Reading Statistics for 2007

Like the last couple of years, I've done a compiled list of reading for 2007, beginning with a list of books that were memorable, not necessarily for their Literary Quality.

Most Memorable (not necessarily best, but stuck in my head)

Child of My Heart, by Alice McDermott
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J.K. Rowling
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
You Suck : A Love Story, by Christopher Moore
The Years of Rice and Salt, by Kim Stanley Robinson

Best

Child of My Heart, by Alice McDermott
Born on a Blue Day, by Daniel Tammet
Midnight Cactus, by Bella Pollen
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Jacobs
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J.K. Rowling
The Years of Rice and Salt, by Kim Stanley Robinson

Least Memorable (otherwise known as "I read wha-at?")

The Calling, by Catherine Whitney
Washington Schlepped Here, by Christopher Buckley

5 Books (or Authors) Best Forgotten

Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings, by Tyler Perry
Inexcusable, by Chris Lynch
The Sudoku Murder, by Shelley Freydont
Garbage Land : On the Secret Trail of Trash, by Elizabeth Royte
Single Tree, by Gary D. Svee

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Now for the statistics for the year:

number of books read in 2007: 75
number of books read in 2006: 77
number of books read in 2005: 127
number of books read in 2004: 102
number of books read in 2003: 100
number of books read in 2002: 118
number of books read in 2001: 83
number of books read in 2000: 128
TOTAL : 810

average read per year, over eight years: 101
average read per month: 6.25 (over seven years: 8.44)
average read per week: 1.44 (over seven years: 1.94)

number read in worst month: 3--November(in 2006: 4--tied April, May, June and August; in 2005: 5--January and June; in 2004: 0--July)

number read in best month: 9--March (in 2006: 11--January; in 2005: 21--February; in 2004: 12--June)

number of fiction: 53 (in 2006: 56; in 2005: 74; in 2004: 61)
number of non-fiction: 22 (in 2006: 21; in 2005: 53; in 2004: 41)

number of female authors: 24 (same as last year--how odd!)
number of male authors: 40 (2006: 33)
[discrepancies are due to multiple books read by one author,individual books by multiple authors--and edited books, which are not counted at all]