31 December 2017 - 102 books in 2017
It was a year for traveling to Europe (twice) and Canada (twice), and despite the current administration, I returned each time. Along the way I read a lot of books, as usual - my total was 102 this year, and I wrote a review for each. According to goodreads, I read 30,844 pages in 2017. This is just over 300 pages per book, or 84 pages per day. I finished all or part of 34 books on the tablet, spending 102 hours to do so. More than half of the rest came from the local library.
The oldest book I read this year was a relatively new translation of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (1869). The most recently published book read this year was Artemis by Andy Weir (November 2017). All tolled, I read 14 books published in 2017. Irksome aside - goodreads ran a popular vote again this year. How can I vote for any category of books published in 2017 unless I've read them all? To me this seems worse than the Hugo awards.
Of those 102 books, 69 were fiction (including series and anthologies) and 33 were non fiction books. According to the Dewey Decimal system, my non-fiction reading was from:
- 200 Religion (1 book)
- 300 Social Studies (4 books)
- 500 Science and Mathematics (6 books)
- 600 Technology (6 books)
- 700 Arts and Recreation (5 books, all from 79x - Performing Arts)
- 900 History / Geography (7 books)
- Biography and Memoir (3 books).
I took up 7 reading challenges on Worlds Without End (a scifi/fantasy/horror book list and review site), and finished 6 of them, falling just 2 books short of reading 20 science fiction and fantasy from a list of "Definitive SF/F books of the 1960s."
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