What a great reading year, and I have my fellow book bloggers to thank for it. Without all the reading groups, challenges, and bookchat, I definitely would not have done this well. Thank you, friends!
More stats now about the books I read in 2007.
Ratings:
- 5.0, 6 titles
- 4.5, 30 titles
- 4.0, 37 titles
- 3.5, 19 titles
- 3.0, 5 titles
- 2.5 and below, 4 titles
What I sort of like about these stats is that it approximates a bell curve. I actually did change a few of my ratings on my books. Most of them were from 4 to 3.5. When this occurred, I crossed out the old rating and wrote the new rating beside it. I’m much happier with the new ratings now. This coming year I’m going to attempt to rank them in order of enjoyment as I go, which will make rating the books so much easier.
Award winners:
- Pulitzer – 12
- Booker Prize – 5
- Newbery – 9
- Nobel laureates – 2
When published:
- 2007, 3 titles
- 1990-2006, 58 titles
- 1900-1989, 29 titles
- 1800-1899, 8 titles
- pre-1800, 3 titles
- Newest book: The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
- Oldest book: The Birds by Aristophanes
Length of books:
- 750 pages and up, 1 title
- 600-749 pages, 0 titles
- 450-599 pages, 11 titles
- 300-449 pages, 22 titles
- 140-299 pages, 49 titles
- 0-149 pages, 18 titles
- Longest book: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (782 pp)
- Shortest book: The Birds by Aristophanes (48 pp)
- Average book length: 270 pages
Letter with both the most book titles and authors:
“S” with 11 titles and 12 authors
Challenges completed: 27; did not complete 2
Listed in reverse order of completion.
A-Z Titles–26 of 26 COMPLETE
Reading Across Borders Challenge COMPLETE
NYT Notable Book Challenge–10 of 10 COMPLETE
A-Z Authors–26 of 26 COMPLETE
Saturday Review of Books Challenge–6 of 6 COMPLETE
By the Decade Challenge–18 of 18 COMPLETE
Christmas Challenge–3 of 3 COMPLETE
12 Pulitzers in 2007–12 of 12 COMPLETE
Fall into Reading Challenge –1 of 3 DNF
2nds Challenge–3 of 3 COMPLETE
Book to Movie Challenge–5 of 5 COMPLETE
Fall Classics Challenge–4 of 4 COMPLETE
Children’s Book Week Challenge–3 of 4 DNF
Dystopian Challenge–5 of 5 COMPLETE
R.I.P. II Challenge–4 of 4 COMPLETE
Something About Me Challenge–5 of 5 COMPLETE
Unread Authors Challenge–24 of 24 COMPLETE
Armchair Traveler Challenge–10 of 10 COMPLETE
Non-Fiction Five Challenge–5 of 5 COMPLETE
Southern Reading Challenge–3 of 3 COMPLETE
Summer Reading Challenge–4 of 4 COMPLETE
Newbery Challenge–6 of 6 COMPLETE
Banned Book Challenge–7 of 7 COMPLETE
Spring Reading Thing–5 of 5 COMPLETE
Once Upon a Time–5 of 5 COMPLETE
TBR Challenge–12 of 12 COMPLETE
Chunkster Challenge–10 of 10 COMPLETE
Winter Classics–5 of 5 COMPLETE
From the Stacks–5 of 5 COMPLETE
That is a lot of challenges! Congrats on that! You are good at the following list thing, that’s for sure.
You are so organized! How do you do that?
Happy New Year!
Ranking books is a good idea! It’s difficult for me to compare books across genres though.
I’m impressed with all the challenges you did, and how many numbers you kept track of. These were fun to read!
Oh, I LOVE the bell curve. It is so, curvy and nearly always applies.
WOW! That is impressive. I’ve gotten a lot of ideas from your blog, so thanks! Here’s to a year of good reading.
Very cool summary. And, on another note, I will *not* be able to host the Chunkster Challenge, this year, due to my mother’s illness. If anyone in your group would like to step in and host the Chunkster for 2008, that’s fine by me. I hope to host in 2009, but this year’s just not possible. I’m barely even able to touch a book or a computer, right now.
All I can say is… Wow!
Thanks everyone! I’m pleased with 2007 that’s for sure.
Bookfool, I’m sorry about your mom. I hope you get to host again in ’09.