1,082

Back in 2002, a couple of years after I'd finished grad school and a couple of years into my first career, one of the things I loved best was being able to read whatever I wanted. Not journals, not scientific tomes, not required reading for seminars, but whatever I wanted.

So I began keeping a list of the books that I read because what reader doesn't love a good list?

Twenty-one years later, that little flowered notebook I bought at the Printed Word Bookstore in Clifton, New Jersey, is almost filled. And I have read 1,082 books. 

1,082.

Lots of cheesy mysteries. Many great nonfiction science books and history books and biographies. The occasional children's book. 

Plus hundreds of magazines. 

Yes, I love reading.