I am not letting 2009 slip away without doing a post with lots of bullet points and numbers. So without further ado…
My very favourite books read during 2009
Roughly in reading order:
- Heir to Sevenwaters (Juliet Marillier)
- Bone Crossed (Patricia Briggs)
- Magic Strikes (Ilona Andrews)
- Corambis (Sarah Monette)
- The Queen of Attolia (Megan Whalen Turner)
- Hunting Ground (Patricia Briggs)
- The King of Attolia (Megan Whalen Turner)
- The Dark Tide (Josh Lanyon)
- Fire (Kristin Cashore)
- Death’s Mistress (Karen Chance)
Apart from Josh Lanyon’s “The Dark Tide” (mystery / m/m romance), all the rest are fantasy (including four urban fantasy books).
Patricia Briggs and Megan Whalen Turner appear twice – no surprises there.
And coincidentally, there are ten of them – makes a nice Top Ten list!
New-to-me authors I’m glad I discovered during 2009
- Alison Goodman, author of “Eon: Rise of the Dragoneye” (YA fantasy)
- Ellen Crosby, author of The Wine Country mysteries
- Jeanne Birdsall, author of the Penderwicks books (children’s)
- Joanne Dobson, author of the Professor Karen Pelletier mysteries
- Lisa Lutz, author of the hilarious Spellman Files books
- Megan Whalen Turner (very obviously)
- Sarah Rees Brennan, author of “The Demon’s Lexicon” (YA fantasy)
Author most-glommed during 2009
L.M. Montgomery, due to me delving into her backlist throughout most of January
The statistics…
Because I like tracking these. What do you mean, better things to do with my time?
| 2009 | 2008 | |
| # of books read during the year | 115 | 155 |
| # published during the year itself | 55 (48%) | 73 (47%) |
| # of authors read | 71 | 88 |
| # of new-to-me authors | 22 (30%) | 27 (30%) |
So although the number of books I read decreased from 2008, the proportion of books published during the year itself and that of new-to-me authors remained the same. Interesting – I really wasn’t expecting that.
And the pretty graph…
Because I did one for 2008 as well. Can you tell I went on holiday in Oct 2008 and Sept 2009?
And that is really it for 2009, here’s to a great 2010!
Me and My Books 
oh. my. gosh. *snapping jaw shut, blinking googly eyes*
that graph is the prettiest depiction of reading habits i have ever seen! all these year end wrap up posts make me wish i kept a spreadsheet this year! at almost 200 books read there is NO WAY im going to make one after the fact. *sigh* it will just have to be a project for 2010.
Everyone needs a month of September like yours!! LOL 🙂
I so agree with you on the Briggs, the Whalen Turner and Magic Strikes 😀 Great list you have there, Li 😀
I love book stats. 😀
I’m hoping to read 100 books in 2010… but I’m not off to such a great start. Still working on book #2. LOL Oh no!
Lusty Reader – LOL, thank you! I cheated somewhat and bastardised the graph I did last year because I couldn’t figure out how to recreate it from scratch. It was apparently an one-off!
Nath – Heh. September was good! Btw, I’m getting the Steve Kluger book you rec’d from the library this weekend.
Christine – If you’re anything like me, what you need is a holiday 😉 That’ll up your book count!
I’m sure you’re going to love it, Li!! Let me know what you think of it once you’re done! 😀
No Julia Spencer-Fleming? I thought you read her last year. Good list. Will be checking out some of these to see if I already own them (Andrews title for sure).
Hey Keishon – I had to double-check when I read I SHALL NOT WANT. Nope, that was year before last, time flies. I’ve just gone to her website and she has an April 2010 release – can’t wait.
Nath – Planning to read the Steve Kluger this weekend…
Aw what a neat graph!!