Comments on: How many books have you read in your whole lifetime?

By: kc_brig

kc_brig — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:33:44 +0000

Well, I read 4 books last weekend…. I’m 30 and have been reading very heavily since 5th-6th grade so… I’d say around 3500+. Some were shorter than others. And some I read 2-3 in a day, but skip a few days inbetween. I’d say average 3-5 books a week.

By: eboss_sweeps

eboss_sweeps — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:36:59 +0000

Thousands. I love to read. Every since I learned to read, I have been reading. Mother took us to the library and we would come home with stacks. I have books falling out of my many bookshelves.

By: NobdyPtclr

NobdyPtclr — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:21:24 +0000

My parents loved books and passed it along. I’m 34 and have read at least 10,000. I own well over 1000 (much to my husband’s dismay!).

By: billhantzis

billhantzis — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:33:28 +0000

In 58 years of reading my brother and friends figured using a computer about 4 years ago that I have actually read somewhere around 546,000 books. Your welcome.

By: fairychild20_1986

fairychild20_1986 — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 09:00:04 +0000

To be truth full I’d have to say around a thousand… To some that may be a lot considering I’m only 20 but I have always loved books. I tend to read anything that looks interesting from sci-fi to romance to mystery and even some teen books like the Uglies-Pretties-Specials series.. I can usually read a book in 2 or 3 hours and when I find one I like I don’t want to put it down. I remember once I went to a book store (can’t remember the name) and I asked about new vampire/paranormal books and all that they said I already had read. As for listing them well here’s some all of Laurell K Hamilton Charlaine Harris, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Kim Harrison, every Goosebumps I can find, Mary Janice Davidson, Christine Feehan, Maggie Shayne James Patterson ( though i haven’t read the women’s mystery club.. yet) and way too many others to name.

By: French Roast

French Roast — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 07:37:19 +0000

Who knows? Thousands for sure. At least 2 a week and I am 54. Plus 3 newspapers a day . I don’t like being without something to read. Stuck waiting for my car to be repaired one day I read the entire car manual for lack of something better.

By: AlpineAlli

AlpineAlli — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 02:30:57 +0000

I’m 35, and I would guess that I’ve averaged 2 books a month for the past 30 years. That makes 720. Seems rather low, I’ll have to think about it. If you include picture books I’ve read as an adult (to my kids) the number must go way up.

By: selkie

selkie — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:06:46 +0000

It is almost impossible to estimate. I started reading at a young age, books we owned some borrowed from the library. I am in my mid-thirties now. My current library consists of approxiamately 3,500 books, most of which have been read cover to cover. Maybe 4,000 – 5,500 (?), maybe more.

I read mostly history or literature. I cannot go through the entire list but the most recent books include Miracle in the Andes [currently reading], A Little Girl is Dead (about the hanging of Leo Frank), The Lazarus Syndrome by Louis Gossett Jr. (about apparent death/premature burial), Curses! Broiled Again!: The Hottest Urban Legends Going) by Jan Harold Brunvand, Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear by Jan Bondeson, Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America by Cynthia Carr, Cotton by Christopher Wilson…the list goes on.

By: Luna

Luna — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:30:38 +0000

I cannot possibly list all of them! I read a lot. I estimate that I have read no more than in the hundreds. And I am 13.

By: adventuremantraveller

adventuremantraveller — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:14:06 +0000

Probably around 5,000 by now.