#Reading Stats

[eli-zab3th]

My 2023 Reading Year in Review!

For more details, see my Goodreads page or The Storygraph

[lottiestudying]

20.1.2024—read 26 books this month so far so think i may have to reevaluate my reading goal of 50 for this year 🫡

trying to establish my reading habits and routines. i want to start a reading journal, but i read so fast I’m not sure how I’d keep up with it 😅

add me on story graph if you would like - lottie1803

[shyjusticewarrior]

The fact that Comic Geeks doesn't count Cass as being in Harley Quinn and the Birds of Prey HC and doesn't include Jason as being in the Joker: MWSL vol 2 HC is bullshit.

[graciereadshannigram]

hey so because im unemployed and bored and hate goodreads because i almost exclusively read fics, i created a pretty easy to use reading tracker/database to get all the juicy reading stats.

safe to say this year is going well?

[ninja-muse]

2023 Reading Wrap-up

I feel like this year was pretty average in terms of my reading. Some great books, some awful books, a lot of books in the middle. And while I feel as if I kept hitting slumps, I don’t think my stats really reflect that. I kept reading and even though I didn’t hit my goal of 140 books, that’s more because I read more thick and dense books, spent more time writing, and am one year further from the direness of 2020 and 2021.

This also seems to have been the year of T. Kingfisher for me (and also Ursula Vernon). I read several of her horror novels, as well as Digger and a bunch of the ebooks she makes free for patrons, which are really easy go-tos when you want something light and right now. I was kind of surprised when I realized she was my top author because usually that’s Seanan McGuire.

And I read more ebooks in general, because why should I wait for two months for the library to get a physical book in circulation when I can wait two weeks for it to come in on Libby? I’m still trying to reserve Libby use for lighter, faster, less involved books, because I tend to end up skimming a little more and there’s something about physical paper that helps me retain info better when the text is dense.

Now, stats! Yearly total: 128, excluding rereads and picture books Queer books: 44 (34%) Authors of colour: 15 (11.7%) Books by women: 74.5 (58%) Authors outside the binary: 7.5 (5.8%) Canadian authors: 14 (10.9%) Off the TBR shelves: 39 (30.4%) Books hauled: 41 ARCs acquired: 57 ARCs unhauled: 60 DNFs: 9 Rereads: 3 Picture Books: 6

If you look at last year’s stats and the year before’s, I’m pretty much holding steady in terms of my diverse reading—a little more than a third queer, about 60% female and 10% Canadian, around 6% gender-diverse authors. I’m way down on authors of colour though, and I didn’t hit my stretch goal of 20 Canadians, so those are things I’ll have to pay attention to in the year to come. It would be nice if I could manage more queer books too, but that’s not something I’m going to try for quite as much.

Two of my reading goals for the year were to read more books from my TBR than I acquired, and to keep my ARC levels about even. Seems like I pretty much hit them! I expect that 2024 will see fewer book acquisitions because a lot of my 2023 haul was bookstore visits with my dad and we’ve now hit pretty much every store in the city. I was honestly kind of surprised that my ARC problem stands where it does. I was so sure that I was going to have at least 10 more incoming books than outgoing. Go me! My spring ARC purge really, really helped.

I did all right on the rest of my reading goals. All but one book read (The Great Cat Massacre), which was the real point of the list! I only managed to finish one StoryGraph challenge, if you don’t count my pages goal, and as always I failed to read as many classics as I wanted. I’m starting to suspect I’m not a classics person, despite my interest in history and historical fiction. If anyone has classics recs for me, let me know?

To be completely honest, though, I'm not sure I'm going to continue posting to Tumblr. I pretty much stopped updating my feed in the summer and I've felt more relaxed, both in terms of Things To Do Each Day but also in terms of my reading. When I was more active on here, I felt pressured to read diversely at all times and though I try to have a healthy spread of perspectives, I know that I generally don't and am therefore a bad person by Tumblr standards. I am curious what my mutuals have been getting up to this year so please, sound off! And let me know if you do want to see reviews and wrap-ups continue here.

(Friendly reminder that I'm ninjamuse on Storygraph and LibraryThing, if you'd like to follow me there.)

And if anyone’s interested, here are the rest of my year’s highlights:

Top Five Fiction (not ranked)

The Hollow Places - T. Kingfisher

Menewood - Nicola Griffith

Bookshops and Bonedust - Travis Baldree

A Half-Built Garden - Ruthanna Emrys

The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi - Shannon Chakraborty

Top Five Non-Fiction (not ranked)

Magisteria - Nicholas Spencer

Diary of a Misfit - Casey Parks

Evidence of Things Seen - Sarah Weinman, editor

Lay Them to Rest - Laurah Norton

Like Every Form of Love - Padma Viswanathan

Most Impressed By:

Shubeik Lubeik - Deena Mohamed

Diary of a Misfit - Casey Parks

The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard

A Half-Built Garden - Ruthanna Emrys

Most Disappointing:

Tortilla Flat - John Steinbeck

British Columbiana - Josie Teed

A Killing in Costumes - Zac Bissonette

Tauhou - Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall

Longest Book: The Hands of the Emperor - Victoria Goddard

Best queer book: Diary of a Misfit - Casey Parks

Did I beat 2022? No. Did I beat my Best Year Ever? No. That would be 2021. Did I read more classics? Not even close. Did I read more Canadians? No. I held about steady. Did I whittle my TBR shelves down any? No. Was it a good reading year? Probably about average?

Breakdowns by month:

January February March April May June July August September October November December

[bookshelvesandtealeaves]

✨ AUGUST WRAPUP ✨

Total books finished: 30 (wtf?)

DNF’s: 7

Pages read: 8,746

Hours listened: 70.92

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Currently reading:

📖 Sucker Punch: Out of the Blue by Kayla Faber (8%)

🎧 Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson (30%)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

-A Sorceress Comes to Call by T Kingfisher*

-Sucker Punch by Kayla Faber*

-The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas (reread) 🎧

-The Heart of the World by Amie Kaufman*

-Gentlest of Wild Things by Sarah Underwood*

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

-Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White*

-The Magpie Lord by KJ Charles

-A Case of Possession by KJ Charles

-The Isles of the Gods by Amie Kaufman (reread) 🎧

-This Fatal Kiss by Alicia Jasinska*

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-Mortal Follies by Alexis Hall (reread) 🎧

-Yes No Maybe So by Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed

-Confounding Oaths by Alexis Hall*

-Winter of the Wolf by Amanda Willimott*

-The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky by Mackenzi Lee (reread) 🎧

-Celestial Monsters by Aiden Thomas*

-Hot Summer by Elle Everhart

-Flight of Magpies by KJ Charles

-Murder at the Matinee by Jamie West*

-Fake Dates and Mooncakes by Sher Lee (reread) 🎧

-Countess by Suzan Palumbo*

-Saving Graces by Ruby Landers*

-I’m Not Really Here by Gary Lonesborough*

-Nightbirds by Kate J Armstrong (reread) 🎧

-Fyrebirds by Kate J Armstrong*

⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

-One Night in Hartswood by Emma Denny

-Queen B by Juno Dawson*

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-Thyme Travellers edited by Sonia Sulaiman*

-The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna

-Who Could Love You, Astor Price? by Amy Jane Lehan*

DNF

-Just Haven’t Met You Yet by Sophie Cousens (16%)

-You’re the Problem, It’s You by Emma R Alban* (37%)

-Netherford Hall by Natania Barron* (26%)

-Not For the Faint of Heart by Lex Croucher* (54%)

-A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft* (47%)

-SMP title* (28%)

-At the End of the River Styx by Michelle Kulwicki* (34%)

*indicates gifted item

[woveninyournerves]

StoryGraph does monthly stats now. Sometimes I can’t read much but I’ve been on a big reading kick the past few months. I usually set a goal of reading 12 books a year and sometimes don’t make it but this year so far I’m on number 31 and I’d like to keep it up. Only such a high number for me because I’m reading a lot of manga and YA graphic novels. When I can manage to focus, reading has always been one of my favorite hobbies and even more so since dealing with worsening chronic illness and pain. I love learning as well and it is exciting to read about my path and hobbies. So I’m going to share my stats and maybe comparing them will help me keep it up. What are y’all reading?

[fablesbookstuff]

Here are my storygraph reading stats from 2023! Overall I feel like this was a good year for me with reading, also if you're looking for an app to track your reading that's not goodreads I highly recommend storygraph

[mediashadowreads]

°․✶ JULY WRAP UP & AUGUST HOPEFULS

July was a bit of an odd month for me, it was busy at work, busy at home and we were dealing with some very up and down weather. Including my arch nemesis.. heat. Anyone that knows me knows I despise the heat and frankly I barely function in it. Add onto that the fact I’ve been dealing with one of my cats being injured (he’s fine now, I’m just an anxious fur baby parent) as well as my birthday at…

[just-a-little-bit-of-sugar]

Updated my ao3 stats spreadsheet!! I have read 6.3 million words in the 911 fandom this year, so it's now my most common fandom by word count AND fic number, just edging Star Wars out of its reigning position 😎

[letsstudieren]

I just finished my last book of the year, so I’ve come to share

Great year for reading in this household! I’m delighted :3

Last year I had 7 books in French, and this time I got 10, and several were long! I’m very pleased, a couple of years ago I struggled so much just reading one

While I couldn’t even read one chapter of a specific German book, I did notice improvement, and I surpassed last year by several. Gotta keep going! (Oh! And there was also the audio Adventskalender! I’m ecstatic)

The Japanese ones were mostly manga, but they still count

And I did keep my promise of reading more in Spanish!

The big surprise of the year, tho, was the fact that I can still read in Italian! It was such a wonderful feeling

(Ignore the Romanian one, the app saw “Roman” and stuck it there even though the book was in French. I laughed so much XD

I hope y’all had a good reading year as well if that was your goal. And hopefully it will keep next year :3

[lottiestudying]

01.07.2024—had an absolutely insane reading month. idk even know how i do it. trying to challenge myself with longer books (slowly getting over my big book fear)

feel free to add me on storygraph - lottie1803

and also goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/83618636-lottie-c

[ghoulishbuck]

Well it’s not even a full week into April and I’ve read 124 books so far this year. I honestly don’t know what happened. Last year I read 119 books in total. I do believe that it’s a mixture of shitty mental health and reaching a point where I preferred to read instead of watching things or playing video games though.

Anyways, here’s some stats and the progress on my book goals I have for this year.

P.s. I’m not trying to say you need to read a lot or that I’m better because I’ve read so much I’m just sharing what I’ve read. I highly doubt I’ll ever read as much as I will this year in the future.

Books hauled so far this year and percentage read of hauled books: 33 (9.091%)

Number of books read this year that I own vs borrowed: 31 vs 93

Number of pages read so far: 36,762

Number of books read for each month: 41, 42, 32

Percentage of my physical books read: 18%

Number of physical books owned: 516

Number of books donated to a little free library and the number that is ready to leave: 6 and 5

My favourite books for each month:

January- Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross, Eragon by Christopher Paolini, Dead of Winter by Darcy Coates, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

February- A Little Bit Country by Brian D. Kennedy, The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston, Better Than The Movies by Lynn Painter

March- Once Upon A K-Prom by Kat Cho, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

My less favourite/ most disappointing reads for each month:

January- The Ruins by Scott Smith, Heartstopper volume 5 by Alice Oseman

February- Waverider by Kazu Kibuishi, Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross, The House is on Fire by Rachel Beanland

March- The Wager by David Grann, All of us Villains by Amanda Foody and C.L. Herman, The Death Cure by James Dashner, King of Immortal Tithe by Ben Alderson

Reading goals:

4/5 classics read

6/5 nonfiction read

9/12 romances read

0/12 paperbacks from hell read

0/12 point horror books read

9.091%/50% of books hauled in 2024 read

13/5 YouTuber favourites read

3/12 dragon books read

22/24 sci-fi books read

92/100 owned books read (this is going to drop by 4 soon)

Bonus goals:

0/2 memoirs read

3/3 true crime books reads

4/3 soft DNF’s read

0/5 literary fiction read

[midnightwinterhawk]

I don't know why I did this but here we are.

[libertyreads]

End of the Year Book Stats--

I read 172 books total which equaled 51,673 pages. The average number of pages per book was 300 pages. I averaged 14 books per month; I averaged 4,306 pages per month. Of these books, 41 were new releases, 130 were backlist titles, and 1 was a 2024 ARC. The longest book I read was The Curse of Broken Shadows by Laura Winter. The shortest was Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory by Martha Wells. The total number of rereads was 26 books. I read 146 books that were completely new to me. My average rating per book was 3.32 stars.

[bookshelvesandtealeaves]

✨ JULY WRAPUP ✨

Total books finished: 25

DNF’s: 4

Pages read: 8,686

Hours listened: 70.98

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Currently reading:

🎧 Mortal Follies by Alexis Hall (37%)

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-Lover Birds by Leanne Egan

-The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee (reread) 🎧

-Novel Problems by Elizabeth Luly

-The Pairing by Casey McQuiston

-The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (reread) 🎧

-Ghostsmith by Nicki Pau Preto

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

-The Goodbye Cat by Hiro Arikawa

-A Nobleman’s Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel by KJ Charles

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.25

-Eleanor Jones Can’t Keep a Secret by Amy Doak

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-Moonstone by Laura Purcell

-Sucker Punch by Kayla Faber

-Pit Stop by Ellis Mae

-The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

-The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater

-Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater

-The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater

-Mistress of Lies by KM Enright

-Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood

-Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon

-Bonesmith by Nicki Pau Preto (reread) 🎧

-The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

-What’s Murder Between Friends by Meg Gatland-Veness

-The Sky on Fire by Jenn Lyons

-Goddess of the River by Vaishnavi Patel

-Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore

DNF

-Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell (35%)

-Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid (27%)

-The Gaps by Leanne Hall (47%)

-Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi (28%)