2013 by the Numbers

Happy New Year, everyone! I've had a really great reading year. I read 57 books in 2013, totaling 17,021 pages. That's quite an accomplishment if I do say so myself. Also, it's a bump up from the 49 books I read in 2012.

GoodReads was paramount in my tracking my yearly progress. They even have a nifty little diagram to display your star ratings.

Only two books won the coveted 5 star rating this year: Elizabeth George Speare's The Witch of Blackbird Pond and Jeaniene Frost's One Foot in the Grave.  Alternatively, two books won the dreaded 1 star rating: Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and some random graphic novel not even worth mentioning again here.

And simply because it does me proud to see them all listed one after the other, here is the definitive list of my 2013 reads in all its glory:

1. Steve Martin's Shopgirl
2. David Levithan & Rachel Cohn's Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
3. Cynthia Hand's Boundless
4. Sharon Creech's Love that Dog
5. Scott Mills' Big Clay Pot
6. Sharon Creech's Replay
7. Maggie Stiefvater's The Raven Boys
8. Martin Rowson's The Waste Land
9. Miss Lasko-Gross' A Mess of Everything
10. George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion
11. Kristin Cashore's Graceling
12. John Green's Paper Towns
13. Raina Telgemeier's Drama
14. J.K. Rowling's The Casual Vacancy
15. Aline Kominsky-Crumb's Need More Love
16. Maggie Stiefvater's The Scorpio Races
17. Jen Van Meter's Hopeless Savages
18. Sara Varon's Sweaterweather
19. Paula McLain's The Paris Wife
20. Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
21. Charles Burns' Black Hole
22. Emily Dickinson's Selected Poems
23. J.D. Salinger's Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
24. Eric Stephenson's Put the Book Back on the Shelf
25. Orson Scott Card Ender's Shadow
26. Carson McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
27. J.R. Ward's Dark Lover
28. Sharon Creech's Pleasing the Ghost
29. C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
30. Laini Taylor's Daughter of Smoke and Bone
31. Richelle Mead's Vampire Academy
32. P.C. Cast's Marked
33. Alan Moore's Watchmen
34. Scott Westerfeld's Uglies
35. Maggie Stiefvater's Linger
36. Koushun Takami's Battle Royale
37. Laurell K. Hamilton's Guilty Pleasures
38. Garth Nix's Sabriel
39. Shannon Hale's Princess Academy
40. Libba Bray's A Great and Terrible Beauty
41. Janet Taylor Lisle's Afternoon of the Elves
42. Maggie Stiefvater's The Dream Thieves
43. Elizabeth George Speare's The Witch of Blackbird Pond
44. Robert Galbraith's The Cuckoo's Calling
45. P.D. James' Death Comes to Pemberley
46. Phillip Pullman's The Golden Compass
47. Lauren Kate's Fallen
48. Jeaniene Frost's Halfway to the Grave
49. Richard Salas' Peculia
50. Jeaniene Frost's One Foot in the Grave
51. Sylvia Plath's Collected Poems
52. Jeaniene Frost's At Grave's End
53. Jeaniene Frost's Destined for an Early Grave
54. Jeaniene Frost's First Drop of Crimson
55. Jeaniene Frost's This Side of the Grave
56. Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, Bernadette
57. Jeaniene Frost's One Grave at a Time

Obviously, I'm pretty pleased with myself. I'm aiming to read 50 books in 2014 (it's going to be a busy year for me for a ton of other reasons. Stay tuned.). Now tell me, how was your reading year?