Before I let you know who won the contest, I am going to regale you with some fancy statistics from my 100 Book Challenge. I had so much fun maintaining the excel spreadsheet that I have to share its results.
Hardcover Books: 22%
Paperback Books: 78%
Fiction: 98%
Non-fiction: 2% (I'm sure my FIL is cringing with that one!)
And the genre breakdowns - now, this is not as cut and dry as the above categories - because you could have books that might be short stories and mysteries - or fantasy and romance all rolled up in one book. So, if a given book had multiple genre elements, I categorized them that way.
Urban Fantasy: 39%
Romance: 63%
Science Fiction: 7%
Historical Fiction: 5%
Short Stories: 10%
Mysteries: 13%
Fantasy: 11%
Futuristic: 10%
Paranormal: 6%
Werewolf: 7%
Vampire: 19%
Erotica: 13%
Comedy: 13%
Young Adult: 4%
Graphic Novels: 4%
Male Authors: 13%
Female Authors: 87%
Books borrowed from my friend Teri: 11%
Books borrowed from my local library: 57%
(This statistic is made sadder by the fact that our local libraries have cut 1.5 days from their open schedule and have frozen all new book buying as cost-cutting measures.)
And the drumroll, please...
In 2008, I read 112 books!
The winner of my little contest is my younger sister, Jaime, who was so close with a guess of 113. Email me and let me know how you want your $20 in book funds, and I will send it up to you.
Some more fun statistics -
Total Pages Read: 36,656 pages
Average book length: 327 pages
Most prolific month: October (I'm not sure why, however) with 14 books
Least prolific month: April (due to work and tax season) with 6 books
Most books read by one author (This ended up being a tie.)
- J. R. Ward - 6 books
- Lora Leigh - 6 books
- Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb - 5 books
- Sherrilyn Kenyon - 4 books
- MaryJanice Davidson - 4 books
- Erin McCarthy - 3 books
- Patricia Briggs - 3 books
- Gena Showalter - 3 books
- Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
- From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris
- The Host by Stephenie Meyer
- Tribute by Nora Roberts
- The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
- The Scourge of God by S.M. Stirling
- The Stone Gods by Jeannette Winterson
- Then We Came To The End by Joshua Ferris
- Tangled Webs by Anne Bishop
- Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich
- Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
- Lucinda, Darkly by Sunny
- Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner (way to rip my heart out of my chest, Ms. Weiner!)
- The Field Guide (Spiderwick Chronicles Book 1) by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi at 107 pages
- Acheron by Sherrilyn Kenyon at 728 pages
I have since learned that there is a blog, J. Kaye's Book Blog, that is organizing a group challenge for 2009, and I encourage you all to try. I won't say reading 100 books in a year was an easy process - it was a challenge, after all - but think of all those books you have always wanted to read that you could catch up on!
15 comments:
How fun. Congratulations on your successful challenge.
Congrats Joey, for being the over acheiver that you are, and to Jaime for having that horseshoe stuck up your you-know-what!
I am in awe. You rock! When you get a chance, I'd love to see that list - bmlindeen (at) gmail (dot) com.
Hee hee!!! Your geeky nerdness in breaking it down amuses me to no end!! I love it!
Hmmm...now I'm wondering if I should keep track of the books I read a little more closely. But I'm with you--it would double if I counted the books I read with Chunky ;-)
Yeah for me.... What do you mean by book funds? How about you find me a copy of Neil Gailmans American Gods ( I have the first one but I believe there is a second.) Andrew would know!!!
the last comment was me, Jaimes!!!
Carl says you can do better with the non-fiction percentage. Tell me this though... were the NF ones knitting books?? Tell the truth Joey!
Oh wow! That is awesome! I love romance too, but didn't get to read much in 2008. Maybe I can change this in 2009. :)
I am in for 09! Care to share you spreadsheet layout? I am all about spreedsheets. Just thought I might learn from your wisdom:)
Cool. Wow. That's a big honkin' number. There was a time and a place when I could have done that; now I'm just happy for the few I get to plow through!!
Congratufrigginlations!!! :-)
Wow, that's fantastic! Lack of non-fiction notwithstanding, you did great!
Congrats to you! That's a lot of reading!!!
Congratulations! I would love a copy of the list of you get a chance. I enjoy reading your book reviews and have picked up several books based on your feedback. I have enjoyed every single one of them! Thanks!
Jo, you're an awesome reader !
I'd love your spreadsheet - maybe I'll keep track of my books this year too :0) I'm trying to read 20.
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that is pretty awesome
ive read some of the ones on your list of favourites and i agree :)
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