2010 Books by the numbers
I always like to do at least some kind of wrap-up post. I never seem to do the really in-depth "Year In Review" type posts for everything I've seen, read and listened to in the past year, but that's okay.
I read, listened to, or attempted to read 72 different books in 2010. Of those:
* 1 was an e-book, 9 were on cd, 42 were softcover, and 20 were hardcovers.
* I categorized 3 as adventure, 2 as biography, 2 as children's, 6 as collections, 2 as crime, 25 as fantasy, 10 as general fiction, 7 as horror, 4 as literary analysis, 3 as memoir, 3 as mystery, 2 as science fiction, 1 as travel and 1 as western. Arbitrary designations with no rhyme or reason honestly.
* 3 books went unfinished: Ethan Hawke's Ash Wednesday, Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and I think David Hollander's L.I.E. (I'm too lazy to go back and check the review, but I'm pretty sure I put it down before the end).
* In terms of rating from 1 to 5 stars, with 5 being "best," 14 books got 5 stars; 3 books got 1 star; everything else fell in between.
* 27 of the books were part of series I read completely in 2010 or plan to continue/finish reading in 2011 and beyond (Harry Potter, Percy Jackson/Camp Half-Blood, Kane Chronicles, Dresden Files, Remy Chandler, Doyle's Sherlock Holmes books, Best American Short Stories, The Magicians, Richard Hannay, Gabriel Hunt, and Wold-Newton-related analysis).
*11 books were Re-reads/Re-listens, the rest were new to me even if the authors weren't.
The books were by 52 different authors/editors. 26 of them were authors I had not read before this year. Among those, I was happy to have "met" for the first time Rick Riordan, Christa Faust ( faustfatale ), Jay Lake (jaylake ), Catherynne M. Valente (yuki_onna ), Jeremy C. Shipp, Lev Grossman and Markus Zusak. I was glad to revisit Robert Silverberg, Win Scott Eckert (woldnewtonwin ), Jess Nevins, Neil Gaiman, Orson Scott Card, K.M. Soehnlein, Scott Sigler (scottsigler ), Steve Berman (mroctober ), Ellen Datlow (ellen_datlow ), Jim Butcher, and J.K. Rowling among others.
I considered, for a moment, listing every author/editor I've read ... but it's getting late and I'm getting tired. *grin*
Thoughts on reading in 2011 in another post, perhaps tomorrow night.
I read, listened to, or attempted to read 72 different books in 2010. Of those:
* 1 was an e-book, 9 were on cd, 42 were softcover, and 20 were hardcovers.
* I categorized 3 as adventure, 2 as biography, 2 as children's, 6 as collections, 2 as crime, 25 as fantasy, 10 as general fiction, 7 as horror, 4 as literary analysis, 3 as memoir, 3 as mystery, 2 as science fiction, 1 as travel and 1 as western. Arbitrary designations with no rhyme or reason honestly.
* 3 books went unfinished: Ethan Hawke's Ash Wednesday, Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and I think David Hollander's L.I.E. (I'm too lazy to go back and check the review, but I'm pretty sure I put it down before the end).
* In terms of rating from 1 to 5 stars, with 5 being "best," 14 books got 5 stars; 3 books got 1 star; everything else fell in between.
* 27 of the books were part of series I read completely in 2010 or plan to continue/finish reading in 2011 and beyond (Harry Potter, Percy Jackson/Camp Half-Blood, Kane Chronicles, Dresden Files, Remy Chandler, Doyle's Sherlock Holmes books, Best American Short Stories, The Magicians, Richard Hannay, Gabriel Hunt, and Wold-Newton-related analysis).
*11 books were Re-reads/Re-listens, the rest were new to me even if the authors weren't.
The books were by 52 different authors/editors. 26 of them were authors I had not read before this year. Among those, I was happy to have "met" for the first time Rick Riordan, Christa Faust ( faustfatale ), Jay Lake (jaylake ), Catherynne M. Valente (yuki_onna ), Jeremy C. Shipp, Lev Grossman and Markus Zusak. I was glad to revisit Robert Silverberg, Win Scott Eckert (woldnewtonwin ), Jess Nevins, Neil Gaiman, Orson Scott Card, K.M. Soehnlein, Scott Sigler (scottsigler ), Steve Berman (mroctober ), Ellen Datlow (ellen_datlow ), Jim Butcher, and J.K. Rowling among others.
I considered, for a moment, listing every author/editor I've read ... but it's getting late and I'm getting tired. *grin*
Thoughts on reading in 2011 in another post, perhaps tomorrow night.