I read 166 books in 2006 from a total of 108 different authors and 30 different publishers. With 8 books, Julie Kenner tops my most frequently read author list, followed by Kate Hoffman with 5. In third place with 4 books is a five way tie between Janet Evanovich, Jennifer LaBrecque, Kimberly Raye, Leslie Kelly, and Rhonda Nelson.
The top three most frequently read publishers (I consider each line within Harlequin to be a unique publisher) is Blaze with a total of 72 books. In second place with 20 books is HQN and in third place is Avon with 10.
In case you're interested, here are the distribution of scores I assigned to each book:
While there appears to be a strong bias toward Great and Very Good, it really isn't. Considering Blaze's reputation for publishing quality books, this shouldn't be so shocking and when you consider the non-Blaze books, I've either have read the author before and knew they were worth reading before I picked up the book or I listened to your suggestions when when I didn't have experience with a particular author and/or publisher.
When I tried to list my favorite books of 2006, I decided to group them into two categories: Blaze and Non-Blaze. I also decided that an author can appear only on one list or the other. Also I choose only one book from each author, even though several authors deserved to have multiple books selected.
Non-Blaze:
Blaze:
My personal goal during 2006 was to read every Blaze with a 2006 publishing date, which I accomplished with ease. I think I leared a lot from this exercise and I'd definitely recommend doing something similar if you want to write for a particular Harlqeuin line.
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