Book Statistics
The three books that I have listed in 2004 are excluded from the first two statistic tables.
| Year | Books Read | Average Days Between Books | Longest Number of Days Between Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 45 | 7.8 | 40 |
| 2006 | 44 | 8.0 | 29 |
| 2007 | 16 | 17.6 | 54 |
| 2008 | 13 | 23.2 | 100 |
| 2009 | 22 | 15.8 | 59 |
| 2010 | 14 | 24.4 | 56 |
| 2011 | 13 | 18.2 | 60 |
| 2012 | 11 | 12.5 | 61 |
| Total | 178 | 15.1 | 109 |
| Month | Books Read |
|---|---|
| January | 15 |
| February | 10 |
| March | 19 |
| April | 18 |
| May | 15 |
| June | 14 |
| July | 11 |
| August | 16 |
| September | 20 |
| October | 16 |
| November | 11 |
| December | 13 |
| Author | Books Read |
|---|---|
| Alexander McCall Smith | 8 |
| J. K. Rowling | 4 |
| Philip Pullman | 3 |
| Al Franken | 2 |
| Barack Obama | 2 |
| David Baldacci | 2 |
| Diane Duane | 2 |
| Erik Larson | 2 |
| Malcolm Gladwell | 2 |
| Michael Pollan | 2 |
| Philip Roth | 2 |
| Tom Standage | 2 |
| A. J. Jacobs | 1 |
| Adam Carolla | 1 |
| Alex Marshall | 1 |
| Alexander Saxton | 1 |
| Ariel Levy | 1 |
| Arthur Cotterell | 1 |
| Barbara Ehrenreich | 1 |
| Barrett Seaman | 1 |
| Barry Schwartz | 1 |
| Bart Ehrman | 1 |
| Bjørn Lomborg | 1 |
| Bob Harris | 1 |
| Bruce Cumings | 1 |
| Burton G. Malkiel | 1 |
| Carl Hiaasen | 1 |
| Charles Murray | 1 |
| Charles Peters | 1 |
| Chris Anderson | 1 |
| Chris Mooney | 1 |
| Dalton Conley | 1 |
| Dan Brown | 1 |
| Daniel Jonah Goldhagen | 1 |
| Dave Barry | 1 |
| David Ball | 1 |
| David Brock | 1 |
| David E. Martin | 1 |
| Dean Koontz | 1 |
| Desmond Morris | 1 |
| Diane Garey | 1 |
| Dolores Hayden | 1 |
| Doris Kearns Goodwin | 1 |
| Edwin A. Abbott | 1 |
| Elizabeth Royte | 1 |
| Emmanuel Todd | 1 |
| Eric Burns | 1 |
| François Ponchaud | 1 |
| Frank Worsley | 1 |
| Gail Saltz | 1 |
| Garry Wills | 1 |
| Gay Talese | 1 |
| Geoffrey Nunberg | 1 |
| George Orwell | 1 |
| Gordon Thomas | 1 |
| Grace Grant | 1 |
| Harm de Blij | 1 |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | 1 |
| Harry J. Huang | 1 |
| Herbert Knapp | 1 |
| Iris Chang | 1 |
| Isabelle Maynard | 1 |
| Jack Du Brul | 1 |
| Jake Morrissey | 1 |
| James Baldwin | 1 |
| James Howard Kunstler | 1 |
| Jan Willem Honig | 1 |
| Jared Diamond | 1 |
| Jean-Benoît Nadeau | 1 |
| Jérôme Carcopino | 1 |
| Jim Schutze | 1 |
| Jim Wallis | 1 |
| John Christopher | 1 |
| John E. Findling | 1 |
| John F. Kennedy | 1 |
| John Grisham | 1 |
| John Holt | 1 |
| John Lescroart | 1 |
| John Pomfret | 1 |
| Jon Spoelstra | 1 |
| Jonathan Franzen | 1 |
| Joseph Brahim Seid | 1 |
| Joseph J. Ellis | 1 |
| Julie Barlow | 1 |
| Justin Halpern | 1 |
| Kang Chol-Hwan | 1 |
| Kathryn Stockett | 1 |
| Kenneth C. Davis | 1 |
| Kimberly D. Pelle | 1 |
| Laurence J. Kotlikoff | 1 |
| Lawrence Cortesi | 1 |
| Lexi Ryals | 1 |
| Lilian Jackson Braun | 1 |
| Linda Greenhouse | 1 |
| Mac Montandon | 1 |
| Mark Haddon | 1 |
| Mark Kurlansky | 1 |
| Mark Monmonier | 1 |
| Mark Salzman | 1 |
| Mark W. Smith | 1 |
| Martin Meredith | 1 |
| Marvin Harris | 1 |
| Mary Knapp | 1 |
| Massimo Livi-Bacci | 1 |
| Matthew Parker | 1 |
| Max Morgan Witts | 1 |
| Michael Crichton | 1 |
| Mike Mullane | 1 |
| Mike Resnick | 1 |
| Neil Gaiman | 1 |
| Nick Hornby | 1 |
| Noel Ignatiev | 1 |
| Norbert Both | 1 |
| Olivia Munn | 1 |
| P.J. MacAllister | 1 |
| Pamela Paul | 1 |
| Peter Irons | 1 |
| Peter L. Bernstein | 1 |
| Peter Robb | 1 |
| Philip K. Howard | 1 |
| Philip Short | 1 |
| Philip Weiss | 1 |
| Philip Wylie | 1 |
| Phillip Longman | 1 |
| Pierre Rigoulot | 1 |
| Qiu Xiaolong | 1 |
| Rafi Mohammed | 1 |
| Richard Heinberg | 1 |
| Rick Perlstein | 1 |
| Rick Steves | 1 |
| Robert Brockway | 1 |
| Robert Charles Wilson | 1 |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | 1 |
| Robert Neuwirth | 1 |
| Robert Shogan | 1 |
| Robert V. Remini | 1 |
| Robert W. Rydell | 1 |
| Roberto Suro | 1 |
| Ron Chernow | 1 |
| Ron Jeremy | 1 |
| Sara Gruen | 1 |
| Sarah Silverman | 1 |
| Scott Burns | 1 |
| Siegfried Lenz | 1 |
| Stephen Ambrose | 1 |
| Stephen Baxter | 1 |
| Stephen Budiansky | 1 |
| Stephen J. Dubner | 1 |
| Stephen Jay Gould | 1 |
| Stephen Kotkin | 1 |
| Steve Almond | 1 |
| Steve Berry | 1 |
| Steven D. Levitt | 1 |
| Steven Johnson | 1 |
| T. R. Pearson | 1 |
| Tamara Draut | 1 |
| Tana French | 1 |
| Ted Fishman | 1 |
| Teresa A. Meade | 1 |
| Thomas Frank | 1 |
| Thomas Sowell | 1 |
| Tod Lindberg | 1 |
| Todd Tucker | 1 |
| Tom Robbins | 1 |
| Tony Horwitz | 1 |
| V.C. Andrews | 1 |
| Victor Cherkashin | 1 |
| William Julius Wilson | 1 |
| William Manchester | 1 |
| Winona Hollar Ondra | 1 |
| Zachary M. Schrag | 1 |
| 171 authors | |