How many books have you read in 2009?

ficbot · 12-26-2009, 01:32 PM

Someone on another board I was on wanted to have a 50-book challenge for 2010. I was curious if I read that many this year, so I did a quick scan through my Delicious bookmarks, and my total for 2009 (so far, there are a few days yet) is...

81 books!

Granted, some of them were YA books (there was a 9-book series I read) but for the most part, these were full novels. I am a bit of a speed reader (I have always read fast) and have found that if it's 400 pages or less on the reader, I can read it in a day easily, and if it's in the 700 range, I can read it in two days. I can generally get through 50 pages on a half-hour bus ride. Of those 2009 books...

11 were tagged 'favourite'
28 were tagged 'great'
19 were tagged 'good'
16 were tagged 'fair'
7 were tagged 'poor'

So, how many books did you read?

Terisa de morgan · 12-26-2009, 02:58 PM

2009 hasn't finished yet, I'll tell you on Janury 1st

ErwinOtten · 12-26-2009, 03:54 PM

Hmmmm, I find that I really don't know. Somewhere between 20 and 40 I guess..

Goal for next year, keep track of my read books

mtravellerh · 12-26-2009, 03:59 PM

A bit over 100, actually!

grooks · 12-26-2009, 04:03 PM

I've read about 45 books this year. I rarely read short stories and the typical novel is about 400 - 500 pages. I usually finish a book every 1 - 1 1/2 weeks.

Luvubul · 12-26-2009, 04:09 PM

I was on leave for the first time since the 4 weeks I was off after having my 19 year old. Being off for 3 months this summer gave me a big advantage on volume for 2009. I'm up to 128 books and still have a few days to devour another book or two.

All that reading time made me think I need to find an obnoxiously rich man who is very generous, likes to travel and buy his significant other (me) ebooks! LOL

Terisa de morgan · 12-26-2009, 05:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Luvubul

All that reading time made me think I need to find an obnoxiously rich man who is very generous, likes to travel and buy his significant other (me) ebooks! LOL

If you find two... can you send one to Spain?

fiver · 12-26-2009, 05:35 PM

136, but I'm counting volumes of manga in that.
If I took those out, I'd have about 90 novels, short story collections, and technical books.

Best year I've had for reading in years - my kindle really revitalized my desire to just turn off the tv/dvd player and read.

Michael

pdurrant · 12-26-2009, 05:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ficbot

So, how many books did you read?

I have no idea! I'll see if I can keep track for 2010.

Elfwreck · 12-26-2009, 06:09 PM

Define "books." I read a lot of fanfic, including novel-length and series-of-novels collections.

Are "books" only those publications that have ISBN numbers, or should I count anything longer than 50,000 words as a book? (Rhetorical question. I certainly haven't been keeping count; I just know I've read a lot.)

June · 12-26-2009, 06:10 PM

The year hasn't ended yet, but so far I've read 263 books (ok, some are trashy novels that are quick reads, but they're still full length novels). And I'm probably going to finish a few more books before January 1st.

lene1949 · 12-27-2009, 02:25 AM

I read very slowly, as English is my second language... Not really an excuse, because I don't think I would be reading any faster in Danish (my mother tongue).

The more memorable ones:

Pillars of the Earth
The Touch
World without End
Dragged into the Darkness
Morgan's Run
Oliver Twist
Pompeii

Just some of the ones I remember.. I have no desire to be in a competition...

WT Sharpe · 12-27-2009, 10:26 AM

Here are the books I Read in 2009:

1. Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
2. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott under the pseudonym "a square".
3. The Infancy Gospel of Thomas
4. The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
5. Lectures of RG Ingersoll by Robert Green Ingersoll
6. The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce (a re-read)
7. When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity during the Last Days of Rome by Richard E. Rubenstein
8. Goethe's Faust (Part I) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (tr . by Bayard Taylor)
9. UR by Stephen King
10. The First Coming: How the Kingdom of God Became Christianity by Thomas Sheehan
11. The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman
12. The Babysitter's Code by Laura Lippman
13. Casino Royal by Ian Fleming
14. The Cat-Nappers (A Jeeves and Bertie story) by P.G. Wodehouse
15. The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris
16. Sam Harris and The End of Reason: A Muslim's Critical Response by Bill Whitehouse (a rebuttal to Harris's The End of Faith)
17. For Your Eyes Only by Ian Fleming (A collection of short stories that includes Quantum of Solace)
18. In Search of Time: The Science of a Curious Dimension by Dan Falk
19. Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time by Marcus Borg
20. Mental Floss: Genius Instruction Manual by the Editors of Mental Floss
21. Plum Spooky by Janet Evanovich
22. Right Ho, Jeeves (A Jeeves and Bertie story) by P.G. Wodehouse
23. The Tempest by William Shakespeare
24. Yeah, I Said It by Wanda Sykes (a P-Town native!)
25. Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel by Michio Kaku
26. The Bible: A Biography by Karen Armstrong
27. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! by Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith. The original by Jane Austin (sans Zombies) is better.
28. Harvard Classics, Vol. 1 (The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The Journal of John Woolman, Some Fruits of Solitude by William Penn)
29. Make 'Em Laugh by Michael Kantor and Laurence Maslon (A companion to the six-part PBS series outlining the history of American comedy in the Twentieth Century)
30. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
31. A Horror Anthology Vol. I by Various Authors
32. Formatting Comics for the Kindle by Manuel Burgos
33. When You Lie About Your Age The Terrorists Win by Carol Leifer
34. Rogerisms: The Cowboy Philosopher on the Peace Conference by Will Rogers
35. Harvard Classics, Vol. 2 (Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato, The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Meditations of Marcus Aurelius)
36. Blink The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
37. How to Fail in Literature by Andrew Lang
38. My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands by Chelsea Handler
39. Eve's Diary by Mark Twain
40. Extracts From Adam's Diary by Mark Twain
41. A Humorous History of England by Charles Harrison
42. Jokes For All Occasions by Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers [Anonymous]
43. Grimm Tales Made Gay by Guy Wetmore Carryl
44. Topper by Thorne Smith
45. Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be by Anonymous
46. Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories by M.R. James
47. His Robot Girlfriend by Wesley Allison
48. Bomba the Jungle Boy and the Lost Explorers by Roy Rockwood
49. Continuous Vaudeville by Will M. Cressy
50. The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power by Jeff Sharlet
51. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
52. The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
53. The IndieAuthor's Guide: A Comprehensive Reference to Self-Publishing by April L. Hamilton
54. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
55. Me of Little Faith by Lewis Black
56. A Brief History of Time: from the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen W. Hawking (1988). An audiobook re-read.
57. Meeting of Minds: First Series by Steve Allen
58. A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (2005). The classic updated and simplified. A re-read.
59. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
60. Howard Dean’s Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform by Howard Dean
61. I Am the New Black by Tracy Morgan with Antony Bozza
62. A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain
63. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
64. Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (And Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein

lilac_jive · 12-27-2009, 10:40 AM

As of today, I've read 210 books. My goal this year was to read 200, so I'm very happy. For 2010 I'm hoping for 250.

-walsh- · 12-27-2009, 11:51 AM

only 46

I had aimed for 50 but fell short!

12-26-2009, 01:32 PM	#1
ficbot Wizard Posts: 2,409 Karma: 4132096 Join Date: Sep 2008 Device: Kindle Paperwhite/iOS Kindle App	How many books have you read in 2009? Someone on another board I was on wanted to have a 50-book challenge for 2010. I was curious if I read that many this year, so I did a quick scan through my Delicious bookmarks, and my total for 2009 (so far, there are a few days yet) is... 81 books! Granted, some of them were YA books (there was a 9-book series I read) but for the most part, these were full novels. I am a bit of a speed reader (I have always read fast) and have found that if it's 400 pages or less on the reader, I can read it in a day easily, and if it's in the 700 range, I can read it in two days. I can generally get through 50 pages on a half-hour bus ride. Of those 2009 books... 11 were tagged 'favourite' 28 were tagged 'great' 19 were tagged 'good' 16 were tagged 'fair' 7 were tagged 'poor' So, how many books did you read?

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12-26-2009, 02:58 PM	#2
Terisa de morgan Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,235 Karma: 11768331 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Madrid, Spain Device: Kobo Clara/Aura One/Forma,XiaoMI 5, iPad, Huawei MediaPad, YotaPhone 2	2009 hasn't finished yet, I'll tell you on Janury 1st

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ErwinOtten Addict Posts: 338 Karma: 444 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: The Netherlands Device: Cybook G3	Hmmmm, I find that I really don't know. Somewhere between 20 and 40 I guess.. Goal for next year, keep track of my read books

12-26-2009, 03:59 PM	#4
mtravellerh book creator Posts: 9,635 Karma: 3856660 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Luxembourg Device: PB360°	A bit over 100, actually!

12-26-2009, 04:03 PM	#5
grooks Wizard Posts: 1,326 Karma: 30250 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Fort Myers, FL Device: Pocketbook Era, Kobo Forma	I've read about 45 books this year. I rarely read short stories and the typical novel is about 400 - 500 pages. I usually finish a book every 1 - 1 1/2 weeks.

12-26-2009, 04:09 PM	#6
Luvubul Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Chicagoland IL USA Device: Kindle	I was on leave for the first time since the 4 weeks I was off after having my 19 year old. Being off for 3 months this summer gave me a big advantage on volume for 2009. I'm up to 128 books and still have a few days to devour another book or two. All that reading time made me think I need to find an obnoxiously rich man who is very generous, likes to travel and buy his significant other (me) ebooks! LOL

12-26-2009, 05:35 PM	#8
fiver Enthusiast Posts: 31 Karma: 100 Join Date: May 2009 Device: Kindle	136, but I'm counting volumes of manga in that. If I took those out, I'd have about 90 novels, short story collections, and technical books. Best year I've had for reading in years - my kindle really revitalized my desire to just turn off the tv/dvd player and read. Michael

12-26-2009, 06:09 PM	#10
Elfwreck Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,185 Karma: 25133758 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: SF Bay Area, California, USA Device: Pocketbook Touch HD3 (Past: Kobo Mini, PEZ, PRS-505, Clié)	Define "books." I read a lot of fanfic, including novel-length and series-of-novels collections. Are "books" only those publications that have ISBN numbers, or should I count anything longer than 50,000 words as a book? (Rhetorical question. I certainly haven't been keeping count; I just know I've read a lot.)

12-26-2009, 06:10 PM	#11
June Addict Posts: 306 Karma: 4508151 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Scandinavia Device: Kobo Libra, Oasis 1&2 and others	The year hasn't ended yet, but so far I've read 263 books (ok, some are trashy novels that are quick reads, but they're still full length novels). And I'm probably going to finish a few more books before January 1st.

12-27-2009, 02:25 AM	#12
lene1949 Wizard Posts: 1,952 Karma: 213930 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Middelfart, Denmark Device: Kindle paper white	I read very slowly, as English is my second language... Not really an excuse, because I don't think I would be reading any faster in Danish (my mother tongue). The more memorable ones: Pillars of the Earth The Touch World without End Dragged into the Darkness Morgan's Run Oliver Twist Pompeii Just some of the ones I remember.. I have no desire to be in a competition...

12-27-2009, 10:26 AM	#13
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,073 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	Here are the books I Read in 2009: 1. *Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries* by Neil deGrasse Tyson. 2. *Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions* by Edwin A. Abbott under the pseudonym "a square". 3. *The Infancy Gospel of Thomas* 4. *The Secret Adversary* by Agatha Christie 5. *Lectures of RG Ingersoll* by Robert Green Ingersoll 6. *The Devil's Dictionary* by Ambrose Bierce (a re-read) 7. *When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity during the Last Days of Rome* by Richard E. Rubenstein 8. *Goethe's Faust (Part I)* by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (tr . by Bayard Taylor) 9. UR by Stephen King 10. *The First Coming: How the Kingdom of God Became Christianity* by Thomas Sheehan 11. *The Accidental Time Machine* by Joe Haldeman 12. *The Babysitter's Code* by Laura Lippman 13. *Casino Royal* by Ian Fleming 14. *The Cat-Nappers* (A Jeeves and Bertie story) by P.G. Wodehouse 15. *The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason* by Sam Harris 16. *Sam Harris and The End of Reason: A Muslim's Critical Response* by Bill Whitehouse (a rebuttal to Harris's The End of Faith) 17. *For Your Eyes Only* by Ian Fleming (A collection of short stories that includes Quantum of Solace) 18. *In Search of Time: The Science of a Curious Dimension* by Dan Falk 19. *Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time* by Marcus Borg 20. *Mental Floss: Genius Instruction Manual* by the Editors of Mental Floss 21. *Plum Spooky* by Janet Evanovich 22. Right Ho, Jeeves (A Jeeves and Bertie story) by P.G. Wodehouse 23. *The Tempest* by William Shakespeare 24. *Yeah, I Said It* by Wanda Sykes (a P-Town native!) 25. *Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel* by Michio Kaku 26. *The Bible: A Biography* by Karen Armstrong 27. *Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!* by Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith. The original by Jane Austin (sans Zombies) is better. 28. *Harvard Classics, Vol. 1* (The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The Journal of John Woolman, Some Fruits of Solitude by William Penn) 29. *Make 'Em Laugh by Michael Kantor and Laurence Maslon* (A companion to the six-part PBS series outlining the history of American comedy in the Twentieth Century) 30. *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland* by Lewis Carroll 31. *A Horror Anthology Vol. I* by Various Authors 32. *Formatting Comics for the Kindle* by Manuel Burgos 33. *When You Lie About Your Age The Terrorists Win* by Carol Leifer 34. *Rogerisms: The Cowboy Philosopher on the Peace Conference* by Will Rogers 35. *Harvard Classics, Vol. 2* (Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato, The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Meditations of Marcus Aurelius) 36. *Blink The Power of Thinking Without Thinking* by Malcolm Gladwell 37. *How to Fail in Literature* by Andrew Lang 38. *My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands* by Chelsea Handler 39. *Eve's Diary* by Mark Twain 40. *Extracts From Adam's Diary* by Mark Twain 41. *A Humorous History of England* by Charles Harrison 42. *Jokes For All Occasions* by Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers [Anonymous] 43. *Grimm Tales Made Gay* by Guy Wetmore Carryl 44. *Topper* by Thorne Smith 45. *Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be* by Anonymous 46. *Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories* by M.R. James 47. *His Robot Girlfriend* by Wesley Allison 48. *Bomba the Jungle Boy and the Lost Explorers* by Roy Rockwood 49. *Continuous Vaudeville* by Will M. Cressy 50. *The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power* by Jeff Sharlet 51. *The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism* by Naomi Klein 52. *The Evolution of God* by Robert Wright 53. *The IndieAuthor's Guide: A Comprehensive Reference to Self-Publishing* by April L. Hamilton 54. *Lady Chatterley's Lover* by D.H. Lawrence 55. *Me of Little Faith* by Lewis Black 56. *A Brief History of Time: from the Big Bang to Black Holes* by Stephen W. Hawking (1988). An audiobook re-read. 57. *Meeting of Minds: First Series* by Steve Allen 58. *A Briefer History of Time* by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (2005). The classic updated and simplified. A re-read. 59. *The Mysterious Affair at Styles* by Agatha Christie 60. *Howard Dean’s Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform* by Howard Dean 61. *I Am the New Black* by Tracy Morgan with Antony Bozza 62. *A Tramp Abroad* by Mark Twain 63. *The Time Traveler's Wife* by Audrey Niffenegger 64. *Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (And Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between* by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein

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12-27-2009, 10:40 AM	#14
lilac_jive Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,870 Karma: 27376 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Device: PRS-505	As of today, I've read 210 books. My goal this year was to read 200, so I'm very happy. For 2010 I'm hoping for 250.

12-27-2009, 11:51 AM	#15
-walsh- Enthusiast Posts: 27 Karma: 40 Join Date: Dec 2009 Device: Kindle 3	only 46 I had aimed for 50 but fell short!