This past year has been my best ever for reading and I finished 200 books. This was eight more than last year. So here are my stats:
There is a slightly staggering total number of pages – 59181, and my monthly average was 16.7 books and I read this many each month:
January – 16.0
February – 17.0
March – 17.0
April – 20.0
May – 18.0
June – 17.0
July – 15.0
August – 17.0
September – 16.0
October – 18.0
November – 18.0
December – 11.0
Of those 200 books read:
Male Authors – 131
Female Authors – 69 i.e. 35%
I am aiming to get the number of female authors that I read up to nearer 40% in the future.
The split of books read
Review – 109 – 55%
Library – 73 – 37%
Own – 18 – 9%
I really need to read more of my own books that I have bought. (Major Tsundoku around the house at the moment!! )
As I say in my bio, travel and natural history are my favourite reads and this is shown in my totals at the end of the year. I have read more fiction this year thatn in 2017, too.
Genre Number of Books Read
Travel 27
Natural History 27
Fiction 25
Science 13
Books 12
History 10
Biography 8
Miscellaneous 8
Science Fiction 7
Landscape 7
Fantasy 5
Memoir 5
Mental Health 5
Humour 4
Poetry 4
Weather 3
Language 3
Woodlands 3
Technology 3
Food 3
Politics 2
Social History 2
Transport 1
Motorsport 1
True Crime 1
Photography 1
Engineering 1
Economics 1
Architecture 1
Cycling 1
Britain 1
Dorset 1
Maths 1
Spying 1
Craft 1
Sport 1
I read books from a total of 92 publishers! Which slightly staggered me
Publishers Number of Books Read
Bloomsbury Publishing 10
Canongate 8
Gollancz 7
Faber & Faber 6
Unbound 6
Vintage 6
Eland 6
Little Toller 6
William Collins 5
Head of Zeus 5
Picador 5
Elliott & Thompson 5
Jonathan Cape 5
Ebury Press 4
Duckworth Overlook 4
Granta 4
Penguin 4
Doubleday 3
The AA 3
Sandstone Press 3
4th Estate 3
Viking 2
Allen Lane 2
National Trust 2
Oneworld 2
Transworld 2
Haus Publishing 2
Virago 2
Patrician Press 2
Self Published 2
Bluemoose Books 2
The Bodley Head 2
Hodder & Stoughton 2
Black Swan 2
Profile Books 2
John Murray 2
Rider 2
W & N 2
Salt Publishing 2
Bodleian Library 2
Modern Press 2
Pan Macmillan 2
W.W. Norton 1
W&N 1
Serpents Tail 1
Bloodaxe Books 1
Acorn 1
Paladin Books 1
Yale 1
Fourth Estate 1
Enitharmon Press 1
Full Circle 1
Igloo Books 1
Galileo Publishers 1
Macmillan 1
Piatkus 1
WH Allen 1
Carcanet Press 1
Eye Books 1
Profile 1
Influx Press 1
Chatto & Windus 1
Dovecote Press 1
Random House 1
Yale Press 1
Hamish Hamilton 1
Ikon Books 1
Harvard University 1
Boxtree 1
Constable 1
Michael Joseph 1
Saraband 1
WF Howes 1
Aurum Press 1
British Library 1
September Books 1
Yellow Jersey Press 1
Short Books 1
Bodleian Library 1
Simon & Schuster 1
Particular Books 1
Square Peg 1
Harvill Secker 1
Ballentine 1
Orion 1
I.B. Tauris 1
Quadrille 1
Tinder 1
Scribner 1
Titan Books 1
Nicholas Brealey 1
TOR 1
Great stats. I feel like I should keep better records this year!
Most come off a spreadsheet of my own making
nice! here is mine, with graphs: https://wordsandpeace.com/2019/01/02/year-of-reading-2018-part-2-statistics/
Excellent. I have thought about doing more graphics for mine, but not done anything about it yet.