At the end of 2012, inspired by this blog post, I decided to read one book every week for all of 2013. And I did it! You can check out the full list here, so this post is mostly going to be some wrap-up thoughts.
First off, reading one book every week was hard. Sometimes I didn’t like the book, sometimes I didn’t have time, and sometimes I was just lazy. That meant that I needed to read a lot of short, easy books to fill in gaps. I think I read a few too many (I would have liked to read more meaty fare), but that’s just part of the process. Overall, I read 14 filler books (labeled “Misc” in the chart below) compared to 11 fiction, 11 non fiction, and 8 literature.
Sorry about the numbering on the left axis, I can’t figure out how to make Google Docs do it by ones instead of fours.
The Best and Worst
In true end of year wrap-up fashion, I want to go through these genres and talk about my favorite and least favorite books in each category.