I finished 150 books in 2024, same as 2023. I did reach my Good Reads Target again for the 13th year. Here are my stats for the last year’s reading. He is a word cloud from all the titles:
My total pages read was 44087 (1006 more pages than last year! (or the same length as Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell), and my monthly average of books was 12.5. This broke down into these monthly totals:
January – 15
February – 12
March – 14
April – 13
May – 14
June – 12
July – 14
August – 14
September – 12
October – 11
November – 11
December – 8
Author Splits
Male – 96
Female – 54
Ethnic Minority – 14 (My target was 12)
Sources
Review – 32
Library – 55
Own – 59
Borrowed – 4
Genre
Non-Fiction – 111
Fiction – 27
Poetry – 12
Random Stats
Longest Book: Evolution – Stephen Baxter – 761 pages
Shortest Book: The Man Who Planted Trees – Jean Giono – 46 pages
The total cost of the books I read was £2355.72 (Helped by one £47 and one £50 book)
Most Read Author
My most read author was Ana Sampson; I read three the books she had edited. Autors that appeared more than once were Henry Eliot, Oliver Burkeman, Rupi Kaur and Tom Chesshyre
Stars Awarded
5 Stars – 12
4.5 Stars – 13
4 Stars – 49
3.5 Stars – 30
3 Stars – 32
2.5 Stars – 11
2 Stars – 3
1.5 Stars – 0
1 Star – 0
Storygraph Wrap Up
I am Storygraph now, and here is my 2025 Wrap up
Genres
I use a spreadsheet to keep track of the types and genres of books that I read. These are detailed below:
Travel – 19
Natural History – 15
Fiction – 13
Science Fiction – 12
Poetry – 12
Photography – 7
Memoir – 6
Social History – 6
Landscape – 5
Architecture – 5
Environmental – 4
Art – 4
Humour – 3
Prehistory – 3
Mental Health – 3
Miscellaneous – 3
Gardening – 3
Weather – 2
Politics – 2
Geology – 2
Fantasy – 2
Food & Drink – 2
Britain – 2
Craft – 2
Technology – 2
True Crime – 2
Spying – 1
Behavioural Economics – 1
Food – 1
History – 1
Navigation – 1
Books – 1
Future – 1
Economics – 1
Maps – 1
Publishers
These are the number of books read by each publisher. Amazingly I read books from 84 different publishers, only four less than last year. Six of the top ten were independent publishers compared to five in 2024 so that is a slight improvement
Faber & Faber – 7
Bloomsbury – 6
Penguin – 6
Simon & Schuster – 6
Canongate – 4
Eland – 4
Picador – 4
Batsford – 3
British Library Publishing – 3
Elliott & Thompson – 3
Granta – 3
Head of Zeus – 3
Michael O’Mara Books – 3
Oneworld – 3
Profile – 3
Summersdale – 3
W&N – 3
4th Estate – 2
Andrew McMeel Publishing – 2
Bantam Press – 2
Century – 2
Chelsea Green – 2
English Heritage – 2
Harper Collins – 2
Harvill Secker – 2
Hutchinson Heinemann – 2
Little Toller – 2
Lonely Planet – 2
Orbit – 2
Profile Books – 2
Unbound – 2
Vintage – 2
William Collins – 2
Abacus – 1
Allen Lane – 1
Basic Books – 1
BBC Books – 1
Bonnier Books – 1
Books by Boxer – 1
Calon Books – 1
Carcanet – 1
Cassell – 1
Chroma Editions – 1
Cornerstone – 1
Didier Millet – 1
Ebury Press – 1
Fitzcarraldo Editions – 1
Frances Lincoln – 1
Gecko Press – 1
Gollancz – 1
Green Books – 1
Harper Voyager – 1
Headline – 1
Ian Henry Publications – 1
John Murray – 1
Jonathan Cape – 1
Jonglez Publishing – 1
Kyle Books – 1
Little, Brown – 1
Macmillan – 1
Manilla Press – 1
Melville House – 1
Mondadori – 1
Monoray – 1
Pan – 1
Portfolio – 1
Rider – 1
Robinson – 1
Salt – 1
Saraband – 1
Seren Press – 1
Sphere – 1
Taschen – 1
Tate – 1
Tauris Parke – 1
teNeues – 1
Thames & Hudson – 1
The Bodley Head – 1
The Bridge Street Press – 1
Trapeze – 1
Viking – 1
Virago – 1
Whittles Publishing – 1
Witness Books – 1
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