My Book List: In 2016 I Read 22,043 Pages
As a writer, it’s important to be a reader. And let me tell you, I am an avid reader. I joke that my library card is melted around the edges from overuse. I typically burn through a novel every week. But in past years I haven’t ever thought to track what I am reading. But on my web site I keep track of what I’ve been reading, and I try to update it every week, you can see that here.
Now that I am keeping track, I can easily see what I’ve read in 2016. Here are my stats:
In 2016 I read 64 books. An average of 1.23 books per week.
A total of 22,043 pages, an average of 60 pages per day.
I didn’t count books I started but did not finish into my page count, nor are any of those listed below. I will usually decide around page 50 if I am not feeling it and stop reading.
What I haven’t tracked is the number of times that Todd has heard me say “Let me finish this chapter,” when he asks me if I want to go do something else.
Here are all the books I read last year, the most recent is at the top
| Fangirl | Rainbow Rowell | 445 |
| The Nest | Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney | 368 |
| Most Wanted | Lisa Scottoline | 438 |
| Attachments | Rainbow Rowell | 323 |
| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time | Mark Haddon | 226 |
| What She Knew | Gilly Macmillan | 512 |
| The Husband's Secret | Liane Moriarty | 396 |
| Me Before You | Jojo Moyes | 369 |
| Ashes | Steven Manchester | 272 |
| Pretty Girls | Karin Slaughter | 688 |
| The Fall of Marigolds | Susan Meissner | 394 |
| Troublemaker | Leah Remini | 228 |
| The Ex | Alafair Burke | 304 |
| This is Where it Ends | Marieke Nijkamp | 285 |
| Cover of Snow | Jenny Milchman | 336 |
| The Bullet | Mary Louise Kelly | 353 |
| Hiding Out in Hollywood | Jennifer Farwell | 250 |
| The Plum Tree | Ellen Marie Wiseman | 367 |
| Orphan Train | Christina Baker Kline | 278 |
| My Korean Deli | Ben Ryder Howe | 320 |
| Expired Listings | DM Barr | 228 |
| Jemima J | Jane Green | 373 |
| What She Left Behind | Ellen Marie Wiseman | 336 |
| Secrets of a Charmed Life | Susan Meissner | 386 |
| The Secret Daughter | Kelly Rimmer | 306 |
| Hostile Witness | Rebecca Forster | 290 |
| At the Water's Edge | Sara Gruen | 348 |
| Ordinary Grace | William Kent Krueger | 307 |
| Driving on the Left | Gail Ward Olmstead | 262 |
| The Girl's Guide to the Apocalypse | Daphne Lamb | 218 |
| The Paris Effect | KSR Burns | 264 |
| The House on Sunset | Lindsay Fischer | 198 |
| Center Ring | Nicole Waggoner | 425 |
| When Breath Becomes Air | Paul Kalanithi | 208 |
| The Silent Sister | Diane Chamberlain | 352 |
| The Thing About Jellyfish | Ali Benjamin | 352 |
| Brooklyn | Colm Toibin | 262 |
| 11/22/1963 | Stephen King | 849 |
| Revenge Wears Prada | Lauren Weisberger | 400 |
| If You Were Here | Jen Lancaster | 306 |
| The Devil Wears Prada | Lauren Weisberger | 432 |
| Landline | Rainbow Rowell | 308 |
| Queen of Babble Gets Hitched | Meg Cabot | 309 |
| Queen of Babble in the City | Meg Cabot | 307 |
| Luckiest Girl Alive | Jessica Knoll | 352 |
| The Queen of Babble | Meg Cabot | 277 |
| Opening Belle | Maureen Sherry | 352 |
| Arranged | Catherine McKenzie | 416 |
| The Martian | Andy Weir | 369 |
| Reconstructing Amelia | Kimberly McCreight | 382 |
| The Life We Bury | Allen Eskins | 303 |
| Shopaholic to the Stars | Sophie Kinsella | 479 |
| Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe | Benjamin Alire Sáenz | 359 |
| Best Boy | Eli Gottleib | 272 |
| Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | 288 |
| The Goldfinch | Donna Tartt | 771 |
| Undress me in the Temple of Heaven | Susan Jane Gilman | 320 |
| This Girl's Abroad | Andrene Low | 382 |
| Above Us Only Sky | Michele Young | 256 |
| The Girl on the Train | Paula Hawkins | 323 |
| Jeep Tour | Gail Ward Olmstead | 246 |
| Apocalypse Wow | Ben Mariner |
272 |
| The Shade of the Moon | Susan Beth Pfeffer | 288 |
| Fab | Mark Gillespie | 158 |
| 22043 |
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added on 01.26.17