How many books have you read so far in 2017?

[mvd]

If you read a book twice, just count that book as one read. Also, only count full books that you read.

I have read around 10. More if I count the shorter Kindle store stories.

[redstatebluegirl]

1. I keep a count in my journal.

According to that count I have read 14, I am working on a 15th. I bought a large box of books at a used book store last fall when we were in Door Country visiting friends. I loved that store, found lots of treasures, enough to last me for quite a while. I am reading like a crazy person these days because I am gradually losing my sight. I want to read while I can .

[bikebloke]

2. 137

The bright side of being unemployed.

[cyclonefence]

3. I read aloud to my husband

and here's what we've covered lately

a biography of Ivan the Terrible
a history of the Romanovs (noticing a theme here)
Our Mutual Friend by Dickens
King Lear (and for the first time I realized Cordelia wasn't just mooning around, miserable; she was queen of France)
Lucia in Wartime (can't remember the author, but it's based on the EF Benson Lucia books and is delightful)
Al Franken Giant of the Senate
a bunch of Joseph Conrad (The Secret Agent, Heart of Darkness, something like Twixt Land and Sea--sailor stories)
right now we're reading Krazy, a biography of George Herriman, who passed for white
What She Ate by Laura Shapiro

[PJMcK]

4. Nine

Two mysteries, three science-related, two biographies, one comedy and a technical/computer manual.

I love to read. It's always informative when I walk into someone's home and they don't have any bookshelves.

Readers are learners. Republicans don't read.

[ailsagirl]

10. Repukes don't read as a rule

unless it's something written by crazy-right-winger-wingnuts

[elehhhhna]

5. Not the 50 or so I usually I have hit by this time but

Not the 50 or so I usually I have hit by this time butif you only read one book this year, read Lincoln in the Bardo

[mvd]

6. Thanks for the recommendation

Here are some I have read:

Books 1-3 of the Harry Potter series
This Fight is our Fight - Elizabeth Warren
Shattered
A few "true haunting" books from the Kindle store
Alien Contact: The Difficult Truth - Derek Tyler
The Agony That Remains - Brandon Callahan
The Fever Code - James Dashner
Ghosts of Country Music - Matthew L. Swayne

Yeah, I like paranormal and UFO/alien books.

[Javaman]

7. I'm on my 20th...

It would be higher but overtime.

[Luciferous]

8. I'm on my third this week. I have no idea how many I've read this year,

but I bet it's a lot!

[ailsagirl]

9. At least a dozen

I haven't counted, really

Whatever the number, I wish it were higher

[mvd]

11. Yeah reading is almost up there with music for me

I take my time reading but never like to be without a book.

[ailsagirl]

14. me too!

[mnhtnbb]

12. I don't keep count. But I was reading Noam Chomsky's Requiem for the American Dream

yesterday while waiting for my car to get an airbag recall replacement at the dealer.

I tend to read more fiction than non-fiction. I always have several books with me when we travel. I get up early
and read while my husband is still sleeping.

Don't read as much when I'm home because once I start a book I don't want to stop and I'd never get anything done.

Looking forward to our week at the beach--if there's any beach left!--in mid-October. I take a whole bag of books to
the beach and can read as much as one book/day while there.

[Skittles]

13. I would say six or seven

[NNadir]

15. At any given time, I'm simultaneously reading something like ten books.

I sample some of these without reading them in their entirety, picking out interesting sections by generous use of the indices.

Almost all the books I read are either technical books, chemistry, physics, biochemistry, engineering (especially nuclear engineering) or history, occasionally a book about social issues.

I have a personal relationship with lots of librarians, especially the folks in my county library's Interlibrary Loan department. They're amazing. They can find the most obscure technical books and deliver them.

I did fiction when I was a kid, but haven't read fiction since the early 1980's. I can't say I miss it, although it annoys my sons to the ends of the earth that I more or less refuse to read it.

What the total reading list works out to in books, I have no idea.

I also read a ton of scientific papers, no idea how many.

I read a lot, a real lot, and doubling down on reading, tripling down, changed my life, all for the better.

[kwassa]

16. one. but it was 700+ pages.

Alexander Hamilton
My name is Alexander Hamilton
And there’s a million things I haven’t done
But just you wait, just you wait

[csziggy]

17. Not sure, probably at least two dozen

A few science fiction books, I re-read the entire The Cat Who series since I finally got her last book. 1491 by Charles Mann. Working on 1493 by him.

In the mail yesterday I got the entire Madeline L'Engle A Wrinkle in Times series (which I haven't read since they first came out and I never read the two that were added to the original trilogy) and the first book of the Outlander series. Oh - a travel book about England, Wales and Scotland for some future trip.

Sometime after I finish those I will read 1421 and 1434 both by Gavin Mezies. The first is about the Chinese discovering America and the second is about a Chinese fleet that sailed to Italy. I should be able to finish all of those before the end of the year.

[hay rick]

18. I read a lot, but a lot of my reading is not books.

A lot of my reading is online and driven by my political and environmental interests. The books I read are mostly on my Kindle. I do most of my "book reading" at the gym to distract me from my stationary bike workouts. This year I have been reading the Max Allan Collins' Nate Heller series. I also read a book on the federal budget and "On Tyranny." I suppose my year-to-date book count is about 10.

I live in South Florida and my sister called me today to see how I was dealing with the pending arrival of Iris and to offer her Maryland home as a sanctuary. Thanks sis. We ended up talking about our childhood home and some of the books that we both read 60+ years ago. She talked about reading "Boxcar Children" books to her grand kids. They loved it. Then I mentioned that we used to read books about an Italian priest- but I couldn't remember the name of the books. About an hour later she sent me an email. I downloaded "The Little World of Don Camillo" to my Kindle and am looking forward to a very sentimental re-reading.

[Miles Archer]

19. 18, most likely.

I now read almost exclusively on my laptop (Kindle for Windows). It has more to do with the way my eyes focus on a printed page and less to do with any kind of preference beyond convenience.

I've read at least 9 business / sales / Web Design books...I try to read a minimum of one per month.

I have also been working my way through Craig Johnson's "Walt Longmire Mysteries." I went nuts over the TV series...a big part of that was the atmosphere (a "Wyoming" series filmed primarily in New Mexico). But on top of that, I felt that the characters were so well developed and the cast really worked well together. It made me want to delve into the source.

Plus Kerouac's "On The Road." Fourth or fifth time for that. The "For me, the only ones are the mad ones" passage was a life-changer and game-changer when I discovered it in college.

Raymond Chandler's "Red Wind" (which is more of a "novella" and less of a "novel," but it's a favorite, third or fourth reading of this one).

So let's say nine fiction and nine non-fiction.