Lots of people seem to keep close track of what they’ve read. I started keeping a spreadsheet, mostly to avoid checking out the same book twice. Anyway…
Books* started in 2013
58
Books* finished in 2013
56. I gave up on one (Any Old Iron, Anthony Burgess) and I’m in the middle of another. Oh, and I skipped an Orson Scott Card novelette in an otherwise-excellent SF collection…
Books* by category, excluding the one I’m in the middle of
Biography: 1
Fiction (general): 18
Mysteries: 8
Nonfiction: 19
Science fiction/fantasy: 11
Books I particularly enjoyed (in no particular order) – Grade A
| Quiet | Susan Cain |
| Lunatics | Dave Barry/Alan Zweibel |
| Bed & Breakfast | Lois Battle |
| Tricky Business | Dave Barry |
| Break No Bones | Kathy Reichs |
| Murder on the Lusitania | Conrad Allen |
| Wishful Drinking | Carrie Fisher |
| The City of Falling Angels | John Berendt |
| The Long Earth | Terry Pratchett & S. Baxter |
| Redshirts | John Scalzi |
| The Last Colony | John Scalzi |
| Night Sweats | Laura Crossett |
Books I enjoyed a lot but note quite as much (Grade A–
| A Deepness in the Sky | Vernor Vinge |
| Mars Crossing | Geoffrey A. Landis |
| Bare Bones | Kathy Reichs |
| Postcards from the Edge | Carrie Fisher |
| Texasville | Larry McMurtry |
| Insane City | Dave Barry |
| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (4) | J.K. Rowling |
| Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (5) | J.K. Rowling |
| Murder on the Leviathan | Boris Akunin |
| Murder on the Half Shelf | Lorna Barrett |
| Murder on the Celtic | Conrad Allen |
| Small Town | Lawrence Block |
| Groucho Marx, Master Detective | Ron Goulart |
| The Happy Bottom Riding Club | Lauren Kessler |
| How to Lie with Statistics | Darrell Huff |
| The Case for Books | Robert Darnton |
| Humans | Robert J. Sawyer |
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2) | J.K. Rowling |
| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (3) | J.K. Rowling |
It’s fair to note that the genre count above is probably wrong: the Harry Potter books are all under Fiction rather than SF/F. Yes, I’m finally reading the rest of Harry Potter–I’d read the first one before all the movies, all of which I’ve seen. No credit for guessing what book I’m in the middle of or one that I’ll check out from the children’s room of the library after I finish this one…
*The asterisk
Not included: My own books, a couple of which I had reason to reread.
Other note: This is books. I also read 24 magazines, including three science fiction magazines, and I’d guess those add up to the text equivalent of at least another 50 books–the SF magazines alone are about 18 book-equivalents.
Last year’s minimum goal was three books for each LPL borrowing cycle, which comes out to 42. So I at least achieved the minimum. This year’s minimum goal is the same.
