How many books do you read per year and what books are they? You can give titles, authors and the year of publishing?

You can give titles, authors and the year of publishing. In Catalonia, an Autonomic Region of Spain, today the 'Dia de Sant Jordi' is celebrated. Every Catalan man gives a rose with an ear of corn decorated with a small flag of Catalonia to his wife and every woman gives a book to her husband.

Sant Jordi ('Saint George') is the Patron Saint of Catalonia. Between five and six million (6.000.000) Roses are sold and the same amount of books (6.000.000) are given as a present. This tradition is now taken over by many countries.

Japan is one of those countries. It is a beautiful tradition and many famous authors from allover the world come to Catalonia to sign their (often just published) new books to the public. Today Catalonia will have a real day of Spring with a blue sky and a lot of sun...and joy.

The streets of Barcelona and Girona for instance will be filled with lovers of books and of flowers. Asked by janosj 48 months ago Similar Questions: books read year give titles authors publishing Recent Questions About: books read year give titles authors publishing Arts > Books > Books - Authors.

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I typically read... ...three to five books per week, so it would be difficult to list them all here. I read a lot of them for filling up time (my husband is disabled and sleeps a lot; he also likes me to sit with him when he eats but he eats very slowly; there is also a lot of time spent waiting for doctors). I pick up a lot of mystery/suspense paperbacks but I also read more solid books.

Right now I am reading Joy Fielding's Heartbreaker. Here are some of the ones I have read in the past twelve months that I bought from Amazon.com alone (April 2007-April 2008): The Penelopiad (Canongate Myths) Paperback by Atwood, Margaret Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume--Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions The Other Wind (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 6) Tales from Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 5) Tehanu (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 4) Season of Life: A Football Star, a Boy, a Journey to Manhood Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence Powers (Annals of the Western Shore) Voices (Annals of the Western Shore) The Earthsea Trilogy Hardcover by Ursula K. Le Guin Why Don't They Just Quit?

Mr. Timothy: A Novel Paperback by Bayard, Louis The Crimson Petal and the White Paperback by Faber, Michel Another City: A Sequel to Albany Park : A Memoir by Chaplin, Patrice Albany Park: A Story of Bohemian Adventure and Obsessive Love : A Memoir by Chaplin, Patrice City of Secrets: One Woman's True-life Journey to the Heart of the Grail Legend Back Care Basics: A Doctor's Gentle Yoga Program for Back and Neck Pain Relief Lyra's Oxford Shadow in the North (Sally Lockhart Trilogy, Book 2) The Ruby in the Smoke (Sally Lockhart Trilogy, Book 1) His Dark Materials Trilogy (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass) Box set The Tiger in the Well (Sally Lockhart Trilogy, Book 3) The Tin Princess Entre Cada Palabra Cantos de Agua Dulce (Songs of the Sweet Water) Ingathering: The Complete People Stories of Zenna Henderson Bad Luck and Trouble Jesus Out to Sea: Stories Sappers in the Wire: The Story of Firebase Mary Ann The Ice Limit Riptide The Cabinet of Curiosities Brimstone Dance of Death Reliquary Relic Mount Dragon The Wheel of Darkness Wedgwood Jasper: Classics, Rarities & Oddities from Four Centuries (Schiffer Book for Collectors) Beyond Barbed Wire/Go For Broke Lord of the Flies The Tin Roof Blowdown: A Dave Robicheaux Novel Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany Girl with a Pearl Earring Not Left Behind: Rescuing the Pets of New Orleans The Official Guide to Christmas in the South: Or, If You Can't Fry It, Spraypaint It Gold Somebody is Going to Die If Lilly Beth Doesn't Catch That Bouquet: The Official Southern Ladies' Guide to Hosting the Perfect Wedding Suddenly Southern: A Yankee's Guide to Living in Dixie Being Dead is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral Death Is Not the End: A Novella (Inspector Rebus Mysteries) The Hanging Garden (An Inspector Rebus Novel) The Black Book Strip Jack The Falls: An Inspector Rebus Novel Set in Darkness: An Inspector Rebus Novel The Naming of the Dead (An Inspector Rebus) Fleshmarket Alley: An Inspector Rebus Novel Let It Bleed (An Inspector Rebus Novel) A Question of Blood: An Inspector Rebus Novel (Inspector Rebus Mysteries) Resurrection Men: An Inspector Rebus Novel (Inspector Rebus Novels) Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkein Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher The Amulet of Samarkand (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 1) Ptolemy's Gate (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 3) The Golem's Eye (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 2) The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 3) Buried Fire Fablehaven Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside Orphans of the Living: Stories of America's Children in Foster Care The Higher Power of Lucky On Their Own: What Happens to Kids When They Age Out of the Foster Care System? Out of Iraq: A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now Down These Mean Streets Drowning in Fire (Sun Tracks Series, Volume 48) Paperback by Womack, Craig S. Petroleros: A Novel Hardcover by Schuster, Joan Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) Dexter in the Dark: A Novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter Dearly Devoted Dexter Risk: Man-Made Hazards to Man (Oxford Science Publications) by Cooper, Hoel I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem (C a R a F Books) by Conde, Maryse I also buy and read books from Barnes & Noble (the website and a physical store), ABE Books, Alibris, Half.com, Half Price Books, Walgreens and the grocery store.

Sources: Thank you Amazon for keeping a list! Darwin™'s Recommendations At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries Amazon List Price: $60.00 Used from: $24.49 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 37 reviews) A Passion for Books : A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Love and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books Amazon List Price: $16.95 Used from: $5.00 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 15 reviews) A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books Amazon List Price: $20.00 Used from: $4.50 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 23 reviews) Some books to which I relate: .

Short list Janosj: First to answer your question, I am going to estimate that I read about 50 books a year, that is, almost one per week. But that’s probably a high number. .

At any one time I have about two dozen books I’m trying to read. The bulk of these are work related, because I’m a researcher/technical writer. .

But I also read a lot of fiction and non-fiction for my own personal benefit. . In terms of fiction I focus mostly on science fiction and fantasy novels.

. In terms of nonfiction I tend to read a lot of self-help business books and books on nature, science and technology and those that involve creative pursuits, such as cooking, painting, crafts of various sorts etc. . I also like travel books such as Bill Bryson’s, which are absolutely wonderful In a Sunburned Country, where he travels to Australia, is a wonderful example of his work... .

I tend to also collect books on dating, which sit and collect dust. I really need the advice in those, but avoid them because then it would mean I’d have to actually go out and try dating women! .

---------------------------------------------------------------- . I think that this tradition you have in your country is ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL and America could do very well by itself to adopt it. .

Thank you for telling us about it. Its a wonderful practice, and something that never would have occured to me. .

---------------------------------------------------------------- . In case you’re curious, here are a couple books that I’m currently working on finishing: . "Ill Wind" by Kevin J.

Anderson and Doug Beason, copyright 1996. . amazon.com/Ill-Wind-Kevin-J-Anderson/dp/... .

. This is a novel about a near future oil spill catastrophe in San Francisco bay in northern California. The oil spill is so bad that a "bioremediation" bacteria is released to consume the oil, and it spreads out of control, consuming the octane in gasoline around the planet (making it useless as a fuel) and it adapts to consume plastics.

. Society as we know it collapses, because most of our modern electronics rely on plastics to function... Its a very gripping story. .

Kevin J. Anderson wrote a science fiction series collectively titled "The Saga of Seven Suns" that is also very well done. I’m working through it, and am on book #4 of 5.

Its a broad scale account of a future human galactic civilization caught up in a war between superior races. If you like this sort of novel, I highly recommend these books. .

Here’s a link for the first book in the series, published in 2002: . http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Empire-Saga-Seven-Suns/dp/0446528625/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209180595&sr=1-4 . .

------------------------------------------------------ "The 4 Hour Workweek" by Timothy Ferriss, published in 2007. . This is a non-fiction book about setting up a business that can essentially run itself, by having offshore production (say in China) and offshore customer service (India) so that all you have to do is manage it from afar.

The author uses his example of a vitamin business... Its also a very intriquing concept... . I really like this writer’s approach to life and his ideas. Many of the self help books on the market teach tired old concepts that have been around for 50 years.

This is something different... . http://www.amazon.com/4-Hour-Workweek-Escape-Live-Anywhere/dp/0307353133/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209180661&sr=1-1 . Sources: my own collection of owned and borrowed library books .

That sounds like a neautiful tradition and something that encourages learning I probably read from 30-40 books a year - mostly fiction of various types, but some non fiction, plus the Scriptures. I read a lot of mysteries and thrillers - about once or two books a year might be characterized as more romance or drama, I guess - general fiction narrative. I read History books and self help books as my non fiction - 3-5 of those a year, I'd say.

My last non fiction was 3:16 by Max Lucado and my last Fiction (I am reading it currently) is the Second Horseman by Kyle Mills. I have favorite authors - Jonathan Kellerman and Kyle Milles and Vince Flynn and WEB Griffin and Tom Clancy and John D Mc Donald. I read classics too - read Huckleberry Finn last year and the play Medusa.

(is that Euripidies or Sophocles? One of those guys). What do you read?

Sources: My answer .

A selected few..... Perfume from Provence by Lady Fortescue, first published in 1936, illustrated by E.H. Shepard. Lady Fortescue moved with her husband to renovate a property in Provence, and live there because it was cheaper than living in England. This delightfully written book was a bestseller in its time, and I suspect much more elegantly composed that A Year in Provence, the more recent book by Peter Mayle (which I have not read - I'm generally allergic to fashionably popular books).

For your information, her husband died, but Lady Fortescue stayed mostly in France. She helped feed, cloth and educate families impoverished by the German WW2 occupation. For this she became known as Mama Noël - Mother Christmas.

Note: E.H. Shepard is the original illustrator of Winnie the Pooh and other books by A.A. Milne. Propitious Esculent by John Reader, first published 2008 I am still slowly reading through this densely and surprisingly interesting world history of the potato. From its very early origins in South America to its being grown and eaten worldwide.

The book is in three sections: South America, Europe and The World. I am part way through South Americas, the Incas and then the Spanish conquistadors. Rather than being boring, because this book ranges so far and wide - weather, cultivation, political and social history.... - it is absorbing, if not as easy to read as Lady Fortescue.

Other than these two, I must confess to reading not much else serious bookwise recently - the net is quicker, easier to digest and Askville is good reading too! Sources: me and books salamanda's Recommendations Perfume from Provence Amazon List Price: $16.00 Used from: $0.17 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 3 reviews) Propitious Esculent: The Potato in World History .

Too many to list! If you include reading I do for work (I'm a secondary school teacher), I'm probably clocking in at over 75 books per year. Sometimes during the summer I can knock out a paperback a day.

I'm somewhat unusual that way; I read more than any other person I know. In fact, it is not unusual for me to be reading 4-5 books at a time and go from one to the next as the mood strikes me. I tend to read most in the following categories: Fiction (in order): Sci-Fi Fantasy Political/Military Thriller (Tom Clancy, etc.) Classics (currently re-reading Candide) Foreign Authors (I love Naguib Mahfouz) Non-Fiction (in order): Islamic History General World History Physics (especially Quantum Physics for advanced laymen) Current Middle East Politics Intelligence, Unconventional Warfare, Military History US History I have an extensive personal library as well as many books in storage as I cannot part with a good book.

I also have access to books through my school and my wife's college library. About the Dia de Sant Jordi, I'd love to have something similar here in the United States, provided that both husband and wife receive books. Sources: personal experience VectorScalar's Recommendations These are books I currently am reading or have just finished.

The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics (Popular Science) Amazon List Price: $19.95 Used from: $4.07 Average Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5 (based on 59 reviews) Candide (Barnes & Noble Classics) Amazon List Price: $7.95 Used from: $4.00 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 4 reviews) Contact Harvest (Halo) Amazon List Price: $14.95 Used from: $7.95 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 42 reviews) Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of Cold War Submarine Espionage Used from: $44.00 The Beginning and the End Amazon List Price: $14.95 Used from: $0.73 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 15 reviews) Godel's Proof Amazon List Price: $19.95 Used from: $7.95 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 31 reviews) Islam: Religion, History, and Civilization Amazon List Price: $14.00 Used from: $4.95 Average Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5 (based on 5 reviews) .

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