{"id":8910,"date":"2015-12-31T09:52:43","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T15:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=8910"},"modified":"2015-12-30T20:18:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T02:18:28","slug":"2015-the-year-in-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/2015-the-year-in-books\/","title":{"rendered":"2015: The Year In Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2015books\"<\/a>With another year coming to an end, it is time to take a look back at the\u00a031 books I read over the past year, an increase of 8 from last year and my highest total\u00a0ever, surpassing the 27 books I read back in 1992.\u00a0 Of those 31, 11 were non-fiction and, of the 20 novels, only 3 were TV show tie-ins. \u00a0Only 4 of the books came from the \u201cto-read\u201d drawer, and 11 were e-books. \u00a0I read a nearly\u00a09200 pages, the most in 1 year since 1992 and my second straight year\u00a0reaching the 9000 mark.<\/p>\n

Once again, a majority of the books I read this year were by authors I\u2019ve never read before. The 19 authors that I read for the first this year were:
\nKurt Vonnegut
\nJim Bouton
\nMelissa Joan Hart
\nPatton Oswalt
\nErle Stanley Gardner
\nDoug Sohn
\nKate DeVivo
\nPaula Hawkins
\nJayson Stark
\nScott Reifert
\nOscar Wilde
\nJeff Katz
\nFelicia Day
\nGeorge Carlin
\nMax Allan Collins
\nAnn Brashares
\nDavid Lagercrantz
\nGraham Greene
\nMary Kubica
\nMartin Short<\/p>\n

The ghost writer for Richard Castle was the only author I read multiple titles from during 2015.<\/p>\n

Ten books I read were released this year, while 3 of them were released prior to 1980, with one, The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/em>, dating back to 1890.<\/p>\n

Finally, the breakdown by month. \u00a0Vacations in March, November, and December certainly helped pad their totals a tad bit.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Dec \u2013 5
\nNov \u2013 3
\nOct \u2013 2
\nSep \u2013 3
\nAug \u2013 0
\nJul \u2013 3
\nJun \u2013 1
\nMay \u2013 1
\nApr \u2013 2
\nMar \u2013 3
\nFeb \u2013 6
\nJan \u2013 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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