Do you keep a record of books you have read?

Tsk. /wanky.

I've got mine online ( since 2002) so I am a fully paid up wanly juvenile. I just find it interesting, and I often forget if I have read something.

I started about 18months ago and wish that I had started when I was a teenager. I find it very useful, I just don't remember and can look back and see my brief summary and what I thought.

I started to keep a list after a thread on here a few years ago.
It was along the lines of "how many books have you read in 2007?"
DS2 was just really getting into reading for pleasure rather than for school and it seemed like a good way to encourage him.
I'm a born list maker so I have kept it up religiously. At first in an old exercise book but now it a pretty notebook. I find I refer back quite often to look for authors I have enjoyed, and which ones I've already read. With some authors there are so many I don't remember the titles of the ones I've read.

candytuft please explain your job. Sounds fabulous, how do you/did you get into it?

yes via goodreads, it really helps me but feels a bit nerdish!

I started doing this on goodreads. I have a record for this year (so far) and last year.

I wish I'd started keeping a record of them sooner.

No, but I wish I'd started one years ago. I've read so many books over the years i can't remember all of them. Think it's a bit too late to start now...

I keep various lists at the moment and have done for years but a lot of them are prone to getting lost due to computer crashes. This year, I'm keeping a diary, a word document list and an online record on www.librarything.com. How much I read varies widely - 49 books in 2009, 319 books in 2010, I was ahead of myself last year this year for a bit but I think the gap's going to close as I've slowed down a bit.

I am a Bibliotherapist - I use reading, mainly fiction and poetry as a tool for helping people with mental health problems. I often suggest that people buy the nicest notebook they can find and record what they have read. It becomes almost like a diary, as what we choose to read is often a response to moods, and personal circumstances. I have kept a reading diary for years, and its enlightening (to me , anyway) - for instance I tend towards reading the most depressing stuff when I am at a low ebb (as opposed to cheery, happy books), because I think that well, there is always someone worse off than me, and I feel better as a result !

I keep a list using the Evernote app for iphone. I started doing it last year when I set myself a reading challenge for the year (not doing that again, takes some of the fun out of reading). There's a few reasons for doing it, part of it is to do with being a massive book geek & I also do it as I have a memory like a sieve when it comes to names & authors I like. It also helps if you're working through a series (e.g Jo Nesbo) & you read on different formats like paperbacks & ebooks.

I've just started to use Good Reads to record what I read. This is mainly because I'm now using my Kindle for the majority of my reading and don't have the 'books on a shelf' to look at in the same way as previously. It is an excellent site and I think I will continue to record what I read on there.

I keep a list - started in 2008 after a thread about how many books we read in a year. I find it interesting to look back. Challenged myselfthis year to read 50 books - usually do 40 something.

Oh yeah, definitely. Even with friends who apparently have similar tastes. Sometimes I think if you read too many reviews before reading a book it can affect your opinion - afterwards, I just like reading all the varied opinions.

reviews are useful but just sometimes i think what?
have we read same book.......

I like reading reviews after I've finished a book and seeing how wide opinion varies etc. But then maybe I'm just odd :)

i dont hold any validity what others rate
just dont
been there done that too often
time travellers wife everyone raved, turgid rubbish, same as lovely bones, and too may other to mention

goodreads and librarything are handy for keeping records of what you've read & also what you and others thought of those books.

Whomping good thriller type books:

Stephen King esp The Stand
The Passage is v good
The Historian is excellent
yes to Sansom
Let The Right One In (Swedish vampires) is not bad - deffo the best of the Scandi ones I've read
The Death Instinct - forget who by
Alone In Berlin is okay

I don't and I keep meaning to. I started a new library book today and then realised I've already flipping read it: this is not the first time I have done this.

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova is the only Vampire book I've read and it's really good. I didn't think much of her follow up book though.(Swan Thieves)

seen loads readin passage,wondered but the vampire thing is deterrent
never read that twilight mush

That's the one SM.