Dan Griffiths

Reading

Numbers

Counted from the books I've logged. A lot is missing: most of what I read before I started keeping track, and plenty since that never got written down.

So far

427 books read, 122,878 pages in all: 106 fiction, 321 non-fiction.

The last year

26 books in the last year (9,940 pages), about 2.2 a month. At that pace the pile of 93 takes 3.6 years.

The last 12 months

Subjects

  1. Photography 70
  2. Business & work 65
  3. Design & creativity 56
  4. Memoir & biography 50
  5. Music 35
  6. Web & UX 35
  7. Sci-fi & fantasy 21
  8. History & society 21
  9. Science & the mind 17
  10. Crime 16
  11. Travel & outdoors 14
  12. Children's 11
  13. Comics 4
  14. Food & drink 2

When they were written

The oldest: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, 1861.

  1. 1800s 2
  2. 1900s 1
  3. 1920s 1
  4. 1930s 1
  5. 1940s 5
  6. 1950s 7
  7. 1960s 13
  8. 1970s 10
  9. 1980s 34
  10. 1990s 35
  11. 2000s 89
  12. 2010s 198
  13. 2020s 31

Most read authors

  1. Iain Banks 11
  2. Colin Bateman 6
  3. Dave Trott 5
  4. Lloyd Alexander 5
  5. Daniel H. Pink 4
  6. William S. Burroughs 4
  7. Henry Carroll 3
  8. Christopher Brookmyre 3
  9. Chuck Palahniuk 3
  10. Gillian Flynn 3

Longest and shortest

Longest
11.22.63 Stephen King866 pages
Shortest
My Daddy Has 100 Synths Billy Cardigan30 pages