Book Log (year in review)

[mikekn]

Call this the year of the audio book, at least for me. I took advantage of my work commute to get in a few extra books - especially those that I would be unlikely to sit down and read at home. Twenty six of the sixty books read were audio books. In addition to being pleased by the total number of books, I'm pleased that I finally read so many different classics of one sort or another. For those of you keeping track (i.e. just me) I now have only 751 books on my "to read" list. That's down 2 from the end of last year...

Edit: Spoke too soon. Just got a book in the mail (ordered it a mere 13 months ago...), so 752 books to read.

January
1. Dhalgren - Samuel R. Delany
2. A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
February
3. The Sharing Knife, Volume Four: Horizon - Lois McMaster Bujold
4. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
5. The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
6. The Door into Summer - Robert Heinlein
7. Storm Front - Jim Butcher *
March
8. Fool Moon - Jim Butcher *
9. Fragile Things - Neil Gaiman
10. Grave Peril - Jim Butcher *
11. Blueberry Girl - Neil Gaiman
12. Summer Knight - Jim Butcher *
April
13. Little Brother - Cory Doctorow *
14. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut *
15. Stardust - Neil Gaiman *
X. World War Z - Max Brooks * (abridged, so not counting towards my total)
May
16. Inferno - Dante Alighieri *
17. Purgatorio - Dante Alighieri *
18. Paradiso - Dante Alighieri *
19. A Fire Upon The Deep - Vernor Vinge
20. Odd and the Frost Giants - Neil Gaiman
21. Black Butterfly - Mark Gatiss
22. Fool - Christopher Moore
23. A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. LeGuin
June
24. Baudolino - Umberto Eco *
25. The Tombs of Atuan - Ursula K. Le Guin
26. The Farthest Shore - Ursula K. Le Guin
27. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco *
28. Tehanu - Ursula K. Le Guin
July
29. Dragonflight - Anne McCaffrey
30. Dragonquest - Anne McCaffrey
31. Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco *
32. Dragonsong - Anne McCaffrey
33. Dragonsinger - Anne McCaffrey
34. Xenocide - Orson Scott Card *
35. The White Dragon - Anne McCaffrey
36. Children of the Mind - Orson Scott Card *
August
37. Dragondrums - Anne McCaffrey
38. Old Man's War - John Scalzi
39. First Meetings in the Enderverse - Orson Scott Card *
40. The Salmon of Doubt - Douglas Adams *
41. The Ghost Brigades - John Scalzi
September
42. The Last Colony - John Scalzi
43. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick *
44. I Am Legend - Richard Matheson *
45. Zoe's Tale - John Scalzi
46. The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick *
47. On the Beach - Nevil Shute *
October
48. Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut *
49. Saturn's Children - Charles Stross
50. Unseen Academicals - Terry Pratchett
51. Heat Wave - Richard Castle
52. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller *
November
53. Northern Lights - Philip Pullman *
54. The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman *
55. The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman *
December
56. Four Freedoms - John Crowley
57. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
58. And Another Thing... - Eoin Colfer
59. Who Killed Amanda Palmer - Neil Gaiman
60. Crazy Hair - Neil Gaiman

* = Audio book
 

Comments

[kandy-elizabet.livejournal.com]

Impressive. I managed once again to fall down on the logging part. Will start again tomorrow and try logging again in 2010.

We also plan to organize and Library Thing our books this winter. I'm almost afraid to see what we have :)