2011 -- THE END

From 2008, but really, not much has changed. Books & Coffee!

Guys, I'm done for the year. I know I have two more days in 2011 and could probably polish off two more books, but I am tired and a little sick and ready to just spend the weekend with marathons of Murder She Wrote, The Guild, Stephen Fry in America and season one of Gavin and Stacey.
So here's the grand re-cap of 2011 reading, with charts!

This year, my official book count is 106 books read. I stopped keeping track of a lot of the plays I read a few weeks into the semester, and I read thousands of pages of articles and criticism and maybe a hundred picture books, so unofficially, let's say I read a million books. :-D But officially, I read 11 more books this year than last year and 14 less than 2009.

As with 2010, I read the most books in September, smack in the middle of the fall semester. Not sure why September is such a big reading month for me. This year I read 21 books in September, or 19.8% of my total yearly reading. The bulk of those were graphic novels, which might account for the big jump from 14 books in 2010.

Which brings me to the genre break-down. Young adult fiction still accounted for the bulk of my reading, coming in at 35.8% for 2011. Not surprising since it is my job to know about these books AND because I blogged for Gay YA and Guys Lit Wire this year. But graphic novels jumped from 1.7% in 2009 to 12.6% in 2010 to 25.5% in 2011. Yep, 2011 was the year I discovered just how awesome graphic novels can be, and I don't forsee slowing down reading graphic novels. In fact, I got a new graphic novel for Christmas, A Flight of Angels, and I'm ordering volume two of Wandering Son for myself in the next week or two.

As you can see, I haven't been too nuanced in the breakdown of genre. Graphic Novels cover J graphic novels like Binky the Space Cat to adult graphic novels like Rex Libris. Neither have I separated juvenile from young adult from adult nonfiction. I think next year I will separate the genres not only into fiction, nonfiction and graphic novels but also into juvenile, young adult and adult.

My favorite reads for 2011 include Bake Sale by Sara Varon, Beauty Queens by Libba Bray, Yarn Harlot by Stephanie Pearl McPhee, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly, the Scott Pilgrim graphic novels by Bryan Lee O'Malley, The Magicians by Lev Grossman, Hold Me Closer, Necromancer by Lish McBride, The Hidden Gallery by Maryrose Wood, A Brief History of Montmaray by Michelle Cooper and Snuff by Terry Pratchett.

And now, as promised, the CHARTS!

And the list of the books I read:

	Title	Author	Genre
1	My Freshman Year	Nathan, Rebekah	NF
2	Yarn Harlot	McPhee, Stephanie Pearl	NF
3	To Say Nothing of the Dog	Willis, Connie	A
4	The Secret of Zoom	Jonell, Lynne	J
5	Lives on the Boundary	Rose, Mike	NF
6	Murder on the Orient Express	Christie, Agatha	A
7	The Lover's Dictionary	Levithan, David	A
8	Guys Read: Funny Business	Sczieska, Jon editor	J
9	Lost in Translation	Hoffman, Eva	NF
10	Lulu and the Brontosaurus	Viorst, Judith	J
11	Song of the Lioness	Pierce, Tamora	YA
12	Tortall and Other Lands	Pierce, Tamora	YA
13	The Immortals	Pierce, Tamora	YA
14	First Test	Pierce, Tamora	YA
15	Page	Pierce, Tamora	YA
16	Squire	Pierce, Tamora	YA
17	The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain	Sís, Peter	G
18	Lady Knight	Pierce, Tamora	YA
19	The Death Cloud	Lane, Andrew	YA
20	Kill Shakespeare Vol 1: A Sea of Troubles	McCreery, Conor et. al	G
21	Foiled	Yolen, Jane	G
22	American Born Chinese	Yang, Gene Luen	G
23	The Hidden Gallery	Wood, Maryrose	J
24	Anne of Green Gables	Montgomery, L.M.	YA
25	The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie	Bradley, Alan	A
26	Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation	Lave, Jean & Etienne Wenger	NF
27	Wild Robert	Jones, Diana Wynne	J
28	Unfamiliar Fishes	Vowell, Sarah	NF
29	Hold Me Closer, Necromancer	McBride, Lish	YA
30	Beauty Queens	Bray, Libba	YA
31	The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag	Bradley, Alan	A
32	Gemini Bites	Ryan, Patrick	YA
33	To Timbuktu	Scieszka, Casey & Steven Weinberg	NF
34	Thirteenth Child	Wrede, Patricia C.	YA
35	A Brief History of Montmaray	Cooper, Michelle	YA
36	Red Glove	Black, Holly	YA
37	A Red Herring Without Mustard	Bradley, Alan	A
38	Jane	Lindner, April	YA
39	Boyfriends with Girlfriends	Sanchez, Alex	YA
40	Girl From Mars	Bach, Tamara	YA
41	Huntress	Lo, Malinda	YA
42	My Tiki Girl	McMahon, Jennifer	YA
43	The Misfits	Howe, James	YA
44	The FitzOsbornes in Exile	Cooper, Michelle	YA
45	Across the Great Barrier	Wrede, Patricia C.	YA
46	A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend	Horner, Emily	YA
47	Up All Night	Geringer, Laura (ed.)	YA
48	Lost and Found	Tan, Shaun	G
49	The Eternal Smile	Yang, Gene Luen & Derek Kirk Kim	G
50	Anya's Ghost	Brosgol, Vera	G
51	That Summer	Dessen, Sarah	YA
52	Just Listen	Dessen, Sarah	YA
53	Lock and Key	Dessen, Sarah	YA
54	Tithe	Black, Holly	YA
55	Free Range Knitter: The Yarn Harlot Writes Again	McPhee, Stephanie Pearl	NF
56	Heartless	Carriger, Gail	A
57	Brooklyn, Burning	Brezenoff, Steve	YA
58	The Great Gatsby	Fitzgerald, F. Scott	A
59	The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate	Kelly, Jacqueline	J
60	Stay	Caletti, Deb	YA
61	A Discovery of Witches	Harkness, Deborah	A
62	Welcome to Bordertown	Kushner, Ellen and Holly Black, eds	YA
63	Vanished	Chari, Sheela	J
64	Dreams of Significant Girls	Garcia, Cristina	YA
65	The Magicians	Grossman, Lev	A
66	Miss Julie	Strindberg, August	A
67	Erotism: Death and Sensuality	Bataille, Georges	NF
68	Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life	O'Malley, Bryan Lee	G
69	12 Reasons Why I Love Her	King, Jamie S & Joelle Jones	G
70	The Symposium	Plato; trans by Tom Griffith	NF
71	Binky Under Pressure	Spires, Ashley	G
72	Scott Pilgrim vs. The World	O'Malley, Bryan Lee	G
73	Eros the Bittersweet	Carson, Anne	NF
74	Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness	O'Malley, Bryan Lee	G
75	Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together	O'Malley, Bryan Lee	G
76	Scott Pilgrim Vs. The Universe	O'Malley, Bryan Lee	G
77	Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour	O'Malley, Bryan Lee	G
78	Lola: A Ghost Story	Torres, J. & Elbert Or	G
79	Lost at Sea	O'Malley, Bryan Lee	G
80	The Magician King	Grossman, Lev	A
81	The Adventures of Captain Underpants	Pilkey, Dav	J
82	Hopeless Savages: Greatest Hits 2000-2010	Van Meter, Jen	G
83	Clementine and the Family Meeting	Pennypacker, Sara	J
84	Vegan Virgin Valentine	Mackler, Carolyn	YA
85	Bake Sale	Varon, Sara	G
86	Wandering Son, Volume One	Takaka, Shimura & Matt Thorn	G
87	Midnight Sun	Towle, Ben	G
88	Motel Art Improvement Service	Little, Jason	G
89	Daytrippers	Moon, Fábio and Gabriel Bá	G
90	The Five Fists of Science	Fraction, Matt and Steven Sanders	G
91	Empire State: A Love Story (Or Not)	Shiga, Jason	G
92	Doctor Horrible & Other Horrible Stories	Whedon, Zack	G
93	The Name of the Star	Johnson, Maureen	YA
94	A Matter of Magic	Wrede, Patricia C.	YA
95	La Vita Nuova	Dante	NF
96	What I Was	Rosoff, Meg	A
97	James and the Giant Peach	Dahl, Roald	J
98	Snuff	Pratchett, Terry	A
99	Clybourne Park	Norris, Bruce	NF
100	Unexpected Elegies	Hardy, Thomas	NF
101	Mastiff	Pierce, Tamora	YA
102	This Dark Endeavor	Oppel, Kenneth	YA
103	A Raisin in the Sun	Hansberry, Lorraine	NF
104	I Am Half Sick of Shadows	Bradley, Alan	A
105	Rex Libris: I, Librarian	Turner, James	G
106	That is All	Hodgman, John	NF