In April We Read...

[steffee]

In April, 24 bookandreader members read 138 books, 133 of them unique titles by 108 authors.

Popular books were:

• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) by J.K. Rowling
• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
• The Van by Roddy Doyle

Popular authors were:
Douglas Adams, Margaret Atwood, Allison Brennan, Angela Carter, Harlen Coben, Clive Cussler, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Roddy Doyle, William Faulker, Ken Follett, Carl Hiaasen, Kazuo Ishiguro, Dave Pelzer, Terry Pratchett, Philip Roth, Alexander McCall Smith, Alice Walker

Most comical book title award goes to curiouswonder for Quit Digging Your Grave with a knife and Fork by Mike Huckabee.

Average date of publish was 1998, with only three titles published before 1980!

Language breakdown:
69 English
3 Russian
2 German
2 Spanish
1 Finnish
1 Italian
1 Japanese
1 Norwegian
1 Undetermined
...which doesn't seem to add up to 138. Hmmm. But anyway...

See the author cloud.

 

[Stewart]

In April, 24 bookandreader members read 138 books, 133 of them unique titles by 108 authors.

Nice try, but in April there was no such thing as a bookandreader member.

 

[DiscoDan]

thanks for the post, i absolutely love these threads!

 

[abecedarian]

thanks for the post, i absolutely love these threads!

Me too! Its fascinating to see how well read we all are. Keep up the good work Steffee (even if you DID momentarily forget who we were last month )

 

[MonkeyCatcher]

Thanks again steffee - I find it so interesting to see the breakdown of what we have been reading.

 

[steffee]

Thanks everyone.

 

[tartan_skirt]

Thanks for putting this all together.

 

[theoptimist]

What they ^ said Good work!