I read a lot. I've been keeping a book log since the beginning of 1999. I've read 1788 books since then (about 95 books per year).
Below is the list for this year. See complete list.
Currently Reading
The Back of the Napkin
by Dan Roam Bought it in Atlanta in 2014. It's been waiting its turn long enough.
by Dan Roam Bought it in Atlanta in 2014. It's been waiting its turn long enough.
Finished Reading
| Title and Author (Series) | Finished | |
| Visual Explanations
by Edward R. Tufte | 08-Apr-17 | |
| China in Ten Words by Yu Hua | 30-Mar-17 | |
| Dreaming in Chinese by Deborah Fallows | 25-Mar-17 | |
| We Love Toa Payoh by Urban Sketchers Singapore | 25-Mar-17 | |
| [A fellow SWG YA writer's project] by [Fellow SWG YA Writer] | 24-Mar-17 | |
| The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger | 20-Mar-17 | |
| Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass | 19-Mar-17 | |
| The Weekend Novelist Rewrites the Novel by Robert J. Ray | 13-Mar-17 | |
| Saint Anything
by Sarah Dessen | 06-Mar-17 | |
| Save the Cat by Blake Snyder | 04-Mar-17 | |
| Style: Toward Clarity and Grace by Joseph M. Williams | 26-Feb-17 | |
| Everybody Writes
by Ann Handley | 23-Feb-17 | |
| Out of Mao's Shadow
by Philip P. Pan | 13-Feb-17 | |
| Dangerous Liaisons
by Choderlos de Laclos | 06-Feb-17 | |
| Middlemarch by George Eliot | 28-Jan-17 | |
| Royal Magic by Ruth Chew | 22-Jan-17 | |
| Wrong Way Around Magic by Ruth Chew | 22-Jan-17 | |
| The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (trans. Ken Liu) | 07-Jan-17 | |
| Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie | 01-Jan-17 |
19 books finished so far.
5,081 pages in the selected books (an average of about 267 pages each).
That's an average of about 19 days per book (assuming no overlap)
or 9 days per book (taking actual overlap into consideration),
which is equivalent to 19 books (or 5,094 pages) per year. Or
14 pages per day, actually.
Typical number of books in progress simultaneously: 1.
Fiction books: 9 (47%)
Non-fiction books: 10 (53%)
