Last year's tallies brought to you by Feltron
March 14, 2007
Have you heard of Nicholas Feltron? He lives in NYC. He's 29 years old.
Have you heard of Nicholas Feltron?
He lives in NYC.He's a graphic designer who records each detail of his life down to the number of book pages read by book (noted below each book title), magazines read, text messages sent and received, animals eaten, cities visited, and on and on. This is his third annual report. Check out the design. It's a great depiction of numbers and data. Inside he notes that he read 3761 book pages in 2006. On his list of books were:
He's 29 years old.
Has a cat named King.
Runs the company Megafone.
And when the weather calls for it, wears a sweater.
- The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
233 pages - See No Evil by Robert Baer
279 pages - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon *Best fiction
221 pages - The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
304 pages - Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
207 pages - JPod by Douglas Copeland
448 pages - It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be by Paul Arden
127 pages - The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan *Best Non-Fiction
411 pages - A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman
160 of 209 pages - Exquisite Pain by Sophie Calle
112 of 281 pages - The Works by Kate Ascher
215 pages - Heat by Bill Buford
315 pages - The Disappointment Artist by Jonathan Lethem
149 pages - The Looming Tower by Lawerence Wright
144 of 373 pages - Universal Principles of Design by Lidwell, Holden and Butler
63 of 211 pages