2012 reading list, a year end summary

Posted on 02Jan13 by jessamyn

I’ve waited til the new year to write this list up. I’ve spent the first few days of the new year finishing up a few books that were lingering on the nightstand. Here’s the complete list, you’ll notice that I only finished some of the books in this photo which was my “to read” pile on 1/1/12.

Here are previous year end lists: 2011, 2010, 2009, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004. My booklist lives over on jessamyn.info/booklist and it has its own RSS feed.

number of books read in 2012: 53
2011: 56
2010: 48
2009: 39
2008: 31
2007: 53
2006: 60
2005: 86
2004: 103
2003: 75
2002: 91
2001: 78

average read per month: 4.42
average read per week: 1.02
number read in worst month: 1 (Feb/Dec)
number read in best month: 11 (July)
percentage by male authors: 75
percentage by female authors: 19
fiction as percentage of total: 51
non-fiction as percentage of total: 49
percentage of total liked: 94
percentage of total ambivalent: 4
percentage of total disliked: 2

My reading is really getting to be consistent. I read about a book a week, split between fiction and non-fiction. I like most of the books that I read. I read a lot in July and not so much in December or February. Still no ebook reader, though I’ve been using my iPad more to watch Downton Abbey while I am on the treadmill. One book took me the better part of a month to get through (Quammen’s book about the Dodo and other extinctions) but it was well worth it. I read all the Hunger Games books in a little over a week and while I think that having read them is good for me as a librarian, I felt pretty “meh” about all but the first one, which surprised me.

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3 Responses to "2012 reading list, a year end summary"

  • By teagueamania 02Jan13 - 7:33

    I’d ask about the six percent of authors who were neither female nor male, but I’d look like a smart-ass nit picker, and that’s no way to start a new year.

    You do beat my yearly total fourfold, and felt most of them worth your while. That’s admirable.

  • By jessamyn 02Jan13 - 8:25

    @teagueamania there were a few compilations that had male and female authors, so I just listed them in the spreadsheet as X and skipped them.

  • By ProfessorTom 06Feb13 - 9:15

    Jessamyn,

    Because of this post, I’ve decided to start a reading blog. Unfortunately, I’m starting a month later than I had originally envisioned, wanting to have as fantastic statistics as you have here. Alas, I completed no book in the month of January.

    Thanks for the inspiration!