How many BOOKS do you read?

[Wyn]

I don't work in the summers and so I have a lot of free time. During the year, my time is a bit more occupied with work. With that said, I suppose I probably average about 3 books a week. I'll read about anything I can get my hands on. My most recent favorite book was When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris. Anything written by him is a gem.
Wyn

 

[Web]

I love to read, but have been mostly limited to text books since I started working at the University.

We grew up reading . . . I don't go anywhere without something to read- and I will read a cereal box or hairspray can if I can't find anything else.
This summer I have had some free time and have been able to read more- I was able to read a lot last year when husband was in the hospital. I can read 1-2 a week. . . .

I love the Harry Potter Series- I had to reread all of them each time another one came out-
I liked the Outlander series,
I like mysteries, some action, a little romance
Kathy Reichs, Patricia Cornwell, Greg Iles, Grisham, John Sanford, Dan Brown,
light hearted stuff like Janet Evanovich, Susan Elizabeth Peters, Amanda Quick, Jane Ann Krentz

Love Rita Mae Brown- Bingo & Six of One and Ruby-Fruit Jungle are her best work

 

[bostongal]

I can go as high as 5 books a week depending on what's going on, the story, etc. I love to read and I read just about anything if it's interesting.

Here are a few authors that I love:

Rosamunde Pilcher
Peter Mayle
James Herriot
Maeve Binchy
Anne Tyler
Alice Hoffman
Dominick Dunne
John Grisham
Jane Green
Sue Miller
Frances Mayes (although Peter Mayle is a better writer)

I am currently working my way through Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain. And another book I recently read that I loved was Julie & Julia which I just read they turned it into a movie...

Meg

 

[tw1nk1es]

I read about one fiction book per week when school isn't in session and about one per month when it is. I also read a fairly large amount of nonfiction both for entertainment and dreadfully boring technical teaching stuff for my second master's degree - yup, that would raise my pay rate.I read about two magazines per week like Newsweek or whatever anyone leaves on the break room table. The last fiction I read were The Other Boleyn Girl and Pandemic by Daniel Kalla (Thanks Popcorn!)

Unfortunately, we are just outside the taxing district for the public library and cannot check out books from there. The University library is the source for most of my dry, boring textbook type material.

I get most of my fiction from paperbackswap.com which is an interesting way to get books if you have regular Post Office access to mail things out.

Edited because after a day in kindergarten, my mind has melted.

 

[herb]

JoAnn here-I saw some of my favorite authors mentioned in this thread (Frances Mayes, Jan Karon, Maeve Binchy, Rosamund Pilcher, and many others).
Among the books I recently read I highly recommend two memoirs:
Heat by Bill Buford - about the author's adventures as an apprentice to celebrity chef Mario Batali, and a great behind the scenes glimpse of the restaurant business.
In the Hamptons by Dan Rattiner - fellow New Yorkers may very well recognize the author's name, he is the publisher of Dan's Papers, a free newspaper published in the Hamptons and Montauk. The author shares his story about the history of the paper as well as the locale. A great beach book- lots of local color and history as well as some name dropping.
For you mystery lovers, here are a few more recommendations;
by Rhys Bowen the Evan Evans mysteries (set in a Welsh village)
the Molly Murphy mysteries (early 20th century New York City)
and her most recent, Her Royal Spyness, and A Royal Pain (aristocrats in pre-WWII England)
One more for New Yorkers by a local author - Mary Anne Kelly's Park Lane South series. The earliest in the series (Park Lane South, Queens and Foxglove, may be out of print but should be available in a library. A wonderful mystery/suspense series with many references to local New York City neighborhoods and landmarks.
Enjoy!

 

[J.E. M.]

Do cruise catalogs count?

 

[Pootersdad]

Usually two to three a week, although if it's a REALLY GOOD fast paced book, sometimes two a day.

I currently reading David McCullough's The Great Bridge, which is about the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. I've just finished his account of building the Panama Canal, The Path Between the Seas. I also just read his book about Teddy Roosevelt, Mornings on Horseback. Also just read his biography of John Adams. Next up is The Johnstown Flood, also by McCullough.

Our local library has two book sales a year. On the final day of the sale, you can buy all the books you can carry for $1.00. We take several large heavy duty shopping bags and fill them to the top. Last time I had 56 hardcover and 40 paperbacks for the grand amount of $1.00. Even if I discover I have read the book before, no big deal, since the book cost me pennies.

 

[red stripe]

I see more authors that I forgot to list.. and I know there are tons more.
but these popped out at me as I read your replies..
Patricia Cornwell
R.D. Wingfield (and his curmudgeon hero Detective Inspector Frost)

Jame's Michner's Hawaii.. and just about all the rest of his books..

Susan Howatch's Penmarrick

Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence.. YES.. and the series was also good on TV

R.D. Wingfield (and his curmudgeon hero Detective Inspector Frost) How could I have forgotten him?

James Herriot.. I read his books again and again. and also loved the TV series.

JoAnn, Thank you for the recommendations, I will have to try this one out
"Rhys Bowen the Evan Evans mysteries (set in a Welsh village)"

Yes J.E.M. they count

then I remembered the novels about Brother cadfael.. by Ellis Peters.. mystery set back in the 1130's he is a Welsh Benedictine monk and herbalist at Shrewsbury Abbey in England.

"Rumpole of the Bailey" books.. written by barrister Sir John Mortimer, QC

Michael Dobbs...House of Cards. . To Play the King . The Final Cut ...all featuring that great villain Francis Urquhart
and his Churchill series is also good.

speaking of Churchill.. the 4 volume set.. Marlborough his life and times... and..The second world war.. 5 0r 6 books... and the wonderful "history of the English Speaking people"

I love Biographies of famous or infamous people.. Not Paris Hilton types :lol
history, both the real deal, and novels that use history in them... Mystery and suspense, but not horror.
I also like to learn about things.. so often will read some rather strange books.

I read Mein Kampf.. but I would not recommend it :lol
read the whole bible once as a child..when there were no other books left to read in the house.

some more favorite authors.. with a title here and there to spark your memories.. as if you are like me, it is not until you see a title that you remember all of their great books that you have enjoyed..

Jack London..(call of the wild) Chaucer..(Canterbury tales) Dumas.. (count of Monte Cristo)..Twain.. (Tom sawyer) Dickens. oliver Twist).Dostoevsky(crime and punishment) ... Tolstoy..( Anna karinna,)... Cervantes.. (Don Quixote)..
Robert Louis Stevenson.. Plato... Jane Austin.....Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels)..Joseph Conrad ...Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.. Nathaniel Hawthorne ..E.M. Forster ..Homer ..Oscar Wilde ...Sir Walter Scott ..Charlotte Bronte ..James Fenimore Cooper ...Aristotle...Victor Hugo ...Louisa May Alcott ...Sinclair Lewis ..Sophocles ....George Eliot ..Herman Melville...Jonathan Swift ...Daniel Defoe ...Willa Cather ...socretise....Oscar Wilde ...Nathaniel Hawthorne ...Alexandre Dumas .....H.G. Wells ...Henry James ...Harriet Beecher Stowe ..


Oh, and Dean Koontz.. I loved "Watchers" with the amazing Golden retriever in it.. and the brother Odd series by him. plus the husband.. But I do not like all his books, some are just too weird..
Oh yes.. and I will read Isaac Asimov's books... but I have a way to go before I am through his over 500 books and articles.. with anything from some amazing science fiction, to books dealing with mysteries, non fiction (mind blowing..) science books.... Earth sciences..mathematics.... ( NOT MY STRONG SUIT).. Chemistry.. physics..history and biology..
My dream list would contain ownership of ALL of his works.

any of you that have brushed this guy off as just a science fiction writer.. you need to check out this list of his works..
<a href="http://www.asimovonline.com/oldsite/asimov_catalogue.html#Note32">complete list of his works<a/>

anyone who has not read his short story "nightfall" is missing a treat.His books are amazing.

Oh how I love books.. anyone ask me what I want for Christmas.. my answer is.. BOOKS