Bow down…I did it. I finished my reading goal to read 52 books in 2014. I can safely say that was more books than I’ve ever read in one year of my life.
I decided that since I have so much data to work with, I might as well break it down by numbers.
53 books read in 2014 (not including books read for Kirkus)
Of those…
Stats on Book Purchasing/Borrowing/Reading Habits
30 books were purchased/gifted, 23 books were borrowed from the library
Of the 30 books that were purchased…
27 were bought new, 3 were bought used
Of the 27 that were bought new…
16 were bought new from brick and mortar stores like Barnes & Noble and Target, 9 were bought new from Amazon, 2 were bought new from the Book Depository (UK bookseller)
0 books were read entirely as e-books
Stats: Authors and Nationalities
Of the 53 books that were read…
39 were by women and 14 were by men
47 were by writers from the United States and 6 were by writers from the United Kingdom
0 were in translation/language other than English
Stats: Genre and Category
Of the 53 books that were read…
8 were graphic novels
28 were Young Adult novels (including some overlap with graphic novels)
3 were horror
3 were straight-up romance
4 were mystery
6 were literary fiction
6 were chick lit or women’s fiction
1 was a memoir
Stats: Favorable vs. Unfavorable
Of the 53 books that were read…
16 were five stars
10 were four stars
12 were three stars
6 were two stars
8 were one stars
and 1 received no stars (as in, not good enough for even one star)
Overall
Overall, though I think I gave more books negative ratings this year, I do think that made the five and four star books that more special for me. I tried to get much better about only rating things based on if I really felt like they changed my life or something like that. I was also introduced to some new writers who have a ton of books published–Tana French, Stephen King, Jill Mansell, Jenny Colgan, Laura Kinsale–so now I am definitely not in want of something to read!
Plus this blog! And my new year’s 2015 resolution to review everything I read. I’m really happy with how many people like this so far. It motivates me to keep reading.
Coming up soon, a post about music and fiction about music. Also, I’ll finally get around to writing my best of 2014 post!
