Then I chose to sort by date, so I could see which books I forgot to fill a date in for. I need the dates filled in, so they register for the 2011 challenge.
Congrats! You have completed your goal of reading 100 books for the 2011 Reading Challenge!
Then beside bookshelves, I chose "edit" and deleted some shelves I had added this year.
I wanted to remove all of the 2011 books to their own shelf, so that my "read" count only shows 2012's books, but I cannot find a way to do that. Batch edit says it removed them, but it did not actually remove them. Oh well. I cleaned out everything in my to read shelf. If I haven't read it by now, I probably will not - some of those books have been in there for awhile!
ADDING NEW BOOKS TO MY TO READ SHELF-
First I looked here for what I might like to read next -
http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/hardcover-fiction/list.html
Then I looked at new releases coming in Jan 2012 (there has to be a better site for this?)
http://bestsellers.about.com/od/newupcomingreleases/tp/New-Book-Releases-january-2012.htm
I want to read some Agatha Christie this year, I haven't read anything by her in many years.. I thought I'd start with her first, and see if I want to work my way through, or not. I also have never read Dorthy Sayers, so I added one of hers to my to read list - a free one found in Aldikos free books.
I did not read David McCulloughs new book in 2011 - and I love his books.
And this is where I am stuck. Do I want to make a high goal for 2012? Is it silly to make a reading goal, when reading is something I naturally love to do? Will I have time to read 100 books this year? I did in 2011.. but I cut it right to the wire. Some months I read a lot, others I barely read a single book. I don't know what 2012 holds.
I tried exporting all of my books from goodreads into a list.. but frankly, it's a pain, and not really fun to look at. You can see everything I read on my goodreads shelves -
http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/4380127-heather-truckenmiller I wish there was an easy way to sort by genre on goodreads.
My most read authors in 2011:
I just discovered the flower shop mysteries this year, and read them all, so that explains Kate Collins topping the list. They were nice light, implausible but amusing, mysteries.James Patterson is a favorite of mine. I don't like his Alex Cross series,but I do like his Michael Bennet series a lot, and have enjoyed the new Private series.
Some of the reason I read so much in 2011 is that I read so many light books like Debbie Macomber & Kate Collins. Fluff.
author | books read | ||
---|---|---|---|
1 | Kate Collins | 12 | |
2 | James Patterson | 7 | |
3 | Debbie Macomber | 5 | |
4 | Betty Hechtman | 4 | |
5 | Kathryn Lilley | 3 | |
6 | Janet Evanovich | 2 | |
6 | Kristin Hannah | 2 | |
6 | Melody Carlson | 2 | |
6 | Max Lucado | 2 | |
6 | Heather Gudenkauf | 2 |
Max Lucado is one of my favorite authors."Outlive Your Life" is one of my favorite book.
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