2009 Reading In Review – The Numbers
December 29th, 2009 - written by Brian Utley
4,020,000 words.
20,100,000 total letters.
36 Pages Per Day
Total Spent on Books: $611.
Cost Per Page: $0.04.
SO Worth It
| Book | Author | Week | Started | Finished | Days | Pages | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born Digital | Dan Palfrey | 1 | 01-01 | 01-07 | 7 | 290 | 5 |
| The Last Lecture | Randy Pausch | 2 | 01-08 | 01-10 | 3 | 206 | 7 |
| Good To Great | Jim Collins | 3 | 01-10 | 01-20 | 11 | 218 | 6 |
| Sparks | Peter Benson | 4 | 01-20 | 01-27 | 7 | 222 | 5 |
| The Book Thief | Markus Zusak | 5 | 01-28 | 02-06 | 10 | 550 | 9 |
| The Yankee Years | Joe Torre | 6 | 02-07 | 02-15 | 9 | 477 | 7 |
| The Tipping Point | Malcolm Gladwell | 7 | 02-23 | 03-02 | 8 | 280 | 8 |
| The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho | 8 | 03-02 | 03-03 | 2 | 167 | 8 |
| On Writing | Stephen King | 9 | 03-04 | 03-11 | 8 | 288 | 10 |
| The Elements of Style | William Strunk | 10 | 03-12 | 03-16 | 5 | 95 | 7 |
| The Book of Dahlia | Elisa Albert | 11 | 03-17 | 03-27 | 11 | 276 | 5 |
| Click | Bill Tancer | 12 | 03-28 | 04-01 | 5 | 203 | 6 |
| Why People Photograph | Robert Adams | 13 | 04-01 | 04-05 | 5 | 182 | 7 |
| The Minds Eye | Henri Cartier-Bresson | 14 | 04-05 | 04-06 | 2 | 105 | 7 |
| Blink | Malcolm Gladwell | 15 | 04-06 | 04-12 | 7 | 276 | 8 |
| Things I Have Learned… | Stefan Sagmeister | 16 | 04-12 | 04-13 | 2 | 248 | 6 |
| When You Are Engulfed In… | David Sedaris | 17 | 04-13 | 04-18 | 6 | 323 | 7 |
| A Year With Swollen Appendices | Brian Eno | 18 | 04-19 | 04-26 | 8 | 414 | 7 |
| The Midnight Disease | Alice Flaherty | 19 | 04-26 | 05-01 | 6 | 266 | 5 |
| Quirkology | Richard Wiseman | 20 | 05-03 | 05-06 | 4 | 277 | 7 |
| A Sense of Urgency | John Kotter | 21 | 05-06 | 05-09 | 4 | 194 | 5 |
| Eat Pray Love | Elizabeth Gilbert | 22 | 05-10 | 05-14 | 5 | 334 | 7 |
| The Wisdom of Crowds | James Surowiecki | 23 | 05-14 | 05-21 | 8 | 284 | 6 |
| Tribes | Seth Godin | 24 | 05-21 | 05-23 | 3 | 151 | 7 |
| Possible Side Effects | Augusten Burroughs | 25 | 05-23 | 05-25 | 3 | 291 | 8 |
| Look Me In The Eye | John Elder Robison | 26 | 05-29 | 05-31 | 3 | 295 | 7 |
| Beginning Database Design | Clare Churcher | 27 | 06-01 | 06-13 | 13 | 228 | 8 |
| Beginning SQL Queries | Clare Churcher | 28 | 06-13 | 06-23 | 11 | 210 | 7 |
| Predictably Irrational | Dan Ariely | 29 | 07-03 | 07-13 | 11 | 333 | 7 |
| Getting Real | 37Signals | 30 | 07-13 | 07-17 | 5 | 186 | 8 |
| Words I Wish I Wrote | Robert Fulghum | 31 | 07-24 | 07-28 | 5 | 221 | 9 |
| The World Without Us | Alan Weisman | 32 | 07-28 | 08-09 | 13 | 369 | 7 |
| Man’s Search For Meaning | Viktor Frankl | 33 | 08-10 | 08-12 | 3 | 165 | 9 |
| The Old Man and The Sea | Ernest Hemingway | 34 | 08-18 | 08-18 | 1 | 127 | 8 |
| The Pearl | John Steinbeck | 35 | 08-18 | 08-19 | 2 | 90 | 7 |
| The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand | 36 | 08-19 | 09-12 | 23 | 704 | 2 |
| Book of Mormon Authorship | Noel B. Reynolds | 37 | 09-03 | 09-10 | 7 | 543 | 7 |
| Homer & Langley | E.L. Doctorow | 38 | 09-12 | 09-16 | 5 | 224 | 7 |
| Nurtureshock | Po Bronson | 39 | 09-16 | 10-10 | 25 | 352 | 6 |
| Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | 40 | 09-19 | 09-23 | 5 | 112 | 8 |
| That Old Cape Magic | Richard Russo | 41 | 09-23 | 09-28 | 6 | 272 | 7 |
| A Movable Feast | Ernest Hemingway | 42 | 10-10 | 10-11 | 2 | 211 | 9 |
| Gilead | Marilynne Robinson | 43 | 10-11 | 10-15 | 5 | 247 | 7 |
| The Accidental Billionaires | Ben Mezrich | 44 | 10-16 | 10-18 | 3 | 272 | 8 |
| Indignation | Philip Roth | 45 | 10-19 | 10-22 | 4 | 256 | 6 |
| Bounce | Keith McFarland | 46 | 10-22 | 10-23 | 2 | 166 | 7 |
| Choice Theory | William Glasser | 48 | 10-30 | 11-16 | 18 | 340 | 6 |
| StrengthsFinder 2.0 | Tom Rath | 47 | 10-30 | 10-30 | 1 | 174 | 6 |
| The Accidental Masterpiece | Michael Kimmelman | 49 | 11-04 | 11-08 | 5 | 229 | 6 |
| Ghost | Alan Lightman | 50 | 11-16 | 12-02 | 17 | 256 | 7 |
| A Great and Glorious Game | A. Bartlett Giamatti | 51 | 11-21 | 11-24 | 4 | 121 | 7 |
| In Our Strange Gardens | Michel Quint | 52 | 12-29 | 12-20 | 1 | 80 | 10 |
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2009 Reading In Review – The Numbers
Compliments, really!
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Hello, I am planning on doing something similar in 2011, and would like to know if you used a specific type of software to do your book tracking. If so, could you let me know what was used?