how many did you read this year?

Cafe Society
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last year some one had a thread asking how many books you may have read so far in your life.

i figured on appx. 1 a day for quite a few years.

i decided to write down the titles, page count, genre, and date of the books i read this year. i may have forgot to write one down here and there, prob. some rereads.

the grand total… 284 new books, 15 rereads = 299 books.

i’m a bit amazed as i work 6 days a week at 2 jobs. (one job will end on the 13th of this month.)

discovered some authors this year and read all the books in their series. 18 hamiltons, 9 graves, 7 fairchilds. 13 brauns as i caught up on the cat who series.

my fav.s roberts, robb, rollins, evanovich, krentz, howard, reilly, andrews, andersen, etc; all had good new books this year.

read some good non fiction, the lost, thunderstruck, fire in the grove, frozen in time, manhunt, city of falling angels.

how did y’all do bookwise this year?

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You beat me by a lot, I’m afraid; I only read 41 books, 4 of them rereads.

My best reading month was September, with 9 books. There’s a nice public library within walking distance of campus, so going back to school meant better access to books, and my schoolwork hadn’t gone completely crazy yet in September.

For some reason I didn’t read anything in July, despite being at home with nothing to do. Maybe I ran out of books.

I think my favorite books that I read in 2006 were The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch and Making History by Stephen Fry.

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I managed 77. It was a good reading year. I dumped a few early on, and kept reading but disliked just a few.

I’m making a huge dent in the to-be-read stacks, and hope to winnow many more so that I can get rid of some bookcases.

The book that made the biggest impact on me this year was The World I Made for Her by Charles Moran, and my favorite was a re-read of The Dollmaker by Harriett Arnow.

4

82 for me.
I read almost all fiction, but I read more nonfiction this year than usual.

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I average about 3 per week, so I’d say about 150-160 in total.

6

1 and 2/3.

7

Somewhere between 50 and 70. I don’t keep an exact count. I often read two books a week, but then there will be times when I go for weeks trying to finish one.

8

58 new books, 2 re-reads.

My rate has dropped since I began teaching at the college level, since I read so many articles, chapters, parts of books, and skim books I’ve already read that are required for my classes.

9

Somewhere between 40 and 50, not including school course material.

10

I’m not sure. I was keeping track on Chain Reading, and had logged something in the neighborhood of 45 books since August.

That number just astonishes me. I actually have a life outside of reading. I don’t know how, but I do. :smiley:

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I read 79 books this year, breaking down as 58 science fiction and fantasy, 4 classic literature, and 17 nonfiction. I also read a substantial amount of magazine fiction, for the first time in my life.

The most frequently represented author was G. K. Chesterton, at eleven books. Each year I try to choose one author and read at least ten of their books, on the theory that I can gain a more complete understanding of their worldview and their approach to literature that way. Possible choices for next year are Philip K. Dick and Charles Dickens. (For the previous two years it was Jack Vance and Terry Pratchett.)

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Man, you guys really read a lot. I kept track of new books read in the same way as rocking chair, and there are only 26 books on that list. Only two were bad, though, so I consider it a year well spent.

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In four years of doing the Fifty Book Challenge, this year was my lowest total: just 51 books. Of those books, however, two had over 900 pages and another two over 800…and none of them were by J.K. Rowling :slight_smile:

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gotta ask, what book and 2/3 rd did you read?

even though i figured on 1 book a day average, 299 took me by surprise. i only listed books 100 pp and up. there were a few kidlet books as well. the catwings books are so very cool.

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I can think of at least 17…

the most memorable was the rereading of the Narnia series (I love them because they remind me of my childhood, when I first read them).

Several were rereads though, and I’m not counting text books or anthologies, just novels…

Brendon

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I read at least 3 books per week, usually 4. This past year, my most read author was Brian Jacques. I have read all but 3 of the books in the Redwall series. The first 5 have all bean read 4x each this year and the rest at least twice each. I’m working on Taggerung right now. Only Redwall itself was a reread initially.

I have also read 1984 6 times this year - an all time low for me. I have reread some Tan, Koontz, King, Dickins, Cook, and Saul. I also read Dracula and Frankenstein again.

As you can tell, most of my books are rereads because I read my favorites (all of them) at least once per month. For my first reads, I usually pick one author and try to finish as many books as I can afford. I don’t like going to the library for a few reasons.

  1. I’m lazy. I don’t like driving there. I don’t like going back to return my books.
  2. I’m really bad at returning my books and buying them usually ends up costing me less than going to the library.
  3. As you can tell, I reread a lot. I like to have all my books close at hand in case I get the urge to read one.

So it’s a good thing I like rereading my books because I’m pretty limited on how much I can buy, based on how much spare cash I have.

Now that I quit smoking, I should be able to buy at least 1 new book per week. If I spent all my smoking money on books, I could get 5 or 6 per week!

I’m going to start actually keeping track of what I read this year. I’m curious how many times I actually read some of these books in one year.

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Hmmm. It’s never occurred to me to keep track.

OK. I just went over my shelves and I found 89 new books I bought (and read) this year. Yikes. That doesn’t count rereads (which I can’t make an accurate count of); or any books I borrowed and read from friends or the library; or any books I bought and read and then gave away to friends, or my parents, or my son…

I think I’ll keep track this year, just for fun. I just started one of my Christmas books this morning – a biography of Harry Houdini.

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I wish I’d started years ago. I’m in an on-line book group, and was jealous of members who kept journals with notes and comments. I tried to do that but ended up just listing title and author. By the time I’ve finished a book, I’m already forgetting what it was about. Sucks to get old.

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I track author, title, and my rating in the back of my journal. Very convenient. At some times I’ve written a review/synopsis, but haven’t found that to be workable for me.

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I’ve been keeping track of the books I read off and for about eight years. I started because I kept finding myself in the library, looking at a book jacket and wondering if I had already read the darned thing. Also, I’d sometimes get 1/3 of the way into a book before I realized I’d read it before.
Since I keep track, now I can check my list before ordering the book from booksfree.com, which I use now instead of going to the library. It also helps me remember whether I’m now on the sixth or seventh book in any particular series.
I don’t actually number them; I just went back and counted how many I’d read in 2006.