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I have always been a great reader. For one reason or another I went through a fallow spell earlier this year, but I've been stuck in bed ill recently and managed to get a lot of reading done.

I noticed that if you add my read books (900) to my to read books (100) that is a round 1,000.

I am 37 now, and I think I started reading (certainly books included on this list) when I was 6 that is 31 years worth of reading. Allowing for the couple of hundred books in my childhood/teenage years which were so unremarkable I have forgotten them that is an average of 35 books a year.

On this basis I know I must have had some very fallow years. I've beaten my 50 book reading challenge the last two years and I remember having to keep reading diaries for GCSE English and topping 100 books each year.

So I've done a lot of reading (and most of it I've enjoyed). Is my 1,000 books too much or about average?

Not sure if 1,000 books total is average or not. There are members here with a lot less, there also are members with a lot more.

I guess that if you honestly tick off what you've read as 'read' or 'started-not-finished' if you didn't, for others will be clear which books belong to what category.

Personally I do not look so much at 'numbers'. I still am amazed when people of around my age (41) still get to read as much as I used to during my childhood & teenage years (about 7 books / week). I wonder how they accomplish that and I envy them, honestly. There are so many other things that need to be done that reading time is very limited now.
On the other hand: when I do have time, it is much more appreciated!!

I don't think you should worry about numbers and just use GoodReads for your way of keeping track of the books you read, liked, disliked and, maybe, interact with other readers / members that you think might be of interest to you.

I'm at a total of 1555 on my bookshelf, & am at 79 for the year. My kids are older, 2 of them are grown & out of the house, & of the other 3, one's in college, works, & has a social life, so we don't see her much, she comes & goes, one's a freshman in high school, & we're in his 2nd sport of the year, socer season, immediately following football season, & from soccer we'll go to track. My youngest will be 13 in Feb, & he's in 7th grade. I'm a stay at home Mom, so I completely enjoy how quiet the house is during the day, & once I get the house chores done in the morning, I can curl up with a book on the couch. I'm 45, LOL. I use the 1001 book challenge list as a great resource for reading books I most likely wouldn't otherwise pick up on my own, & have learned that I really enjoy classics, but the 1001 is VERY diverse. I'm also working on the banned/challenged lists, & sometimes the 2 lists overlap.