I was looking at some of the anthologies I have on hand in the To Be Read area, and was impressed by the fact that they are so thick.
Why am I posting this under the Forgotten Books category? Because the majority of the stories in these anthologies are old, some very old.
| ANTHOLOGY TITLE | STORIES | PAGES |
| Collected Max Carrados Investigations | 26 | 623 |
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year Vol. 1 | 31 | 596 |
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year Vol. 2 | 27 | 605 |
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year Vol. 3 | 26 | 606 |
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year Vol. 4 | 29 | 593 |
| The Book of Dragons | 29 | 548 |
| The Mammoth Book of Steampunk | 31 | 489 |
| The Thinking Machine 50 Novelettes and Stories | 50 | 827 |
| The Very Best of the Best | 38 | 686 |
| Unbound | 23 | 549 |
| Unfettered | 24 | 586 |
| Unfettered 2 | 20 | 565 |
| totals | 354 | 7273 |
It may be worth noting that of these, all are science fiction or fantasy except two. I wonder if that’s because there are more thick SFF anthologies out there, or if it’s just what’s been catching my eye.
What do you think?
Tip the Wink 
I get the vapors just thinking about all that reading.
Yes, it’s a lot, isn’t it. I have dozens of other anthologies and collections, just not as thick. I could probably read nothing but short stories into next Summer, and may do just that!
I think I’ve read all of the two mystery collections – The Thinking Machine and Max Carrados.
I read an ebook version of the Carrados, but it only had a dozen stories, while this has about 20. I’ve been pecking at the Thinking Machine book for a while but have only got about a dozen stories read. Still, I shan’t run out of things to read!
And these are just the ones that are in your TBR section? I know you have others. That is a lot of reading.
Wow! That’s a lot of reading ahead for you! I like to switch things up and read novels, short story collections, and non-fiction. But some of those books are in my READ REAL SOON stack.
I’m with you. I like to mix things up. I start each day with at least one short story – I am reading three collections at the moment, so might read one from each unless one story is very long. I will probably read a mystery and maybe some non fiction, or else something different – straight fiction, science fiction etc,