I read a lot. I've been keeping a book log since the beginning of 1999. I've read 1965 books since then (about 91 books per year).
Below is the list for this year. See complete list.
Currently Reading
Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy (intro by E.B. Greenwood, translated by Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude) This book was chosen by Rachel of the Hungry Hundred Book Club for January 2020.
by Leo Tolstoy (intro by E.B. Greenwood, translated by Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude) This book was chosen by Rachel of the Hungry Hundred Book Club for January 2020.
Finished Reading
| Title and Author (Series) | Finished | |
| Pax by Sara Pennypacker (illustrated by Jon Klassen) | 07-Dec-19 | |
| Our Homes, Our Stories by edited by Karien Van Ditzhuijzen | 04-Dec-19 | |
| The Tipping Point
by Malcolm Gladwell | 01-Dec-19 | |
| Wolf Totem
by Jiang Rong, translated by Howard Goldblatt | 26-Nov-19 | |
| The Martian by Andy Weir | 01-Nov-19 | |
| Artemis
by Andy Weir | 29-Oct-19 | |
| The Burning Bridge (Ranger's Apprentice 2) by John Flanagan | 27-Oct-19 | |
| The Ruins of Gorlan (Ranger's Apprentice 1) by John Flanagan | 24-Oct-19 | |
| The Turn of the Screw by Henry James | 16-Oct-19 | |
| Twelve Rules for Life
by Jordan B. Peterson | 13-Oct-19 | |
| Endangered
by Eliot Schrefer | 01-Oct-19 | |
| The Virtue of Selfishness
by Ayn Rand | 29-Sep-19 | |
| 50 Self-Help Classics
by Tom Butler-Bowdon | 22-Sep-19 | |
| TED Talks
by Chris Anderson | 12-Sep-19 | |
| 11,002 Things to Be Miserable About
by Lia Romeo and Nick Romeo | 12-Sep-19 | |
| Time Travel: A History
by James Gleick | 22-Aug-19 | |
| The Song of Kieu
by Nguyen Du, translated by Timothy Allen | 13-Aug-19 | |
| Soonish
by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith | 10-Aug-19 | |
| The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas | 07-Aug-19 | |
| War Horse
by Michael Morpurgo | 31-Jul-19 | |
| Nine Cuts by Audrey Chin | 30-Jul-19 | |
| The Hazel Wood
by Melissa Albert | 29-Jul-19 | |
| Sapiens
by Yuval Noah Harari | 29-Jul-19 | |
| In Pursuit of Wealth
by edited by Yaron Brook and Don Watkins | 20-Jul-19 | |
| Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury | 10-Jul-19 | |
| The Nine Cloud Dream
by Kim Man-Jung, translated by Heinz Insu Fenkl | 09-Jul-19 | |
| The Free Market Revolution
by Yaron Brook and Don Watkins | 04-Jul-19 | |
| The Art of Thinking Clearly
by Rolf Dobelli | 24-Jun-19 | |
| Wintersong (Wintersong
1) by S. Jae-Jones | 17-Jun-19 | |
| Mulla Nasreddin Folktales
by Oral Tradition | 13-Jun-19 | |
| If We Dream Too Long by Goh Poh Seng | 12-Jun-19 | |
| Beyond the Fields by Aysha Baqir | 07-Jun-19 | |
| Dubliners by James Joyce | 05-Jun-19 | |
| Four (Divergent 4) by Veronica Roth | 30-May-19 | |
| Allegiant (Divergent 3) by Veronica Roth | 28-May-19 | |
| Insurgent (Divergent 2) by Veronica Roth | 24-May-19 | |
| Divergent (Divergent 1) by Veronica Roth | 21-May-19 | |
| The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan | 20-May-19 | |
| The Gospel of Loki
by Joanne M. Harris | 16-May-19 | |
| We Rose Up Slowly by Jon Gresham | 06-May-19 | |
| Open by Eva Wong Nava | 05-May-19 | |
| Launch Pad by Shelly Bryant | 05-May-19 | |
| A Disobedient Girl by Ru Freeman | 04-May-19 | |
| Little Women by Louisa May Alcott | 03-May-19 | |
| Afterworlds
by Scott Westerfeld | 28-Apr-19 | |
| The Flower Girls
by Alice Clark-Platts | 21-Apr-19 | |
| The Prestige by Christopher Priest | 17-Apr-19 | |
| The Black Tides of Heaven (Tensorate Series 1) by JY Yang | 14-Apr-19 | |
| The Red Threads of Fortune (Tensorate Series 2) by J.Y. Yang | 13-Apr-19 | |
| Chasing the Light by Jesse Blackadder | 10-Apr-19 | |
| The Stranger
by Albert Camus, translated by Matthew Ward | 05-Apr-19 | |
| The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
by Nirad C. Chaudhuri | 05-Apr-19 | |
| Looking for Alaska by John Green | 04-Mar-19 | |
| Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor E Frankl | 01-Mar-19 | |
| The Fat Years by Chan Koonchung | 24-Feb-19 | |
| Quid Pro Quo
by Peter Jones | 07-Feb-19 | |
| Supplemento al dizionario italiano
by Bruno Munari | 21-Jan-19 | |
| The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas, translated by Robin Buss | 21-Jan-19 | |
| We Love Serangoon Gardens (Our Neighbourhoods 9) by Urban Sketchers Singapore | 07-Jan-19 | |
| We Love Geylang Serai (Our Neighbourhoods 8) by Urban Sketchers Singapore | 07-Jan-19 | |
| We Love Chinatown (Our Neighbourhoods 7) by Urban Sketchers Singapore | 07-Jan-19 | |
| Rashomon and Other Stories
by Ryunosuke Akutagawa (trans Kojima Takashi) | 02-Jan-19 |
62 books finished so far.
18,620 pages in the selected books (an average of about 300 pages each).
That's an average of about 5 days per book (assuming no overlap)
or 7 days per book (taking actual overlap into consideration),
which is equivalent to 62 books (or 18,671 pages) per year. Or
51 pages per day, actually.
Typical number of books in progress simultaneously: 1.
Fiction books: 41 (66%)
Non-fiction books: 21 (34%)
