{"id":23168,"date":"2019-12-31T08:03:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T16:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=23168"},"modified":"2022-03-07T09:47:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T17:47:55","slug":"2019-reading-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/12\/31\/2019-reading-round-up\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Reading Round-Up &#x1f4da;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2122,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.goodreads.com\\\/user_challenges\\\/15236503&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260304003243\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.goodreads.com\\\/user_challenges\\\/15236503&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 02:19:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 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19:05:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2135,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.goodreads.com\\\/book\\\/show\\\/16280156-fahrenheit-451&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20231227053956\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.goodreads.com\\\/book\\\/show\\\/16280156-fahrenheit-451&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-03 23:00:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 08:40:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 19:04:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 19:04:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Every year, I set myself a goal of reading at least 52 books over the course of the year &#8212;\u00a0an average of one a week. This year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/user_challenges\/15236503\">I made it to 62<\/a>. Here&#8217;s a (not very) quick overview&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2019_reading_stats.png\" alt=\"My 2019 reading stats from Goodreads\" title=\"2019_reading_stats.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"987\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Non-fiction: More than last year, when I just read one, but this still isn&#8217;t a category I gravitate towards terribly much \u2014\u00a0and even when I do, there&#8217;s a good chance it&#8217;ll be related to geekery or fandom in some way, such as with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/43822127-star-trek\" title=\"Goodreads: Star Trek: The Official Guide to the Animated Series\"><em>Star Trek: The Official Guide to the Animated Series<\/em><\/a>, or Randall Munroe&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/43852758-how-to\" title=\"Goodreads: How To\"><em>How To<\/em><\/a>, which is technically non-fiction, but very, <em>very<\/em> geeky non-fiction. Definitely the best of this year&#8217;s non-fiction was Erik Larson&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/22551730-dead-wake\" title=\"Goodreads: Dead Wake\"><em>Dead Wake<\/em><\/a>, a narrative of the sinking of the <em>Lusitania<\/em> (which I read while on a cruise ship for this year&#8217;s vacation, because that just seemed appropriate), but Art Spiegelman&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/64229.Maus\" title=\"Goodreads: Maus #1\">Ma<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/15197.Maus_II\" title=\"Goodreads: Maus #2\">us<\/a><\/em> graphic novel about his father&#8217;s experiences in the concentration camps of WWII was a very close second. (I&#8217;m also bemused that for someone who&#8217;s not really into military or World War stuff, my top non-fiction reads were both World War-related.)<\/p>\n<p>Non-genre-fiction (where &#8220;genre&#8221; is shorthand &#8212; though, not very short, if you include this parenthetical &#8212; for science-fiction, fantasy, and horror): Not a single one this year.<\/p>\n<p>Quality genre fiction: Arguably (depending on one&#8217;s definition of &#8220;quality&#8221;, at least) the majority of my reading, in large part because while this is already my general wheelhouse, this year I <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/01\/02\/12700\/\" title=\"Eclecticism: Personal goal for this year...\">decided<\/a> to read my way through all of the Best Novel Hugo Award winners. Over the course of the year I read <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/hugo-reading\" title=\"michaelhans.com: Hugo Reading\">21 of the 75 winners<\/a> (28%), and while many haven&#8217;t aged particularly well, and I&#8217;ve discovered that I am <em>not<\/em> a fan of early Heinlein, I&#8217;ve been enjoying the journey through classic SF and am looking forward to continuing with the project this year.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the year kicked off with reading this year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/913738?shelf=2019-p-k-dick-nominees\" title=\"Goodreads: 2019-p-k-dick-nominees\">Philip K. Dick Award nominees<\/a>, which are always worth reading, even when individual nominees don&#8217;t work for me. This year, my personal favorites were Ian McDonald&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/36347396-time-was\" title=\"Goodreads: Time Was\"><em>Time Was<\/em><\/a>, Audrey Schulman&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/37487038-theory-of-bastards\" title=\"Goodreads: Theory of Bastards\"><em>Theory of Bastards<\/em><\/a>, and Vandana Singh&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/34381090-ambiguity-machines-and-other-stories\" title=\"Goodreads: Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories\"><em>Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories<\/em><\/a>. As usual, my pick for the winner (<em>Ambiguity Machines<\/em>) didn&#8217;t get it, but the actual winner (<em>Theory of Bastards<\/em>) was well deserved.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of award winners and nominees, I particularly enjoyed Neal Stephenson&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/41824495-fall-or-dodge-in-hell\" title=\"Goodreads: Fall\"><em>Fall, or: Dodge in Hell<\/em><\/a>&#8230;admittedly, not a huge surprise, as I&#8217;m a big fan of Stephenson&#8217;s work, and he&#8217;s currently the one author whose works I&#8217;ll pre-order in hardback to ensure I get them as soon as possible every time.<\/p>\n<p>Fluff genre fiction: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/user_challenges\/15236503\">The rest<\/a>. As usual, dominated by Star Trek novels, as that&#8217;s my &#8220;comfort food&#8221;, and is always good for a break between choices that, as has been happening with the Hugo winners, are either high-concept brain-stimulating SF, or so dated that they&#8217;re painful to read, however well they were received at the time. Outside of Trek, I did particularly enjoy Diana Rowland&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/series\/54966-white-trash-zombie\" title=\"Goodreads: White Trash Zombie Series\"><em>White Trash Zombie<\/em><\/a> series. I found the first four at Goodwill, and then tracked down the last two once I&#8217;d made it that far through the series. They&#8217;re a fun addition to the zombie zeitgeist, and are worth the read if they catch your eye at all.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, some stats on my year&#8217;s reading, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/user\/year_in_books\/2019\" title=\"Goodreads: My Year in Books\">according to Goodreads<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>20,127 pages across 62 books<\/li>\n<li>Shortest book: John W. Campbell Jr.&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/45288002-frozen-hell\" title=\"Goodreads: Frozen Hell\">Frozen Hell<\/a> (129 pages)<\/li>\n<li>Longest book: Jacqueline Carey&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/528997.Kushiel_s_Dart\" title=\"Goodreads: Kushiel's Dart\">Kushiel&#8217;s Dart<\/a> (901 pages)<\/li>\n<li>Most popular: Ray Bradbury&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/16280156-fahrenheit-451\" title=\"Goodreads: Fahrenheit 451\">Fahrenheit 451<\/a> (1,674,491 other readers)<\/li>\n<li>Least popular: Aaron Harvey&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/43822127-star-trek\" title=\"Goodreads: Star Trek: The Official Guide to the Animated Series\">Star Trek: The Official Guide to the Animated Series<\/a> (13 other readers)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A look back at the books I&#8217;ve read this year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2043],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}