With harmony divine.
It’s been a while since I did a book project update. I blame work, mostly. Or myself. Either way, it’s been so long that this post is actually the last one for 2009. On the 14th, I finished reading Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s “The Shadow of the Wind”, which was my 120th book of the year. I also was able to do some math and make it work out that my page average this year was precisely 310 pages per book. Last year I really struggled at the end of the year to hit my more modest goal — this year I’m done 2 weeks early. Next year I’m going to still go for 10 books a month, but I’m going to bump my page average up to 330 per book. We’ll see how it goes. For those who care, here’s my final stats:
1. Isaac Asimov – Asimov’s Guide to the Bible – 1-15-09 (1295pp)
2. Stephen King – On Writing – 1-16-09 (288pp)
3. Isaac Asimov – Earth is Room Enough – 1-18-09 (192pp)
4. Ernest Pintoff – Directing 101 – 1-19-09 (220pp)
5. Isaac Asimov – The Wellsprings of Life – 1-21-09 (224pp)
6. Kurt Vonnegut – God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – 1-23-09 (190pp)
7. Dick Francis – Longshot – 1-24-09 (322pp)
8. Isaac Asimov – View from a Height – 1-27-09 (254pp)
9. MacDonald Harris – The Balloonist – 1-29-09 (280pp)
10. Florence King – With Charity Toward None – 1-31-09 (194pp)
11. Bill Bryson – Shakespeare: The World as Stage – 2-2-09 (199pp)
12. Tom Stoppard – Plays Five – 2-6-09 (593pp)
13. Isaac Asimov – The Neutrino – 2-8-09 (188pp)
14. Dick Francis – Odds Against – 2-10-09 (239pp)
15. Robert A. Heinlein – Citizen of the Galaxy – 2-11-09 (253pp)
16. Sarah Vowell – Take the Cannoli – 2-13-09 (219pp)
17. Isaac Asimov – The Universe – 2-18-09 (315pp)
18. John Tarrant – The Rommel Plot – 2-20-09 (250pp)
19. Henry D. Smith II – Hokusai – One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji – 2-24-09 (224pp)
20. Dave Duncan – The Gilded Chain – 3-2-09 (418pp)
21. Lynne Truss – Eats, Shoots & Leaves – 3-3-09 (209pp)
22. Dave Duncan – Lord of the Fire Lands – 3-6-09 (457pp)
23. Isaac Asimov – Science, Numbers and I – 3-8-09 (226pp)
24. Dave Duncan – Sky of Swords – 3-11-09 (466pp)
25. Virgil – The Aeneid – 3-19-09 (432pp)
26. Isaac Asimov – Asimov on Astronomy – 3-21-09 (271pp)
27. Brian M. Wiprud – Pipsqueak – 3-23-09 (293pp)
28. Isaac Asimov – Building Blocks of the Universe – 3-25-09 (287pp)
29. Charles Dickens – Great Expectations – 4-1-09 (628pp)
30. Stephen Baxter – Moonseed – 4-7-09 (663pp)
31. Stephen King – Duma Key – 4-10-09 (612pp)
32. Isaac Asimov – Asimov’s Mysteries – 4-13-09 (255pp)
33. Charles Burns – Black Hole – 4-14-09 (184pp)
34. Dick Francis – Dead Cert – 4-14-09 (256pp)
35. Isaac Asimov – The Human Brain – 4-18-09 (357pp)
36. Isaac Asimov – Environments Out There – 4-21-09 (96pp)
37. Syd Field – Screenplay – 4-21-09 (262pp)
38. Ken Grimwood – Replay – 4-22-09 (311pp)
39. Isaac Asimov – The Kite that Won the Revolution – 4-23-09 (148pp)
40. Michael Chabon – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – 5-1-09 (639pp)
41. Isaac Asimov – The Death Dealers – 5-4-09 (189pp)
42. Terry Pratchett – A Hat Full of Sky – 5-6-09 (278pp)
43. Isaac Asimov – Words of Science – 5-8-09 (319pp)
44. Tom McCarthy – Tintin and the Secret of Literature – 5-11-09 (211pp)
45. Isaac Asimov – Breakthroughs in Science – 5-12-09 (197pp)
46. Joseph Green – The Horde – 5-13-09 (191pp)
47. Isaac Asimov – Only a Trillion – 5-15-09 (221pp)
48. Benjamin Hoff – The Tao of Pooh – 5-16-09 (158pp)
49. Philip K. Dick – The Unteleported Man – 5-18-09 (202pp)
50. Isaac Asimov – The Martian Way and Other Stories – 5-19-09 (176pp)
51. Dick Francis – Enquiry – 5-20-09 (221pp)
52. Robert Crais – The Monkey’s Raincoat – 5-22-09 (201pp)
53. Isaac Asimov – The New Intelligent Man’s Guide to Science – 5-28-09 (864pp)
54. Melissa Bruder – A Practical Handbook for the Actor – 5-29-09 (94pp)
55. Thomas M. Disch – Fun with Your New Head – 6-1-09 (176pp)
56. Gordon Davis – The Liberation of Paris – 6-2-09 (199pp)
57. David Benioff – City of Thieves – 6-4-09 (258pp)
58. Gordon Davis – Doom River – 6-5-09 (185pp)
59. Isaac Asimov – Realm of Numbers – 6-6-09 (200pp)
60. David Alexander Smith – Future Boston – 6-9-09 (384pp)
61. Carol O’Connell – Judas Child – 6-12-09 (420pp)
62. Richard Brautigan – The Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won’t Blow It All Away – 6-16-09 (531pp)
63. Caleb Carr – The Alienist – 6-20-09 (498pp)
64. Isaac Asimov – Realm of Measure – 6-21-09 (144pp)
65. MacDonald Harris – Herma – 6-30-09 (431pp)
66. Isaac Asimov – Fact and Fancy – 7-2-09 (206pp)
67. Junot Díaz – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – 7-7-09 (340pp)
68. Dick Francis – Rat Race – 7-9-09 (216pp)
69. Nevada Barr – Blind Descent – 7-12-09 (341pp)
70. Isaac Asimov – Words from the Myths – 7-13-09 (143pp)
71. Jorge Luis Borges – The Book of Imaginary Beings – 7-15-09 (236pp)
72. Agatha Christie – And Then There Were None – 7-16-09 (264pp)
73. Barack Obama – The Audacity of Hope – 7-21-09 (448pp)
74. H. P. Lovecraft – Tales – 8-2-09 (838pp)
75. Kristen Heitzmann – Freefall – 8-7-09 (462pp)
76. Isaac Asimov – Life and Energy – 8-13-09 (378pp)
77. Isaac Asimov – The Kingdom of the Sun – 8-16-09 (157pp)
78. Ariana Franklin – The Serpent’s Tale – 8-16-09 (387pp)
79. Josephine Tey – The Daughter of Time – 8-18-09 (206pp)
80. Isaac Asimov – The Collapsing Universe – 8-19-09 (204pp)
81. Junji Ito – Museum of Terror Vol. 1 – 8-20-09 (375pp)
82. Junji Ito – Museum of Terror Vol. 2 – 8-21-09 (376pp)
83. Isaac Asimov – The Search for the Elements – 8-21-09 (144pp)
84. Paul J. Salamoff – On the Set – 8-23-09 (240pp)
85. F. Scott Fitzgerald – This Side of Paradise – 8-26-09 (255pp)
86. Junji Ito – Museum of Terror Vol. 3 – 8-27-09 (391pp)
87. Caleb Carr – Killing Time – 8-29-09 (335pp)
88. Isaac Asimov – The Chemicals of Life – 8-31-09 (140pp)
89. Audrey Niffenegger – The Time Traveler’s Wife – 9-3-09 (546pp)
90. Terry Pratchett – The Discworld Companion – 9-9-09 (477pp)
91. Joan Hess – Malice in Maggody – 9-20-09 (236pp)
92. Joseph Heller – Catch-22 – 10-1-09 (443pp)
93. Mark Haddon – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – 10-3-09 (226pp)
94. Dick Francis – Trial Run – 10-7-09 (290pp)
95. Kate Atkinson – Case Histories – 10-14-09 (373pp)
96. Isaac Asimov – Asimov’s Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology – 10-16-09 (941pp)
97. Zack Parsons – My Tank is Fight! – 10-17-09 (244pp)
98. Tana French – The Likeness – 10-21-09 (466pp)
99. Isaac Asimov – Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales – 10-22-09 (287pp)
100. Walter Jon Williams – House of Shards – 10-24-09 (309pp)
101. Isaac Asimov – The Caves of Steel – 10-25-09 (270pp)
102. Euripides – Bacchae – 10-26-09 (75pp)
103. Isaac Asimov – From Earth to Heaven – 10-28-09 (253pp)
104. Dick Francis – For Kicks – 10-29-09 (328pp)
105. Isaac Asimov – Words from the Exodus – 10-30-09 (203pp)
106. Julian May – The Surveillance – 11-3-09 (347pp)
107. Isaac Asimov – Words in Genesis – 11-4-09 (233pp)
108. Julian May – The Metaconcert – 11-6-09 (282pp)
109. Isaac Asimov – Realm of Algebra – 11-7-09 (143pp)
110. Eliot Pattison – The Skull Mantra – 11-11-09 (403pp)
111. Isaac Asimov – Twentieth Century Discovery – 11-13-09 (159pp)
112. Vladimir Nabokov – The Defense – 11-20-09 (256pp)
113. Isaac Asimov – Photosynthesis – 11-21-09 (193pp)
114. Bruno Maddox – My Little Blue Dress – 11-24-09 (297pp)
115. Dick Francis – Forfeit – 11-28-09 (222pp)
116. Jim Thompson – The Grifters – 11-30-09 (187pp)
117. Anthony Burgess – A Clockwork Orange – 12-3-09 (192pp)
118. Henry Rollins – Eye Scream – 12-4-09 (219pp)
119. Karen Elizabeth Gordon – The Deluxe Transitive Vampire – 12-7-09 (175pp)
120. Carlos Ruiz Zafón – The Shadow of the Wind – 12-14-09 (486pp)
Totals:
Books: 120
Pages: 37200
Avg. Pages per Book: 310.00