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2011 in Books

I’ve been conscientiously using Goodreads to review every book I read. I’ve used the Goodreads API, some Perl, and some Javascript to boil down my year’s reading. Without further ado, I present …

My Year in Books

Books: 100
Reading Rate: 3.6 days/book
Monthly Breakdown: 8 books/month on average 11,9,12,5,6,6,7,1,9,15,6,13
Busiest Month: Oct (15 books)
Slowest Month: Aug (1 book)

Total Reading: 29,696 pages
Shortest Book: Your Business Brickyard: Getting back to the basics to make your business more fun to run. at 64 pages
Longest Book: The Crimson Petal and the White at 900 pages
Average Book: 309 pages

All Reviews: 47,905 words
Shortest Review: No Dominion (Joe Pitt, #2) at 9 words
Longest Review: The Philosophical Breakfast Club: Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World at 3,467 words
Average Review: 479 words

Average Quality: 3.3 stars
Quality over time: 3.7,3.3,3,2,3.3,3,3.3,4,3.6,2.7,3.3,3.8
Best Month: Aug (4 stars average)
Crappest Month: Apr (2 stars average)

Shelf Size: 21,18,17,12,9,9,7,7,6,6,4,4,3,3,2,2,1,1,1,1,1,1
Top Five Busiest Shelves:
1: history (21 books)
2: science-fact (18 books)
3: other-fiction (17 books)
4: abandoned (12 books)
5: sf (9 books)
Slowest Shelf: medicine (1 book)

Good Books: 47 rated 4 or higher
1. The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind’s Greatest Invention (5 stars)
2. What’s the Point of School?: Rediscovering the Heart of Education (5 stars)
3. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (5 stars)
4. The Golden Mean (5 stars)
5. Alex’s Adventures in Numberland (5 stars)
6. The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1) (5 stars)
7. About a Boy (5 stars)
8. You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You’re Deluding Yourself (5 stars)
9. 100 New Zealand Poems (5 stars)
10. The Anthologist (5 stars)
11. The Lost Books of The Odyssey: A Novel (5 stars)
12. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In (5 stars)
13. The Cloudspotters Guide (5 stars)
14. Just My Type: A Book about Fonts (4 stars)
15. Shit My Dad Says (4 stars)
16. Steve Jobs (4 stars)
17. Running Blind (4 stars)
18. The Crimson Petal and the White (4 stars)
19. Guardian of the Dead (4 stars)
20. Caribou Island (4 stars)
21. High Fidelity (4 stars)
22. Feynman (4 stars)
23. An Autobiography (4 stars)
24. Younger Next Year: A Guide to Living Like 50 Until You’re 80 and Beyond (4 stars)
25. Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (4 stars)
26. Legend of a Suicide (4 stars)
27. The Quantum Thief (The Quantum Thief Trilogy #1) (4 stars)
28. Leading After a Layoff : Reignite Your Team’s ProductivityQuickly (4 stars)
29. A Scientist at the Seashore (Dover Science Books) (4 stars)
30. How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival (4 stars)
31. The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire (4 stars)
32. Platform (4 stars)
33. The Cleaner (4 stars)
34. The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks? (4 stars)
35. Visible Learning (4 stars)
36. History of Life (4 stars)
37. The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses (4 stars)
38. And the Ass Saw the Angel (4 stars)
39. The Influencing Machine (4 stars)
40. The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible As Literally As Possible (4 stars)
41. Remarkable Discoveries! (4 stars)
42. How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (4 stars)
43. Wild Horses (4 stars)
44. Reflex (4 stars)
45. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (4 stars)
46. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (4 stars)
47. Half a Life (4 stars)