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
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 |
Would I find you on Storygraph? I was contemplating migrating there, the stats are great and we both seem to love a statistic!
I have an account there, but it hasn’t been updated in ages!
Sincerely impressed that you keep track of the costs of your books!
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.
I’d love to do the same but honestly suspect I’d lose track (arithmetic not particularly being my strong suit anyway).
That is the advantage of doing it in a spreadsheet.
Brilliant!
Oh god, I do NOT keep track of the cost!!!
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