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Statistics

Books read by month and year:

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
2009	3	2	3	2	2	3							15
2008	4	3	3	6	6	5	8	4	4	2	2	2	49
2007	3	2	2	2	5	2	2	3	3	4	3	4	35
2006	7	12	10	9	5	6	11	10	6	3	3	2	84
2005	9	9	9	11	12	10	11	14	10	8	13	16	132
2004	8	11	13	6	9	10	10	10	5	5	6	7	100
2003	2	4	3	1	10	2	6	4	2	7	7	6	54
2002	4	3	3	1	4	3	5	5	1	1	0	3	33
2001	5	1	5	2	4	4	6	2	3	1	0	2	35
2000	5	5	2	2	0	1	5	6	4	7	7	6	50
1999	3	3	2	3	4	2	5	5	5	4	4	5	45
1998	3	5	5	5	3	4	6	3	2	3	6	6	51
1997	5	2	2	3	7	2	6	7	5	5	4	3	51
1996	7	0	0	1	2	6	8	7	9	7	6	10	63
1995	4	8	6	4	1	4	0	1	1	3	5	7	44
*1994	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	38
*1993	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	23
*1992	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	34
													936
Prior to 1992**													170
Total													1,106

*Averages; not tracked by month until 1995
**Can't remember many of these; if you went to middle school / junior high in the 70s and 80s, please help me remember what we read!

Statistics:

	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Total pages	35,395	41,072	24,010	9,490	15,760
Mean pages per day	97	113	66	26	43
Mean pages per book	354	311	286	271	322
Mean books per month	8.3	11.0	7.0	2.9	4.1
Total unique authors	82	120	81	25	46
Authors new to me	60	103	59	10	21
Books new to me	99	132	84	35	49
Story collections	11	40	22	9	12
Total stories	275	529*	262	102	189
Translations	14	17	2	2	1
Pre-1950 books	19	11	6	0	0
E-books	6	0	0	0	0
Fiction ratio (fiction/non-fiction)	78/22	111/21	68/16	31/4	37/12
Male/female author ratio (m/f)	62/38	96/36	41/43	17/18	25/24
Dead author ratio (living/dead)	58/24	99/21	67/17	32/3	45/4

*Does NOT include the 100 stories from Decameron or the 200 Calvino Folktales.