By the Numbers
The Bookshelf
A decade of chronicling what she reads — recaps, reviews, and yearly wrap-ups, distilled into numbers. Every figure below comes straight from the posts.
162
books in her record year (2018)
630
books featured in the Chronicles
62
chronicles published
18,292
pages read in 2017 alone
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| books | |
|---|---|
| 2017 | 16 |
| 2018 | 93 |
| 2019 | 257 |
| 2020 | 94 |
| 2021 | 148 |
| 2022 | 18 |
| 2023 | 1 |
| 2024 | 4 |
Counted from unique book links in recap and review posts. Quiet blogging years mean fewer featured books — not necessarily fewer read.
2018: The 162-Book Year
Her record year — a book roughly every 54 hours. A quarter of them earned five stars; only five books all year got one.
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| books | |
|---|---|
| Jan | 11 |
| Feb | 14 |
| Mar | 15 |
| Apr | 12 |
| May | 14 |
| Jun | 12 |
| Jul | 16 |
| Aug | 16 |
| Sep | 14 |
| Oct | 15 |
| Nov | 9 |
| Dec | 14 |
42
five-star reads in 2018 — 25% of everything she finished
Oldest to newest
From Voltaire's Candide (1759) to Michelle Obama's Becoming (2018) — 259 years of publishing in one reading year.
Her Top 8 of the record year
- 01 Skin in the Game Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- 02 Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Journey Alfred Lansing
- 03 A Briefer History of Time Stephen Hawking
- 04 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari
- 05 The Library at Mount Char Scott Hawkins
- 06 Circe Madeline Miller
- 07 All Our Wrong Todays Elan Mastai
- 08 Sometimes I Lie Alice Feeney