Back in January of this year, the Guardian published a list of “1000 Must-Read Novels“, split over seven categories. The Science Fiction & Fantasy list went around the blogosphere, with bloggers marking off those books they’d read and those books they owned but had yet to read. I decided at the time that there were several books mentioned – in all of the categories – that I wouldn’t mind reading.

So I’ve been picking them up and reading in amongst my normal reading. And tracking my progress. As below.

“tbr” is those books I own but have not read. The figures are from the beginning of each quarter – Q1 on publication of the list, Q2 1 April, Q3 1 July, and Q4 1 October. If I restricted my reading to books on the list, I’m sure I’d have made more of a dent – but I didn’t want to do that.

	Q1 2009		Q2 2009
	read	tbr	read	tbr
comedy	12	1	13	2
crime	28	0	28	1
family & self	7	2	7	5
love	13	5	14	4
nation	7	1	7	1
sf & fantasy	63	10	65	13
war & travel	16	1	16	3
	146	20	150	29