I thought it might be interesting to have a look at some of the statistics related to the 2021 Historical Fiction Reading Challenge before we got too much further through 2022.
Whilst we had hosted the challenge for a number of year at Historical Tapestry, last year was my first year of hosting it again and I was happy with how it went. Overall, there were 775 reviews, contributed by 48 participants, although I should clarify that these are the ones that were linked up. There is at least one person who participates but doesn't link (you know who you are!! ;-)) so there might be more.
Let's start wth the month by month stats. The highest number of reviews for the month was in January with 98 reviews, which makes sense given that everyone is excited to start new reading challenges at the beginning of the year.
The individual reader who posted the most reviews was Yvonne from A Darned Good Read who posted an amazing 79 reviews (which is actually significantly more books than I even read in 2021. There were a seven other people who linked up more than 30 reviews throughout the year. Regardless if you linked 79 reviews or just one I thank you for your participation in the challenge!
There were 527 authors who were read and reviewed for the challenge! That feels like a lot! The two authors with the most reviews were Anne Perry and Julia Quinn with an equal 10 review each. Well done to Rambling Book Nerd who reread and reviewed the entire Bridgerton series! The next authors were C S Harris with 9 reviews and then Charles Finch and Kate Quinn who each had 7 reviews.
There were 681 individual titles reviewed. The top 3 who were all reviewed 5 times were:
Band of Sisters by Lauren Willig
The Four Wind by Kristin Hannah
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn. This was one of my 5/5 reads last year too.
My intention is to do some monthly stats during the year. We'll see how I go with that shall we.
A couple of people mentioned wanting to have a wrap up post for their completed challenges so I will be posting that in December.
What other stats would you be interested in seeing?
It's not too late to sign up for the 2022 Historical Fiction Reading Challenge. You can find all the details here.
I love seeing these end of year stats, so interesting! The idea of monthly stats would be even better, it's so interesting to get a sense of what other readers are doing (in addition to checking out some of their linked reviews) and how we're all going as a whole. Looking forward to it.
ReplyDeleteI hope that people will find it interesting Tracey!
DeleteI'm one of those people who loves stats and lists, so I hope you will share as many as you can this year.
ReplyDeleteA monthly link up is a great idea for the challenge. It's a good way of seeing what other books are out there.
I'm not surprised at seeing Rose Code and Four Winds on your list of most-reviewed titles, but Band of Sisters is new to me.
Watch out for a monthly stats post then Deb!
DeleteThanks for putting these stats together. It's interesting to see what everyone has been reading and reviewing. I loved The Rose Code so it's good to know that it's been so popular with challenge participants!
ReplyDeleteI wonder what the big reads of 2022 will be Helen!
DeleteThis is a fun post! I am so awful about linking reviews. This past year I struggled with just posting them. It was fun to participate in the challenge though and I enjoyed seeing what everyone else was reading!
ReplyDeleteI am not great at posting reviews anymore either!
DeleteInteresting stats... I loved The Rose Code, too!
ReplyDeleteIt was such a good book JoAnn!
DeleteMy goodness, what an amazing achievement! Congratulations to everybody and to you for hosting it, I bet you've made a lot of authors very happy!
ReplyDeleteWell...the other readers have for sure Lisa!
DeleteSounds like a successful challenge! I love historical fiction, but I don't write real reviews anymore. I'm too lazy!
ReplyDeleteWriting reviews is a struggle for me too now!
DeleteI love these statistics! Thank you, Marg. I definitely was one of the Band of Sisters reviewers and I own The Rose Code but generously lent it to my sister and have not had a chance to read it yet. I didn't really like the Kristin Hannah set in Alaska so may not bother with this one. Have certainly got some great suggestions from reviews over the past year! Thanks to all.
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I hope you get to read The Rose Code soon!
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