Books

I keep a book journal and here are my statistics for 2010:

Books read: 152

Pages read: 46,899

Of the books read:

* Non-fiction: 3
* New-to-me novelists: 37
* Continuing series: 25
* Re-reads:    19
* Audio-books: 28
* Challenges completed: 5 of 5
* Ongoing tally of Newbery winners: 50 of 89

2009:
73 books; 23,576 pages; 3 non-fiction; 31 new-to-me novelists; 36 continuing series; 5 re-reads; 48 of 88  Newbery

2008:
79 books; 32,031 pages; 8 non-fiction; 15 new-to-me novelists; 31 continuing series; 19 re-reads; 42 of 87  Newbery

2007:
44 books; 17,069 pages; 3 non-fiction; 8 new-to-me novelists; 15 continuing series; 13 re-reads; 38 of 86 Newbery

Instead of joining online reading challenges in 2011, my book club girls decided to something different this year, inspired by a blog idea discovered by alisonwonderland. We’re doing our own list swap reading challenge!  The idea is for each of us to generate a book list of five books for each member of the club that we think that person would enjoy reading.  That means each of us will have 30 books recommended to us by people who know what we like to read.  It was actually very fun to come up with the lists for other gals as I looked through their goodreads lists and thought about books I had read that they might enjoy.  It was also interesting to see the book lists they came up with for me.  Quite an eclectic list I’m excited to start on next year, and all but six are in my personal library or my local library.  The entire swap list is on our book club blog but here’s my list:

For Sue from Alison

• Small Change: The Secret Life of Penny Burford, by J. Belinda Yandell
• Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis
• The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova
• Beauty, by Robin McKinley
• The Tale of Despereaux, by Kate DiCamillo

For Sue from Karen

• Faro’s Daughter, by Georgette Heyer
• Charles & Emma: The Darwin’s Leap of Faith, by Deborah Heiligman
• Charms for the Easy Life, by Kaye Gibbons
• Manhunt: The 12 Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer, by James L. Swanson
• The Help, by Kathryn Stockett

For Sue from Holly

• The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield
• The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant
• Persuasion, by Jane Austen
• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, by Robert O’Brien
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach

For Sue from Leslie

• David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
• The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, by Terry Ryan
• The Magic of Ordinary Days, by Ann Howard Creel
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, by Alan Bradley
• East, by Edith Pattou

For Sue from Natalie

• Each Little Bird that Sings, by Deborah Wiles
• The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Magic of Ordinary Days, by Ann Howard Creel
• Emma, by Jane Austen
• Founding Brothers, by Joseph Ellis

For Sue from Linda

• A Walk in the Woods – Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, by Bill Bryson
• Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card
• The Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt
• Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes
• The Blessing Way, by Tony Hillerman

The Fall into Reading Challenge has ended and I changed and added to my list a little bit.  I had planned to read 14, deleted 4 and added17.  I posted my original list on the sign-up post and here’s what I ended the season with:

• Shanghai Girls, by Lisa See
• The Serpent’s Children, by Laurence Yep
• Mountain Light, by Laurence Yep
• The Cross-Country Quilters, by Jennifer Chiaverini
• Summer on Blossom Street, by Debbie Macomber
• Red River, by Lalita Tademy
• Love Comes Softly, by Janette Oke
• Prayers for Sale, by Sandra Dallas
• Buster Midnight’s Cafe, by Sandra Dallas
• The Hourglass Door, by Lisa Mangum
• Love Comes Softly, by Janette Oke
• Love’s Enduring Promise, by Janette Oke
• Love’s Long Journey, by Janette Oke
• Love’s Abiding Joy, by Janette Oke
• Love’s Unending Legacy, by Janette Oke
• Love’s Unfolding Dream, by Janette Oke
• Love Takes Wing, by Janette Oke
• Incarceron, by Catherine Fisher
• Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone, by J.K. Rowling
• Peter and the Starcatchers, by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson
• Kingdom Keepers III: Disney in Shadow, by Ridley Pearson
• Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince, by J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets, by J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban, by J.K. Rowling
• North and South, by Elizabeth Gaskell
• The Heroes of Olympus Book 1: The Lost Hero, by Rick Riordan
• Skipping Christmas, by John Grisham

The Hogwarts Reading Challenge started March 8 2010 and finished up today.  I have been updating my original post with each month’s books for Gryffindor House and it’s added up to a lot of reading this year.

I’ll be posting my total 2010 reading stats at the end of the month.

It’s time for the Fall into Reading Challenge, although I’m a few days late getting started.  October is National Book Month, so I’m starting in celebration of that.  The rules: make a list, write a post, and read from September 22 to December 20.  Here’s the list from my TBR pile, in no apparent order:

• Shanghai Girls, by Lisa See
• The Serpent’s Children, by Laurence Yep
• Mountain Light, by Laurence Yep
• The Cross-Country Quilters, by Jennifer Chiaverini
• Summer on Blossom Street, by Debbie Macomber
• The Street of a Thousand Blossoms, by Gail Tsukiyama
• Red River, by Lalita Tademy
• Love Comes Softly, by Janette Oke
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, byAlan Bradley
• Prayers for Sale, by Sandra Dallas
• Buster Midnight’s Cafe, by Sandra Dallas
• Mississippi Trial, 1955, by Chris Crowe
• The Hourglass Door, by Lisa Mangum
• The Golden Spiral, by Lisa Mangum