I read a lot. I've been keeping a book log since the beginning of 1999. I've read 1878 books since then (about 92 books per year).
Below is the list for this year. See complete list.
Currently Reading
Organizational Theory, Design, and Change (7th ed.)
by Gareth R. Jones I got a good price on this textbook even though it seems to be the current edition. Seems like an interesting subject.
by Gareth R. Jones I got a good price on this textbook even though it seems to be the current edition. Seems like an interesting subject.
Finished Reading
| Title and Author (Series) | Finished | |
| Making Sense of Singapore English by Adam Brown | 12-Oct-18 | |
| The Trailing Spouse
by Jo Furniss | 10-Oct-18 | |
| Hanna's Daughters by Marianne Fredriksson | 09-Oct-18 | |
| Alien Asian: A Singaporean in America by Simon Tay | 07-Oct-18 | |
| The Missing Barbegazi by H.S. Norup | 05-Oct-18 | |
| Ready Player One by Ernest Cline | 01-Oct-18 | |
| Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut | 29-Sep-18 | |
| The Annotated Malay Archipelago
by Alfred Russel Wallace, edited by John van Wyhe | 26-Sep-18 | |
| Threelogy Lah Box Set by Casey Chen | 07-Sep-18 | |
| Tiananmen
by Morgan Chua | 30-Aug-18 | |
| Solaris
by Stanislaw Lem, translated by Bill Johnston | 29-Aug-18 | |
| A Yellow House
by Karien Van Ditzhuijzen | 27-Aug-18 | |
| Crazy Rich Asians
by Kevin Kwan | 23-Aug-18 | |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway | 21-Aug-18 | |
| Magician: Master (Riftwar Saga 1) by Raymond E. Feist | 11-Aug-18 | |
| Magician: Apprentice
(Riftwar Saga 0) by Raymond E. Feist | 27-Jul-18 | |
| Collapse by Jared Diamond | 21-Jul-18 | |
| The Art of Social Media
by Guy Kawasaki | 21-Jul-18 | |
| TED Talks
by Chris Anderson | 15-Jul-18 | |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce | 03-Jul-18 | |
| Exit West
by Moshin Hamid | 27-Jun-18 | |
| 1984 by George Orwell | 25-Jun-18 | |
| We Love Bedok (We Love Neighbourhoods 3) by Urban Sketchers Singapore | 21-Jun-18 | |
| Lu Xun and Evolution by James Reeve Pusey | 18-Jun-18 | |
| We Love Tiong Bahru (We Love Neighbourhoods 2) by Urban Sketchers Singapore | 12-Jun-18 | |
| Burmese Days
by George Orwell | 08-Jun-18 | |
| Many Waters (Time 4) by Madeleine L'Engle | 03-Jun-18 | |
| A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Time 3) by Madeleine L'Engle | 30-May-18 | |
| A Wrinkle in Time (Time 1) by Madeleine L'Engle | 29-May-18 | |
| A Wind in the Door (Time 2) by Madeleine L'Engle | 29-May-18 | |
| The Good Earth (The House of Earth 1) by Pearl S. Buck | 27-May-18 | |
| How We Learn
by Benedict Carey | 23-May-18 | |
| Time Jumpers (Five Kingdoms 5) by Brandon Mull | 18-May-18 | |
| Death Weavers (Five Kingdoms 4) by Brandon Mull | 15-May-18 | |
| A Room with a View by E.M. Forster | 12-May-18 | |
| Crystal Keepers (Five Kingdoms 3) by Brandon Mull | 07-May-18 | |
| Rogue Knight (Five Kingdoms 2) by Brandon Mull | 02-May-18 | |
| Sky Raiders (Five Kingdoms 1) by Brandon Mull | 25-Apr-18 | |
| The Fugitive
by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, translated by Willem Samuels | 23-Apr-18 | |
| The Movie Book by DK | 17-Apr-18 | |
| [A fellow SWG YA writer's project] by [Fellow SWG YA Writer] | 03-Apr-18 | |
| Not out of Hate
by Ma Ma Lay | 30-Mar-18 | |
| A Wrinkle in Time (Time 1) by Madeleine L'Engle | 15-Mar-18 | |
| Beloved
by Toni Morrison | 12-Mar-18 | |
| The Third Eye (Tara Trilogy 1) by Mahtab Narsimhan | 07-Mar-18 | |
| Mortal Engines (Mortal Engines / Predator Cities / Hungry Cities Chronicles 1) by Philip Reeve | 04-Mar-18 | |
| Four Reigns by Kukrit Pramoj, translated by Tulachandra | 02-Mar-18 | |
| Brave New World by Aldous Huxley | 18-Feb-18 | |
| Photographically Speaking by David duChemin | 07-Feb-18 | |
| Mots D'Heures: Gousses, Rames
by Luis D'Antin Van Rooten | 27-Jan-18 | |
| King Rat (Asian Saga 1) by James Clavell | 26-Jan-18 | |
| The Dreamer Wakes (The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber 5) by Cao Xueqin, edited by Gao E, translated by John Minford | 14-Jan-18 | |
| Dream of the Red Chamber by Christine Sun, illustrated by Shirley Chiang | 14-Jan-18 | |
| The Debt of Tears (The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber 4) by Cao Xueqin, edited by Gao E, translated by John Minford | 02-Jan-18 |
54 books finished so far.
16,307 pages in the selected books (an average of about 301 pages each).
That's an average of about 6 days per book (assuming no overlap)
or 5 days per book (taking actual overlap into consideration),
which is equivalent to 54 books (or 16,351 pages) per year. Or
45 pages per day, actually.
Typical number of books in progress simultaneously: 1.
Fiction books: 40 (74%)
Non-fiction books: 14 (26%)
