The 2005 Book List

Early last year I saw some LJ posts with people talking about a challenge to read 52 books in the year. Now, I knew I was going to read more than 52 books over the year, there was no question of that. But I thought it might be interesting to find out if I read more than 52 *new* books over the year, as opposed to rereads. I tended to do a lot of rereads. And it would be interesting to keep track. So early in January I started keeping a locked post that I edited and updated regularly with the books I was reading. After all, people look at our household library and ask me questions like "wow, how many books do you have?" (we're working on getting them cataloged), and "how many books do you read?"

Then I managed to wrangle the paperwork that despite not living in Fort Worth proper got me a Fort Worth library card - and access to their website, and the ability to request books from all over the different branches to be delivered and held waiting for me at the counter of my favorite branch. Bwahahaha, I became the Book Spider at the center of the Library Web. I went off on various mini-research-binges on whatever I felt like. Whee! See a book mentioned, wonder if it's any good? Request it! Oh yeah.

173 books total. 128 new books, 45 rereads. 49 non fiction, 124 fiction. Everything from thick heavy non fiction to a bunch of fluffy fun needlework-connected mysteries while I was sick at my parents' house last week.

(I'm not sure if I should count full-size chapter books read aloud to the kids a chapter a night. We were doing that for a lot of the year. If that counts, add 6 fiction rereads to the list. Now they're back to kid-sized books, definitely not counting those.)

( The List of Books )