2015 was a good year of reading! I already posted a podcast about my best reads of the year (and a few other people's) but I also like to keep track of some numbers.
Overall I read
Books: 244
Pages: 65,186
Last
year I read almost exactly 50/50 male/female and this year my female
author number is higher than 50. I think it's the first time I've read
more women than men.
Male- 114 (47%)
Female -126 (52%)
Multi - 4 (1%)
I'm
still reading primarily in print. I would say the majority of audio and
eBook titles are actually review copies that I get from the publisher.
Format:
eBook - 59 (24%)
Audiobook - 29 (12%)
Print - 156 (64%)
And then these are some fun categories that I track throughout the year:
Alternate history 1
Around the USA 21
Around the World 56
Biography Memoir 22
Books on Books 6
Cold Weather Islands 5
Contemplative Pedagogy 5
Creative Non Fiction 7
Cults & Communes 3
Foodie 9
Graphic novels 9
Librarianship 14
Mighty Tomes 2
Music 3
Poetry 20
Post Apocalypse & Dystopia 12
Reread 9
Review Copy 63
Scifi-fantasy 26
Secret Agents and Detectives 7
Short Stories 19
Southern 7
Time Travel 2
Travel 4
World Lit (Oceania) 36 - read more about this list on my blog
YA 3
Award
listings have made up a large chunk of my reading in the past, but this
year with the hullabaloo of the Hugo I didn't do much reading for
either the Nebula or the Hugo as I usually do. Still, I tracked it.
Pulitzer 1
National Book Award (USA) 14
Hugo 1 (not from this year!)
Nebula 1
Booker 5 (4 from this year)
Nobel 1
And I'm in a bunch of book clubs, so I keep track of that too.
Book club – Sword & Laser 2
Book club – Misfit Readers 3
Book club – League of Extraordinary Dorks 4
Book club – International Center of the Upstate 8
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Thursday, December 31, 2015
Saturday, December 31, 2011
2011 Reading Stats
Since I track my reading in GoodReads, I am more than happy to use their widgets and statistic analysis to look at what I've read this past year. I'll post a little later with my favorites of the year. I just can't help myself, I love to look at the numbers!
In my head, I rate most books at a 3, but the statistics show that I actually give most books a 4. Books have to be truly great to get a 5. As I've been reflecting back on the year, it is interesting to me that some of the books I now call my favorites of this year were not necessarily those with the most number of stars. It just goes to show you that how I rate books is flawed, or at the very least subjective.
Possibly the most interesting bit of data to me was to see that I'd managed to read around 15,000 more pages this year than in 2010. I have no idea how or why. I like to look at pages vs. books, because what if I read stacks of poetry vs. a few mighty tomes? Regardless, I read a lot this year.
I feel like I should say that to me, saying I read 197 books is misleading. In the list I keep for myself in Google Docs, I show a nice round 175. The disparity is probably from accidentally leaving off a few, but most likely from not including cookbooks in my own count. I review a fair number every year, usually baking in theme. You can view that list over here. It is a fun list because I list everything two ways - chronologically and then by category, something I don't always bother with in GoodReads. Anything in italics is a re-read. This year I grouped all non-fiction into one category (excluding cookbooks), but some years I separate that out.
There is a lot more analysis I could do that I will spare you on. It would be interesting to know how much of these are audio, since I listened a lot more this year, which are eBooks, and which were read for book clubs vs. on my own. I also feel like I read a lot more new books than I did other years. GoodReads does graph that, but it is just a blue blobby showing a concentration in the 21st century.
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In my head, I rate most books at a 3, but the statistics show that I actually give most books a 4. Books have to be truly great to get a 5. As I've been reflecting back on the year, it is interesting to me that some of the books I now call my favorites of this year were not necessarily those with the most number of stars. It just goes to show you that how I rate books is flawed, or at the very least subjective.
Possibly the most interesting bit of data to me was to see that I'd managed to read around 15,000 more pages this year than in 2010. I have no idea how or why. I like to look at pages vs. books, because what if I read stacks of poetry vs. a few mighty tomes? Regardless, I read a lot this year.
I feel like I should say that to me, saying I read 197 books is misleading. In the list I keep for myself in Google Docs, I show a nice round 175. The disparity is probably from accidentally leaving off a few, but most likely from not including cookbooks in my own count. I review a fair number every year, usually baking in theme. You can view that list over here. It is a fun list because I list everything two ways - chronologically and then by category, something I don't always bother with in GoodReads. Anything in italics is a re-read. This year I grouped all non-fiction into one category (excluding cookbooks), but some years I separate that out.
There is a lot more analysis I could do that I will spare you on. It would be interesting to know how much of these are audio, since I listened a lot more this year, which are eBooks, and which were read for book clubs vs. on my own. I also feel like I read a lot more new books than I did other years. GoodReads does graph that, but it is just a blue blobby showing a concentration in the 21st century.
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