet. And then theres always the last option, I go downstairs and look at my brother's books to see if he's picked up anything interesting- he's usually got a new fifteen book stack every week.

I used to just pick books at random of my bookshelf...whatever I was in the mood to read @ the time. Lately though, I tend to try to read group reads first and also books that I take out from the library. Then whatever books I have recently purchased (usually a recommendation from someone on here) will most likely be choosen next. Books for the Fall Challenge have taken up priority recently also.

I used to pick books as I felt like. Now, with TNBBC, and the fall challenge, and the book recomendations, and the monthly picks, I am reading the books that are so choosen.

Does that make since? I used to read what I want. Now I read what you tell me to...lol No really, I love it!! And I would not change anything!!

Ann, that is kinda funny. when someone mentions a book on here that I hadnt heard of, or a few people are singing praises, I end up checking it out and adding it to my list... so Im the same way... Every book I have bought lately has been becuase someone else is planning on reading it soon and I want to have a read-along buddy... hee hee

I pick my books like I would create a cd for myself.I'm aware of a certain flow with books just as there is with music.Sometimes I want contrast and sometimes I want a connection in some way or another.I'll fit these in around the group reads though once in a while a book jumps out that I just have to read now,like Fire in the Blood that has nothing to do with flow and has everything to do with plain old book lust.

Sherry is a genius.

Ahhhhhhh, book lust. I love it!!

Usually the books pick me. I get all set to read something and go to get it off the shelf(ves) and another one will just *POP* into my hands. And usually its just what I need to read at that moment and I come to see that what I *thought* I wanted to read would have been all wrong...and its bad to go against that. I have sometimes gone against that and have paid the price. The heart knows...and so do the books....

Well said Dawn.

You too Logan!:D

I have to be in the exact right mood to read certain books. I often will grab a book off the shelf or out of a pile and read about 5 pages before I realize that I have no particular desire to read that book. So at that point, I try to find the book that is least like the one I don't want to read.

Because I have such large to-read piles, that frequently get restacked, I will sometimes do the random method, and decide something along the lines of "I will read the 10th book from the top of the middle pile" or something like that." If it's not the next book in a series, the next book in the series is the replacement.

This is similar to Logan's method in that it makes me read books I might have put off.

It definitely depends on how I'm feeling at the time, however there are those books that I promise myself I'll read so I have to force my way through them (I like to keep promises I make to myself).

After reading some of the responses here though....Logan, I think I may steal your eenie, meenie idea! That's fantastic!! I'll get a chance to read books that I'm never really in the mood for. Ha Ha.

I read whatever I am in the mood for with book club reads in between. I'm really enjoying doing one fiction and one non-fiction read at a time. Sometimes I will go a few days without book reading and catch-up on magazine reading while I sort out what I want to read next. Part of the fun for me is the selection process. I love the anticipation of what the next book will hold for me.

Sometimes, it's easy: for authors I love, I just keep buying all their books until I have 'em all.

Other than that, my reading habits don't mesh with group reads -- too individualistic, I suppose. I never go by top-100 lists, because they're really nothing but some individual's taste, and they always omit so many great books. So I keep one eye on blogs and the other on journals and make note of things that interest me. Then I cruise the used bookstores and remainder sales and pick up those names.

What comes off the pile next is whatever happens to catch my eye that day.

Since I have a couple of reading challenges, I have a bit of a regiment on what I need to read each month. I'm reading one non-fiction, one fiction, and one classic each month.

I space those out pretty evenly. Then I add a pinch of TNBBC monthly reads, and simmer.

Usually, if I have free pick, I sit in front of my TBR books at home and stare until one book jumps out (I have ~20-25 at any given time at home). Things may help influence, like:

Recommendations (particularly from my Dad, Sis, a person from work, and GR of course)

Which ones I borrowed (try to get those through first)

what I've read recently--sometimes I need a no-brainer. I loved Pillars of the Earth and Life of Pi, but after reading them back2back I needed something easy to read, with a definite happy ending.

I try not to get any paper books from the library (audio only), so I can get through the ones at home.

I'm a mood reader too. I used to have a system and a plan, but that never worked out. I usually know what I will read next right before I finish the current book, so I can just fall right into it. The only time I'm locked into reading something is when it comes in from the library. My library queue is sometimes backlogged, and when a book finally becomes available, I have only 3 weeks to read it, as I can't renew because the wait list is so long. So I usually read that before anything else I may be in the mood for, so I can return it.

before my current reading pass.. I normally have in mind something I am going to read next..
my reference mostly from group discussion i.e. as on TNBBC (thanks, I don't join discussion much but I look at it as a ref ;)..or Grp Indonesia.. other reference can be book review on magazine/newspaper.

I go by chance and divine "pull." Sometimes it's the cover of the book, sometimes the description, sometimes it's the author. I just let my mood guide me to the style of book and look for one that "speaks" to me.

If I'm working through a series, I'll usually continue with the next book. But, hey, even we need breaks from series books so I'll just go with what comes to mind or hand next.

Mostly, it's whichever book from my TBR list my smallish library has on the shelves. I'll usually bring home five or six at a time, and within those, I'll just read whatever I feel like. I'll read books I've borrowed from family and friends as soon as I've finished my latest library stack. I hate lending my books to people because I'm afraid I'll never see them again, so I try to return books quickly. Do unto others and all that.

It depends on different things: my mood, how much time for reading I will have in the near future, the weather...Hey, don't laugh but when it is raining I rather read chick-lit than when it is warm outside. Or I just ask my better half whether he had read a good book lately or not :-)

Same as Logan for me. I pick out a group and play eenie meenie minnie mo or something like that. But I don't keep a list for the fall challenge I just take books and if they fit...yay! And I will read group reads as well starting this month, or some of them.

Whenever I see a review that is interesting, I'll either tear it out or write down the author and title. Then, I get on my library's website and investigate if it has the title in the collection. If so, I will put the book on reserve. Therefore, what I read is based on what comes in first. When I go to the library to pick up the item(s), I browse the new books shelves. If there is a book that catches my eye, I'll pick it up. Also, many of my teacher friends, parents, sister, and grandparents are avid readers, so we trade reviews on books that we like. I've read many books based on family reviews.

I have a list I go off of. I then check to see if the library has them in and then go over and pick them up. I always have 4-10 books sitting here to be read and no less than 3 in progress.

Definitely by my mood. I have a pretty broad interest range in books, so whatever I'm feeling. If there is a series I've been hooked on with several (or lots) of books in it, I will need a little break from them, so I will read something from a different type. When I request books from my library, I always have a mix of books so that I have a good choice to choose from. Unless, like Anna mentioned, there's a long wait list, and I finally get my hands on it, I will try to get to it as soon as I can.

I am also a moode reader. It just depends on what moode Im in as to which book I'll pull off the shelf next. If Im not in the moode to read a particular genre of book even though I may love that particular author I will not enjoy the book, so I pick whatever Im in the moode for.

I go by which ones are due at the library first. If there are more than one due on the same day then it is mood reading.

Sherry, great word 'booklust'. It feels so good that word and maybe says everything!

Depends a bit where I am at the moment.
Like for now I have for several reasons only the books in this house to choose from. There are about twenty different books that are part of a..not serie, but I think maybe monthly one came out or something. so I am reading those for now.

Other times I just watch which books I have and pick the one up that catches my eye immediately, that makes me feel msot eager to start reading it. A lot of times I have been thinking about that already before finishing the book(s) I am reading.

When I notice I have really a lot of unread books, like when I was in belgium at the beginning of the month and noticed I had more than 100 unread books at home, I started to make a list of the order I would read them. It changed a bit but I did quite good with following them.

Sometimes i am dying to rea a good old Patricia Cornwell or Agatha Christie, that all the other books, lists ... just don't mather.

And then sometimes I just go with how I feel at that moment.

I have SO many books. I go the thrift store/good will store at least twice a month and the books you can find there! Oh my! I can go in there and get almost 12-15 books for less than $4! So I have a very wide selection to choose from. I usually stand in front of my book shelves for a few moments and let the book choose me! Something always jumps out at me! And I have never had a problem finding a book that way!

I have a fairly strange way of determining my next book, in that I let my cats decide for me. I spread out the options on the floor or bed, and then call one or both cats into the room. Whichever book they sniff, paw, sit on, or other otherwise molest first is the lucky winner.

No I get influenced by the winter challenge and I have again a library book, so y eyes get catched with random books there...I always end up with choosing books that aren't on my tbr lists!

I am choosing via Winter Challenge or the Monthly Books. Otherwise I am reading whatever I feel like reading at the time.

Depends... I decided to re-read Jane Eyre next, because Maya Angelou talks about it in "Caged Bird"... I do that a lot, sort of a stream of consciousness - a topic or a theme comes up in my current book and points me to the next, kind of like the book title game!

Otherwise I go with a gut thing, or because someone has been talking about it or recomending it, like Howl's... I had been planning to read "Everything is illuminated" next, but changed my mind.

My order is very dependent on RL book groups and GR groups and when various movies are coming out. (I always want to read before seeing the movie) Then it is swayed by what others say - particularly from this group.

-- Fantasy Series: The Crown Conspiracy (10/08) | Avempartha (04/09)

Fluctuates between when a favorite author's new book is out, a GR recommend that intrigues me and reviews on line. Okay, shoot me now, but I have cross-referenced reviews with recommendations and seldom have I been disappointed. The other nice thing about it is that most of the ones that GR folks love, are pretty popular with the outside world. So who is to say that the folks outside of this group don't know what they are talking about? It's a process (not for everyone), but it works for me.

I'm using the winter challenge to help decide, but also trying to alternate between books I have high expectations for and books which I haven't heard much about. It helps, I think, because if I read a really good book, and then followed it with one that has been hyped as really good, I find myself very disappointed if it isn't as good as the one I just read. However, if I read one I don't have set expectations for then if it turns out to be really good, I'm pleasantly surprised.

Great thread, Fiona! Whenever I finish a book, I am a bit out of sorts until I have the next book in hand. I go directly to the bookshelves to choose another no matter how late I have stayed up to read. I really am an oddball! :)
One thing that has helped me is to read a couple of books at a time...typically something I want to read and something I probably "should" have read (classics).