Thursday, January 1, 2015

Books Read in 2014 - the numbers



Total books read - 242
Total pages read - 63,963 (uncertain how audiobooks are counted)

Format
eBook format - 56 (23%)
audiobook - 28 (12%)

Reason
Review copies, in print, eBook, or audiobook - 55 (23%)
Award nominees - 24 (9%) - Booker, Hugo, Nebula, Baileys, National Book Award - this number is lower than previous years

Genre
Creative non-fiction - 14 (6%) - all because I took that class!
Graphic novels - 5 (2%)
Poetry - 29 (12%) - thank you National Poetry Month!
Post-apocalyptic or dystopian - 20 (8%)
Science fiction or fantasy - 39 (16%) - down almost 10% from last year
Short stories - 18 (7%)

Southern lit - 25 (10%) - tracking because I want to read more Southern lit!


Author gender
Male - 114
Female - 116
Compilation/varied - 11

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