2011 book stats

I love doing book stats!

Total books read: 38
Total authors read: 33

Authors
male: 15
female: 18
new: 24

Genre
fiction:13

historical fiction: 1
young adult: 16
crime/mystery: 1
fantasy:2
sci fi: 0
non-fiction:6


Year of Publication
oldest: 1892 (The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes)


1890s-1
1940s- 1
1960s- 4
1970s- 4
1980s- 4

1990s- 11
2000s- 15

Places visited in books
New York, United Kingdom, Georgia, New Jersey, Connecticut, Oregon, Washington, Texas, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, India...and more I probably forgot!

Top 10 of 2011

in no particular order

1. A Gracious Plenty

2. A Clockwork Orange

3. The Great Brain

4. The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud

5. One Night at the Call Center

6. Trolley Car Familiy

7. The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc

8. Diary of An American Au Pair

9. Fire in the Valley

10. Ruby Slippers of Oz*

*Ruby Slippers was a reread but I was as fascinated with this book the second time I read it as I was the first.

2011 books

I guess I don't really use this blog much anymore except for my yearly totals, if anyone is reading this! I've been using goodreads a lot-please find me there (Amy Gourley) I really didn't read as much as I would have liked to in 2011 and I think this has been my lowest number read in a while.

January

1. Countdown January- Daniel Parker

2. Vinyl Leaves- Stephen Fjellman

February

3. The Suble Knife- Philip Pullman

4. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes-Arthur Conan Doyle

5. Cringe- Sarah Brown

6. Mortified 2- David Nadelberg

March

7. Mortified- David Nadelberg

8. A Gracious Plenty- Shari Reynolds

9. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing- Judy Blume

10. Superfudge- Judy Blume

April

11. A Clockwork Orange- Anthony Burgess

12. Double Fudge- Judy Blume

13. Otherwise Known As Sheila the Great- Judy Blume

14. The Pigman- Paul Zindel

May

15. Ramona and Her Mother- Beverly Cleary

16. Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast- Bill Richardson

17. A Woman's Place- Marita Goldman

18. The Other Side of Dark- Joan Nixon

19. The Great Brain- John D. Fitzgerald

June

20. Eclipse-Stephenie Meyer

21. Breaking Dawn- Stephenie Meyer

22. The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud- Ben Sherwood

July

23. Requiem for a Princess- Ruth Arthur

24. Trolley Car Family- Eleanor Clymer

25. Pears on a Willow Tree- Leslie Pietrzyk

August

26. Stori Telling- Tori Spelling

27. Filthy Rich- Dorothy Samuels

28. One Night at the Call Center- Chetan Bhagat

29. Finding Mr Right- Emily Carmichael

30. Class Notes- Kate Stimpson

31. The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc- Loraine Despres

September

32. The Te of Piglet- Benjamin Hoff

33. The Ruby Slippers of Oz-Rhys Thomas

November

34. How Not to Spend Your Senior Year- Cameron Dokey

35. Coraline- Neil Gaiman

36. Fire in the Valley- Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine

December

37. The Forest- Edward Rutherfurd

38. Diary of An American Au Pair- Majorie Leet Ford