Reading 2008: By The Numbers

Here's what I read this past year:

Total Books: 100 (okay, so I fudged just a little... I had to finish the last few pages of book 100 on New Years Day... but I don't care... I'm counting it!) For the complete list, click HERE.


Total Pages:31,536


Men authors: 33
Woman authors: 67

Books from the library: 47
Books I owned: 51
Borrowed: 2

Books read for book clubs: 13
Books read for the book fair: 5
Books read for challenges: 16
Books read for a blog tour: 3
Books read for fun: 68

Genres:

Non Fiction: 6
Classics: 3
Contemporary Literary Fiction: 23
(Romance: 3
Historical Fiction: 4
SF/Fantasy: 3
Other: 13)
YA Fiction: 68
(Romance: 20
Historical Fiction: 2
SF/Fantasy: 31
Other: 15)

New-to-me authors I "discovered" and loved this year:

John Green
Maureen Johnson
J. Scott Savage
Sarah Dessen
Brandon Sanderson
Justine Larbalestier
Sara Zarr
Janette Rallison

The conclusions I make:

• I guess you could say I really enjoy YA! Especially YA science fiction and fantasy!
• I'm doing a little better on the NF, but a whole lot worse on the classics.
• The woman outnumber the men this year. Interesting. Usually it's a dead even race.
• I love the library!
• My book club numbers went down, that's because I didn't participate in Yahoo groups at all this year. Sad.
• Challenges are fun, but reading spontaneously is funner (I mean... more fun.)