What I believe:
I've wanted to build a queryable database of books and authors I've read for a long time. Following the 2016 election, I wanted a better answer to the question of who and what I had been reading (and a way to measure change over time), so I finally sat down in mid-2017 and started going through the list.
The result is a catalogue of most of the books I've read since buying a Kindle in 2008. Keep reading for some commentary and statistics below. Otherwise, to jump directly to the books, you can explore by category or view the full list.
[1]Except for the graph of books by date started, the remaining stats count only books finished, according to the date that I finished reading them.
[2]Books with n authors count each author as 1/n in the author statistics, to avoid skewing the numbers towards books with a larger number of authors (which also tend to be nonfiction).
[3]Page count can vary a lot by print format; where possible, this uses the Kindle page length on the Amazon book page to try to compare apples-to-apples as much as possible. I've generally excluded endnotes from page counts since I rarely read endnotes.