How many books have you read in 2005?

[Jennifer]

I've been debating whether or not to read the Lemony Snicket books - are they worth it?

 

[Herenya]

57. So that's half a book a day, on average. (But I generally read a book in a couple of hours)

 

[muggle]

It is interesting to see "what" and "how many" books people have read so far this year. I have only read 8 books so far this year. Two of the books I kept re-reading as they contained statistics that I wanted to retain in my mind. I guess though that I am a slow reader, compared to many, but I do enjoy the ones I read tremendously. Don't take this the wrong way, I do not mean to imply that the fast readers do not enjoy the books.

jennifer, I noticed that you read 'The Gunslinger" but have not read any others in the series, did you not enjoy it?

 

[Dreamtiger]

1. Yevgeny Zamyatin - We
2. J.D. Salinger - Franny and Zooey
3. Haruki Murakami - The Elephant Vanishes
4. Flaubert - Madame Bovary
5. Maggie O'Farrell - After You'd Gone
6. Vladimir Nabokov - Despair
7. Marguerite Duras - The Lover
8. Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
9. Camus - Exile and the Kingdom
10. Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca
11. F. Scott Fritzgerald - The Great Gatsby
12. Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'Ubervilles
13. Andre Gide - Strait is the Gate
14. Marguerite Duras - The Malady of Death
15. Henry James - The Wings of the Dove (my new favourite)
16. Dostoyevsky - Notes from the Underground
17. Kobo Abe - The Woman in the Dunes
18. Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
19. Dostoyevsky - The Double
20. Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies
21. John Steinbeck - East of Eden
22. Haruki Murakami - Hard Boiled Wonderland
23. Angela Carter - The Bloody chamber
24. Oscar Wilde - Dorian Gray
25. Bram Stoker - Dracula
26. Paul Bowles - The Sheltering Sky
27. Boris Pasternak - Doctor Zhivago
28. Yann Martel - Life of Pi
29. Marguerite Duras - The Ravishing of Lol Stein
30. Diane Awerbuck - Gardening at Night
31. F. Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night
32. C.S. Lewis - Till We Have Faces

 

[Jennifer]

muggle: I enjoyed it quite a lot - enough to want to read the others. I found the combination of recognisable and fantastic fascinating. But I can't afford them and my library doesn't have them, so it'll have to wait!

 

[Dogtanian]

Well....up to 15 now;

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Digital Fortress - Dan Brown
Deception Point - Dan Brown
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
The Curious Incident.... - Mark Haddon
Retribution - Jilianne Hoffman
The Dumas Club - Arturo Perez Reverte
Want To Play - P J Tracy
The Concrete Blonde - Michael Connelly
Last Witness - Jilianne Hoffman
The Last Coyote - Michael Connelly
Tell No One - Harlan Coben
Sleepy Head - Mark Billingham
The Mermaids Singing - Val McSermid
Blindsighted - Karin Slaughter

Added to the list are;

Cold Hit - Linda Farstein
Live Bait - P J Tracy

 

[lex_australia]

1. Stupid White Men - Michael Moore
2. The Hours - Michael Cunningham
3. Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk
4. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. Cadillac Jukebox - James Burke
6. I, Lucifer - Glen Duncan
7. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
8. Blindness - Jose Saramago
9. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
10. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
11. The Old Man And The Sea - Ernest Hemingway
12. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess (in progress)

 

[Bluraven]

1.The Spiderwick Chronicles Bk. 1:The Field Guide, by Holly Black
2.The Spiderwick Chronicles Bk. 2:The Seeing Stone, Holly Black
3.The Spiderwick Chronicles Bk. 3: Lucinda's Secret, Holly Black
4.The Spiderwick Chronicles Bk. 4: The Ironwood Tree, Holly Black
5.The Spiderwick Chronicles Bk. 5: The Wrath of Mulgarath, Holly Black
6.Harry Potter and Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone- J.K. Rowling
7.Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets-J.K.Rowling
8.Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban-J.K.Rowling
9.Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire-J.K.Rowling
10.Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix-J.K.Rowling
11.Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince-J.K.Rowling
12.Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-Roald Dahl
13.Quidditch Through the Ages-J.K.Rowling
14.Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them-J.K.Rowling
15.Fahrenheit 451-Ray Bradbury

After my Girlfriend was making me eat her dust for dinner every night as she was devouring books left and right, I was forced to pick up the pace a bit, though she's at it again, reading the Harry Potter books quicker than I thought possible!!!

 

[MonkeyCatcher]

1. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
3. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
4. The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory
5. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
6. Cross Stitch - Diana Gabaldon
7. Darkfall - Isobelle Carmody
8. Darksong - Isobelle Carmody
9. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K Rowling
10. Dune - Frank Herbert
11. Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
12. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
13. Fall on Your Knees - Anne-Marie MacDonald
14. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
15. The Gunslinger - Stephen King
16. Blindness - Jose Saramago
17. The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum
18. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
19. Watership Down - Richard Adams
20. The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
21. I am not Esther - Fleur Beale
22. Five Get into Trouble - Enid Blyton
23. The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
24. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
25. Chinese Cinderella - Adeline Yen Mah
26. Nineteen-Eighty Four - George Orwell
27. Animal Farm - George Orwell
28. The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan (currently reading)

That's what I can remember anyways - next year I intend to write down all the books I have read since the start of the new year

 

[Gem]

The crimson petal and the white - Faber
White mughals - william dalrymple
The Covenant - James A Michener
Ignorance - Milan Kundera
The mulberry tree - Jude Deveraux
The Forest - Edward Rutherford
Sister of my heart - CB Divakaruni
The Vine of Desire - CB Divakaruni
The unknown errors of our lives - CB Divakaruni
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Da vinci Code - dan Brown
Angels & Demons - dan brown
Trojan Oddyssey - Clive Cussler
Spells of Enchantment - Jack Zipes
120 days of Sodom - Marquis de sade
The marquis de sade: a life - Neil (?) Schaeffer
The historian - elizabeth kostova
the poisonwood bible - Barbara Kingsolver
The bean trees - Barbara Kingsolver
the sword and the scimitar - David ball
Why the Allies won - R Overy
a painted house - John Grisham
Ghost music - candida clark
Happy Potter 7 the half blood prince - JK whatsername
daughter of the forest - Juliet Marillier
son of shadows - Juliet Marillier
child of the prophecy - Juliet Marillier
The French Lieutenants woman - John Fowles
Griffin & Sabine
Body Rides - Richard Laymon
Endless night - Richard Laymon
Palindrome Hannah - sirmyk

 

[ions]

Let's see if I can do this in chronological order.

Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky 462 pages
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 817 pages
The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King 463 pages
The Wastelands by Stephen King 588 pages
Wizard and Glass by Stephen King 694 pages
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 815 pages
- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- Life, the Universe and Everything
- So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish
- Young Zaphod Plays it Safe
- Mostly Harmless
Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King 709 pages
Hawaii by James Michener 1130 pages
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card 324 pages
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 128 pages
Journey by James A. Michener 240 pages
Beast by Peter Benchley 319 pages
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling 627 pages
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 745 pages
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 115 pages
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 374 pages
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet 983 pages should be finished by this weekend.

Total: 22
Total Pages: 9533
Average Book Length: 433.32

More than I've read in a year before and there's still a few months to go. Still less than I would like to have read though.

Edit: After making this list I felt it was pretty short and like I said, it's less than I wanted to have read, so I checked all the book lengths and I feel a little better. I'm not reading too many short books. And I don't think I touched a book through all of one month in the Spring.

 

[sirmyk]

There are too many to list. I would get bored after about thirty and start abbreviating poorly.

 

[MonkeyCatcher]

Happy Potter 7 the half blood prince - JK whatsername

Gotta love that Happy Potter

 

[sirmyk]

Gotta love that Happy Potter

This made my day.

 

[Prairie_Girl]

not as many as I usually have read by this time last year, probably 30-40.

 

[Jemima Aslana]

Not as many as I would like...

I don't even remember them all, I think, and definitely not in chronological order.

The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society
Paradise Lost - Milton
The Last of the Mohicans - Cooper
The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne
An Outline of English Pronunciation - Hans Davidsen-Nielsen
The Awakening - Chopin
Shamela - Henry Fielding
Joseph Andrews - Henry Fielding
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
The French Lieutenant's Woman - Fowles
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
A Farewell to Arms - Hemingway
The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
History in Practice - Ludmilla Jordanova
Heresy - Anselm Audley
Inquisition - Anselm Audley
Crusade - Anselm Audley
Venom's Taste - Lisa Smedman
Viper's Kiss - Lisa Smedman
Maiden of Pain - Kameron M. Franklin
Azure Bonds - Kate Novak & Jeff Grubb
The Wyvern's Spur - Novak & Grubb
Song of the Saurials - Novak & Grubb
Twilight Falling - Paul S. Kemp
Dawn of Night - Paul S. Kemp
Magician - Raymond E. Feist
Gulliver's Travels - Swift
Robinson Crusoe - Defoe
Dublin: Foundations - Edward Rutherfurd (in progress)
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky (in progress)
Taliesin - Stephen Lawhead (in progress)
The Bible - assorted prophets and writers (in progress)
Kydd - Julian Stockwyn (in progress)

There are probably a few more that I've forgotten but it can't be many as far as I can tell. There are more than I thought there would be on that list... hmmm how delightful

 

[Scottishduffy]

I have absolutely no clue....

Alright, Next year I am keeping a list!

 

[Lemming]

No where near as much as I would like. When I'm at university I really can never find enough time and spend too much time watching TV or chatting with mates.

Over the summer I have been a bit better but still waste too much time. Since I finished my exams in June I have only read about 7 books. They are, in chronological order:

1. Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
2. Fermat's Last Theorem, Simon Singh
3. Magician, Raymond E. Feist
4. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
5. Digital Fortress, Dan Brown
6. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
7. Cricket's Greatest Entertainers, Henry Blofeld

I am currently reading White Teeth by Zadie Smith

 

[cajunmama]

34 recorded in my book, but I did leave out about half a dozen or so about engineering and going back to school.

 

[Rigana]

1. Zafon, Carlos Ruiz – The shadow of the wind
2.Schmitt, Eric Emanuel – Oskar and the Lady in pink
3. Schmitt, Eric Emanuel – L'enfant de Noe
4. Douglass, Sara – Enchanter (only second part, German edition is splitted)
5. Christie, Agatha – Murder on the Orient Express
6. Christie, Agatha – The moving finger
7. Nothomb, Amelié – Hygiene de l'assassin
8. Sobel, Dava – Longitude
9. Christie, Agatha – Murder on the links
10. Calvino, Italo – The invisible cities
11. Gibran, Khalil – The Prophet
12. Nothomb, Amelié – Cosmetique de l'ennemi
13. Büchner, Georg – Woyzeck
14. Calvino, Italo – The castle of crossed destinies
15. Esquivel, Laura – Like Water for chocolate
16. Marái, Sándor – Embers
17. Townsend, Sue – The secret diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13 ¾
18. Williams, Tad – Otherland IV: Sea of silver light

Audio Books:
1. Victor Hugo - Les Miserables (abridged)

So, since April I finished the following:
19. Eddings, David - Pawn of Prophecy
20. Steinbeck, John – Grapes of wrath
21. Nedjma – The Almond
22. Bambaren, Sergio – Die Zeit der Sternschnuppen
23. Brecht, Bertolt – The good person of Szechwan
24. Christie, Agatha – Death on the nile
25. Nothomb, Amelié – The character of rain
26. Allende, Isabel – The city of wild gods
27. Schami, Rafik – Erzähler der Nacht
28. Hamsun, Knut – Mysteries
29. Arturo Pérez-Reverte: The Club Dumas
30. Nothomb, Amelié - The stranger next door
31. Meyer, Kai – Das steinerne Licht
32. Watzlawick, Paul – The Situation Is Hopeless, But Not Serious: The Pursuit of Unhappiness
33. Mercier, Pascal – Nachtzug nach Lissabon
34. Rowling, Joanne K. – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
35. Frisch, Max – Andorra
36. Faulkner, William – As I lay dying
37. Sachar, Louis – Holes
38. Dürrenmatt, Friedrich – The Visit
39.Yoshimoto, Banana – Kitchen
40. Pullman, Philip – The amber spyglass
41. Sartre, Jean Paul - Huis Clos
42. Ibsen, Henrik – Ghosts
43. Frisch, Max - I'm not Stiller
44. Kane, Sarah – Blasted
45. Nothomb, Amélie – Antechrista
46. Dahl, Roald - Charlie and the chocolate factory
I read most of them in German, but used the English titles in the list, if I could find a translation..