Book count

[jethrien]

A couple friends were counting up which authors they've read the most of. I didn't start putting things into Goodreads until 2011 - I do have records from 2007-2010, but they're formatted in a way that's just tricky enough I currently do not have the energy to sort them out.

But going by my Goodreads data from approximately the last decade and then adding in some additional lists from 2007-2010, I have...1,926 books. Now, some of them I checked off in Goodreads, having read them prior to 2011. But then, a bunch I also re-read a couple times, so that might balance out. I haven't put in the 2022 books yet.

I'm definitely having trouble with books that had more than one author. But it's approximately 1000 authors.

Top 10 authors, which I know for a fact are undercounting, as I read an awful lot of Lackey, Pratchett, and Gaiman pre-2007:
Mercedes Lackey 48
Lois McMaster Bujold 46
Jim Butcher 45
Terry Pratchett 36
Gail Carriger 23
John Scalzi 23
Courtney Milan 21
Elizabeth Moon 17
Brandon Sanderson 16
Neil Gaiman 16

(And there are others that have completely fallen off here. I read a ton of Anne McCaffery and Isaac Asimov, and that's not even getting into juvenilia like Babysitters Club.)

I...uh...like books. Also, I have 10 reviews to post already for this year that I haven't gotten to, and four books in progress.