so, does anyone remember that thread from last year....'how many books do you read in a year?'.....well........how many did you??

Is that academic stuff Boffinmum? Or do you work in publishing or journalism?

About 400 but I am paid to do it!

About 100.
I go to the library once a fortnight and take out 5 or 6 but usually read 1 or 2 of them. Also take suitcase full of books on holiday and read one a day. Trashy novels, nothing improving.
I love the idea of a list....I make lists for everything else but never thought of books. Will start it now.
Afew years ago the BBC did a top 100 books of all time poll. I had read about 75 of them and set myself target of reading the rest. This made me read stuff I never would otherwise have chosen as I'm very lazy and stick to tried and tested genres.I really enjoyed that.

Bink, the thing is, it might be a bit embarrassing as I read a lot of teenage fiction, to help with recommendations to ds1 and my reading clubs!

This Christmas I have read:
Cornelia Funke: Inkheart
Daniel Everett: Don't sleep there are snakes
John Wyndham: Chocky
Bernard Cornwell: Azincourt
Shakespeare (!): Henry V
Wm Paul Young: The Shack
Jenni Murray: Is it me, or is it hot in here (menopause book )
(+ possibly some others I've not remembered off the top of my head)

am currently ploughing through:
Barry Hymer: Gifts, Talents and Education: A Living Theory Approach

Found my list:

January

The Story of You Julie Myerson
The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid
The Uncommon Reader Alan Bennett
In the Woods Tana French

February

The Giles Wareing Haters' Club Tim Dowling
Digging to America Anne Tyler

March

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Jean-Paul Belby
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler
Whatever it Takes - Elaine Lordan
Love and Other Impossible Pursuits Ayelet Harrison

April

The House of Lost Souls R J Cottam
Fall on Your Knees - Anne-Marie MacDonald

May

Notes on an Exhibition Patrick Gale
Drinking: a love Story Caroline Knapp
13th Tale - Diane Setterfield

June

The Rain before it Falls - Jonathan Coe
This Book will Save your Life - A M Homes
The Outcast Sadie Jones
Helpless - Barbara Gowdy

July

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee - rebecca miller
The Ghost - Robert Harris
Reading in Bed - Sue Gee
The Millstone - Margaret Drabble
Secret - Philippe Grimbert
So many books so little time - sara nelson

August

Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith
The Northern Clemency - Philip Hensher
Fly in the Ointment - Anne Fine
A Little Stranger - Kate Pullinger

September

Run - Ann Patchett
Girls of Tender Age - Mary Tirone Smith
THe CLothes on their Backs - Linda Grant
Before I Die - Jenny Downham

October

The Birthday Present - Barbara Vine
In the Shadow of Man - Jane Goodall
The Brain that Heals Itself - Norman Doidge
Memory Box - Margaret Forster

November

Twilight - Stephanie Meyer
The Point of Rescue - Sophie Hannah
All We Ever Wanted was Everything - Janelle Brown
Natural History - Neil Cross

December

Something Might Happen - Julie Myerson
The Man who mistook his wife for a Hat - Oliver Sachs
The Celeb Diaries - Mark Frith
Gold -Dan Rhodes
Madeleine's World -Brian Hall
Separate Lives: Why Siblings are So Different - Judy Dunn

Got 'The Polish Officer' for christmas Total,and have had a couple from the library.
Am on lookout at library for the latest one,set in Warsaw.

Oh do, roisin - I'd find it interesting to see what you're reading, book by book - just pop it on here & it won't seem like listing. Gwan. [that's a Father Ted reference by the way, not very well transliterated]

PS - have ds's read Tunnels, and Deeper? Ds is loving them, & ever so proud of no pictures and such tiny print.

Have you read the Alan Furst books, they are very well written and there are tons of em.

before having ds (and finding mn and facebook!!)i would say i read maybe 1 or 2 a week but now, sadly, im down to 2 a month max. i keep willing myself to read more and surf less but it doesnt seem to happen..and my attention span is low too now, think i must have caught that off 16mth old ds!!!
im a big fan of whodunnits, thats mostly all i read. mark billingham has written some cracking books since breaking onto the scene!
i started keeping a note of books i read about 4 years ago, very handy when you read so many and have a terrible memory like mine!!!
my new years resolution is to read more again this year..fingers crossed for me!!!

I read a lot, but hate the idea of counting or making a list
I probably read about 2 or 3 books most weeks: more on holiday and fewer when I'm very busy, very stressed, or plodding on with a book I'm finding tedious!

Don't sleep there are snakes most fascinating book this year.

You are right Total!
Thank God I am not alone in this obsession!
John Lawton has written some similar stuff,but it is quite hard to get hold of.
Am constantly on the look out for this sort of fiction,and have loads,as I have listed on the thread about War fiction.
I blame all my grandparents' stories of the blitz etc whilst growing up in the 70's/80's
Oh,just remembered Barbara Nadel writes a series set in the Blitz also!

oops I think it was you I had that conversation with on here many months ago . I do that too with the amazon links! Another thing I like about the David Dowling ones is the unheroic hero - that he's really quite an ordinary chap, not a black belt sex god type.

Yes,have read them Total!
I go on Amazon and follow links to 'you would also like' etc etc.Costs me a bloody fortune!
Hope he writes more of the same.
I can recommend the David Dowling ones also,for cracking atmosphere of Berlin on the eve of war.

Silent - apologies if we've had this convo before, but do you know that there are 2 cracking recent sequels to the Berlin Noir trilogy - The One from The Other and A Quiet Flame. I've read Silesian Station and The Private Patient too this year.

I also read all the time.
I average 3 a week I would say,depends on how good it is as to how quick I read it!
Some highlights of my 2008 readindg were
House of Lost Souls and Dark Echo,both by F.G.Cottam
The Private Patient,PD James
Strachan's War,The Lover by Laura Wilson
Berlin Noir Trilogy,Philip Kerr
Silesian Station and Zoo Station,David Downing
I liked the Forgotten Garden or whatever it was called by Kate Morton,mainly because of Cornish Setting
The Palace of Strange Girls
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaeffer
Have five books from Christmas to read,and been to library today and got 12 so will be busy for a while

Like a lot of people on here I read all the time as and when I have a spare moment. Averaged about 10 books a month last year, not including re-reading of all my childhood books discovered in the attic - Silver Brumbies anyone? I used to be able to read so much more pre DD when I had spare time and a hour commute - bliss in retrospect as far as reading is concerned!

Must make more of an effort to read interesting books this year, when I can't tell how they are going to end by the time I've finished the first chapter.

BTW

God is an Englishman and Confessions of a failed southern lady were both book club reads.

I was on the thread last year and said I would keep a list and would read 50 books. I managed 46 - would have been quite a few more but got pregnant and lost my concetration coupled with DH being quite seriously ill in hospital for most of Sept. Here's my list (with marks out of 10, BC means bookclub book) :

Jan
Can Any Mother help me ? - Jenna Bailey 8
Gates of Fire - Stephen Pressifeld 5 BC
Ballet Shoes - Noel Streatfield 8
On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan 7

Feb
The Mitford Girls - Mary S Lovell 9
Playing with the moon - Eliza Graham 8

March
The Good husband of Zebra Drive - Alexander McCall Smith 6
The Virgins Lover - Phillipa Gregory 8
Daughter of Fortune - Isabel Allende 7 BC

April
Pillow Talk - Freya North 6
31 Dream St - Lisa Jewell 6
The Devil and Miss Prym - Paulo Coelho 6.5 BC
Georgiana - Amanda Foreman 6

May
Peter Pan - JM Barrie 7.5
Peter Pan In Scarlet - Geraldine McCaughrean 8 BC
The Girls - Lori Lansen 7.5
Swallowing Grandma - Kate Long 6
Portrait In Sepia - Isabel Allende 8
Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones 8
The Sunday Philosophy Club - Alexander McCall Smith 7

June
Engleby - Sebastian Faulks 7.5
The Rain Before It Falls - Jonathan Coe 9
Michael Tolliver Lives - Armistead Maupin 7.5
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winifred Watson 7.5
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 8.5
The Piano Tuner - Daniel Mason 6 BC

July
A Piano in the Pyranees - Tony Hawks 6
Second Chance - Jane Green 6
The Gathering - Anne Enright 5
Valley of the Dolls - Jacqueline Susann 7 BC
A thousand splendid suns - Khaled Hosseini 7
PS I love you - Celia Ahern 6
The Memory Keepers Daughter - 7.5

Aug
Labyrinth - Kate Mosse 7
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee - Rebecca Miller 6

Sept
Perfect Match - Jodi Picoult 6
Friends Lovers and Chocolate - Alexander McCall Smith 7
All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy 5 BC

Oct
The Right Attitude to Rain - Alexander McCall Smith 8
Digging to America - Anne Tyler 7 BC
The Careful use of Compliments - Alexander McCall Smith 7

Nov
Case Histories - Kate Atkinson 7
Thanks for the Memories - Celia Ahern 6

Dec
God is an Englishman -RF Delderfield 8
Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady - Florence King 6.5
Do you remember me ? Sophie Kinsella 7

BTW - the out of 10 scoring is done as we do at our bookclub so a score out of 5 for readability and a score out of 5 for content. Hence why some trash may score more highly than it should because it is, at least, very readable (if shite).

Am going to continue keeping a list this year but suspect my number of books will go down as am due with baby in March and I hardly read for ages after dd. Although I intend keeping up with book club at hte very least so that will be 12 ! Will try and aim for 25.

Great idea to keep a list. However I find I read a lot less since I discovered MN!

I go through stages but generally read around 2/3 a week. Gave up on a few this year though. Ploughed on with The Gathering as my Mum is from the area the book was set in. It was crap though!

I think I would like to join in this too.

This year is easy, I'm still not much more than half-way through Richard Ford's Independence Day, and it'll take me some weeks to finish - not skim reading material. Then I have The Sportswriter waiting, and a Wilkie Collins about a haunted hotel in Venice (present from clever dh). (Who also gave me this insanely funny book, first discovered via this here very forum)

I'm also redoing Shakespeare's Sonnets (that counts as a whole book, doesn't it, once I've done them all?).

I think I've read between 40 and 60 this year but I didn' t keep a list I can remeber some but I wish I could remember all of them so inspired by this thread I will be keeping a list this year.

I have finished my first book of the year, hooray! Granted, it was only a children's book but I'm excited to have my first one listed [nerd]

I am also reading Atonement and Jane Eyre.

Almost 1 a week on average, I think. So 40-50. Will aim for the same, but a bit more proper literature!!

48!

Another anal person with a list here.

Not counting ones I gave up on - I've probably given another 48 50 pages or so.