POST HOW MANY BOOKS YOU'VE READ THIS YEAR AND COMPETE FOR WHO'SE READ THE MOST!

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am about to finisg American Psycho so i guess 6

I read about 30 books a year. All philosophy and science though... it compounds.

>how many books
Retarded question famalam. You'll get more informative answers if you asked "how many pages"

I've read 800 books this year, they're all twenty page clifford the big red dog picture books.

I usually read ~5-6 books at a time (sometimes more) so it takes me forever to finish anything. (I will usually concentrate on a single book for around a week at a time however.) ... But so far this year I've read (in order):
>At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft
>A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
>Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
>The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
>The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

12,000 pages.

I come here 10 hours every day so I probably read the equivalent of a few thousand books.

1—Bed (Tao Lin)
2—Girl in the Flammable Skirt (Aimee Bender)
3—Days (Mary Robison)
4—Birds of America (Lorrie Moore)
5—Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
6—Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
7—Bipolar Cowboy (Noah Cicero)
8—Over For Rockwell (Uzodinma Okehi)
9—Break It Down (Lydia Davis)
10—Like Life (Lorrie Moore)
11—Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (Richard Yates)
12—Survival of the Sickest (Dr. Sharon Moalem w/ Jonathan Prince)
13—Honored Guest (Joy Williams)
14—Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)
15—Woodcutters (Thomas Bernhard)

I've been reading IJ off and on for the past two years though so probably it doesn't count for much here on this list.

I like the idea of keeping track of how much you've read though, and aspiring to read as many books as possible. I mean what else are you going to do...browse Veeky Forums?

Wouldn't make for a good thread. You would have to find people autistic enough to brag about and this AND calculate the pages.

And if you really want to get nit picky aren't there different page sizes? A word count would best accurate.

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Nova by Delany
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Arabian Nights
Flowers of Evil
Atlas by Borges
A Room of Ones Own
Five Spice Street
A Maze of Death
Neuromancer
Ancient Sorceries
You by Frank Stanford
Portnoy's Complaint
Count Zero
As I Lay Dying
Interzone
The Return of the Sorcerer
Selected Short Stories of Phillip K. Dick
Mona Lisa Overdrive
MacBeth

Currenty reading
Book of Fantasy
The Republic
Vicar of Wakefield
Best Poetry of the English Language

Goodreads tracks pages read. Doesn't help with the page size issue, though.

31 books so far.

I don't fucking care how many pages you've read

picture of dorian gray
ulysses
dubliners
portrait (second reading)
short history of ireland
as i lay dying
american psycho
a room of one's own
short stories by: flannery o'connor, various irish guys, faulkner, kafka, borges etc.
poetry: wordsworth, eliot, yeats, various others
a few plato dialogues
a few more i can't recall at the moment

currently reading:
blood meridian
master and margerita
history of greek philosophy, pre-socratics to aristotle.

do you guys keep up with music and film as well? visual art? i find it hard to distribute focus to all media equally. i find myself going into 'phases' of media where i binge on film, drama, or lit, maybe music for a few months at a time, studying with intensity until i lose interest. wondering if anyone else does this?

also, doesn't anyone read essays and criticism on the books they read? when i finished ulysses i read tons of essays and lectures, revisiting the passages again after the fact. i think it helps and gives a more insightful reading as opposed to the 'just read it' attitude i often see on \lit\. e.g. i read hamlet, therefore i read coleridge, eliot, goethe, etc. helped a lot to further the understanding of it.

55. Feels good right in my vanity.

Sebastian?

Anyway, exactly 50 so far.

Highlights:

Sebald's Die Ausgewanderten
Eckermann's Gespräche mit Goethe
Lewontin's Biology as Ideology
Schulz' Street of Crocodiles
Bellairs' Face in the Frost

Lies mal bitte 'n paar Richard Yates Bücher.

47 books, 14,000 pages.

Been writing my thesis so my reading is a bit sporadic. Not too pleased with how little literature I've read this year, but reading bullshit academic articles for hours every day really saps the energy out.

Read:
Darkness at Noon - Koestler
Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Murakami
The Name of the Rose - Eco
The Crying of Lot 49 - Pynchon

Reading on and off:
Unbearable Lightness of Being - Kundera
Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
Spring Snow - Mishima
Steppenwolf - Hesse

100500 books. (To be fair, they're pretty short books.)

Do I win?

16 so far:

Frost- Thomas Bernhard
The Social Contract and Discoursed- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Noli me Tangere- Jose Rizal
A Question of Upbringing- Anthony Powell
Youth- Joseph Conrad
Water Margin Vol. 1- Shi Nai'an
Water Margin Vol. 2- Shi Nai'an
Don Quixote- Cervantes
The Fountain Overflows- Rebecca West
Meshugah- Isaac Beshevis Singer
A Day in the Life- Senji Kuroi
Mythology- Edith Hamilton
The Person Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant- Grant
The Stranger- Camus
Girl, 20- Kingsley Amis

Are you listening to the washington post presidential podcast? That's what made me pick up his memoirs. Fucking long as hell though, been reading steady and I'm still only at the beginning of the civil war.

No i just picked it up by chance... Fuckin' right though- i wish I would have picked up the abridged copy. Wait till you get to to part where they move in on Charleston... pretty much a third of the whole book where Grant describes the military strategy and movements across this river and that swamp- all of which were completely foreign to me- I'm from Michigan. At the beginning of the book i would try to follow along by looking the battles up online, but after a while you just say 'fuck it' and try to power through.

Oh sweet, that'll actually be pretty cool. I'm in Charleston right now actually, went to school here.

Guess I'll post my books read as well.

Othello
Burning down the House
Killing and Dying
Cathedral
There’s Something I Want You to Do
Waiting for Godot
Self-Help
Coriolanus
Men and Cartoons
The Magic Mountain
Bobcat
The Quiet American
John Barleycorn
Madness, Rack, and Honey
As You Like It
Don Quixote
Selected Poems of Amy Lowell
Things Fall Apart
Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth
The Sport of Kings
Citizen by Claudia Rankine
Billy Budd
The Good Soldier Svejk
The Sounds of Poetry Robert Pinsky
If on a winter’s night a traveler
All The Living
Holy the Firm

I'm about 9 and a half pages into IJ

33.

I should read more novellas.

I don't read

The Cannibal - Hawkes
The Aeneid - Virgil
The Iliad - Homer
White Noise - DeLillo
Arcadia - Stoppard
The Scarborough - Lista
Seven Contemporary Chinese Women Authors - Yang
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Diaz
The Crying of Lot 49 - Pynchon
Miss Julie and Other Plays - Strindberg
Scocouyant - Chariandy
Poems, Protest, and a Dream - De La Cruz
Kitchen - Yoshimoto
Vineland - Pynchon
Lost in the Funhouse - Barth
Social Acupuncture - O’Donnell
The Lime Twig - Hawkes
Get Me Out Of Here - Murakami
Q&A - Swarup
On Such A Full Sea - Lee
Cockroach - Mouawad
Mao II - DeLillo
Precolonial Black Africa - Diop
Pnin - Nabokov
As I Lay Dying - Faulkner
Bleeding Edge - Pynchon
The Beetle Leg - Hawkes
Zero K - DeLillo
Four Major Plays - Ibsen
The Gospel According to the Son - Mailer
Pale Fire - Nabokov
Black Boy - Wright

I quit my goodreads challenge so iunno how many that is

I never liked movies as much, I can't see it as anything more than occasional entertainment so it doesn't grip me as much as literature and philosophy do.
And music, well I listen to it, if that's what you are asking. These days mostly Chelsea Wolfe, Drudkh, Wagner, Bach and Tchaikovsky.

54 so far, with a goal of 52. Feels pretty good, although some of the books were short. The next few I'll probably read are long, though, which I guess I could consider a penance.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - Rilke
Lolita - Nabokov
Anthem - Rand
The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Wilde
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Miller
Macbeth - Shakespeare
Great Expectations - Dickens
Brave New World - Huxley
The Remains of the Day - Ishiguro
Ubik - Dick
Night - Wiesel
The Optimist's Daughter - Welty
The Fountainhead - Rand
Waiting for Godot - Beckett
The Pearl - Steinbeck
The Bell Jar - Plath
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Carver
Wuthering Heights - Best Brontë
If on a winter's night a traveler - Calvino
The Screwtape Letters - Lewis
Plainsong - Haruf
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - 2nd Best Brontë
Norwegian Wood - Murakami
The Unvanquished - Faulkner
To the Lighthouse - Woolf
Mason & Dixon - Pynchon
Geek Love - Dunn
The Collected Poems - Plath
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Smith
Out of the Silent Planet - Lewis
Fates and Furies - Groff
Perelandra - Lewis
For the Time Being - Dillard
That Hideous Strength - Lewis
The Ladies of the Corridor - Park, D'Usseau
Spiritual Writings - Kierkegaard
Brooklyn - Tóibín
The Rachel Papers - Amis
Naked Lunch - Burroughs
Complete Poems - Sexton
The Children - Wharton
All the Pretty Horses - McCarthy
The Oedipus Cycle - Sophocles
The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger
Interior Castle - Teresa of Ávila
Rules of Civility - Towles
No one belongs here more than you. - July
The Brief History of the Dead - Brockmeier
The Road - McCarthy
1984 - Orwell
Stories - Chekhov

I don't like watching films. I usually listen to one or two albums a day and play guitar.
105 books this year

Sorcerer's Stone
Chamber of Secrets
Prisoner of Azkaban
To Kill A Mockingbird
Less Than Zero
Angels & Demons
Animal Farm

Just started reading for fun about a month ago.