Not A New Year's Resolution

[hatgirl]

I don't do New Year's Resolutions. I demand the freedom to make a resolution in March and stick to it for as long as I damn well feel like it.^* But last January some of the MobileRead site members decided to track how many books they had read. And I realised I had no idea how many new books I read in a year.

I reread a lot. I mean, a lot. I will reread books I don't like just to complain about them more accurately. And I will reread books I do like over and over and over and over until the cover falls off and the pages fall out.^$ But how many new books do I read (and finish) in 12 months?

It turns out the answer for 2011 was "63". How interesting. I wonder how many I'll read this year?


* My "don't pirate ebooks AND don't buy DRM'd ebooks" resolution has been going very well for over 18months now.
$ Mental note: buy new copy of Lois McMaster Bujold's "A Civil Campaign".^%
% Mental note 2: stop falling asleep on top of books.


1. The Crowded Shadows (The Moorehawke Trilogy #2) by Celine Kiernan (paper book)

2. March to the Stars (Empire of Man #3) by David Weber & John Ringo (ebook)

3. The Rebel Prince (The Moorehawke Trilogy #3) by Celine Kiernan (paper book)

4. Lightspeed Magazine #1 (June 2010) (ebook)

5. Lightspeed Magazine #2 (July 2010) (ebook)

6. Lightspeed Magazine #3 (August 2010) (ebook)

7. Lightspeed Magazine #4 (September 2010) (ebook)

8. Lightspeed Magazine #5 (October 2010) (ebook)

9. Lightspeed Magazine #6 (November 2010) (ebook)

10. Lightspeed Magazine #7 (December 2010) (ebook)

11. Analog Magazine (December 2010) (ebook)

12. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (ebook)

13. The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (ebook)

14. His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle (ebook)

15. Out On Blue Six by Ian McDonald (paper book)

16. Ancient Appetites by Oisín McGann (The Wildenstern Series #1) (paper book)

17. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (July/August 2010) (ebook)

18. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (September/October 2010) (ebook)

19. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (November/December 2010) (ebook)

20. Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (ebook)

21. Seeds of Change edited by John Joseph Adams (ebook)

22. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (ebook)

23. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (January 2002) (ebook)

24. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (ebook)

25. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (February 2002) (ebook)

26. Susan, Bill and the Wolf Dog by Malcolm Saville (paper book)

27. Trillions by Nicholas Fisk (paper book)

28. Zoo City by Lauren Beukes (ebook)

29. Agaton Sax and the Scotland Yard Mystery by Nils-Olof Franzén (paper book)

30. The Deserter (The Boneworld Trilogy #2) by Peadar Ó Gúilín (paper book)

31. Feed (The Newsflesh Trilogy #1) by Mira Grant (ebook)

32. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (The Inheritance Trilogy #1) by N.K. Jemisin (ebook)

33. The Dervish House by Ian McDonald (ebook)

34. The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling (paper book)

35. Elantris by Brandon Sanderson (paper book)

36. Dracula by Bram Stoker (ebook)

37. Of Blood And Honey by Stina Leicht (ebook)

38. Jack the Giant-Killer by Charles de Lint (paper book)

39. Fallen Dragon by Peter F. Hamilton (paper book)

40. The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers (paper book)

41. Farthing by Jo Walton (ebook)

42. Infernal Devices by K.W. Jeter (ebook)

43. Redemption In Indigo by Karen Lord (ebook)

44. Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest (ebook)

45. World War Z by Max Brooks (paper book)

46. Moxyland by Lauren Beukes (ebook)

47. The Magicians by Lev Grossman (ebook)

48. Orlando by Virginia Woolf (ebook)

49. With The Lightnings (RCN Series #1) by David Drake (ebook)

50. Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link (ebook)

51. Lt. Leary, Commanding (RCN Series #2) by David Drake (ebook)

52. The Far Side of the Stars (RCN Series #3) by David Drake (ebook)

53. Old Man's War (Old Man's War Series #1) by John Scalzi (ebook)

54. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (ebook/paper book)

55. The Door Through Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley (ebook)

56. Primary Inversion (Skolian Empire Series #1) by Catherine Asaro (ebook)

57. Black on Black (Heyoka Blackeagle Series #1) by K.D. Wentworth (ebook)

58. In The Garden of Iden (The Company Series #1) by Kage Baker (ebook)

59. Stars Over Stars (Heyoka Blackeagle Series #2) by K.D. Wentworth (ebook)

60. Sunrise Alley by Catherine Asaro (ebook)

61. Debris (Veiled Worlds Trilogy #1) by Jo Anderton (ebook)

62. The Colours of Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley (ebook)

63. Scarlet (King Raven Trilogy #2) by Stephen R. Lawhead (paper book)