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Book log 2012

Title (Series)AuthorStarted      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%)

Last meaningful update to site: 24 September, 2011