66 Books

I read 66 books this year, well below last year’s total of 134.

First book of 2014: BRONSON’S LOOSE!: THE MAKING OF THE DEATH WISH FILMS by Paul Talbot
Last book of 2014: THE OATH by John Lescroart

Of the 66, 51 of them were first-time reads.

Hardcover: 14
iPad: 4
Paperback: 40
Trade paperback: 8

Counting by genre:

Fiction: 47
Action/Adventure: 6
Comic Books: 1
Crime Drama: 7
Horror: 1
Mystery/Thriller: 28
Science Fiction: 2
Western: 2

Non-Fiction: 19
Comic Books: 7
Film: 5
Television: 6
True Crime: 1

From the 1930s: 3
1950s: 3
1960s: 10
1970s: 7
1980s: 3
1990s: 14
2000–2013: 19
2014: 7

Series:
Dismas Hardy by John Lescroart: 9
Perry Mason by Erle Stanley Gardner: 3
Doc Savage by Lester Dent: 2
Alex Delaware by Jonathan Kellerman: 2
Jack Reacher by Lee Child: 2
Jim Rockford by Stuart Kaminsky: 2
Virgil Tibbs by John Ball: 2

Other authors read more than once:
Roy Thomas: 4
John Wells: 2
Marc Cushman: 2
Michael Avallone: 2

Five recommendations:
FAVORITE SON by Steve Sohmer
DISASTER ARTIST: MY LIFE INSIDE THE ROOM, THE GREATEST BAD MOVIE EVER by Greg Sestero
THE GLASS INFERNO by Thomas N. Scortia & Frank M. Robinson
THE GOLDEN AGE OF DC COMICS: 1935-1956 by Paul Levitz
HOMICIDE: A YEAR ON THE KILLING STREETS by David Simon

How many books did you read this year?