Title (Series) | Author | Started | Finished | Pages |
The Redemption of Althalus | David and Leigh Eddings | 29-Dec-11 | 09-Jan-12 | 792 |
The Wisdom of Crowds | James Surowiecki | 09-Jan-12 | 14-Jan-12 | 284 |
Made to Stick | Chip Heath and Dan Heath | 15-Jan-12 | 17-Jan-12 | 257 |
The Whisper of Glocken | Carol Kendall | 18-Jan-12 | 21-Jan-12 | 304 |
Knowledge for Generations | Timothy Curtis Jacobson , George David Smith , Robert E. Wright | 21-Jan-12 | 27-Feb-12 | 568 |
Have Space Suit --- Will Travel | Robert A. Heinlein | 21-Jan-12 | 22-Jan-12 | 233 |
What Happened to Goodbye | Sarah Dessen | 22-Jan-12 | 23-Jan-12 | 402 |
The Dark Side of the Sun | Terry Pratchett | 23-Jan-12 | 27-Jan-12 | 235 |
The Black Swan | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | 26-Jan-12 | 08-Feb-12 | 379 |
The Island of the Colorblind | Oliver Sacks | 08-Feb-12 | 14-Feb-12 | 266 |
The Pocket Stylist | Kendall Farr | 13-Feb-12 | 13-Feb-12 | 197 |
Inheritance | Christopher Paolini | 14-Feb-12 | 23-Feb-12 | 849 |
Bunnicula | Deborah and James Howe | 23-Feb-12 | 23-Feb-12 | 98 |
Howliday Inn | James Howe | 23-Feb-12 | 23-Feb-12 | 195 |
The Celery Stalks at Midnight | James Howe | 23-Feb-12 | 23-Feb-12 | 111 |
Nighty-Nightmare | James Howe | 23-Feb-12 | 23-Feb-12 | 122 |
Return to Howliday Inn | James Howe | 24-Feb-12 | 24-Feb-12 | 116 |
Bunnicula Strikes Again! | James Howe | 24-Feb-12 | 24-Feb-12 | 116 |
Bunnicula Meets Edgar Allan Crow | James Howe | 24-Feb-12 | 24-Feb-12 | 138 |
The Annotated Persuasion | Jane Austen | 24-Feb-12 | 12-Mar-12 | 491 |
The Bed of Procrustes | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | 08-Mar-12 | 09-Mar-12 | 112 |
Why Johnny Can't Read | Rudolf Flesch | 12-Mar-12 | 13-Mar-12 | 118 |
Predictably Irrational | Dan Ariely | 13-Mar-12 | 14-Mar-12 | 334 |
Taking Ourselves Seriously and Getting It Right | Harry G. Frankfurt | 14-Mar-12 | 15-Mar-12 | 116 |
Fooled by Randomness | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | 15-Mar-12 | 18-Mar-12 | 291 |
Ignorance is Blitz | Anders Henriksson | 16-Mar-12 | 16-Mar-12 | 158 |
Once Upon a Time in the North | Philip Pullman | 19-Mar-12 | 19-Mar-12 | 104 |
Writing Magic | Gail Carson Levine | 19-Mar-12 | 20-Mar-12 | 161 |
Chinese Buzzwords with English Explanations | Shanghai Daily | 20-Mar-12 | 21-May-12 | 255 |
The Little Giant Book of Proverbs | Sam Phillips | 20-Mar-12 | 20-Mar-12 | 345 |
Writing Books for Children | Jane Yolen | 20-Mar-12 | 23-Mar-12 | 140 |
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire 1) | George R. R. Martin | 21-Mar-12 | 01-Apr-12 | 807 |
First One Hundred and Fifty Years | J. Wiley & Sons, Inc. | 25-Mar-12 | 12-Apr-12 | 225 |
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire 2) | George R. R. Martin | 01-Apr-12 | 14-Apr-12 | 969 |
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire 3) | George R. R. Martin | 14-Apr-12 | 27-Apr-12 | 1128 |
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire 4) | George R. R. Martin | 27-Apr-12 | 04-May-12 | 978 |
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire 5) | George R. R. Martin | 04-May-12 | 21-May-12 | 959 |
The Atheist's Bible | Joan Konner | 05-May-12 | 21-May-12 | 174 |
That Summer | Sarah Dessen | 07-May-12 | 10-May-12 | 212 |
Someone Like You | Sarah Dessen | 10-May-12 | 12-May-12 | 294 |
Last Chance | Sarah Dessen | 12-May-12 | 14-May-12 | 246 |
Why We Lie | Dorothy Rowe | 14-May-12 | 19-May-12 | 330 |
Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | 21-May-12 | 10-Jul-12 | 448 |
Making Peace with the Things in Your Life | Cindy Glovinsky | 22-May-12 | 29-May-12 | 263 |
Free | Chris Anderson | 30-May-12 | 16-Jun-12 | 254 |
Next | Michael Crichton | 04-Jun-12 | 04-Jun-12 | 547 |
Pirate Latitudes | Michael Crichton | 04-Jun-12 | 10-Jun-12 | 312 |
Thought and Language | Lev Vygotsky (revised and edited by Alex Kozulin) | 10-Jun-12 | 27-Jun-12 | 256 |
Shopping for Buddhas | Jeff Greenwald | 28-Jun-12 | 30-Jun-12 | 198 |
You Just Don't Understand | Deborah Tannen | 01-Jul-12 | 05-Jul-12 | 298 |
Nudge | Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein | 05-Jul-12 | 11-Jul-12 | 260 |
Cinderella Ate My Daughter | Peggy Orenstein | 10-Jul-12 | 10-Jul-12 | 192 |
You Are What You Speak | Robert Lane Greene | 10-Jul-12 | 20-Jul-12 | 279 |
The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins | 15-Jul-12 | 25-Jul-12 | 332 |
The Magic of Reality | Richard Dawkins | 20-Jul-12 | 13-Aug-12 | 265 |
The Lexus and the Olive Tree | Thomas L. Friedman | 25-Jul-12 | 08-Aug-12 | 475 |
The Information | James Gleick | 08-Aug-12 | 25-Aug-12 | 426 |
Where Did Noah Park the Ark? | Eran Katz | 09-Aug-12 | 13-Aug-12 | 238 |
The Annotated Phantom Tollbooth | Norton Juster, annotated by Leonard S. Marcus | 16-Aug-12 | 19-Aug-12 | 320 |
The Omen Machine (Sword of Truth: Continued 1) | Terry Goodkind | 19-Aug-12 | 21-Aug-12 | 252 |
Arguably | Christopher Hitchens | 21-Aug-12 | 09-Oct-12 | 752 |
Eat, Pray, Love | Elizabeth Gilbert | 25-Aug-12 | 28-Aug-12 | 349 |
Committed | Elizabeth Gilbert | 29-Aug-12 | 31-Aug-12 | 297 |
Click | Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman | 31-Aug-12 | 31-Aug-12 | 194 |
Successful Writing (3rd Edition) | Maxine C. Hairston | 01-Sep-12 | 17-Sep-12 | 243 |
The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai | Ruiyan Xu | 03-Sep-12 | 06-Sep-12 | 341 |
The Last Universe | William Sleator | 09-Sep-12 | 09-Sep-12 | 217 |
Once on a Time | A. A. Milne | 08-Sep-12 | 09-Sep-12 | 255 |
From Socrates to Sartre | T. Z. Levine | 09-Sep-12 | 28-Sep-12 | 448 |
The Invisible Dog | Dick King-Smith | 27-Sep-12 | 27-Sep-12 | 83 |
Beginnings, Middles and Ends | Nancy Kress | 29-Sep-12 | 30-Sep-12 | 143 |
The Longer Long Tail | Chris Anderson | 30-Sep-12 | 06-Oct-12 | 258 |
Origins of Chinese Culture | Compiled by Li Xiaoxiang, illustrated by Fu Chunjiang | 01-Oct-12 | 15-Oct-12 | 149 |
The Decisive Moment | Jonah Lehrer | 06-Oct-12 | 13-Oct-12 | 250 |
The Goose Girl (Books of Bayern 1) | Shannon Hale | 09-Oct-12 | 10-Oct-12 | 383 |
Enna Burning (Books of Bayern 2) | Shannon Hale | 10-Oct-12 | 12-Oct-12 | 317 |
River Secrets (Books of Bayern 3) | Shannon Hale | 13-Oct-12 | 15-Oct-12 | 290 |
Hitch-22 | Christopher Hitchens | 15-Oct-12 | 05-Nov-12 | 424 |
The Bar Code Rebellion (The Bar Code Series 2) | Suzanne Weyn | 16-Oct-12 | 24-Oct-12 | 265 |
The Illyrian Adventure (Vesper Holly 1) | Lloyd Alexander | 19-Oct-12 | 20-Oct-12 | 133 |
The El Dorado Adventure (Vesper Holly 2) | Lloyd Alexander | 20-Oct-12 | 22-Oct-12 | 164 |
The Drackenberg Adventure (Vesper Holly 3) | Lloyd Alexander | 22-Oct-12 | 23-Oct-12 | 153 |
The Jedera Adventure (Vesper Holly 4) | Lloyd Alexander | 23-Oct-12 | 25-Oct-12 | 152 |
The Philadelphia Advanture (Vesper Holly 5) | Lloyd Alexander | 25-Oct-12 | 25-Oct-12 | 150 |
Junk English | Ken Smith | 25-Oct-12 | 28-Nov-12 | 142 |
Seeds of Rebellion (Beyonders 2) | Brandon Mull | 25-Oct-12 | 28-Oct-12 | 512 |
Leaving Johnny Behind | Anthony Pedriana | 27-Oct-12 | 02-Nov-12 | 150 |
Leviathan (Leviathan 1) | Scott Westerfield | 04-Nov-12 | 09-Nov-12 | 440 |
The Accidental Hero (The Jack Blank Adventures 1) | Matt Myklusch | 09-Nov-12 | 12-Nov-12 | 470 |
Three Cheers for Polly | Carol Morse | 12-Nov-12 | 13-Nov-12 | 143 |
Flip | Martyn Bedford | 13-Nov-12 | 19-Nov-12 | 296 |
What Really Helps | Karen Kissel Wegela | 14-Nov-12 | 22-Nov-12 | 234 |
The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World | E. L. Konigsburg | 16-Nov-12 | 17-Nov-12 | 228 |
Igraine the Brave | Cornelia Funke | 22-Nov-12 | 24-Nov-12 | 223 |
Linchpin | Seth Godin | 25-Nov-12 | 01-Dec-12 | 244 |
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games 1) | Suzanne Collins | 10-Dec-12 | 11-Dec-12 | 374 |
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games 2) | Suzanne Collins | 11-Dec-12 | 13-Dec-12 | 391 |
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games 3) | Suzanne Collins | 13-Dec-12 | 14-Dec-12 | 390 |
Disclosure | Michael Crichton | 20-Dec-12 | 22-Dec-12 | 455 |
The Mountain of Adventure | Enid Blyton | 22-Dec-12 | 23-Dec-12 | 192 |
Rising Sun | Michael Crichton | 23-Dec-12 | 25-Dec-12 | 403 |
The Water Babies | Charles Kingsley | 25-Dec-12 | 27-Dec-12 | 192 |
102 books finished in 2012.
32,113 pages in the selected books (an average of about 314 pages each).
That's an average of about 3 days per book (assuming no overlap)
or 7 days per book (taking actual overlap into consideration),
which is equivalent to 101 books (or 32,112 pages) per year. Or
88 pages per day, actually.
Typical number of books in progress simultaneously: 0.
Fiction books: 54 (53%)
Non-fiction books: 48 (47%)
Books not marked in db as fiction or nonfiction: 0 (0%)