The Whole Enchilada: Book and Reading Stats for 2010

Total number of books: 106

Pages read: 27,745

Average # of pages per book: 262

Library books: 17 (a little short of my goal of 50)

Fiction: 69

Nonfiction: 35

Poetry: 2

Audiobooks: 1

Graphic Novels: 5

Book/Movie Experiences: 11

Shortest Book: Nurse Nancy - 24 pages

Longest Book: Virginia Woolf: A Biography - 893 pages

Newest Book: Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things (2010)

Oldest Book: The Rule of St. Benedict (530)

Hit Me Again (books I reread): 7

Chunky Monkeys (books with more than 500 pages) : 7

Skinny Minnies (books with fewer than 100 pages) : 11

Funniest Book: Holidays on Ice

Saddest Book: Wild Swans

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New Miserable Experience (books I finished but didn't really care for) :

Wicked - Gregory Maguire

The Foreign Student - Susan Choi

Riders of the Purple Sage - Zane Grey

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Steig Larsson

Dream Story - Arthur Schnitzler

Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Hey Hey Hey Goodbye (The DNF Files)

Fire and Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834 - Nancy Lusignan Schultz

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket - Edgar Allan Poe

Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy

Author Nationality:

Austria 1

Australia 1

Canada 5

China 1

England 13

Germany 1

Hungary 1

India 1

Iran 1

Ireland 1

Italy 1

Japan 1

Korea 2

New Zealand 1

Nigeria 1

Scotland 1

USA 72

Male authors: 64

Female authors: 34

Co-authors: 8

Books written before 1800: 2

Books written 1800-1899: 5

Books written 1900-1950: 15

Books written 1951-1999: 48

Books written 2000-2010: 36

Pulitzer prizewinners: 4

Happy discoveries: Flashman!

2010 Challenges completed:

The 1930s Challenge

All Things Alcott Challenge

100+ Books Challenge

Happy Book Year -- Time for some reading resolutions!