I keep a list of the books I read every year and was wondering if anyone wanted to share some or all of the books they've read this year.
I'll be posting a list in a couple of minutes.
HOLY C***!!!
That is something I'm impressed with! I don't keep track of books I read! I did keep track of pages read over the summer, but nothing like this!
I love this group! Only us...only us...
I've kept track ever since the summer of 2002. Of course, I used to read a lot more. When I found LT last year, I started chatting instead of reading.
OH MY GOD! You've been keeping track since then!?!? You are dedicated woman!
Hehehe. Yep, I have. That's the summer I graduated from high school. My mom gave me a small notebook to keep track of the books I read in it. All year we ask each other how many books the other has read to try to out read the other. It was my turn to read more than her (for some reason it alternates), but she beat me easily with sixty-nine books. I plan to read a lot more next year to make up for it. Call it a resolutiion!
I read several of those, Kerian! All of the HP series (did a reread before the last one came out, as well as our group reads), the Mugglenet book, Sense & Sensibility, the Twilight series, Tithe, The Golden Compass, TN: First Among Sequels (at your recommendation, I might add!), and Fly By Night. Wow! Our reading tastes seem to overlap a good bit.
I'm not going to list everything I read here. Counting picture books, audio books, rereads as well as new reads -- just about anything that I read in its entirety (so not cookbooks, and not always textbooks), I have read 341 books this year (I'll make it to at least 342, as I have one that I'll finish tonight). That's a lot, I know, but many of them were juvenile fiction or YA, so shorter than adult novels. I also took a lot of children's lit courses that required me to do a lot of reading this year.
Hey, short books count!
Starts rummaging through crates in basement
Where are those Dr. Suess books? And those little picture books? And the little 10 page children's stories? I think I could fit about 200 in by tomorrow...
LOL! Only about 60 of those were actually picture books, but hey, if you want to boost your count, don't let me stop you!
I'm to lazy even to stand up right now, let alone go to the basement.
I have been keeping a log of the books I have read since December of 2004. This year I have read 235 books. Down from the 253 books I read last year. 674 books since I started keeping track. some of them have been reread though, so not quite that many individual books. I don't count picture book or books I don't read every page of.
I've never been able to keep track of what I read (I've started serveral times and lost the notebook a week later.) I've started keeping track of what I read on LT though, I think that will make it easier, It's really hard to misplace the internet :)
I too keep track of the books I read throughout the year, although I've only been doing it since 2006. I'm also not a super fast reader, and like K, LT has decreased my reading time (but you might not know it, as I'm not a prolific poster either). Anyhoo, here's what I read this year, in order of completion:
A History of the World in 6 Glasses by
Tom StandageTo Hate Like This Is To Be Happy Forever by
Will BlytheSurprise Me by
Terry EsauDairy Queen by
Catherine MurdockSpecial Topics in Calamity Physics by
Marisha PesslAcqua Alta by Donna Leon
Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak
Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
A Noble Radiance by Donna Leon
Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The City of Falling Angels by
John BerendtThe Worst Hard Time by
Timothy EganEnder's Game by
Orson Scott CardA Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon
Everything is Miscellaneous by
David WeinbergerThe Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited by
Elyse Schein &
Paula BernsteinBlackberry Wine by Joanne Harris
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by
Milan KunderaGarlic and Sapphires by
Ruth ReichlTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Move Over, Mountain by
John EhleCrow Lake by Mary Lawson
The Air We Breathe by Andrea Barrett
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway
My goal for 2008 is to read at least 40 books. In 2006 I read 28, and this year I increased to 33, so I think my goal is not unreasonable (crosses fingers).
I read from
lord loss to demon apocolypse in the demonata books and the first four Harry Potter books.
i too have been keeping track of my reading this year. i don't have the list available to post, but i'll do that soon...
my friend thinks i'm crazy because not only have i kept track of the numbers of books, but also the page count...and since i know that i usually take about a minute to read a page...i can figure out how many hours (well days) i've read this year. i think i need a hobby.
I keep track of the page count too. just an easy way to tell if they were long books or short books. although some books have a larger amount of words per page than others.
I finished another book last night, so I have now read 236 books this year.
I counted page count to begin with, but think I'm going to stop since I haven't really cared to the last couple of years.
I'm going to challenge myself to 52 books next year, with hopes of surpassing that number, maybe doubling it. ;)
I didn't really count my books but I can remember some from memory...tomorrow. Oops, i mean today. After I sleep. Two sleepovers in a row, then a family get together that went late, and staying up on New Year's Eve. I'm tired. Good Night and a Happy New Year!
I haven't kept track of my books... i am really bad at remembering to wright them down but hopefully this year i will keep up with it.
I dont bother recording the books that I read during the year. I just have fun reading them.
I started keeping track last year because people were always asking me how many books I read in a year. I started tagging ones I read last year as "finished in 2007" and made it up to 75 (77 counting rereads). I did include a few graphic novels (they were pretty long) and one or two children's books that I read about 80 times while babysitting ("Read it again! Read it again, PLEEEEEAAASE!!!"). My list is
here for anyone who's interested.
I think 2008 is going to be more about quality than quantity - I'm starting the year with a 700 page volume of short stories - but I'll still be using the tag system to keep track. It's also nice because it helps me remember if I read something three months ago or three years ago!
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I didn't keep track of my books for 2007... i wish i had. I started for 2008 tho.. and so far i have been doing really good... 12 since new years... haha i don't have much of a life..
I'm trying to keep track of how many books I read with a counter. The first one I found stopped working, and now the second one doesn't, either. :(
if more people read like we all do, then there would be fewer wars, cause half the soldiers would be reading:)
if only shan if only
not so much in the navy. they would get half way through the book, but then it would get soaked. by the way, I'm writing a book myself,
shattered dreams (ps, the touchstone is not my one). I'll try and get it published by 2012.
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coool whats the book about ?
its about a groupof children (Dara Luke Dominic Saffron and Kim) who's home town gets destroyed and s they hed for Baranoc, the City of Light. on the way they feel love,sorrow anger and joy. Dara is the main carachter. I'm hoping that if it is a hit here in the UK then the US will get a few copies.
#30!! Thanks chelsea!
2007 was a slow year for reading
I just remembered I read
The Outsiders for school. That makes it 31 and a half. :)
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