I read a lot. I've been keeping a book log since the beginning of 1999. I've read 1900 books since then (about 92 books per year).
Below is the list for this year. See complete list.
Currently Reading
English as a Lingua Franca in ASEAN
by Andy Kirkpatrick It was on sale at NUS Press.
by Andy Kirkpatrick It was on sale at NUS Press.
Finished Reading
| Title and Author (Series) | Finished | |
| We Love Queenstown (Our Neighbourhoods 4) by Urban Sketchers Singapore | 08-Dec-18 | |
| We Love Katong (Our Neighbourhoods 5) by Urban Sketchers Singapore | 08-Dec-18 | |
| We Love Little India (Our Neighbourhoods 6) by Urban Sketchers Singapore | 08-Dec-18 | |
| Sofia and the Utopia Machine
by Judith Huang | 08-Dec-18 | |
| The Darkest Minds (Darkest Minds 1) by Alexandra Bracken | 03-Dec-18 | |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium 1) by Stieg Larsson, translated by Reg Keelan | 30-Nov-18 | |
| Who Gets What and Why by Alvin E. Roth | 25-Nov-18 | |
| Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel | 17-Nov-18 | |
| The Diamond of Darkhold (Books of Ember 4) by Jeanne DuPrau | 13-Nov-18 | |
| The Prophet of Yonwood (Books of Ember 3) by Jeanne DuPrau | 10-Nov-18 | |
| The People of Sparks (Books of Ember 2) by Jeanne DuPrau | 06-Nov-18 | |
| The City of Ember (Books of Ember 1) by Jeanne DuPrau | 05-Nov-18 | |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain | 04-Nov-18 | |
| The House of the Mosque by Kader Abdolah, translated by susan Massotty | 02-Nov-18 | |
| The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore, translated by Surendranath Tagore | 31-Oct-18 | |
| The Ship by Antonia Honeywell | 26-Oct-18 | |
| Wish You Were Here by Nick Webb | 21-Oct-18 | |
| Mostly Harmless (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy 5) by Douglas Adams | 16-Oct-18 | |
| So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy 4) by Douglas Adams | 15-Oct-18 | |
| Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy 3) by Douglas Adams | 15-Oct-18 | |
| The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy 2) by Douglas Adams | 14-Oct-18 | |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy 1) by Douglas Adams | 13-Oct-18 | |
| 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 | |
| Threelogy Lah Box Set by Casey Chen | 07-Sep-18 | |
| The Annotated Malay Archipelago
by Alfred Russel Wallace, edited by John van Wyhe | 26-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 | |
| The Art of Social Media
by Guy Kawasaki | 21-Jul-18 | |
| TED Talks
by Chris Anderson | 15-Jul-18 | |
| Collapse by Jared Diamond | 21-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 | |
| We Love Bedok (Our Neighbourhoods 3) by Urban Sketchers Singapore | 21-Jun-18 | |
| 1984 by George Orwell | 25-Jun-18 | |
| We Love Tiong Bahru (Our Neighbourhoods 2) by Urban Sketchers Singapore | 12-Jun-18 | |
| Lu Xun and Evolution by James Reeve Pusey | 18-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 Wind in the Door (Time 2) by Madeleine L'Engle | 29-May-18 | |
| A Wrinkle in Time (Time 1) 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 | |
| Brave New World by Aldous Huxley | 18-Feb-18 | |
| Four Reigns by Kukrit Pramoj, translated by Tulachandra | 02-Mar-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 | |
| Dream of the Red Chamber by Christine Sun, illustrated by Shirley Chiang | 14-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 | |
| 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 |
76 books finished so far.
22,408 pages in the selected books (an average of about 294 pages each).
That's an average of about 4 days per book (assuming no overlap)
or 4 days per book (taking actual overlap into consideration),
which is equivalent to 76 books (or 22,469 pages) per year. Or
62 pages per day, actually.
Typical number of books in progress simultaneously: 1.
Fiction books: 57 (75%)
Non-fiction books: 19 (25%)
