Monday, January 2, 2012

2011 stats and list

Number of books: 174
Number of pages: 54,585
Mean pages/book: 313.71
Audiobooks: 72
Books of the World challenge: 17
(Eritrea, Swaziland, Liechtenstein, Gambia, Cameroon, Sudan, Malawi, Namibia, Guam, Cyprus, Ivory Coast, Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Lesotho, St. Croix)
Books to date (2006-2011): 804
Pages to date (2006-2011): 227,625

January (3583 pages)
1. The 14th Dalai Lama: A Manga Biography: Tetsu Saiwai (224)
2. An Abundance of Katherines: John Green (227)
3. Extreme Hotels: Birgit Krols (192)
4. Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World: Pico Ayer (200)
5. The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment: A.J. Jacobs (256)
6. The Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China: Peter Hessler (528)
7. The Fire Cat: Esther Averill (64)
8. The Mind's Eye: Oliver Sacks (288)
9. The Red Pyramid (Kane Chronicles #1): Rick Riordan (516)
10. Homer and Langley: E. L. Doctorow (224)
11. Heart of Fire: Senait Mehari [Eritrea] (268)
12. Weeding the Flowerbeds: Sarah Mkhonza [Swaziland] (180)
13. A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters: Julian Barnes (320)
14. [Suzuki Beane: Sandra Scoppettone] (96)
February (2908 pages)
15. The Story of India: Michael Wood (319)  
16. Zero History: William Gibson (404)
17. Burmese Days: George Orwell (279)
18. Leviathan: Scott Westerfeld (440)
19. The Men Who Stare at Goats: Jon Ronson (240)
20. Birds of Thailand: Roland Eve & Anne-Marie Guigue (178)
21. The State in the Third Millenium: Reigning Prince Hans-Adam [Liechtenstein] (222)
22. How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming: Mike Brown (256)
23. In Transition: Contemporary Cambodian Artists (Curator: Ly Daravuth) (79)
24. The Windup Girl: Paolo Bacigalupi (359)
25. Storytelling in Cambodia: Willa Schneberg (132)
March (3813 pages) 
26. The Name of this Book Is Secret: Pseudonymous Bosch (384)
27. Pygmy: Chuck Palahniuk (256)
28. B. R. Myers: The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters (208)
29. Kate Atkinson: Case Histories (312)
30. Phyllis Wheatley: Poems on Various Subjects: Religious and Moral [Gambia] (80)
31. Calixthe Beyala: The Sun Hath Looked Upon Me [Cameroon] (120)
32. Peter Hessler: Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory (512)
33. Junot Díaz: Drown (208)
34. [Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange] (~160)
35. Jack Weatherford: The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire (336)
36. Peter Laufer: The Dangerous World of Butterflies: The Startling Subculture of Criminals, Collectors, and Conservationists (288)
37.  Scott Westerfeld, Keith Thompson (Illustrator): Behemoth (Leviathan #2) (489)
38. Michael Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (460)
April (6760) 
39. Cherie Priest: Boneshaker (416)
40. Vikas Swarup: Slumdog Millionaire [Q & A] (326)
41. Jonathan Stroud: The Ring of Solomon (410)
42. Siddhartha Mukherjee: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (592)
43. Suzanne Collins: Gregor the Overlander (Underland Chronicles #1) (315)
44. Sarah Rose: For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula of the World's Favourite Drink (272)
45. Susan Beth Pfeffer: This World We Live In (252)
46. Tina Fey: Bossypants (277)
47. Nicholson Baker: The Anthologist (250)
48. Pittacus Lore [James Frey & Jobie Hughes]: I Am Number Four (440)
49. Suzanne Collins: Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane (Underland Chronicles #2) (317)
50. David Maine: The Preservationist (256)
51. Dan Koeppel: Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World (304)
52. Suzanne Collins: Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods (Underland Chronicles #3) (358)
53. Suzanne Collins: Gregor and the Marks of Secret (Underland Chronicles #4) (343)
54. Suzanne Collins: Gregor and the Code of Claw (Underland Chronicles #5) (416)
55. Amitav Ghosh: The Glass Palace (552)
56. Benjamin Deng, Alephonsion Deng, & Benjamin Ajak, with Judy A. Bernstein: They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan [Sudan] (334)
57. Josh Kilmer-Purcell: I Am Not Myself These Days (330)
May (3764)
58. Helen Simonson: Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (364) 
59. Graham Greene: Our Man in Havana (252)
60. Larry Herzberg & Qin Herzberg: China Survival Guide: How to Avoid Travel Troubles and Mortifying Mishaps (160)
61. Tiyambe Zeleza: Smouldering Charcoal [Malawi] (191)
62. R. Douglas Fields: The Other Brain: From Dementia to Schizophrenia, How New Discoveries about the Brain Are Revolutionizing Medicine and Science (384)
63. [Elyn R. Saks: The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness] (352)
64. Diane Duane: A Wizard of Mars (Young Wizards #9) (558)
65. Haruki Murakami: Kafka on the Shore (467)
66. Rick Riordan: The Throne of Fire (Kane Chronicles #2) (460)
67. Michael Scott: The Warlock (Nicholas Flamel #5) (391)
68. Neshani Andreas: The Purple Violet of Oshaantu [Namibia] (185)
June (4541)
69.  Piers Marchant: How to Be Pope: What to Do and Where to Go Once You're in the Vatican (128)
70. Maryanne Wolf: Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain (320)
71. Paul Collier: The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (224)
72. Connie Willis: Blackout (512)
73. Rick Riordan: The Lost Hero (The Heros of Olympus #1) (557)
74. Connie Willis: All Clear (643)
75. Peace Corps: A Life Inspired: Tales of Peace Corps Service (183)
76. [Robert A. Heinlein: Citizen of the Galaxy] (253)
77. Philip Caputo: A Rumor of War (378)
78. John Sack: Report from Practically Nowhere (248)
79.  Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell: The Alchemist and the Executioness (200)
80. Patti Smith, David Greenberg, & John W. Smith: Strange Messenger: The Work of Patti Smith (79)
81. Adam Mansbach & Ricardo Cortés: Go the Fuck to Sleep (32)
82. Leila Aboulela: The Translator (208)
83. Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (576)
July (4193 pages)
84. George R. R. Martin: A Game of Thrones (A Song of Fire and Ice #1) (835)
85. Barbara W. Tuchman: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (704)
86. James W. Gleick: The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (527)
87. George R. R. Martin: A Clash of Kings (A Song of Fire and Ice #2) (1010)
88. Anthony Bourdain: Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook (304)
89. Oliver Sacks: Oaxaca Journal (120)
90. Guðleif Fríður Sigurjónsdóttir: Treasured and Delicious Icelandic Recipes (45)
91. Völundur Snær Völundarson: Delicious Iceland - Special Edition (Tales of Unique Northern Delicacies) (157)
92. Matt Harding: Where the Hell is Matt? The Story Behind the Internet Dancing Sensation (144)
93. Jennifer Egan: A Visit from the Goon Squad (347)
94. Donald Miller: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life (288)
August (3272 pages) 
95. Ursula K. Le Guin: The Wild Girls (128)
96. Angela Eagan & Rebecca Weiner: Culture Shock! China: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette (Culture Shock! China) (304)
97. Shaun Tan: Tales from Outer Suburbia (96)
98. Paolo Bacigalupi: Pump Six and Other Stories (239)
99. Roz Chast & David Remnick (Introduction): Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, and Health-Inspected Cartoons, 1978-2006 (400)
100. Xu Xin: The Jews of Kaifang, China: History, Culture, and Religion (209)
101. Carl Hoffman: The Lunatic Express: Discovering the World...Via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes (297)
102. Joe Jackson: The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire (420)
103. George R. R. Martin: A Storm of Swords (A Song of Fire and Ice #3) (1179)
September (5580 pages)
104. David Axe: War is Boring: Bored Stiff, Scared to Death in the World's Worst War Zones (128)
105. David Sedaris: Holidays on Ice (172)
106. Augusten Burroughs: You Better Not Cry: Stories (222)
107. Speak: Laurie Halse Anderson (240)
108. Douglas Edwards: I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 (432)
109. Amos Oz: How to Cure a Fanatic (104)
110. Paula Ann Lajan Quinene: A Taste of Guam [Guam] (122)
111. George R. R. Martin: A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4) (1060)
112.George Orwell: Down and Out in Paris and London (213)
113. Per Petterson: I Curse the River of Time (233)
114. Stavros Panteli: Place of Refuge: A History of the Jews in Cyprus [Cyprus] (192)
115. Anne Carson: Nox (192)
116. Alexandra Fuller: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood (315)
117. Kouassi Pascal Soman: Abongui My People Cote D'Ivoire My Country America My Home: The Ethno-history of a Small African Kingdom [Ivory Coast] (218)
118. Mark Salzman: Iron and Silk (224)
119. Irene J. Taafaki, Maria Kabua Fowler, Randolph R. Thaman: Traditional Medicine of the Marshall Islands: The Women, the Plants, the Treatments [Marshall Islands] (300)
120. Ian Fleming: Quantum of Solace: The Complete James Bond Short Stories (304)
121. Oliver Sacks: Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (381)
122. Jeffrey Steingarten: The Man Who Ate Everything (528)
October (4885 pages)
123. Christina Dodwell: In Papua New Guinea [Papua New Guinea] (256)
124. Maria Balinska: The Bagel: A Cultural History (288)
125. Kristin Hersh: Rat Girl: A Memoir (336)
126. Samuel Johnson & James Boswell: Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (~160)
127. Rick Riordan: The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus #2) (513)
128. Kay Ryan: The Best of It: New and Selected Poems (288)
129. Lev Grossman: The Magician King (The Magicians #2) (400)
130. Michael Levy: Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China's Other Billion (256)
131. Jillian Lauren: Some Girls: My Life in a Harem (352)
132. Trevor Corson: The Story of Sushi: An Unlikely Saga of Raw Fish and Rice (256)
133. Michael Ondaatje: The English Patient (302)
134. John Bunyan: The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which is to Come, Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream (385)
135. Carlos Ruiz Zafón: The Shadow of the Wind (500)
136. Ann Patchett: State of Wonder (353)
137. Robert C. O'Brien: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (240)
November (5075 pages)
138. Octavio Latorre: The Curse of the Giant Tortoise: Tragedies, Crimes, and Mysteries in the Galapagos Islands (6th Ed.) [Ecuador] (243)
139. Barbara Ehrenreich: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America (256)
140. Paolo Bacigalupi: Ship Breaker (336)
141. John Milton: Paradise Lost (276)
142. Mary Roach: Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (319)
143. Nick Bakalar: The Medicine Cabinet of Curiosities: An Unconventional Compendium of Health Facts and Oddities, from Asthmatic Mice to Plants that Can Kill (240)
144. Joan Didion: Blue Nights (188)
145. Angie Sage: Darke (Septimus Heap, #6) (641)
146. Peter Godwin: When a Crocodile Eats the Sun (416)
147. Neal Shusterman: Unwind (Unwind, #1) (335)
148. Roz Chast: What I Hate (64)
149. Jon Krakaur: Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way (96)
150. Ann Patchett: The Magician's Assistant (368)
151. Stephen Batchelor: Confession of a Buddhist Atheist (302)
152. Scott Westerfeld: Goliath (Leviathan, #3) (543)
153. Ernesto Che Guevara: The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey (175)
154. Alan Dean Foster: Star Trek [2009 Movie Tie-in] (274)
December (6211 pages)
155. Arika Okrent: In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and The Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language (342)
156. Dave Eggers: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (530)
157. Cinda Williams Chima: The Demon King (Seven Realms, #1) (528)
158. Julian Barnes: The Sense of an Ending (144)
159. Eli Pariser: The Filter Bubble (304)
160. Sarah Macdonald: Holy Cow! An Indian Adventure (298)
161. Bruce C. Morris: Open Road's Best of Panama: Your Passport to the Perfect Trip! (248)
162. Richard Garrigues & Robert Green: The Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide [Costa Rica] (408)
163. Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels (~318)
164. Dava Sobel: The Planets (270)
165. Jon Ronson: The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (288)
166. Azar Nafisi: Reading Lolita in Tehran (356)
167. Ninni Holmqvist: The Unit (272)
168.  Mpho M'Atsepo Nthunya & K. Limakatso Kendal: Singing Away the Hunger: The Autobiography of an African Woman [Lesotho] (186)
169. Mohammed Hanif: A Case of Exploding Mangoes (320)
170. Steve Martin: Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life (207)
171. Cindy Williams Chima: The Exiled Queen (Seven Realms, #2) (586)
172. Oliver Sacks: Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf (208)
173. Jon-Jon Goulian: The Man in the Gray Flannel Skirt (326)
174. Florence Lewisohn: Divers Information on the Romantic History of St. Croix [St. Croix, USVI] (72)

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