Reading 2013: The Long and Short of It

Total number of books:  137

Pages read:  43,366

Average # of pages per book:  316

Library books:  26

Kindle books: 74

Audio books:  3

Tree books: 59


Fiction:  75

Nonfiction:  62


Graphic Novels:  5


I read the book, I saw the movie, got the T-shirt
Les Miserables
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
Up the Junction


Shortest Book:  The Snowman - Alfred Castelli and Milo Manara (48 pages)

Longest Book:  Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (1,115  pages)

Newest Book:  Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell (September 10, 2013)

Oldest Book:  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass (1845)


You go back, Jack, do it again
(books I reread)
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Betsy In Spite of Herself - Maud Hart Lovelace
Nana - Emile Zola
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang - Joyce Carol Oates
Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail - Louise Shivers


Chunky Monkeys (books with 500+  pages) :  15

Skinny Minnies (books with fewer than 100 pages) :  6



Translated Books: 18.  [I love Brian Nelson.  He makes Zola's characters jump from French to English and right off the page, right into your face.]


Funniest Book:  How To Be a Woman - Caitlin Moran

Freakiest Book:  The Beast Within - Emile Zola

Scariest Book:  Stitches - David Small
                     
Saddest Book:  The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank


Frustrated, Incorporated
(Unfavorite reads)
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka
Swamplandia! - Karen Russell
American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story - Cynthia True
My Mortal Enemy - Willa Cather
Zanuck: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Last Tycoon - Leonard Mosley
Special Topics in Calamity Physics - Marisha Pessl
What Maisie Knew - Henry James
Confessions of a Sociopath - M.E. Thomas
Anchored In Love - John Carter Cash
My Korean Deli - Ben Ryder Howe
Flowers in the Attic - V.C. Andrews
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets - Stephen Crane
The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
If on a winter's night a traveler - Italo Calvino
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly - Sun-Mi Hwang


Breaking up is hard to do 
(The DNF Files)
His Excellency, Eugene Rougon - Emile Zola
The Brothers K - David James Duncan
A Rage to Live - John O'Hara
Mirror Talk - Barbara Alfaro

Should I stay or should I go?
The Caine Mutiny - Herman Wouk (Page 220)
Flashman and the Redskins - George MacDonald Fraser (Page 158)

I remember finding out about you
(really good reads)
Confessions of a Prairie Bitch - Alison Arngrim
Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies - Hilary Mantel
How To Be A Woman - Caitlin Moran
Parnassus on Wheels - Christopher Morley
The Language Instinct - Steven Pinker
English Teacher X Guide to Teaching Abroad - English Teacher X
L'Assommoir - Emile Zola
Quiet - Susan Cain
One For the Money - Janet Evanovich
Finn - Jon Clinch
Moonwalking with Einstein - Joshua Foer
The Star Machine - Jeanine Basinger
117 Days Adrift - Maurice and Maralyn Bailey
It's Not Really About the Hair - Tabatha Coffey
Nana - Emile Zola
Cookoff: Recipe Fever in America - Amy Suntherland
Society's Child: My Autobiography - Janis Ian
Eleanor & Park - Rainbow Rowell
Twelve Years a Slave - Solomon Northup
Shadow of the Moon - M.M. Kaye
Johnny Cash: The Life - Robert Hilburn
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
The Big Rock Candy Mountain - Wallace Stegner
Brother One Cell - Cullen Thomas

Teacher, Teacher Teach Me More 
(Books I found instructive):
Speaking Activities That Don't Suck - English Teacher X
The Thin Commandments - Stephen Gullo


I'll be reading you in all the old familiar places 
(Authors I read multiple times)
Emile Zola - 11
Joyce Carol Oates - 4
Rainbow Rowell - 3
Jeanine Basinger - 3
Betty McDonald - 3
Maud Hart Lovelace - 3
English Teacher X - 2
Hilary Mantel - 2
Janet Evanovich - 2
Wallace Stegner - 2


On the road again
(Author Birthplace)
Australia- 1
Canada- 2
England- 12
France- 13
Germany- 1
India- 2
Italy- 2
The Netherlands- 1
The Philippines- 1
Russia- 1
Ukraine- 1
Unknown- 2
USA- 85


Books written by male authors:  66
Books written by female authors: 65
Books written by an author whose gender I'm not sure about: 2
Books written by co-authors:  4


Books written before 1800: 0
Books written 1800-1899:  17
Books written 1900-1960:  16
Books written 1961-1999:  25
Books written 2000-2013:  79


Pulitzer prizewinners: 1


Happy discoveries:  Rainbow Rowell, Hilary Mantel, Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, Busan English Library!

Happy Book Year -- Time for some reading resolutions!