Book count

[CaroGirl]

I decided -- sort a New Year's resolution -- to read more books this year. I'm keeping track of the books I've read and even commenting on them (bad, good, indifferent).

I'm on book number 9.

1) How many books have you read so far this year?
~Eight, so far.

2) How many do you generally read each month?
~Averaging 3 per month.

3) What proportion of the books you read are fiction or nonfiction?
~90 percent fiction.

[KTC]

1) 13.

2) Can't tell. I sometimes go a month without reading. I have to be in a reading zone.

3) 98 percent fiction. A couple years ago, though, it was 90 percent non...so it varies.

[JBI]

About 30, though only 5 novels tops. The rest have been poetry anthologies, which are 100 pages long, and short story anthologies, which are usually around 150-200 or so pages.

[Ken]

1 novel & 1 short story, so far this year.

2-3 books a year, on average.

100% fiction.

[rosebud1981]

1) Six so far

2) Two or three a month

3) 100% fiction

[wuzupbling22]

1) 15-20
2) Around six a month
3) 95%

[JustJess]

-21 books this year (11 fiction and 10 non fiction)

-usually one novel per week (depending on length) the nonfiction books will be feast or famine

-most of the time it's 90-95% fiction, but then when something piques my interest I'll easily read 5-10 books on that subject in one month

[Priene]

1) About 30

2) Right now about ten a month

3) All fiction so far this year

[Ken]

10 a month? Good God! I'm in awe!!! :-O

[Exir]

I have a friend who is a whiz at reading. She could read an average of ten 300-page paperback novels in one week! And she remembers everything in the book, better than I do, even though I take way more time. In fact, I ask her for book reviews before deciding if a book is worth reading.

[DeleyanLee]

1) How many books have you read so far this year?
I think I'm up to 6 so far this year

2) How many do you generally read each month?
I guess the average is 2 per month

3) What proportion of the books you read are fiction or nonfiction?
Thus far, it's 1 fiction to 5 non-fiction. The one in my bag now is a novel, but I haven't figured out if I'm going to finish it yet or not.

Last year, my total was around 40 books for the year and only 3 of them were novels. the year before (yes, I track this stuff too) it was 42 books with about 7 novels read.

[Ken]

I have a friend who is a whiz at reading. She could read an average of ten 300-page paperback novels in one week! And she remembers everything in the book, better than I do, even though I take way more time. In fact, I ask her for book reviews before deciding if a book is worth reading.

That's amazing! I'm the slowest reader on the planet, myself. I average about 15 pages per hour, so it takes me weeks to finish a book; sometimes, months. (Please keep that to yourself.)

[Harper K]

I just finished book #8 for the year. I've gotten off to a slow start -- stupid day job commitments kept me from reading a single book in January. I nearly went nuts.

In general, I try to read about 4 books per month.

2 of the 8 books were non-fiction, and one was a short story collection. The rest were novels.

[Shadow_Ferret]

1) How many books have you read so far this year?
1 -- still working on it, haven't completed any

2) How many do you generally read each month?
1/10th

3) What proportion of the books you read are fiction or nonfiction?
95% fiction

[Nyna]

1.) How many books have you read so far this year?

12, not counting text books, poetry, re-reads, or the internet. (I really miss the days when I was reading one to two books a day, every day -- sadly, moving from Anne McCaffrey and Robert Jordan to Virginia Woolf and Albert Camus has slowed me down a bit.)

2.) How many do you generally read each month?

This seems... fairly obvious? We are three months into the year, 12 books read, so... four new books a month?

3) What proportion of the books you read are fiction or nonfiction?

Mostly fiction, I guess. Last year I read 50 new books, 5 of which were nonfiction. (2 philosophy, 1 linguistics, 1 book of essays and 1 psychology, in case anyone cares.)

[benbradley]

I'll guess I've read ten so far this year, about half fiction. But the non-fiction often doesn't fully "count" as reading a whole book, as some of it is reference (data books, whatnot) that I read only a few pages of and put back on the shelf.

And there ARE online books I've read (http://dspguide.com/ is a notable technical one) - recently I started reading through the downloaded .pdf of this book:
http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~avb/micromathematics/

[Dale Emery]

1) How many books have you read so far this year?

10.

2) How many do you generally read each month?

3 or 4.

3) What proportion of the books you read are fiction or nonfiction?

About a third are fiction.

I keep track of what I've read (http://bookshelved.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?DaleEmery) on Bookshelved (http://bookshelved.org), a wiki for readers.

Dale

[ACEnders]

I like this. I actually started using Gurulib.com to inventory my books.
1) How many books have you read so far this year?
11
2) How many do you generally read each month?
3-4

3) What proportion of the books you read are fiction or nonfiction?
I'd say 85% fiction, 15% nonfiction.

[darrtwish]

1)Sadly only around three or four.
2)About one...I know I really need to start reading more again.
3)99% Fiction...YA at that.

[crtaylor]

1. Five so far, (although I tend to go through spurts).
2. One a month but then it varies, last month I read three and before that I hadn't picked up a book in a while.
3. 99 % fiction.

[Chauchat Butterfly]

1. Nine

2. I average two or three a month

3. All of them fiction

[Kaij]

Sai'Kaorii
1.) More than thirty. Hell, I can't remember XD
2.) I get through three or four books a week, you tell me. (Depending on how much work I have.)
3.) All of them are fiction.

[mscelina]

1--45ish or so. I had lots of hospital time this year.

2--10-20 depending on my schedule.

3--probably 50/50. I go back and forth between genre reading, classics, and biographies, autobiographies.

[kct webber]

Since January, I've read--I think--about 65. But I'm in college, so I have that in addition to all the 'normal' reading. Does that count? (The reading for my degree field is f**&*^g INSANE.)

About 20 a month.

I'd say around 50/50.

[DWSTXS]

I'm on # 19 right now.

mainstream fiction - and I wish more writers wrote LONGER books. I want 1000 pages or more (If it's good)

[TerzaRima]

1) How many books have you read so far this year?

Hmm. Probably 30 to 35.

2) How many do you generally read each month?
Averaging about 8 to 10 per month.

3) What proportion of the books you read are fiction or nonfiction?

80 percent fiction.

[DragonHeart]

1. Probably 4-5. Usually I read a lot more than this, though.

2. Hard to say. When I get really involved I'll read the entire book in a day (if I'm off) or three (if I'm working). I've average three to four a week if I was actually reading as much as I could be.

3. 95% fiction, though I'm starting to explore outside my genre, including nonfiction which I normally don't read.

~DragonHeart~

[oneblindmouse]

1. Only 15 so far this year, which is far less than I'd like, but I'm now a frustratingly slow reader (being partially sighted).

2. I average about 4 books a month for pleasure, plus several journals.

3. 90% fiction nowadays, but a few years ago it was about 10%.

At school I got into the habit of keeping a tally of all the books I read, so I can now tell you every single book I've ever read going back some forty years! Looking over the list makes me laugh (and cringe!).

[moderan]

60 or so...I read very quickly, took a course when I was in sixth grade. Cost me 50 bucks from my paper route and was the best money I ever spent.
90% fiction, 10% nonfiction. 80% of the fiction is horror or sf. Could easily get the titles as they're all in a pile in front of my nightstand. They were in stacks but the cats knocked them over.

[ynoirb]

1) How many books have you read so far this year?
29.

2) How many do you generally read each month?
It averages out to about 4

3) What proportion of the books you read are fiction or nonfiction?
All have been fiction apart from one I think :)

[jennifer75]

None!!!! Not one completed!

I started about 3 this year.

Tequila Lemon and Salt by Daniel something or other...

The Rum Diary by Hunter S Thompson

Naked by David Sedaris

Eat Pray Love by can't say who...

Out of them, I got the farthest on Eat Pray Love and love the story but just have too much going to focus. This is horrible, I know. But I will finish. Bad year for books and J75...

I'd love to read a book a month. That will be my goal....whenever I can pick one up again.

I prefer both, fiction and non. I love memoirs. But I also love to get lost in a tale....what ever it is about.

[Inkdaub]

1) How many books have you read so far this year?
~Not sure.

2) How many do you generally read each month?
~Average one/two per week.

3) What proportion of the books you read are fiction or nonfiction?
~95% fiction.

[eyeblink]

1) Last year, I made a resolution to read more and started keeping a list. 38 books finished for the whole year.

So far this year, 26 books - that's including novels long and short, non-fiction books, anthologies and short-fiction collections, also two (so far) novels in MS that I critted for members of my writer's group.

2) How many I read in a week, depends on the book. Most of my writing time is during the lunchbreak and work and I try to avoid doing other things in that time. Otherwise most reading is done on train journeys. I estimate I average 10,000 words a day, so a novella or shortish novel will be done in a few days to a week. (On Chesil Beach took me two days, for example) Full-length novels will take longer. (A Game of Thrones took me three and a half weeks.) I'm not a speed-reader.

3) Mostly fiction, with short fiction collections/anthologies/magazines read piecemeal around the novels. I do have several non-fiction books on the go though.

[Myasandar]

1) How many books have you read so far this year?

Only 18

2) How many do you generally read each month?

Depends on the book. I'd say 2-3 maybe more.


3) What proportion of the books you read are fiction or nonfiction?

100% fiction this year.

[CaroGirl]

I'm on number 19 now. That's lots for me for only half the year!