Book Log 2013 - The Year So Far

This year, the one resolution that I've been able to keep has been to keep a list of all of the books I read. I've always been curious about how much I actually read in a year, so I decided to find out. Earlier tonight, I tweeted that I have read 54 books so far this year, at an average rate of one book every 1.9 days. A couple of people asked me what I've been reading, so I figured I'd post it here. I have to admit, this list makes my tastes look somewhat less than sophisticated, but so be it. I'm enjoying myself. ...and my new Kindle. (Thanks, Mom!)

A few notes: This list includes children's and young adult novels that I've read, but not picture books. #6, #7 and #36 are for elementary school kids. #2 and #27 are for high school, more or less. (In reality, #2 is for no one. It was the most nauseatingly terrible piece of trash I've ever inflicted on myself.)

Also, I included a couple of novellas that I read. Cheating? Perhaps. But even without them, I've read 51.

January

1. Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese
2. The Vampire Diaries: The Return, Volume I - L.J. Smith
3. Storm Front - Jim Butcher
4. Naked Heat - Richard Castle
5. Heat Rises - Richard Castle
6. Benjamin Franklinstein Lives! - Matthew McElligott
7. The Expeditioners and the Treasure of Drowned Man’s Canyon - S.S. Taylor
8. Inside Scientology: The Story of America’s Most Secretive Religion - Janet Reitman
9. Fool Moon - Jim Butcher
10. The Custom of the Army (Novella) - Diana Gabaldon
11. A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows (Novella) - Diana Gabaldon
12. Club Dead - Charlaine Harris
13. Dead to the World - Charlaine Harris
14. Dead as a Doornail - Charlaine Harris
15. Definitely Dead - Charlaine Harris
16. All Together Dead - Charlaine Harris
17. From Dead to Worse - Charlaine Harris
18. Dead and Gone - Charlaine Harris
19. Dead Reckoning - Charlaine Harris

February

20. Deadlocked - Charlaine Harris
21. A Touch of Dead - Charlaine Harris
22. Jesus Freaks - Don Lattin
23. Frozen Heat - Richard Castle
24. Baltimore Blues - Laura Lippman
25. Grave Peril - Jim Butcher
26. Mormon America - Richard Ostling and Joan Ostling
27. How to Lead a Life of Crime - Kirsten Miller
28. Summer Knight - Jim Butcher

March

29. Death Masks - Jim Butcher
30. Blood Rites - Jim Butcher
31. The Surgeon - Tess Gerritsen
32. The Apprentice - Tess Gerritsen
33. Memories of the Future: Volume 1 - Wil Wheaton
34. Dead Beat - Jim Butcher
35. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin - Erik Larson
36. Fourth Grade Rats - Jerry Spinelli
37. Irish History for Dummies - Mike Cronin
38. The Sinner - Tess Gerritsen
39. Body Double - Tess Gerritsen
40. Vanish - Tess Gerritsen
41. The Mephisto Club - Tess Gerritsen
42. The Keepsake - Tess Gerritsen
43. Ice Cold - Tess Gerritsen
44. The Silent Girl - Tess Gerritsen
45. Last to Die - Tess Gerritsen

April

46. Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life - Gretchen Rubin
47. Proven Guilty - Jim Butcher
48. White Night - Jim Butcher
49. A Brewing Storm (novella) - Richard Castle
50. Small Favor - Jim Butcher
51. Turn Coat - Jim Butcher
52. Changes - Jim Butcher
53. Ghost Story - Jim Butcher
54. Cold Days - Jim Butcher