This year I have read 91 books (with 114 authors and illustrators)! With a page average of 415 and a word count average (with a few left out due to unavailable data, and keeping in mind that there is basically nowhere online with accurate word count information) of 120,747. I am pretty jazzed about all of that! I think I did well on that front.
Oddly enough February was the month I read the most books. I was at the beginning of my last semester of college and it is the shortest month, but this did not seem to stop it from being the most productive reading month. Highest page number month was June (1,039 more than February) thanks to rereading the last four Harry Potter books that month plus Lord of Shadows.
Page number distribution. Don’t know if anyone finds this interesting but here it is.
Now we get to the part I didn’t do so hot on. I really should have put more effort into reading more books by people of color. That's kind of all I can really say about that. I prioritized rereading books by white authors in the middle and end of the year and read a lot of books with a slew of white authors despite having stated I wanted to read at least 25-33% of books by authors that are people of color. This is something I am going to have to do much better on in 2019.
Also, my categories are slightly imperfect, I know this. India is a part of Asia, how exactly am I defining the Middle East? I see the issues with my system. I just need to go back and update all my past years if I figure out what changes to implement.
Genre and target age range time!
As you can see I like fantasy. I like all of it really but I specifically read a lot of YA fantasy.
When I combine all the nonfiction into one block you can see that adult nonfiction is just barely my second most popular genre/age combination after YA fantasy.
Publishing house data! This is probably my least exciting category if you aren’t very into which house publishes what so I am only including one graph from this segment of my data collection. I keep publishing house data just in case I ever want to try to be a part of the publishing industry in any way. It is also just interesting to see which houses have books I like better, or just which ones I end up reading.
I did mostly read books by authors I had encountered in previous years. But three of the thirty-three I hadn’t read before I would go on to read more of there books in 2018. I read 2 books by Caitlyn Doughty, 3 by Becky Albertalli, and 7 by Susan Dennard. And many if not most of those I was introduced to this year I intend to read more of in 2019 (or whenever they publish more books).
Last graph from me today rereads! I love to reread. I think it is delightful and valuable and I cannot be convinced otherwise. I reread 20 books this year, which is way more than I ever had before. But I enjoyed the experience of rereading so much. I reread the Harry Potter series (I do this every year), I reread the Mortal Instruments series as a refresher for the Shadowhunter Chronicles continuing, I reread the whole Illuminae Files trilogy despite having read Obsidio as soon as it came out in 2018, and I reread These Broken Stars twice because Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner are amazing at making a person swoon, and I reread Ready Player One in anticipation of the movie.
Doing math I see that is 19 books, I had one book marked as a reread that wasn’t but I am currently unable to grab a new graph screenshot.
I keep track of so much data about the books I read but I think this is a decent sized highlight of the information. Basically, no one ever wants to see my spreadsheets for books so I decided to shout part of it into the void of the internet.
I need to find more people with book spreadsheets. I would love it if there was someone more intense than I am, but any one else with a comprable system would be cool too.
Now I am off to set 2019 book goals. And keep reading Queen of Air and Darkness.
