2024 Book Stats

I finished 150 books in 2024, lower than 2023 because of ongoing family matters that need some of my attention. I did reach my Good Reads Target again.  Here are my stats for the last year’s reading. He is a word cloud from all the titles:

My total pages read was 43081  (5990 pages less than last year!) and my monthly average of books was 12.5. This broke down into these monthly totals:

January – 13
February – 12
March – 15
April – 12
May – 12
June – 14
July – 13
August – 13
September – 14
October – 10
November – 11
December – 11

 

Author Splits

Male – 89
Female – 61
Person of Colour – 14 (My target was 12)

Sources

Review – 38

Library – 47

Own – 63

 

Genre

Non-Fiction – 94

Fiction – 44

Poetry – 12

 

Random Stats

Longest Book: Seveneves – Neal Stephenson – 869 pages

Shortest Book: The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You – Paul Farley – 49 pages

The total cost of the books read was £2072.36

 

Most Read Author

My most read author was Kate Mosse; I read three of her books

 

Stars Awarded

5 Stars – 7
4.5 Stars – 11
4 Stars – 52
3.5 Stars – 33
3 Stars – 30
2.5 Stars – 13
2 Stars – 5
1.5 Stars-  0
1 Star – 0

 

Genres

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

 

Fiction 34
Travel 30
Natural History 18
Poetry 12
Memoir 9
Science Fiction 8
Science 5
Miscellaneous 4
History 4
Food & Drink 3
Humour 3
Gardening 2
Weather 2
Fantasy 2
Politics 2
Business 1
Mental Health 1
Woodlands 1
Landscape 1
Architecture 1
Environmental 1
Art 1
Photography 1
Writing 1
Biography 1
Social History 1
Information Society 1

 

Publishers

These are the number of books read by each publisher. Amazingly I read books from 88 different publishers and only ten less than last year. Five of them were independent publishers compared to four in 2023 so that is an improvement

Bloomsbury 8
Elliott & Thompson 5
Eland 5
Vintage 5
Summersdale 4
Faber & Faber 4
Picador 4
Canongate 4
Penguin Classics 3
Orbit 3
Jonathan Cape 3
Batsford Books 3
Saraband 3
Penguin 3
Orion 3
British Library Publishing 2
Abacus 2
Calon Books 2
Sphere 2
Michael Joseph 2
Sort Of Books 2
September Publishing 2
Unbound 2
4th Estate 2
Harper North 2
Sandstone Press 2
Arrow 2
Salt 2
Headline 2
Little Toller 2
Allen Lane 2
Icon Books 2
Bradt 1
Harper Collins 1
Countryside Books 1
Influx Press 1
Ten Speed Press 1
Corsair 1
Black Swan 1
Viking 1
Fum d’Estampa 1
Bantam 1
Greystone 1
Kelsay Books 1
Methuen 1
West Virginia University Press 1
Sourcebooks 1
Frances Lincoln 1
Shire Press 1
W&N 1
Hamish Hamilton 1
Michael O’Mara 1
Cornerstone 1
Thames & Hudson 1
Eye Books 1
Gollancz 1
Aurum Books 1
Penned In The Margins 1
Harvill Secker 1
Polygon 1
Granta 1
Sceptre 1
Octopus Books 1
Lydstep Lettuce 1
Profile Books 1
Tramp Press 1
Anvil 1
The Viking Press 1
Snake River Press 1
Hutchinson Heinemann 1
Manilla Press 1
William Collins 1
Two Roads 1
Fleet 1
Cranthorpe Millner 1
Arc Publications 1
The Borough Press 1
Simon & Schuster 1
Torva 1
Virago 1
Hachette Books Ireland 1
Dead Ink 1
Ward Wood Publishing 1
Unicorn 1
Carcanet 1
Foundry Editions 1
Head Of Zeus 1
Doubleday 1

 

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9 Comments

  1. Walking Away

    Would I find you on Storygraph? I was contemplating migrating there, the stats are great and we both seem to love a statistic!

    • Paul

      I have an account there, but it hasn’t been updated in ages!

  2. Elle

    Sincerely impressed that you keep track of the costs of your books!

    • Paul

      It started when I wonder how much the blog was costing verses the review copies I am kindly sent were worth and I have kept it up.

      • Elle

        I’d love to do the same but honestly suspect I’d lose track (arithmetic not particularly being my strong suit anyway).

        • Paul

          That is the advantage of doing it in a spreadsheet.

          • Elle

            Brilliant!

  3. Liz Dexter

    Oh god, I do NOT keep track of the cost!!!

    • Paul

      Hahahaha! I only started because I was curious as to the money I spend on hosting the blog compared to books that I get sent for review

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