Well, so much for my average. Book 12 ran me just over $10, as a non-promo-eligible new release. Still, I've been looking forward to it ever since I heard it was coming out (it's an unexpected sequel to what looked like a standalone book), and it's hitting my extra-short-list.
As to that last - I keep four distinct TBR lists, plus one challenge list. The Ent cemetery is made up of all the physical books I have yet to read, and my 2014 challenge list is an easy-to-get-at subset of those. Most of the 700+ books on my e-reader are unread, but I keep some favorite authors on there just in case I want easy access to them - so "unread and loaded" is the second list. Because so much of that content is part of one series or another, my shortlist is all of my unread standalone ebooks plus The Next Book in each of those series. Thus, if I'm not sure what I'm in the mood for next, I can just browse that list. Finally, my extra-short-list used to be the five books that I kept on my Kobo home screen, so I could put 'em back on that screen after sideloading new books. It's a bit longer than five books now, but it's still the
READ RIGHT NAO list.