Sunday Salon: 2022 in review

I know that we are more than halfway through February, but I haven't had time before this week to share my statistics for 2022 yet! And you know I love a good statistic, so I didn't want to not do them. So, better late than never, is my 2022 in review post

My Goodreads challenge target for 2022 was 55 books, which was one book per week plus a couple of extras. In the end, I exceeded this and read a total of 60 books for the year, which was 12051 pages. I am aiming for 60 books this year too!

Let's get into the stats.

I do tend to read a lot of new books so no real surprises with the numbers below. The oldest book I read was Alice in Wonderland, which I read thanks to Cook the Books.

Genre wise, there are no surprises that my reading is dominated by historical fiction, general fiction and contemporary romance. It is a bit of a surprise to see a horror read on there! That's unusual!

My best reading months were February and October. Pretty sure February won't be up there in this years stats. At least I hope that there are better months! was August. 

One of the things that has changed for me over the last couple of years is the way that I read. If we look back a few years, most of my reading would have been paper books, then audio and then finally the occasional e-book. However, that has completely swapped around with the vast majority of my reads being digital this year. It surprises me that I completed 9 audiobooks this year. Last year I only finished 3 audiobooks whch I attributed to the fact that I spent most of my year working at home and therefore don't have a lot of listening time. The same is true this year and yet I finished a lot more.

A new statistic for this year is keeping track of whether I own or borrowed a book, or if it was a book that I received for review purposes

I have been blogging a very long time now. This is my eighteenth year and yet today is the first day it has occurred to me to include posts per month in my annual stats

Some other stats:

I read 34 new to me authors in 2022, which is 57%. I think that is a good thing, but it also means I am not getting through many backlist books from authors I have already read. So I guess there are pros and cons both ways.

The authors who I did read multiple books by were Maggie Christensen with 7 books, and Ella Carey, Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Jo Thomas and Karen Swan with 2 books each. 

I don't do a lot of rereads at the best of times. This year my only reread was Hogfather by Terry Pratchett which is seemingly becoming an annual event during the festive season. 

As always my reading is always skewed to read a lot more women authors than men but I read many more than usual men this year with 49 books by female authors and 11 by males. 

Another skew that I have in my reading is towards Australian authors. This year 40% of my reads were by Australian authors, which is a pretty big portion and is about the same as last year. I don't really see this changing.

The last graph I wanted to share is for ratings. My go to rating of a book I enjoyed is 4 out of 5 and this is once again reflected in the gradings for the year.

These were the two books that I gave 5/5 to!

So there is it is....my 2022 reading year in review!