I base it on my favorite genre , author and how long I have been anticipating the new release . It's really hard to put into words . Let's say I'm reading Stephen King's newest novel and I have a Dean Koontz , Clive Cussler and a John Saul waiting to read and John Sanford or Bentley Little releases their latest novels , they will be put on top of the pile for me read next while to others will be put on the back burner . Or I'll mix it up ,I'll read horror/thriller , then a mystery and then something historical . But I'm always reading something Masonic at the same time with the others .
Most of the time I have two or three books going at once , I'll read masonic literature in the morning and late afternoon and I'll read an hour or two in the evening on one novel while the wife watches TV and the horror/thriller at night in bed . I love my books and have hundreds of them in my library/den. And I'm funny about my books ,I'll lend out my paperbacks to other people , but my hardcovers never leave my sight .