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

I keep a note of them too, just month by month title and author. 2008 averaged at about 5 per month with Aug and Sept being low because of new baby! My reading notebook was "tidied" away before a party we had before Christmas so now I have to keep my read books in a pile by the bed until I find the notebook!

Oh. Have just realised could write down titles somewhere else and reshelve books...

Anyway that's only about 60 books, I used to read more than that. I don't count e.g. Granta, etc, in my listings though, nor children's books, nor "bath reads" which is when you have an old thing to reread and don't care if it gets wet and can afford the time to keep topping up with hot till you've finished.

I've kept a list which I put on the thread superbunny linked to.

Only 22 for me

Aiming to double that this year.

62 and i have a list!

Just over 100. Psychobabble, also slogged through The Golden Notebook. DH tried to remind me about the "throwing good money after bad" when I got to about 250 pages and was moaning about still not really enjoying but I just couldn't listen, could I.

V impressed at 300, Quattrocento. Where do you find the time??

OMG - I am so impressed with you lot!!! I need to seriously up my game, only read about 12 books last year.

I am starting a list today.

At least 50. I would say more though.

About 30 - 40, I guess - two book groups and a few more for fun.

and at Jux - that's approaching a book a day!

About 35 and my DH considers this a lot, he reads about 3!

Lots of lists on this thread

About 30. Which was better than expected and about 30 more than I read the previous year

I have soooo enjoyed reading and hope I can manage another 30 this year.

For those of who read a lot, how do you find the time? When do you read?

Oh now I think I will start a list too ,I have no idea how many I read,but I generally have one on the go.This year I loved the night watch-Sarah Waters,and I am now readi ng a year at Walnut tree farm-roger Deakin,lovely.I think he sounds as though he was the perfect man (if you can get over the patchwork trousers).

gosh, now i'm thinking of getting a book to start a list!!

another one who goes to the library regualrly and gets about 4 or 5 books at a time. i read 'comfort' books ridiculously fast, and have one 'good' book going at the same time, which i read when i have the energy & peace to focus.

i think i was about 10 the first time i read a book striaght through, and stayed up until 5 to finish it. i just can't help myself.

i read dd about 3 or 4 books every day as well, do they count?

I love to read psychohohohoho. It's my wind-down time. My dd goes to bed at 8 and I turn on the fire, snuggle down under a blanket on the sofa and read for 3 for 4 hours...and during her naps in the day and even while she plays on the floor in front of me. hehehe

Saying that, I've been on MN for almost 3 hours tonight so I have missed my reading time. Guess 2009 will only be 199 eh?

I have piles of read books against one wall of my room. There are 6 piles of about the same height; the one I counted had 15 books in it. I can't be bothered to work it out. They're what I've read in the last 4 months.

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(Yes, I have A LIST)

I too loathed the Gathering - wtf is going on with the Booker nowadays - how did that book even get on the longlist?

If we're going to include pre-school books then I shall have to add that I've read a Squash and A Squeeze at least 600 times in the last year.

Over and over again, I could probably recite it backwards and I am hoping 2009 will bring some variety to DS's choice of bedtime reading.

Do Richard & Judy selections count?

I read at least 100 but they were all (pre-school) kid's books

that doesn't count does it....

C&P'd from another thread. July/Aug are a bit fallow! BG = book group read

January
Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (BG)
Stalingrad - Antony Beevor
Digging to America - Anne Tyler

Feb
The Electric Michelangelo - Sarah Hall
Astonishing Splashes of Colour - Clare Morrall
Aberdeen Curiosities - Robert Smith
News From No Mans's Land - John Simpson
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
In Siberia - Colin Thubron

March
The Thirty Nine Steps - John Buchan
India, a History - John Keay

April
Two Lives - Vikram Seth
The Reading Group - Elizabeth Noble (BG)
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
Blood River - Tim Butcher
The Reader - Bernard Schlink

May
Drowning Ruth - Christine Schwarz
The Family Orchard - Nomi Eve
Notes From An Exhibition - Patrick Gale
Growing up in the Gorbals - Ralph Glasser
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
Call The Midwife - Jennifer Worth
The Road to Nab End - William Woodruff
The Surgeon of Crowthrone - Simon Winchester

June
The Soldier's Return - Melvyn Bragg
An Introduction To Judaism - Nicholas de Lange
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini (BG)
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

July Aug Sept
A Son of War - Melvyn Bragg
Empire - Niall Ferguson
The Tenderness of Wolves - Stef Penney (BG)
Shadows of the Workhouse - Jennifer Worth

Oct
I, Coriander - Sally Gardner (children's book)
Leonard Woolf, a life - Victoria Glendinning
The Outcast - Sadie Jones
The Memory Stones - Kate O'Riordan
The Map That Changed the World - Simon Winchester

Nov
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe (BG)
The Gathering - Anne Enright (not sure if I should include this as I hate dit so much I didn't even finish it)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genuis - Dave Eggars (meh)
The English - Jeremy Paxman
The Island - Victoria Hislop
The Bookseller of Kabul - Asne Seierstad

Dec
The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom

I'm currently (not) reading William Hague's biog of William Wilberforce and in fact, during July/Aug I did read a book - about an outbreak of cholera in London.

psychohohohoho I obviously didn't do the math before I replied. Now I sounds like a lunatic shut-in with no life, don't I??!! LOL

I read a lot too. I either get my books from the libary or charity shops. There is no point me buying from new, as I read them too quick.
Last year, I read 305 books, in my defence dh works permenant nights, and my kids are all in bed by 9.

I read Daddy Long legs as a teenager - I wonder where all those books went! I'm thinking of doing a re-read of all the Noel Streatfeild, Joan Aiken et al books I enjoyed so much between about 9-13, it was such a happy time.

I read every night and on the train every day... and I live with an English academic so we have a lot of books around! I particularly enjoyed this year - Goodbye to Berlin. Mein Jahrhundert, The end of the Affair and Neverwhere. Didn't like Raven's Gate or Atonement (the latter I thought I liked while I was reading it but then the end was dreadful, IMO).