How many books do you usually have on the go

[ReacherSaidNothing]

I started reading the second of the Shardlake series expecting to love it but I just couldn't stay engaged to complete in one go. Im now reading chunks of it between other books as i do want to finish it. I have a short story collection I'm dipping into also, plus I've started a Stephen King book and I'm listening to a non-fiction on audio.

So, four things on the go at the moment. Interested to hear from other people on their reading habits

Max 3. Typically a paperback for the commute/ day time breaks (currently North Woods), an audiobook (often an autobiography - Brittany Spears!) for runs/walks/housework and a hardback or thick paperback for the nightstand for books I want to read, but are too heavy in both weight and often topic for daytime (currently A Little Life).

Several usually, but one main book. The others are subsidiaries in case I get caught in the wrong part of the house or in the car without anything to read.

I have no difficulty immersing myself. I mean, I’m only actually physically reading one at a time, I’m not reading one while listening to another audiobook, which would be a mindfuck, sure.

I seem to usually have about five. One will be a beloved reread classic, one will be contemporary fiction, something I’ve seen a review of or a recommendation from someone whose tastes match mine, one will be non-fiction, one will be something undemanding in the bath, one will be something vaguely work-related.

The current five are Eimear McBride’s The City Changes Its Face, William Dalrymple’s White Mughals, Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights, Hardy’s Winter Words, and Dorothy L Sayers’ Clouds of Witness. And Maud Gonne’s autobiography.

Usually three. Could be 6