Authors: 102 Books read: 120 (See full list here) Pages read: 31777 Avg pages per book: 265
Female – 46(45% in terms of authors, 49% in terms of books read)
Male – 56 (55% in terms of authors, 51% in terms of books read)
American – 41 (40% in terms of authors, 38% in terms of books read)
Non-American -61 (60% in terms of authors, 62% in terms of books read) (I’m very happy with this!)
New-to-me – 90 (88%)
Authors with multiple books JK Rowling 7 LM Montgomery 3 Margaret Atwood 3 Toni Morrison 3 Roald Dahl 2 Sandor Marai 2 Imre Kertesz 2 Orson Scott Card 2 Marjane Satrapi 2 Art Spiegelman 2
I’m really happy with my results for literature in translation. Eleven languages were represented by 24 books. Here is the breakdown by original language:
Japanese (5)
French (4)
Hungarian (4)
Icelandic (2)
Norwegian (2)
Russian (2)
German (1)
Chinese (1)
Italian (1)
Swedish (1)
Spanish (1)
The list below is by author nationality. If a book is set in a different country, it is noted. Also, some of the authors have moved from their original country, and if known, that is also indicated. Twenty-one countries were represented by 75 different books. I didn’t count the US authors at the bottom of the list in the totals, but I did note the settings of those books just for general interest.
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
Pages read: 27,290, which averages to 2274 per month or 75 pages per day and 270 pages per book
I learned during the readathon that I average about 1 page per minute, so this translates to 38 hours per month reading, or 75 minutes per day. Hours for the year: 455.
Authors: 88
Female – 41 for 47%
Male – 47 for 53%
American – 48 for 55%
Non-American – 40 for 45%
Female Americans – 23 for 26%
Female Non-Americans – 18 for 21%
Male Americans – 25 for 28%
Male Non-Americans – 22 for 25%
New-to-me – 79 for 90% wow!
Authors with multiple books Lois Lowry 5 Alexander McCall Smith 2 Kate DiCamillo 2 Scott O’Dell 2 Ray Bradbury 2 George MacDonald 2 Margaret Atwood 2 Neil Gaiman 2 Geraldine Brooks 2
But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life. (Jude 1:20-21, ESV)
