Books I Read In 2014

[batyatoon]

Once again: the full list of books I read in the past year. Not counted are comic books, graphic novels, fanfics, works in progress that I have edited or beta-read, or webcomics. (I've been wondering if I should start counting graphic novels and/or novel-length fanfics. What do you think?)

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[thnidu]

What do you think?
I think it depends on what you're keeping the log for. I don't log my reading, but when I read a graphic novel I would consider that on a par with a prose novel - as opposed to a, hmm, "regular comic", i.e., one issue of a serial.

I definitely like your top authors list! Many of them are also among my favorites... lessee (copy, trim, sort)...
Favorites
C.J. Cherryh
Lois McMaster Bujold
Naomi Novik
Seanan McGuire
Terry Pratchett
William Gibson
Diane Duane

Read and liked
Charles Dickens
L. Frank Baum
L.M. Montgomery

Never read
Jo Walton
Catherynne M. Valente
Tamora Pierce
Rosemary Kirstein

Read, won't again
Stephen King (I don't enjoy horror)

[batyatoon]

I very much recommend the authors you haven't read! Or at least the books I've read by them; I can't speak to their entire collection.

(On which subject, King does have a good few novels and novellas that aren't horror and that you might enjoy even if his horror novels don't appeal to you at all.)

[taylweaver]

It seems we share some similar taste in authors, though I clearly need to spend more time reading. You're the second friend to post a book list (or book stats, anyway) that hovers around 150. I only read a third of that number.

Also, your second parenthetical comment next to 103 made me laugh a bit.

[batyatoon]

I do spend a lot of time reading, but also I read pretty fast -- speed makes a big difference there too.

(And heh, yes. I still count it as the first time, since it's the first time I'm reading the final published work as opposed to helping with edits.)

[taylweaver]

I just think it's awesome that i know people who help edit Seanan McGuire's books. :)

(Because, of course, they're awesome books. Of the 50 books I read this year, at least ten were hers. Though, to be fair, that's partly because the Toby books are interwoven enough that I have to reread all of them each time a new one comes out...)

[gorgeousgary]

And of course avoiding the computer for Shabbat and holidays helps... (*grin*)

[gorgeousgary]

I count graphic novels and comic collections in my list.

I go back and forth on short fiction. I have counted Seanan's novelettes and some of the self-published stories. I count each of the Hugo short fiction categories as one read. But, I don't count the magazines (Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, etc.) or the longer Tor.com works.

[otherdeb]

May I offer a small correction?

You wrote, "Man that's a lot of data analysis for no particular reason."

No, that's a lot of data analysis because you can. "Because you can," is a perfectly valid reason.