2013 Thoughts: This year showed another annual increase in books that THB made it through. Why? It's hard to pin down, since all three years have been on a Kindle, and there were plenty of lengthy non-fiction books in the mix (1500 pages of the Liberation Trilogy!). The good news: more of the 2013 books ended up in the Recommended category by percent than in 2012.
THB's favorite anomaly: how did two half books end up in the 2013 mix? Clue: one was written by THB...nothing like self-promotion!
There are so many books on the 2013 list that there are bound to be some themes (war? Russia? Pico Iyer?); THB is here to tell you that is it is just a random walk through the world of books, nothing special about what pulled other than very good reviews.
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Total
books
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Non-Fiction/
Fiction
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Top
Picks
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Recommendd
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Neutral
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Something
Else
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Not
Recommendd
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2013
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91
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46/45
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12 Total
5.5/6.5
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42 Total 24/18
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21 Total 12/9
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3 Total 1.5/1.5
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13 Total 3/10
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2012
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77
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36/41
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8 Total
4/4
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26 Total
9/17
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29 Total 19/15
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3 Total
all N-F
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11 Total 6/5
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2011
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53
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22/31
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10 Total
4/6
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25 Total
13/12
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11 Total
5/6
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-
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7 Total
All Fiction
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In the NYT Book Review section on January 20, 2013, there were exactly zero reviews of novels. Not one…so, of course, could that have meant that there must have been zero novels worth reviewing that week? Zero published? Other times during the year there could be as few as two real novels reviewed (first NYT Book Review section of 2014: two novels, one fantasy and the other translated, neither category makes it onto THB’s future reading list). An East Coast effete conspiracy to get THB to read more non-fiction?
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we need a percentage recommended category!!
ReplyDeleteMore stats next year, now that there's a chart to put in such stuff...who knew this list would make it to age three
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