Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Braddy's Library: A Statistical Breakdown


From humble beginnings...

TOTAL BOOKS IN LIBRARY: 353

FICTION: 77
NONFICTION: 35
PERFORMANCE: 32
COMICS: 134
POETRY: 55
RELIGIOUS: 20

TOTAL BOOKS BOUGHT FOR SCHOOLING: 71
*Number of those read completely: 41

CURRENTLY READING: 5

FICTION STATS

Young Adult Fiction: 21
Hardcover: 12
Short Story Collections: 8
Books Purchased at "Buy 2, Get 1 Free" Sales at Barnes and Noble: 9
Books I Totally Plan on Reading Someday: 7
Books I Bought to Say, "Yeah, I'm a Guy, and I Have Memoirs of a Geisha. What of it?": 1

NONFICTION STATS

Reference: 10
Manuals on Writing Tutoring I Never Read: 9
*Ones I Plan to Read: 4
*Ones I'll Never Read but I Keep on My Shelf to Look Smarter: 5

PERFORMANCE STATS

Plays: 24
*Shakespeare: 16
*Plays I've Been In: 2
Songbooks: 8

COMICS STATS

DC: 38
Marvel: 24
Dark Horse: 42
Books with Batman in Them: 27
*Books with Batman Punching Vampires or Zombies: 2
Collections of Newspaper Comic Strips: 6 (7 if you count this)
Comics without Super Heroes: 45

POETRY STATS

Impulse Purchases: 28
Collections I've Read from Cover to Cover: 9
Book-Length Narrative Poems: 4
Books I Own because I'd Be a Hack Poet without SOMETHING by Dickinson or Eliot: 2

RELIGIOUS STATS

Books of Scripture: 3
Titles I Have Copies of in English and Czech: 2
LDS Institute of Religioun Manuals: 9
*Manuals from Classes I Never Took: 6
*Manuals from Classes about Getting Married that I'm Proud I Never Took: 1
Really Awesome Biblical Concordances: 1

5 comments:

miss kristen said...

Hey I have the same Marriage Prep book! Except I took one class and then promptly dropped it because I didn't want to spend a semester looking at the smug engaged couples.

heidikins said...

This is fantastic, absolutely fantastic. Carry on, Mr. Braddy.

xox

Psychoticmilkman said...

Number of friends who want to make a witty, snarky remark but change their mind because they just got done doing a similar thing with their movie/television collection: 1

Torrie said...

Wow, it's amazing that you had the patience to do this. I have absolutely no idea how many books I own...probably well over five or six hundred by now (esp. considering that I've only ever sold back two of my textbooks ever). Impressive shelf though! You've inspired me to want to do a similar post someday...when I have all my books in one place, that is...

S.R. Braddy said...

I should mention that this post only includes the books on my shelf - anything currently in storage or on loan to someone may have been left off the list.