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I recently read an article in the Dallas Morning News about Eric Leuliette's Books Read website.
His site inspired me to compile and webify my own list.
This is a reasonably accurate list of the books and authors I have read since the mid-1950's.
In earlier years I read a lot of science fiction. Since the mid-80's I've read a preponderence of mysteries, especially private-eye and spy novels.
I also collect and read a lot of baseball fiction.
For the most part I haven't included text books (mostly because I don't remember what they were).
I know there are a lot of missing titles due to gaps in my memory.
I started keeping totals of the books I read in 1985, but didn't start keeping a list of the actual books until 1988.
I've included a few books in the numbers that I know I read but can't remember the title and/or author. If anyone recognizes these books, please let me know.
I also went back and added numerous books that I read to my boy that I hadn't put on my lists, so I don't know the exact year. I've put them in 1990-1999.
At one time I had over 5,000 books in my personal library, but I've trimmed it way down due to space.

I've color-coded my lists - red titles indicate my favorite books. green authors indicate my favorite authors. Or you can just take a quick look at my favorites. I've really enjoyed pretty much everything I've ever read by them. For some series like Spenser and Nameless I've colored all the titles red. I love the series and would probably have to go back and reread all of them to pick out which one I liked the best.

Many thanks to Eric Leuliette for sharing his search script and basic web format!

All years
1952-present [330Kb table]
Authors A-K
Authors K-Z
The most frequently read authors
Individual years
1952-87 1988 1989 1990 1990-99 1991
1992 1993 1994 1995 1996
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

What I'm currently reading

What's on my bookshelf to be read

Google Book Search
Reading statistics *
Year Total Fiction NonFiction Mystery SciFi Baseball-F Baseball-NF
Pre-1985 658 556 102 162 258 36 32
1985 60 47 13 36 4 2 1
1986 33 23 10 19 1 1 2
1987 28 20 8 12 2 6 3
1988 21 15 6 4 3 0 1
1989 39 30 9 10 5 4 6
1990-99 64 64 0 0 1 9 0
1990 47 28 19 20 7 0 2
1991 42 26 16 4 4 8 4
1992 23 13 10 7 2 2 3
1993 29 24 5 5 7 0 0
1994 15 9 6 4 1 2 3
1995 19 16 3 3 3 3 0
1996 24 12 12 4 1 3 6
1997 35 19 16 7 1 2 4
1998 28 17 11 4 1 5 12
1999 33 16 17 6 1 5 16
2000 28 14 14 7 0 7 14
2001 24 15 9 7 0 4 8
2002 43 24 19 8 1 9 1
2003 31 17 14 5 2 6 5
2004 27 18 9 4 0 6 3
2005 23 12 11 6 1 4 6
2006 40 33 7 10 7 8 0
2007 40 25 15 9 7 6 9
2008 43 25 18 8 7 6 12
2009 37 30 7 8 7 4 3
2010 8 4 4 1 2 0 0
Totals 1542 1152 390 380 339 148 156

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