I catalogued my entire home library 🌱📚 here are the results! 📝

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[@_sarathedreamer]

These stats are SO FUN 🥰 you’re so right, it’s so fun to know how many books and stories you still have to discover ❤️

[@MaryAmongStories]

so happy you liked it! and yes yes yes, absolutely ✨🧡

[@junibacken729]

I recommend „Cockroaches“ for Rwanda, „Desert Flower“ for Somalia, „Born a Crime“ for South Africa, „Persepolis“ for Iran and the books by Orhan Pamuk for Turkey.

[@MaryAmongStories]

wonderful, thank you so much for these recommendations ✨

[@Positivevibes-tq5mg]

Land of a thousand hills for Rwanda

[@Positivevibes-tq5mg]

Dancing in the glory of monsters for DRC

[@thefaeriewilds]

This is a project I need to tackle this year! It must be so nice to have it all organized.

[@MaryAmongStories]

I highly recommend! it takes a lot of work, but in the end it's very satisfying 📚

[@joceanna3461]

This was interesting! I think you should add books you have unhauled because you have probably read most of them.

[@kurtfox4944]

Agreed. They count towards your "Read" pile as well as your country list. Same with online books. You count add a separate column to distinguish owned, unhauled and virtual.

[@MaryAmongStories]

thank you

[@pretentioussunshine]

I just use Goodreads to keep track of all my books. I have two separate shelfs for the books I physically own, a 'read books I own' tag (currently 97 books I believe) and a physical tbr shelf (currently 16 books plus one I haven't added yet because it isn't on Goodreads) I've thought about doing a whole spreadsheet before, just for the aesthetic but I would pretty much just add everything I can already see on Goodreads. Plus since my collection is relatively small I pretty much know exactly what books I have, where they are and how I felt about them so cataloguing the whole thing doesn't seem really necessary at the moment. I do love to see videos like this though, where people really interact with their collection, especially if it's a big one like yours because truthfully I dream of having a collection like that one day so💭

[@MaryAmongStories]

yes, that's pretty much the same thing 🥰 how fun that you keep track of everything as well!

[@pretentioussunshine]

@@MaryAmongStories Yess, I love that there are people that are just as obsessed about their collection as I am😅😇

[@meltedbooks]

I love seeing all of your stats and categories! This is so cool!

[@MaryAmongStories]

thank you so much, I'm glad you liked it! 🥰

[@junibacken729]

My favourite translated book and one of my favorite novels of all time is „The God of Small Things“ from India.

[@MaryAmongStories]

I've heard wonderful things about it!

[@sarahsperusals]

you should get one of those library scanners, i’ve seen people using them to catalogue their home libraries!!

[@kurtfox4944]

It does not work for older books without barcodes. I like to collect older hardcover classics, so only a minor help.

[@MaryAmongStories]

ohh I might, one day! 📚

[@LiterallyJasmine]

oh my god what an undertaking!

[@MaryAmongStories]

haha yes! a fun one though 🥰

[@kasumidusk4320]

ohhh this was so cool so organized! I would love to add more books from around the world to my collection! I mostly own classics as well and fantasy 🤭so little by little hihiii ~ This was lovely to watch. I hope you are doing great ✨have a wonderful day Mary 🌸tons of hugs!

[@MaryAmongStories]

aw, thank you dear 🧡 hope you're doing well, sending a biiiig hug 🐻✨

[@LexieMoon321]

I manage to keep track of all the books I own, how many I have read, and how many books I still need to read. I use GoodReads to help keep track. ❤

[@MaryAmongStories]

amazing! 🥰

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

I am so nosy so I love seeing how many books people own, and read from unread. I think the special editions category makes a lot o sense as well! I love my spreadsheet and how it helps me keep track of things.

[@MaryAmongStories]

I love seeing that too haha, it's so interesting!

[@jordanelizabethborchert]

I have cataloged my read books but not my unread books, I’ve often thought of doing it and this made me really want to, thank you for sharing ❤

[@MaryAmongStories]

thank you for watching, lovely 🥰✨

[@JulEnglefaris]

Thank you for saying that it's valid for people to have different amounts of owned read and unread books. I've read hundreds but I also own a lot I haven't read yet. It's probably about equal at this point. Thank you for sharing your collection 🫶

[@MaryAmongStories]

and that's okay

[@johnsaxongitno4life588]

Fantastic and amazing video love it 🥰 love you and your amazing channel prayers and thoughts for you and your family love your Aussie friend John ❤❤❤

[@MaryAmongStories]

thank you so much, John ✨

[@johnsaxongitno4life588]

@@MaryAmongStories no worries 😉 your welcome 🙏 and thank you for your amazing video which helped me relax while I am battling with my anxiety and mental health issues so thank you 🙏

[@maanya__742]

This is such an interesting idea, would definitely try doing this as well! I am from India and among other books and authors, I would like to recommend to you the works of Ruskin Bond. I fell into love with reading through his works as well as authors like enid blyton when I was little. His writing was very simple and beautiful for me to understand as someone whose first language isn't English. I think as someone who likes reading children's and middle grade literature, you might like him. So sorry for this long comment but I hope you're having a great day!

[@MaryAmongStories]

I love your comments, never apologize

[@MartinDSmith]

I have a book sitting on my shelves called Even The Darkest Night by Javier Cercas.Is that the same one you had on your Kindle?Most of my books are unread,of which many are music based,and a lot of those are guitar related.You have a lovely home library and it's kind of you to share it with us.❤️

[@MaryAmongStories]

I don't own a kindle, actually! music books are always wonderful 🥰 thank you so much for watching ✨

[@MilenaReads]

This is such an ambitious project! What book from The Netherlands do you have? :)

[@MaryAmongStories]

a book of Van Gogh's paintings hahah

[@MilenaReads]

@@MaryAmongStories that makes sense, haha. I think you’ll enjoy The Letter to the King by Tonke Dragt. It’s often linked to Tolkien (but for kids) and I really enjoyed it.

[@WhatVictoriaRead]

💛💛💛

[@MaryAmongStories]

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[@kurtfox4944]

What a fun video! Where to start a reply? I keep books in Goodreads, but also a spreadsheet, and maintain both for different reasons. I do not use goodreads for my unread books or my virtual TBR. Like you, I keep a list of different editions in my spreadsheet; my cell comments list hardcover vs paperback and often publisher or publication year (like first editions). Countries lists: several different ways to do it: the country of the author, or the country/countries settings where the books take place. Some authors may be born in a certain country, spent formative years raised in another, spent more time in another country, yet currently live or died in another. Some authors have researched other cultures, and made great contributions to understanding those cultures, yet never have visited. If you are listing books by their setting, you have some books where the person moves about (like from France to Russia), have countries that really do not exist anymore (ie: Transylvania, or Bohemia) or have fictional places (like middle earth, outer space). Either way to do it will yield interesting results. I wish I had kept track of countries for an Around-the-World sort of listing. (I may have to spend days updating my spreadsheet). Since I have not kept track of countries in my spreadsheet, it is hard for me to make recommendations. I notice India missing in your list, perhaps others could recommend several books. Also, I do not see South Africa: JM Coetzee is a good author, although perhaps the depth and social commentary is not your typical style). Keeping track of genre is tough. If you look at GoodReads, you will find dozens of genres apply to a single book. For example, do you classify _In Cold Blood_ as non-fiction or true crime or mystery? _War and Peace_ is a classic, but it is also part history, part philosophical and part novel. I find a single genre difficult to categorize for many books. Your 'special editions' kinda sounds like reference books.

[@kurtfox4944]

While I did not look up every author (many were assumed to be UK or USA in origin), I did search a variety. I was surprised to find quite a few that were British or French authors, but born in imperial territories (eg. Albert Camus born in French Algiers now Algeria). I thought George Orwell (1984 and Animal Farm) was British, but I find that he was born in India. Same with Rudyard Kipling (although I suspected he was British India given his subject matter). Likewise, I was surprised by quite a number of authors I thought to be African or Indian given the subject matter of their books, but turned out to be from Canadian, UK or USA. Isabel Allende is considered to be a Chilean writer, but was born in Peru, etc. If we were to use the countries, as identified at the time of their birth, I would have more... such as Bohemia, and Prussia, and Ottoman Empire. (eg. Sophocles would have been from Attica, not Greece). While I have read significantly more books than you, I have the exactly the same diversification of countries - 46. Our lists differ by 15 countries! I have none from Mexico (but lots from USA which I thought were Mexican), and I am quite thin from Asia (especially the smaller SE Asia countries), South America, Africa and the Middle East and even eastern Europe. And how am I missing Poland? Afghanistan Algeria Australia Austria Brazil Canada China Colombia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark, Dominica (which is not the same as...), Dominican Republic Egypt France Germany Greece Haiti Hungary India Iran Ireland Israel Italy Japan Liberia Mesopotamia (Epic of Gilgamesh - probably Iraq) New Zealand Nigeria Norway Peru Philippines Portugal Romania Russia Saudia Arabia South Africa Spain Sweden Switzerland Syria Ukraine UK (Britain England Scotland Wales) USA Zimbabwe An eye-opener. I guess I need to change my reading strategy.

[@MaryAmongStories]

thank you so much for watching and sharing some of your statistics as well! and it's true, you find out so much about the authors' lives!

[@carlacarinreads7634]

How interesting! What a great collection🥰 I‘m from Austria and I would recommend two Austrian authors and their very famous works: Stefan Zweig‘s Chess and Marlen Haushofer‘s The Wall.

[@MaryAmongStories]

thank you so much! I've visited Austria before - such a magical country 💙

[@Elizabeth-Reads]

I love seeing your stats! I'm only just starting to build my collection (before last year, due to eye problems, I needed to read e-books, but now I've had surgeries that help me read paper which I love so much more.) So far I'm only collecting pretty editions of the classics I want to read, seeing them just makes me so happy. But I have plans for another bookshelf, and then I might just bankrupt myself, ha. (I didn't see Iran on your country list...Have you read The Stationery Shop? Or Persepolis? I really liked both; they might be good if you want to add a country.)

[@MaryAmongStories]

thank you, Elizabeth 💙 hope surgeries went well and that you're feeling better now 🌻 I've heard very good things about those books - thank you for the recommendation 🥰

[@365tage9]

Your videos are so nice, gives me comfy feeling. Like some movie on classic literature with happy ending. Why not so frequent?

[@MaryAmongStories]

thank you, that's very kind 🌻 currently taking a break from uploading!

[@365tage9]

@@MaryAmongStories Hope you come back soon! ^-^

[@kurtfox4944]

Wait! You have Tolkien, who was born in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, which is now South Africa. I didn't see that in your country list. Maybe I missed it?

[@MaryAmongStories]

that's true! at the time I didn't consider it because he moved very young (3years old I believe?), but I might write that on the list too :)