Yearly book count!

[korafox]

Yesterday was my birthday, so you know what that means: time to tally my book log for the year!  It's so much fun to dump out the jar with all the little slips of paper on it.  Kinda feels like emptying out my piggy bank when I was a kid.  :)

The grand total: 37 books read this year!  A 50% increase over last year, which makes me really happy.  Also, I massively succeeded at my continued goal of reading more new books than rereads.  I only reread 5 books this year.  That number just boggles me. 

Looking over the sorts of stuff I read, I can definitely see the trend toward reading a lot more science fiction.  Also I've started to get away from traditional fantasy to move toward urban fantasy.  I can remember getting a fair number of fantasy books from the library this year that ended up getting brought back without being read because they just didn't grab me once I got them home.

I'm less happy about the split of male to female authors.  Only 11 books were written by women, and that was across 7 authors.  I think that will be my goal for this year, inasmuch as I actually have time to read (that whole law enforcement thing).

Here's a complete list for posterity:
Aaron Allston, Wraith Squadron *
David Baldacci, True Blue
Jim Butcher, Cold Days
Jacqueline Carey, Dark Currents
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
Paul Cornell, London Falling
Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Joe Haldeman, Mindbridge
Joe Haldeman, The Coming
Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers
Jim Hines, The Mermaid's Madness
Jim Hines, Red Hood's Revenge
Jim Hines, The Snow Queen's Shadow
Jim Hines, Libriomancer
Nalo Hopkinson, Brown Girl in the Ring *
Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne
Francis Knight, Fade to Black
Brian McClellan, Promise of Blood
Seanan McGuire, Discount Armageddon
Seanan McGuire, Midnight Blue-Light Special
Seanan McGuire, Rosemary and Rue
Tim Powers, Declare
Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass *
Terry Pratchett, Small Gods *
Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals
Gareth Roberts, Shada
Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars *
George Thompson, Verbal Judo
Connie Willis, Blackout
Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light
(asterisk indicates a re-read)