Pages read- 10,347
Target- 23
Numbers of new books- 26
Fiction/Non-fiction ratio- 3/4:23/22 (Arthur Clarke's collected works are a complex mixture of fact and fiction. Either way, another dreadful year for fiction)
Longest Book- Harold Wilson, Ben Pimlott, 811 pgs
Shortest Book- Utopia, Thomas More, 89 pgs
Quickest Read- Bad Astronomy, read 11th January
Longest Read- Gone Girl, 25th May to 24th December. However this was an audio book, only listened to on long journeys, so the actual longest read was Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation, 28th January to 14th April.
Most Read Authors- Victor Sebestyen, on the origins of the Cold War (1946) and the ending of it (1989)
Ebooks- Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation, Peter Marshall; Ælfred's Britain: War and Peace in the Viking Age, Max Adams; Utopia, Thomas More; Henry VIII and the Men Who Made Him, Tracy Borman; How Democracy Ends, David Runciman.
Audio books- The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War, Ben McIntyre, Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn.
Useless Fact- I was one of 2.3 million people to log having read Gone Girl on Goodreads in 2019. I was one of 84 to log 1997: The Future that Never Happened. Clearly, a weird disappearance/murder in 2012 speaks more to people in 2019 than New Labour does...
The List
Target- 23
Numbers of new books- 26
Fiction/Non-fiction ratio- 3/4:23/22 (Arthur Clarke's collected works are a complex mixture of fact and fiction. Either way, another dreadful year for fiction)
Longest Book- Harold Wilson, Ben Pimlott, 811 pgs
Shortest Book- Utopia, Thomas More, 89 pgs
Quickest Read- Bad Astronomy, read 11th January
Longest Read- Gone Girl, 25th May to 24th December. However this was an audio book, only listened to on long journeys, so the actual longest read was Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation, 28th January to 14th April.
Most Read Authors- Victor Sebestyen, on the origins of the Cold War (1946) and the ending of it (1989)
Ebooks- Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation, Peter Marshall; Ælfred's Britain: War and Peace in the Viking Age, Max Adams; Utopia, Thomas More; Henry VIII and the Men Who Made Him, Tracy Borman; How Democracy Ends, David Runciman.
Audio books- The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War, Ben McIntyre, Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn.
Useless Fact- I was one of 2.3 million people to log having read Gone Girl on Goodreads in 2019. I was one of 84 to log 1997: The Future that Never Happened. Clearly, a weird disappearance/murder in 2012 speaks more to people in 2019 than New Labour does...
The List
- Æthelred the Unready, Levi Roach
- Bad Astronomy, Philip Plait
- 1946: The Making of the Modern World, Victor Sebestyen
- Conquest: The English Kingdom of France, Juliet Barker
- 1997: The Future that Never Happened, Richard Power Sayeed
- Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation, Peter Marshall
- Report on Planet Three and Other Speculations, Arthur C Clarke
- Power Trip: A Decade of Policy, Plots and Spin, Damian McBride
- The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War, Ben McIntyre
- Days of God: The Revolution in Iran and its Consequences, James Buchan
- Ælfred's Britain: War and Peace in the Viking Age, Max Adams
- Black Tudors: The Untold Story, Miranda Kaufmann
- Utopia, Thomas More
- Henry VIII and the Men Who Made Him, Tracy Borman
- Harold Wilson, Ben Pimlott
- The Wars of the Roses: England's First Civil War, Trevor Royle
- How Democracy Ends, David Runciman
- The Power of the Powerless, Vaclav Havel
- The Cold War: A New Oral History of Life Between East and West, Bridget Kendall
- Thin Air, Michelle Paver
- Richard III: Brother, Protecter, King, Chris Skidmore
- Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire, Victor Sebestyen
- Stasi Vice, Max Hertzberg
- The Year 1000: What Life was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, Robert Lacey & Danny Danziger
- Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
- The Nazis: A Warning from History, Laurence Rees
