My Year in Reading

Number of books read in 2011: 62 (full list of titles found HERE).

Average per month: 5.17

Average per week: 1.19

Worst month: July (2)

Best month: September (9)

Fiction: 42

Nonfiction: 20

Favorite fiction book: *The Pale King* by David Foster Wallace

2nd favorite fiction book: *Freedom* by Jonathan Franzen

Favorite nonfiction book: *The Ecstasy of Influence: nonfictions, etc* Jonathan Lethem

2nd favorite nonfiction book: *A Field Guide to Getting Lost* Rebecca Solnit

Favorite new authors discovered: Jonathan Lethem, Patrick Rothfuss, Paul Auster, Dan Simmons

Favorite book gifted to me by a friend: *The House on Mango Street* Sandra Cisneros