2022 Book Stats

I finished 190 books in 2022, the same as 2021 and many other years previously. I did reach my Good Reads Target again.  Here are my stats for the last years reading.

My total pages read was 50636  (29 pages less than last year!) and my monthly average of books was 15.8 again. This broke down into these monthly totals:

January – 18
February – 15
March – 16
April – 15
May – 16
June – 17
July – 18
August – 16
September – 16
October – 16
November – 14
December – 13

Author Splits

Male – 117

Female – 73 38% of the total

BAME – 12 6% of the total

Sources

Review – 78

Library – 82

Own – 30 copies

Genre

Non-Fiction – 156

Fiction – 17

Poetry – 17

Random Stats

Longest Book – Putin People by Catherine Belton – 624 pages

Shortest Book – Garden Bugs by Marianne Taylor, Stephen Message – 12 pages

The total cost of the books read was £3,324.41

Most Read Author

Emma Newman with four books read

Stars Awarded:

5 Stars – 9
4.5 Stars – 12
4 Stars – 82
3.5 Stars – 52
3 Stars – 32
2.5 Stars – 3
2 Stars – 0
1.5 Stars – 0
1 Stars – 0

Genres

I use a spreadsheet to keep a note of the types and genres of books that I read. These are detailed below:

Publishers

These are the number of books read by each publisher. Eland were top last year. but only six of the top ten were independent this year