2018 Book Stats

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

 

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4 Comments

  1. Liz Dexter

    Great stats. I feel like I should keep better records this year!

    • admin

      Most come off a spreadsheet of my own making

  2. Emma

    nice! here is mine, with graphs: https://wordsandpeace.com/2019/01/02/year-of-reading-2018-part-2-statistics/

    • admin

      Excellent. I have thought about doing more graphics for mine, but not done anything about it yet.

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