Fiction You Read Over the Past Year

[JackSmithIV]

Wow, that's a hell of a lot of genre fiction.

Authors of mine this year include:

Cervantes
Terry Pratchet
Victor Hugo
John Irving
Thomas Pynchon
Joyce Carol Oates
Mark Danielewski
Francine Prose
Alan Moore
Michael Crichton
Neil Gaiman

Also, I read Eberron books (even though they're against the rules, so they're not counted in the survey), and am starting to delve into 40K fiction. I keep my reading palate broad. I'm also trying my hand right now at Euclidean Geometry and de Toqueville's Democracy in America.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I come in at 20+.

I have a subscription to Fantasy & Sci-Fi Magazine, which includes short stories, novelets and novellas every month. If I subtract the articles and reviews, that is still equivalent to at least 6 anthologies.

I got through a stack of about 4 other anthologies I picked up a Half-Price Books.

The rest were all novels- Katherine Kurtz & Scott MacMillan's 2 Knights of the Blood books, Dean Koontz's "Odd Thomas" books + Phantoms most recently and I went through the first 7 of Simon Green's Nightside series. (Both Odd Thomas and Nightside have new hardcovers I haven't picked up.)

The rest escape me at this moment...almost literally. We're in the middle of a remodel, so my a lot of my stuff is in disarray and the rest is in boxes.

 

[RefinedBean]

I read the entire Horatio Hornblower series, the entire (so far) Wheel of Time series, so that's twenty plus right there.

Good to see Patrick O'Brian getting some love.

But sometimes I have to buckle down and agree with one of my favorite comedians...

"You know what I like better about movies? No reading."

 

[mach1.9pants]

I want to know where is the over 100, or at least over 50 option! Also how many non-fiction do you read, myself probably over 50 fiction (closer to 70 or so I guess) plus almost 40 non-fiction

 

[Chainsaw]

Eh, not that many, I guess. 5-10 maybe? Most recently all the Song of Ice and Fire books (ducks). With all the triple-digit entries, I feel woefully inadequate! I have an excuse though - between being in investment banking and studying for the CFA, I have minimal free time.

 

[wedgeski]

My desire to read comes and goes. At its zenith, I chain-read like a nutjob, getting through a book-and-a-half a week or thereabouts; at other times I'll have the same novel on the go for months. This year I've gone through three main phases: a straight through read of the Dark Tower after the last two books sat on my shelf for way too long; a short foray into various non-fiction collections; and, currently, a desire to catch up on a load of classic SF that I've never read (Bester, Niven, Haldeman, Clark, et al), mixed with a re-read of all of Iain M. Banks' Culture novels, which are some of my favourite books in the whole wide world.

 

[DeusExMachina]

Easily more than 20. I'd estimate it at around a book a week.

Don't remember them all, but let's have a look:
Reread a large part of Steven Erikson's books plus his new one and Return of the Crimson Guard by Ian Cameron Esslemont
Reread a large part of the Sword of Truth series (pretty bad, but wanted some light entertaining fantasy)
A few Neil Stephenson novels like Anathem and Cryptonomicon
The Black Company Books by Glenn Cook
Hollow Man and The Terror by Dan Simmons
Reread Memory, Sorrow and Thorn by Tad Williams
Rerad the Prince of Nothing trilogy by R Scott Bakker
Reread the Dune series by Frank Herbert (the 6 original novels, not the junk his son and Mr Anderson produce)
A bunch of Peter F. Hamilton's books
And a random assortment by Nick Sagan, Robin Hobb, Alistair Reynolds and many more I've forgotten...

 

[Orryn Emrys]

Hmmm... For a good portion of the year, I was runnning two to three games a week. That's a lot of game prep. And then my son was born last month. Not as much time for reading this year...

Some of my more recent selections:

Kushiel's Scion and Kushiel's Justice by Jacqueline Carey
Game Night by Jonny Nexus
1st to Die and Second Chance by James Patterson
The Unwilling Warlord and Night of Madness by Lawrence Watt-Evans
Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King
Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan B. Cooper
Little Brother by Corey Doctorow

Kind of a mixed bag, now that I look at it. All good, though...

 

[Jack7]

Any set a blokes who like Cervantes, Victor Hugo, Patrick O'Brian, and Horatio Hornblower (I read the whole series while in college) can't be all bad.

They're probably pretty smart too.
Huzzah!

 

[Jhaelen]

Interesting! I wouldn't have thought, that there are so many avid readers given the OP's list of exceptions.

On average I read about a book a week, but that's including non-fiction (rarely) and rpg books (many). So I'd say it's about 20-30 per year. Most of that is science fiction, rarely fantasy or horror, and increasingly classic literature.