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Showing posts with label Statistics. Show all posts

Friday, 16 January 2026

Statistics 2025

     

My statistics for the last years are here:
2009-12, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 
2023, 2024  

* Statistics 2025 *
 
I did 235 posts in 2025 which was 57 more than last year.

And these are the results of my reading lists for 2025:

My regular posts are either weekly (Book Quotes, Top Ten Tuesday, ThrowBack Thursday, Wordless Wednesday) or monthly (Happy Month, Six Degrees of Separation, Spell the Month in Books), so I posted more or less the amount of weeks or months in a year. I didn't do them all regularly, though. Especially the Top Ten Tuesday, I've participated so long and have done a lot of the topics already, so I just do them from time to time.


I also did a few lists that are more or less statistics about half of the year and a comparison to ten years ago:
I also participated in Non-fiction November.

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And then there are, of course, all the challenges I have done over the years.
I read books that contributed to the following challenges. Some of them count for more than one category:

Challenges (number of books read for the challenges in brackets)

I read more on this topic but they were not on this list.
Thanks to a present by my son and a loan from a book club member, I was able to add two more books to the list.
Best European Literature (2)
Dutch and French Books (1 Dutch, 3 French)
Every year I find some more books I can add to my list of favourite books. 24 this year. Not too bad, I guess.
Some books taking place in France or written in French.
(German: Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels)
We read 1925 and 1952 this year. It's a good idea to add some reads from former years that we might not have touched before.
I read 17 chunky books in 2025 of which 4 are considered a chunkster. Mor-book-ly Obese again.
I read suggestions from friends all the time, just haven't kept up with who recommended which book.

Book Clubs:
International Online Book Club 2017 etc. (7)
One of the books was not available in English or German and I had read four of the others.
We took a break in the summer and at Christmas, so only read 10 books this year.

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Some of the challenges are older and I only add to them if I happen to read one of the books. No new books on these lists:

I already said this last year. Only three more books on my list, maybe I'll get to "Slaughterhouse Five" one day.
Books That Changed the World 
Esperanto Books 
Here we mostly read short stories.
(Das Lieblingsbuch der Unabhängigen = The Favourite Book of the Independents)
When they are German books, it usually takes a couple of years until they appear in paperback. So, this year, I didn't get to read the newest one:
Nelio Biedermann "Lázár"
Le Monde - The 100 Books of the Century 
Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century 
Nobel Peace Prize 
Unfortunately, I didn't get to read any of the peace prize winners this year, but I read many by people who would have deserved it (not the one who was so keen on being awarded only to start a war right after that).
The non-western books that every student should read 
The only thing I miss from our old place is the library that would get me any book I wanted. Not so easy here where we only have a small church library and they only get the biggest best-sellers. And all of them in German only, of course.

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Books Read: 88
Pages read: 26.884 which results in 306 pages/book, 73 pages/day, 7 books/month
Last year (2024), I read 73 books with 25,412 pages which resulted in 348 pages/book, 73 pages/day, 7 books/month. So, it looks like I read a little more in 2025.
The average novel contains between 140 and 320 pages, i.e. 230 which would make 117 average books (compared to 116 last year, so not that much better, just shorter books).

Books dating from which year:
Pre 1800s: 3
1800s: 12
1900-1949: 7
1950-1999: 14
2000s: 52 (3 of which from 25)

Male Authors: 48 + 1
Female Authors: 40 +1

Nobel Prize Winners: 3

Fiction: 62
Non-Fiction: 26
I might have to include some of the reference books I read and use.

Chunky Books - more than 450 pages: 17, of which more than 750: 4
Library/Borrowed: 7
Re-Read: 6 (all Jane Austen)
TBR Pile: 23

Oldest Book: 411 BC
Aristophanes "Lysistrata and Other Plays" (GR: Λυσιστράτη, Lysistrátē) - 411 BC
Newest Book: 2025
Harris, Kamala "107 Days" - 2025
Longest book: 1,022 pages
Longest book title: 57 letters
Kaminer, Wladimir "Little Red Riding Hood smokes on the balcony … and other family stories" (GE: Rotkäppchen raucht auf dem Balkon … und andere Familiengeschichten) - 2020
Shortest Book Title: 2 letters
Schöfer, Maike "Nope: An incitement to say no" (GE: Nö: Eine Anstiftung zum Neinsagen) - 2025
Funniest Book:
Schnoy, Sebastian "Learn from Napoleon how to avoid doing the dishes" (GE: Von Napoleon lernen, wie man sich vorm Abwasch drückt) - 2013
Saddest Book:
Weirdest Book:
Thoreau, Henry David "Walden; or, Life in the Woods" - 1854
Most disappointing:
Hopmann, Sophie/Heidelore Mais "Cucumber Sandwich in the Glove Compartment" (GE: Gurkensandwich im Handschuhfach) - 2019

New author (for me) that I would like to read more from: 8
Michel Bergmann, William Deresiewicz, Tahsim Durgun, Michael Köhlmeier, Benjamin Monferat, Jasmin Schreiber, Yuta Takahashi, Lucy Worsley

Translated Books:
7 from 7 languages
1 ea from Finnisch, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish

Books read in another language:
Dutch: 1
French: 3
German: 30

Numbers in Book Titles: Sixth, Seven, Ten, 107
Place Names in Book Titles: Brüssel, England, Europe, Mansfield, Mariana Trench, Northanger Abbey, Walden
Names in Book Titles: Artemisia, Austen, Bovary, Britt-Marie, Chekhov, Chibineko, Chuzzlewit, Emma, Faust, Feld, Felix Krull, Gretchen, Hamnet, Jane, Judith,Katherine, Klee, Luzie, Lysistrata, Mann, Mariana, Martin, Mary, Max, Moormann, Napoleon, Parr, Peanuts, Psmith, Rose, Rotkäppchen, Sonneborn, Thomas, Tiffany, Tolstoy, Unrat, Wunder
Colours in Book Titles: Rot (red)

My Favourite Books: 24
Heidenreich, Elke "Dr. Moormann & I" (GE: Frau Dr. Moormann & ich) - 2023
Hyun, Martin; Kaminer, Wladimir "Instructions for neighbours" - (GE: Gebrauchsanweisung für Nachbarn) - 2024  
Kaminer, Wladimir "Little Red Riding Hood smokes on the balcony … and other family stories" (GE: Rotkäppchen raucht auf dem Balkon … und andere Familiengeschichten) - 2020
- "Tolstoy's beard and Chekhov's shoes, excursions through Russian literature" (GE: Tolstois Bart und Tschechows Schuhe, Streifzüge durch die russische Literatur - 2019)
Loriot "The Yodeling School and other dramatic works" (GE: Die Jodelschule und andere dramatische Werke) - 1981
Monferat, Benjamin (Stephan Rother) "World in Flames" (GE: Welt in Flammen) - 2014
Schreiber, Jasmin "Mariana Trench" (GE: Marianengraben) - 2020
Stelter, Bernd "Fashion, murder, and the sound of the sea. Camping crime thriller" (GE: Mode, Mord und Meeresrauschen. Camping-Krimi) - 2024
Worsley, Lucy "Jane Austen at Home" - 2017

Added  after an idea by Emma:

Adjectives in Book Titles: brilliant, crazy, dull, last, weird; dramatische, gut, klein
Adverbs in Book Titles: andere. hier
Animals in Book Titles: Penguin, Snail, Whale
Nationality in Book Titles: French
Preposition in Book Titles: about, as, at, for, from, in, of, on, out, to; auf, durch, für, im, mit, nach, oder, vom, von, über, zur
Questions in Book Titles: 
Brandreth, Gyles "Have You Eaten Grandma?" - 2017

With my books, I visited places in the following countries:
Africa (5):Botswana, Cameroon, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe
Arctic (1):
Asia (9):
Armenia, Dubai, India, Israel/Palestine, Japan, Papua New Guinea, Syria, Turkey, Vietnam
Australia/Oceania (2):
Australia, New Zealand
Europe (19):
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, Yugoslavia
North America (4):
Canada, Caribbean, St. Lucia, USA
Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay

Countries "visited" in total: 43

Authors come from:
Africa (2):
South Africa, Zimbabwe
Asia (7):
India, Israel/Palestine, Japan, Korea, Syria, Turkey, Vietnam
Australia/Oceania (2):
Australia, New Zealand
Europe (10):
Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom
North America (2):
Canada, USA
South America (1):
Uruguay
Author countries in total: 24

See also "My Year in Books" (and here on Goodreads).

You may find some even greater statistics by better bloggers than me, e.g. at "Stuck in a Book".
 
If you want more information on any of the lists mentioned, please, let me know.
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Monday, 5 January 2026

My Year in Books 2025

26,884 pages read (my count, Goodreads didn't give one this year, though it would have been worthless as they indicate a wrong one from time to time. My copy of "On the Yankee Station" had 226 pages as opposed to the 0 given by GR)

88 books read

Average book length: 314 pages

Average rating: 3.6

I am still doing my usual statistics (which you will find here) but this is what Goodreads tells me. You can find links to all my books on Goodreads here or on my page under My Reading List. 

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Monday, 6 January 2025

Statistics 2024

    

My statistics for the last years are here:
Going back to 2009-12, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 
2021, 2022, 2023  

And these are the results of my reading lists for 2024:

* Statistics 2024 *
 
I did 178 posts in 2024 which was about six fewer than last year.

My regular posts are either weekly (Book Quotes, Top Ten Tuesday, ThrowBack Thursday, Wordless Wednesday) or monthly (Happy Month, Six Degrees of Separation, Spell the Month in Books), so I posted more or less the amount of weeks or months in a year. I didn't do them all regularly, though. Especially the Top Ten Tuesday, I've participated so long and have done a lot of the topics already, so I just do them from time to time.


I also did a few lists that are more or less statistics about half of the year and a comparison to ten years ago:
I also participated in Non-fiction November.

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And then there are, of course, all the challenges I have done over the years.
I read books that contributed to the following challenges. Some of them count for more than one category:

Challenges (number of books read for the challenges in brackets)

I read more on this topic but they were not on this list.
I added all the books he chose this year to my list but haven't been able to read any of them. Yet.
(Das Lieblingsbuch der Unabhängigen = The Favourite Book of the Independents)
Every year I find some more books I can add to my list of favourite books. 24 this year. Not too bad, I guess.
Some books taking place in France.
(German: Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels)
We read 1937 and 1970 this year. It's a good idea to add some reads from former years that we might not have touched before.
I read 15 chunky books in 2024 of which 4 are considered a chunkster. Mor-book-ly Obese again.
I read suggestions from friends all the time, just haven't kept up with who recommended which book.

Book Clubs:

Some of the challenges are older and I only add to them if I happen to read one of the books. No new books on these lists:
100 Greatest Fiction Books as Chosen by the Guardian 
101 Best Selling Books of All Times 
I already said this last year. Only three more books on my list, maybe I'll get to "Slaughterhouse Five" one day.
Best European Literature 
I already read most of those that interest me, there are a few more that I could tackle one day.
Books That Changed the World 
Esperanto Books 
Here we mostly read short stories.
Le Monde - The 100 Books of the Century The non-western books that every student should read 
The only thing I miss from our old place is the library that would get me any book I wanted. Not so easy here where we only have a small church library and they only get the biggest best-sellers. And all of them in German only, of course.
Some of the challenges are older and I only add to them if I happen to read one of the books.

Books Read: 73
Pages read: 25,412 which results in 348 pages/book, 70 pages/day, 6 books/month
Last year (2023), I read 83 books with 26,717 pages which resulted in 321 pages/book, 73 pages/day, 7 books/month. So, while I read fewer books, they were larger.
The average novel contains between 140 and 320 pages, i.e. 230 which would make 110 average books (compared to 116 last year). 

Books dating from which year:
Pre 1800s: 2
1800s: 2
1900-1949: 4
1950-1999: 14
2000s: 51 (2 from 24)

Male Authors: 38
Female Authors: 33

Nobel Prize Winners: 7

Fiction: 50
Non-Fiction: 33

Chunky Books - more than 450 pages: 16, of which more than 750: 4
Library/Borrowed: 11
Re-Read: 2
TBR Pile: 18

Oldest Book: 1838
Dickens, Charles "Nicholas Nickleby. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby" - 1838/39 - 1838/39
Newest Book: 2024
Orth, Stephan "Couchsurfing in Ukraine" (GE: Couchsurfing in der Ukraine) - 2024
Steinmeier, Frank-Walter "We" (GE: Wir) - 2024
Longest book: 1,100 pages
Oates, Joyce Carol "Blonde" - 2000
Shortest book: 122 pages
Fosse, Jon "Morning and Evening" (NO: Morgon og kveld) - 2001
Longest book title: 38 letters
Bontscheva, Antonia "The beauty of Balchik is not a serene one" (GE: Die Schönheit von Baltschik ist keine heitere) - 2021
Shortest Book Title: 3 letters
Steinmeier, Frank-Walter "We" (GE: Wir) - 2024
Funniest Book:
Kishon, Ephraim (english) "Next year everything will be different" (GE: Im neuen Jahr wird alles anders) - 1982
- "Kishon for all occasions. 327 useless pieces of wisdom" (GE: Kishon für alle Fälle. 327 unbrauchbare Lebensweisheiten) - 1987
Güngör, Dilek "Pretty German. My Turkish family and I" (GE: Ganz schön deutsch. Meine türkische Familie und ich) - 2007
Saddest Book:
Weirdest Book:
Erpenbeck, Jenny "Kairos" (GE: Kairos.) - 2021
Most disappointing:
Sieg, Sören; Krohn, Axel "I didn't understand you visually. Overheard German dialogues" (GE: Ich hab dich rein optisch nicht verstanden. Deutsche Dialoge mitgehört) - 2015

New author (for me) that I would like to read more from: 5
Jon Fosse, Matt Haig, Florian Knöppler, Abraham Verghese, Caroline Wahl 

Translated Books:
14 from 9 languages
1 ea from Catalan, Japanese, Swedish, Turkish
2 ea from Hebrew, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish

Books read in another language:
Dutch: 0
French: 0
German: 24

Numbers in Book Titles: 22,39
Place Names in Book Titles: Baltschik, Cannery Row, deutsch, Europa, Kronsnest, Moscow, Napoli, Revolutionary Road, Siberia, Teufelsmoor, Ukraine, Wigan
Names in Book Titles: Algernon, Austen, Benson, Copperhead, Demon, Jane, Kairos, Kishon, Nicholas Nickleby, Páramo, Pedro, Rebecca, Sommer, tschick, Winter
Colours in Book Titles: Blue

My Favourite Books: 16
Calvino, Italo "If on a Winter's Night a Traveller" (I: Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore) - 1979
Falcones, Ildefonso "The Painter of Souls" (E: El pintor de almas) - Die Tränen der Welt - 2019
Follett, Ken "The Armour of Light" (Kingsbridge #4) - 2023
Fosse, Jon "Morning and Evening" (NO: Morgon og kveld) - 2001
Haig, Matt "The Midnight Library" - 2020
Ivey, Eowyn "To The Bright Edge of the World" - 2016
Janesch, Sabrina "Sibiria" (GE: Sibir) - 2023
Knöppler, Florian "Kronsnest [Name of Village]" (GE: Kronsnest) - 2020
Orth, Stephan (German reviews) "Couchsurfing in Ukraine" (GE: Couchsurfing in der Ukraine) - 2024
Taschler, Judith W. "David" (GE:  David) - 2017 
Tokarczuk, Olga "Drive your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead" (PL: Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych) - 2009
Verghese, Abraham "The Covenant of Water" - 2023
Wahl, Caroline "22 Lanes" (GE: 22 Bahnen) - 2023
 
With my books, I visited places in the following countries:
Africa (4):
Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe
Arctic (1):
Arctic
Asia (5):
India, Indonesia, Israel/Palestina, Japan, Kazakhstan
Australia/Oceania (3):
Australia, Melanesia, Oceania
Europe (38):
Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom
North America (6):
Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Mexico, USA
South America (2):
Brazil, Venezuela:
Countries "visited" in total: 55

Authors come from:
Africa (1):
Zimbabwe
Asia (3):
India, Israel/Palestine, Japan
Australia/Oceania (1):
Australia
Europe (12):
Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom
North America (2):
Mexico, USA
South America (1):
Chile
Author countries in total: 20

See also "My Year in Books" (and here on Goodreads).

You may find some even greater statistics by better bloggers than me, e.g. at "Stuck in a Book".
 
If you want more information on any of the lists mentioned, please, let me know.
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Tuesday, 31 December 2024

My Year in Books 2024


20,663 pages read
65 books read
Average book length: 317 pages
Apparently, I'm a Top 10 % reader.

I am still doing my usual statistics (which you can find here) but this is what Goodreads tells me. You can find links to all my books on Goodreads here or on my page under My Reading List. 

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Friday, 19 January 2024

Statistics 2023

   

My statistics for the last years are here:
 Going back to 2009-12, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 
 
And these are the results of my reading lists for 2023:

* Statistics 2023 *
 
I did 184 posts in 2023 which was about a hundred less than last year before but about the same as many others.

My regular posts are either weekly (Book Quotes, Top Ten, ThrowBack Thursday, Wordless Wednesday) or monthly (Happy Month), so I posted more or less the amount of weeks or months in a year.
Book Quotes of the Week (5 posts)
Happy Month (12)
Top Ten Tuesday (11)
ThrowBack Thursday (41)
Wordless Wednesday (2)
Six Degrees of Separation (12)
Spell the Month in Books (12)

I also did a few lists that are more or less statistics about half of the year and a comparison to ten years ago (see here):
10 Year Challenge Book Tag
Mid Year Freak-Out Tag
The End of Year Book Tag
Book Tag: 5…4…3…2…1…

Same as last year, I also participated in Non-fiction November.

And then there are, of course, all the challenges I have done over the years.
I read books that contributed to the following challenges. Some of them count for more than one category:

Challenges (number of books read for the challenges in brackets)
13 Ways of Looking at the Novel (1)
2023 TBR Pile Reading Challenge (13)
Anti-Racism Books (1)
I read more on this topic but they were not on this list.
The Classics Club (18): The Classics Spin (4)
5* for the Classics Spin, 18 in total
* There was one left from the original list and I finally finished it:
Dutch and French Books (0 Dutch, 4 French)
Favourite (German) Independent Books (1)
(Das Lieblingsbuch der Unabhängigen = The Favourite Book of the Independents)
German Books (32)
My Favourite Books Ever (15)
Every year I find some more books I can add to my list of favourite books. 24 this year. Not too bad, I guess.
Nobel Peace Prize (1)
Nobel Prize Winners and Their Books (13)
Oscar Winning Books (1)
Paris in July (6)
Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (1 + 2 previous ones from this year's recipient)
(German: Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels)
Read the Year Club (2)
We read 1940 and 1962 this year. It's a good idea to add some reads from former years that we might not have touched before.
Reading Challenge - Chunky Books 2023 (12)
I read 12 chunky books in 2023 of which 3 are considered a chunkster. Mor-book-ly Obese again.
Reading the World (1)
Suggestions from Friends (3)
I read suggestions from friends all the time, just haven't kept up with who recommended which book.
Top Ten Tuesday
I took part in 11 of the challenges, this is a great way of reminiscing or planning your reads. But I have done so many of them before.
Travel the World Through Books (1)

Some of the challenges are older and I only add to them if I happen to read one of the books. No new books on these lists:
The 100 best Non-fiction Books of All Time as Chosen by The Guardian (0)
100 Books by the BBC (0)
100 Greatest Fiction Books as Chosen by the Guardian (0)
101 Best Selling Books of All Times (0)
20 Classic and Important Books (0)
Only three more books on my list.
7 Books That Will Radically Shift Your Perspectives (0)
Books That Changed the World (0)
Emma's Book Club - Our shared shelf (0)
An ever growing list of books about and for women, a group started by Emma Watson (better known as Hermione Granger), UN Woman Goodwill Ambassador.
Esperanto Books (0)
Here we mostly read short stories.
Le Monde - The 100 Books of the Century (0)Oprah's Book Club (0)
The non-western books that every student should read (0)
The only thing I miss from our old place is the library that would get me any book I wanted. Not so easy here where we only have a small church library and they only get the biggest best-sellers. And all of them in German only, of course.

Book Club 2017 etc. (11)
I decided not to read the September book since it was not for me and we had read a few like that before.
German Book Club (11)
We only read eleven, we usually take a little break in the summer.

Books Read: 83
Pages read: 26,717 which results in 321 pages/book, 73 pages/day, 7 books/month
Last year (2022), I read 73 books with 20,533 pages which resulted in 281 pages/book, 56 pages/day, 6 books/month. So, I have improved a little.
The average novel contains between 140 and 320 pages, i.e. 230 which would make 116 average books (compated to 89 last year). Not too bad, I thought I had read less.

Books dating from which year:
Pre 1800s: 1
1800s: 3
1900-1949: 8
1950-1999: 8
2000s: 65 (1 of which from 2023)

Male Authors: 49
Female Authors: 37
Some are by several authors, so the number is not the exact number of books read.

Nobel Prize Winners: 14

Fiction: 52
Non-Fiction: 33

Chunky Books - more than 450 pages: 12, of which more than 750: 3
Library: 6
Re-Read: 2
TBR Pile: 18

Oldest Book: 1759
Voltaire "Candide, or Optimism" (F: Candide, ou l'Optimism) - 1759
Newest Book: 2023
Weiler, Jan "Älternzeit" [Eldertime] - 2023
Longest book: 1,057 pages
Rutherfurd, Edward "New York" - 2009
Shortest book: 48 pages
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi "We Should All Be Feminists" - 2014
Longest book title: 35/38
Wickert, Ulrich "Frankreich muss man lieben, um es zu verstehen" [You have to love France to understand it] - 2017

Funniest Book:
Bythell, Shaun "Seven Kinds of People you Find in Bookshops" - 2020
Saddest Book:
Perry, Matthew "Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing" - 2022
Weirdest Book:
Canetti, Elias "Auto-da-Fé" (Die Blendung) - 1935
Most disappointing:
Kazantzakis, Nikos "The Last Temptation of Christ" (Ο τελευταίος πειρασμός, O telefteos pirasmos) - 1951

New author (for me) that I would like to read more from: 13
Ewald Arenz, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Dilek Güngör, Andrey Kurkov, Heinrich Mann, Matthew Perry, Bernd Schroeder, Heike Specht, Karosh Taha, Paul Theroux, Benedict Wells, Iris Wolff, Levison Wood
 
Translated Books:
6 from 6 languages
1 ea from Arabic, Greek, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish

Books read in another language:
Dutch: 0
French: 4
German: 32

Numbers in Book Titles: 2, 7, 1913
Place Names in Book Titles: Brussels, Constantinople, Crow Lake, Flanders, France, Frankreich, French, English, German, Greece, Hook of Holland, London, Longbourn, Midaq Alley, New York, Northern Ireland, Paris (2), Rotenburg, Rue Morgue, Silk Road, Syria, Turkish
Names in Book Titles: Barabbas, Barnaby, Caleb, Candide, Christ, Coraline, Hans, Idefix, Ishmael, Leo, Lina, Lukas, Maria, Rudge, Schmitz, Sommer, Winter
Colours in Book Titles: Blue, Purple, Red

My Favourite Books: 24
Arenz, Ewald "The Big Summer" (GE: Der grosse Sommer) - 2019
Brooks, Geraldine "Caleb’s Crossing"
- "People of the Book" - 2008
Bythell, Shaun "Seven Kinds of People you Find in Bookshops" - 2020
Dangarembga, Tsitisi "Nervous Conditions" - 1988
Güngör, Dilek "My Turkish Grandmother's Secret" (GE: Das Geheimnis meiner türkischen Großmutter) - 2007
Hajaj, Claire "Ishmael's Oranges" - 2014
Heidenreich, Elke; Schroeder, Bernd "Rowing Dogs" (GE: Rudernde Hunde) - 2002
Hislop, Victoria "Maria's Island" - 2021
Ibrahimi, Anilda "Red Like a Bride" (IT: Rosso come una sposa/Rot wie eine Braut) - 2008
Keefe, Patrick Radden "Say Nothing. A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland" - 2018
Kurkov, Andrej "Grey Bees" (RUS: Серые пчелы/Seryye Pchely) - 2019
Mahfouz, Naguib "Midaq Alley" (arab: زقاق المدق/Zuqaq El Midaq) - 1947
Obama, Michelle "The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times" - 2022
Perry, Matthew "Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing" - 2022
Ruiz Zafón, Carlos "The City of Mist" (E: La Ciudad de Vapor - El cementerio de los libros olvidados #5) - 2020
Rutherfurd, Edward "New York" - 2009
Şafak, Elif "The Island of Missing Trees" - 2021
Taschler, Judith W. "The German Teacher" (GE: Die Deutschlehrerin) - 2013
- "Summer and Winter" (GE: Sommer wie Winter) - 2011
Weiler, Jan "The Awning Man" (GE: Der Markisenmann) - 2022
- "Eldertime" (GE: Älternzeit) (Pubertiere #5) - 2023
- "In My Little Country" (GE: In meinem kleinen Land) - 2006
Wells, Benedict "The End of Loneliness" (GE: Vom Ende der Einsamkeit) - 2016
 
With my books, I visited places in the following countries:
Africa (4):
Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe
Asia (13):
Afghanistan, China, India, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Australia/Oceania (1):
New Zealand
Europe (23):
Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom
North America (2):
Canada, USA
South America (3):
Argentina, Paraguay, Suriname,
Extra-terrestrial (0):
Countries "visited" in total: 46

Authors come from:
Africa (4):
Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe
Asia (4):
Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Sri Lanka, Syria
Australia/Oceania (1):
Australia
Europe (15):
Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom
North America: (2):
Canada, USA
South America (0):
Author countries in total: 26

See also "My Year in Books" on Goodreads.

You may find some even greater statistics by better bloggers than me, e.g. at "Stuck in a Book".
 
If you want more information on any of the lists mentioned, please, let me know.
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