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Today ends the year of my book records. Ever since high school, I've been keeping track of what books I've read. For reasons lost to the mists of time, the "year" is August 15-August 14. As it happens, DH and I are in a reading competition this year, though we're competing on the solar year since that's the cycle his list is on. (Yes, I do own stock in Barnes & Noble. Why do you ask?)

Perhaps because of that competition, or perhaps just through sheer luck, my grand total for the year is 73 74. This is the best number out of the last six years, since I switched from paper to electronic record keeping. The next highest number was in 03-04 (when I did not have a full time job) and managed only 60 books.

For the morbidly curious,

Glass Houses -- Rachel Caine -- SF
Diagnosing and Changing Organization Culture: Based on the Competing Values Framework -- Kim S. Collins and Robert Quinn -- Business
Wintersmith -- Terry Pratchett -- YA
The Outback Stars -- Sandra McDonald -- SF
Kitty and the Silver Bullet -- Carrie Vaughn -- SF
Uglies -- Scott Westerfield -- YA
A Hat Full of Sky -- Terry Pratchett -- YA
Bible Stories for Adults -- James Morrow -- SF
Get Well Soon -- Julie Halpern -- YA
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't -- Jim Collins -- Business
Cathy's Book: If Found Call 650-266-8233 -- Sean Stewart and Jordan Weisman -- YA
The Time Traveller's Wife -- Audrey Niffeneggar -- Lit
All Tomorrow's Parties -- William Gibson -- SF
Superpowers -- David Schwartz -- SF
Straight Man: A Novel -- Richard Russon -- Lit
Agents of Light and Darkness -- Simon Green -- YA
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac -- Gabrille Zevin -- YA
Enjoy Your Gifted Child -- Carol Addison Takacs -- Education
The Soft Edge: A Natural History and Future of the Information Revolution -- Paul Levinson -- History
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle -- Hugh Lofting -- Lit
The Hidden Family -- Charles Stross -- SF
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents -- Terry Pratchett -- YA
Don’t Care High -- Gordan Korman -- YA
Misfortune -- Wesley Stace -- Lit
Ordinary Miracles -- Stephanie Tolan -- YA
Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited -- Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein -- Memoir
The Midwich Cuckoos -- John Wyndham -- SF
Now You See It . . . -- Vivian Vande Velde -- YA
The Battle For God -- Karen Armstrong -- Religion
Dead To Me -- Anton Stroud -- SF
So You Want to Be A Wizard -- Diane Duane -- YA
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union -- Michael Chabon -- Lit
Cellphone: A Natural History of the Information Revolution -- Paul Levinson -- Media
The Plot to Save Socrates -- Paul Levinson -- SF
Go Ask Malice -- Robert Joseph Levy -- Media
"You Mean I’m Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?" -- Kate Kelly & Peggy Ramundo -- Self Help
Buffy: Origins Omnibus #1 -- Joss Whedon -- SF
Many Bloody Returns -- Charlaine Harris ed -- SF
Soon I Will Be Invincible -- Austin Grossman -- SF
Gods Behaving Badly -- Marie Phillips -- SF
Something From the Nightside -- Simon R. Green -- SF
2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatyl -- Daniel Pinchbeck -- Philo.
The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age -- Sven Birkerts -- Sociology
Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood after a Lifetime of Ambivalence -- Rebecca Walker -- Memoire
1633 -- David Weber & Eric Flint -- SF
Me Talk Pretty One Day -- David Sedaris -- Autobiography
Kitty Takes A Holiday -- Carrie Vaughn -- SF
Kitty Goes to Washington -- Carrie Vaughn -- SF
Kitty and the Midnight Hour -- Carrie Vaughn -- SF
Eifelheim -- Michael Flynn -- SF
"Alan Mendelsohn, The Boy From Mars" -- Daniel Pinkerton -- YA
Where’s My Jetpack -- Daniel Wilson -- Science
The Book of Courtesans -- Susan Griffith -- History
Secret Story -- Ramsey Campbell -- Horror
The Last Witchfinder -- James Morrow -- Lit
God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible -- Adam Nicolson -- History
The American Plague -- Molly Caldwell Crosby -- History
The Brief History of the Dead -- Kevin Brockmeier -- Lit
Nobody’s Son -- Sean Stewart -- SF
The Lecturer’s Tale -- James Hynes -- Lit
On Writing -- Stephen King -- Autobiography
Wraith -- Phaedra Weldon -- SF
Unshapely Things -- Mark DelFranco -- SF
World War Z -- Max Brooks -- SF
If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor -- Bruce Campbell -- Autobiography
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything -- Christopher Hitchens -- Soc.
Magic Street -- Orson Scott Card -- SF
Sex Wars -- Marge Piercy -- Lit
Borrowed Tides -- Paul Levinson -- SF
Heat -- Nancy Holder -- Media
Marvel 1602 -- Neil Gaiman -- Comic
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- J.K. Rowling -- YA
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed -- Alan Alda -- Biography
Christianity: The Origins of a Pagan Religion -- Phillipe Walter -- Religion


Edit: Caught a book that I'd somehow left off the list. That's been fixed.