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2011 Reading Roundup

When I decided to put together a post recapping my reading experiences from 2011, I looked back at what a wrote last year and it’s pretty clear that I was pleased with the quality of novels that I read. Without question, 2011 was even better.

First, I met my goal of 24 novels, which was one more than what I read in 2010. Second, almost all of the novels that I read were completely kick ass. I literally rated 20 of those 24 novels as 4 stars or better. That pretty much says it all, but here are some additional stats.

Of the 24 books that I read, 2 were graphic novels and 6 were audio books. According to Goodreads, the page count for those novels was 10,102, which was just a bit more than 2010′s 9,472. If you are interested, you can see every more stats at Goodreads.

As I mentioned before, the books that I read this year were pretty awesome. Here’s the breakdown:

4 Stars

• Side Jobs (stories from The Dresden Files) by Jim Butcher
• Princep’s Fury (Codex Alera #5) by Jim Butcher
• Catching Fire (The Hunger Games #2) by Suzanne Collins
• Mockingjay (The Hunger Games #3) by Suzanne Collins
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
• The Shadow Rising (Wheel of Time #4) by Robert Jordan
• A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle #1) by Ursula K. LeGuin
• The Wise Man’s Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle #2) by Patrick Rothfuss
• The Hero of Ages (Mistborn #3) by Brandon Sanderson
• Daemon by Daniel Suarez

5 Stars

• The Blade Itself (The First Law #1) by Joe Abercrombie
• Before They Are Hanged (The First Law #2) by Joe Abercrombie
• Last Argument of Kings (The First Law #3) by Joe Abercrombie
• Ghost Story (The Dresden Files #13) by Jim Butcher
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman
• The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle) by Patrick Rothfuss
• The Well of Ascension (Mistborn #2) by Brandon Sanderson
• Old Man’s War (Old Man’s War #1) by John Scalzi
• The Way of Shadows (Night Angel #1) by Brent Weeks

As you can see, I read a lot of great books last year. I still want to go into some more detail about some of these reads, but I think I’ll leave that for another post.

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