This year I read 70 books, which is up from my total of 62 in 2017! I try to beat my own personal best of the year before, but of course the danger of doing especially well is that the following year you have to best it. 2019 will be the year of 71 books!
Here's the breakdown:
18 fiction
22 non fiction
1 play
1 book of poetry
28 children's books.
I count books I read aloud in the car to the family, books I read on my own, those I read aloud to the children at bedtime, and if I used Audible (I don't, but not for any particular reason) I would count those as well. If I start a book, and don't finish it, I don't count it. Even if there is only a page or two left. However, I can count those books on the next year's list. I use my own common sense with children's books - I will count The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, for example, but I will not count Mr. Putter and Tabby Bake A Cake - even though 'technically' it has chapters. A book has to be somewhat substantial for its genre. To this end I do not count long essays in my yearly total - although I do write them down on my list for my own records.
Of the 28 children's books:
2 of them I read aloud in the car (I actually read three books in the car this year, but only two were recorded as 'children's' books):
More About Paddington
Abel's Island
18 of them I read aloud to the children:
The Family Under The Bridge
Ballet Shoes
When My Naughty Little Sister Was Good
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Poppy
Stories From Grandma's Attic
More Stories From Grandma's Attic
The Four-Story Mistake
Encyclopedia Brown Cracks the Case
Twenty and Ten
The Doll People
Catwings
Catwings Return
The Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook
Pippi Longstocking
Book Scavenger
Mr. Popper's Penguins
8 of them are children's books that I read on my own:
Catherine, Called Birdy
Moominvalley In November
Island Of The Blue Dolphins
Every Living Thing
The Gift of the Pirate Queen
Shoeshine Girl
Everything on a Waffle
The Boggart
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