How many unread books do you have in your collection?

One - On Swift Horses by Shannon Pufahl

I have tried to read it a couple of times but can't get into it.

We have well over 5,000 books and I would be as old as Metheuselah if I had read them all! As well as ours, there are some of those of my late father in law, my former husbband read English literature and \American history at Cambs, my parents were avid readers - I can't bear to throw away a book - hopeless. I guess the 'Wartime Gardening' might come in useful one day!!

Quite a few. Several are XIXth century belonging to my ggfather.
I also like to have “spare” books waiting to be read - I would loathe to run out of reading matter.

About 200! I love books and can't resist buying them. But I am also taking a university course and reading for assignments has to take priority, so I have to fit reading for pleasure around that.

Easy at least 60 but people keep giving me them and I can’t read that quick!,, if it snows I’ll give it a marathon go! I now have. A spare room with all of the books in and a little wicker basket as soon as I read them in they go off to charity!

Physical books I’ve read them all but had to give them up . On my kindle 😬I have it says176. I blame bookbub and late night scrolling. Nothing to do with the sensible tight-fisted person I am normally.

Too many to mention.

3 or 4. I picked them up at a book exchange. I've got about a dozen books that I hang on to, all others go back to book exchange or charity shop.

I buy mainly used books and do read them. Then the ones I want to keep (about half) go on my bookcase,
and the rest go to the local Hospice shop to sell on.

Quite a few; and some, such as all ten volumes of my complete works of Goethe, I shall never read.

I am currently re-reading two books, which won't reduce the number of unreads!

Hundreds!

I have a small bookcase double filled upstairs with books that I want to read but I have a couple of hundred on my Kindle. Some of my old 'paper' books had print too small to read so they went to charity.

Every book in my home has been read. I can'
t say how many there are here but very many, here there and every where in all rooms bar bathroom and kitchen, been here 55 years!!

Far too many hence why I joined the 'Read 50 books in a year' thread. I'm nearing 50 but I need to stop buying faster than I'm reading! Oh well, someday I'll catch up with them all.

I love books. Have been an avid reader for most of my life but stopped reading a few years ago. But I still buy books; new books, books from second hand book shops ( I know some fabulous second hand book shops). My favourite podcasts are book ones ( The Book Club, Backlisted). Unfortunately I listen to the book reviews instead of reading the actual books. When I go to stay at my partners I take a hessian bag full of books but never read them. I’ve never tried reading them on a kindle but don’t think I’d like it; I like holding an actual book. I know if I went on holiday I’d read again but I’m afraid that part of my life is over.

Only one. I shall probably get round to it next week, when I have finished re-reading Agatha Christie's complete works, a book for our book-club and a couple of historical monographs.

500 paperbacks Lupatria?
Plus hardbacks.
You must have a home Library to shelve so many .

Oh so many, I don’t think I will I’ve long enough to read them all 🥲 but I can’t stop buying them. I have hundreds between my home in the UK and my home in Greece plus Kindle Unlimited and BorrowBox. It is a harmeless addiction and gives me so much pleasure. I always pass on the physical copies of books I have read.

If unread means by neither of us then only a few, but I’ve read very few of the books DH likes to read.

I have a “ to read” shelf which is quite full plus plenty on my kindle to catch up with !

i stopped buying books when i got my kindle, i have about 200 in that but i do read roughly 3 books per week.

Quite a few that I really want to read, like Susie Dents latest. . But M E. affects my ability to concentrate, so I keep buying light reads on my Kindle which I can use lying down. I've just read some Barbara Pym, Rosie Goodwin and have started Gervase Phinn. But I so want the energy to read my physical books.

I’m with you moth Have attempted war and peace several times but just can’t get into i

None! I've read every damn one.

Why buy a book to abandon it unread?