Poll of the Day > How many books did you read this year?

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I read 68 books this year. So very, very close...

Last year I managed 103, but I was much busier this year.

In reverse chronological order (most recent first):

I, The Tribunal, by P.C. Hatter
Nightshade City, by Hilary Wagner
Otters In Space II: Jupiter, Deadly, by Mary E. Lowd
Nine Goblins, by T. Kingfisher
Poirot Investigates, by Agatha Christie
We Travel the Spaceways, by Victor LaValle
Wyrd Sisters, by Terry Pratchett
They Walked Like Men, by Clifford D. Simak
A Field Guide to Venomous Animals and Poisonous Plants of North America North of Mexico, by Steven Foster
The Missing Chums, by Franklin W. Dixon
Sourcery, by Terry Pratchett
Wacky Packages
The Farthest Star, by Rebecca Mickley
Mort, by Terry Pratchett
FANG Volume 10
Ringworld, by Larry Niven
Squirrel Parade, by Rock Baker
Equal Rites, by Terry Pratchett
Ozma of Oz, by Frank L. Baum
The Time Traders, by Andre Norton
The Food of the Gods, by H.G. Wells
The Blazing World, by Margaret Cavendish
The Light Fantastic, by Terry Pratchett
Glory Lane, by Alan Dean Foster
The Color of Magic, by Terry Pratchett
At the Mountains of Madness, by H.P Lovecraft
FANG Volume 7
The Way Home: Two Novellas from the World of The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle
Riders of the Purple Sage, by Zane Grey
The Fountains of Paradise, by Arthur C. Clarke
Hair of the Dog to Paint the Town Red: The Curious Origins of Everyday Sayings and Fun Phrases, by Andrew Thompson
Islands in the Sky, by Arthur C. Clarke
Cubs of the Wolf, by Raymond F. Jones
The Secret of the Old Mill, by Franklin W. Dixon
Otters In Space, by Mary E. Lowd
Short Fiction, by H. Beam Piper
My Monster Valentine, by Ami Wright
A Wolf for a Spell, by Karah Sutton
The Songs of Distant Earth, by Arthur C. Clarke
The Goblin Reservation, by Clifford D. Simak
Poison: The History of Potions, Powders and Murderous Practitioners, by Ben Hubbard
The Old Goat and the Alien, by Veo Corva
Space Man's Burden, by Phil Geusz
FANG Volume 8
A Taste for Poison, Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them, by Neil Bradbury
The Incredulity of Father Brown, by G.K. Chesterton
Urban Foraging, by Lisa M. Rose
The Absolute at Large, by Karel apek
Medicinal Plants of the World, by Ben-Erik van Wyk
The House on the Cliff, by Franklin W. Dixon
Search the Sky, by Frederik Pohl
The Meister of Decimen City, by Brenna Raney
You're Cordially Invited to Crossroads Station, by Mary E. Lowd
Ice Age Heat, by Paul Lucas
The Canary Murder Case, by S.S. Van Dine
Hot Martian Girls, by Paul Lucas
Dude, Where's My Pack?, by Kyell Gold
The Visitors, by Clifford D. Simak
Tales of the FirebirdsL Stories from the world of Out of Position, by Kyell Gold
Citizen Orlov, by Jonathan Payne
Ty Game, by Kyell Gold
So You Had to Build a Time Machine, by Jason Offutt
My Minotaur Husband, by Lyonne Riley
"This Is Berlin": Radio Broadcasts from Nazi Germany, by William L. Shirer
Titles, by Kyell Gold
Overtime, by Kyell Gold
Uncovered, by Kyell Gold
Divisions, by Kyell Gold

Zero

But how do you even keep track of the books you read? Why would you keep track of the books you read?

Goodreads lets me track my reading automatically when I use my Kindle. It's built in. I just have to add the non-Kindle books that I read manually, but that's easy.

If only actually reading it counts, then 12. You can probably triple it if you count audiobooks. I prefer actually reading, but my job lets me listen to audiobooks while working so its just easier to use my time that way.

*checks Audible*
oof, only 4, half of those were in last January...

Not enough, I can't remember how many but I had a few months dry spell unfortunately

28, defintely less reading overall than last year though tbh

Salrite posted...

Zero

But how do you even keep track of the books you read? Why would you keep track of the books you read?

I use goodreads. It helps me keep track of bigger series and also gives me recommendations based on my reading.

The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims (Schopenhauer)
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Camus)

I like to re-read them every few years

Do pdfs count

Not entire books, but I've listened to dozens of novels and short stories.

Goodreads has me at 10, a little below my average, but not very. Main thing is in Q4 I started on Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities and it's going slowly.

Over 100. It doesn't say different books!

2024 wasn't a book year for me. I did finish War and Peace but I kinda stopped reading much after that and focused on my other hobbies so I only read a dozen books. I watched 144 movies (mostly ones new to me) and finished 92 seasons of tv (mostly anime but finally got around to Adventure Time and Xavier Renegade Angel). After I move in the spring I can start buying books again so that'll make reading easier.

If were counting both reading and listening, Id say probably 50-ish. So, not many. But I also have quite a few I started and Im not too far in. And tbf, I also just read like 6 in the past couple of days. Like the past week or so

Havent kept track of all of them. But have for some. But not on goodreads. Maybe I should, though. I use a Kindle to read most. And Im usually on Kindle and Goodreads looking for/at stuff, anyway

I can't read.

No idea. A bunch but under 100.

But due to this topic (and my new airpods) I might listen to some more audio books. Reading books probably wont change, though. I still like reading, as well

LinkPizza posted...

But due to this topic (and my new airpods) I might listen to some more audio books. Reading books probably wont change, though. I still like reading, as well

I do both at the same time! And some days I favor one over the other

21 according to Goodreads which feels like a decent amount in my life. Don't get a ton of time to read, but I'm happy I've gotten back into it since my daughter likes taking a weekly trip to the library and follow it up with a stop at Dunkin Donuts.

Zero. I just don't have the time. I'm behind on everything.

AltOmega2 posted...

I do both at the same time! And some days I favor one over the other

While I usually dont do them both at the same time (unless reading the book being read to me), I have done them one after the other some days Haha.

So do the people with like 40+ just read really short books? I can't imagine getting that many reading stuff like LotR or IT

Muscles posted...

So do the people with like 40+ just read really short books? I can't imagine getting that many reading stuff like LotR or IT

According to Goodreads, my average book length was 251 pages. The shortest book I read was 40 pages, the longest was 576. Last year my average was 253 pages, the shortest was 34, and the longest 1,540.

1.5 actually, or around that

I read one book fully and the other I got partway through before I lost interest

captpackrat posted...

According to Goodreads, my average book length was 251 pages. The shortest book I read was 40 pages, the longest was 576. Last year my average was 253 pages, the shortest was 34, and the longest 1,540.

I never liked going off of page count to look at the length of books, page and font size are too much of a variable, you can easily get a different page count for the same book from different edditions, what's the average word count?

Goodreads doesn't provide a word count, only pages, and I'm not about to go counting. But they were mostly novels, some of them fairly famous like Riders of the Purple Sage, Poirot Investigates, and Ringworld. In non-fiction, there was a book on medicinal plants, 3 about poisons, a book on foraging, and one book of William L. Shirer's CBS radio broadcasts from Nazi Germany.

If you're counting light novels, a couple dozen. I regularly subscribe to j-novel club which releases translations week-by-week (they split a book into about 10-12 parts), and I've read some outside of that too. They're probably in the 200~ page range each.

I read Jurassic Park. Also if graphic novels count, then maybe a few more.

2024 or 2025?

I don't keep track, but way less than normal since the library branch near my house was closed for construction most of the summer.

I think
- 8 books over the Christmas break (the first 3 ASOIAF books , two books on cuban history, the message by ta-nehisi coates, spin and Axis by Robert Charles Wilson)
- about one every two weeks or so for the 6 months the library was open, excluding the last two weeks
- Adrian Tchaikovsky's children of time trilogy over the summer

So that adds up to 22

Favorite for me this year was piranesi by Susanna Clarke

I don't keep track. And the nearest library doesn't always have a decent selection.

I didn't keep track. I think it was 6-10, but most of them were children's books, so they don't count.

captpackrat posted...

According to Goodreads, my average book length was 251 pages. The shortest book I read was 40 pages, the longest was 576. Last year my average was 253 pages, the shortest was 34, and the longest 1,540.

I should try shorter books more often. My average book was over 500 pages with only a couple of shorter ones under 300 pages.

11-20. I average a book a month usually. Sometimes more if I'm reading and also listening to audiobooks - which counts, I don't care what anyone says.

2 of the Avatar books: 1 on Kyoshi and 1 on Roku, then 2 others I forget the names of.

Muscles posted...

So do the people with like 40+ just read really short books? I can't imagine getting that many reading stuff like LotR or IT

For me, some are really short, and more like novellas than novels But I get plenty of novels, as well. I know you dont like to go on pages, but for mine where the font sizes are basically the same, my average is probably somewhere between 250-300. But I have plenty over 400, and had a series with books around 100 Just as a way to compared the sizes of the books I read

And I have audio books I listen to, as well Finished (and started a boom today), but also listen to about 10%-20% of another book. I should finish that either tonight or tomorrow morning Probably