Welcome to my annual year in review post!
2024 was a pretty good reading year I think. Initially I set my goal at 75 books for the year but I exceeded that so I revised my goal to 104 books for the year. I did end up reading 120 books during the year, but I am still leaving my goal at 104, as that feels quite doable at a rate of 2 books per week.
You can see all my reading and blogging goals for this year in my recent Top Ten Tuesday post.
Let's get into the stats....
Despite my best intentions I do tend to read a lot of new releases. I ended up reading 75 books that were published in 2024. The oldest book I read was A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens which was originally published in 1843.
One of the things that has changed over the last few years is that I am reading a lot more British authors. This is mainly because of the blog tours that I am doing which feature of couple of British publishers. One of my goals for this year is to focus a little more on Australian authors.
Not sure why there was a dip in March, but most of the rest of the year was pretty consistent in terms of the number of books read per month.
No surprises here really. My preferred reading format is definitely e-books these days. I do so enjoy the paper book experience when I have it though.
Some other stats:
I read 44 new to me authors in 2024, which is 37%.
The authors who I did read multiple books by were Maggie Christensen with 5 books,and Antoine Laurain with 4 books. This is the fourth year in a row that Maggie Christensen has been my most read author. I also read 3 books each from Gillian Harvey, Rebecca Raisin, Sandy Barker and Toshikazu Kawaguchi
I don't do a lot of rereads at the best of times. This year there were four rereads. Two of those are Hogfather by Terry Pratchett and The Secret History of Christmas by Bill Bryson which are now both part of my annual Christmas traditions.
As always my reading is always skewed to read a lot more women authors than men. This year I read 76 books by female authors and 44 by men.
You did a great job with your reading. My favorite genres are fiction and non fiction. I love the covers of the books you posted.
ReplyDeleteThanks Vicki!
DeleteI like how you keep stats on what you read. I know that I tend to read a little more nonfiction than I do fiction, but that's okay with me. My average rating on books is 4. I know that's because I stop reading anything that's feeling like a 2 or 1 (and sometimes even the 3s).
ReplyDeleteThe Secret Ingredient sounds compelling. I like the idea of cooking your way through your troubles.
That surprises me a little Deb! I would have thought you read more fiction than non fiction
DeleteUnfortunately your blog still doesn’t display correctly on any of my devices, which is why I’ve rarely been reading it. The margin is shifted around 5 characters to the lift so that every line is missing the beginning. This time the charts are almost all there and I was interested in your stats about the books you read this year. Some day I hope your blog will again be accessible via my iPad!
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Mae, I have the same problem, but I finalized realized today to change the zoom from 100% down, and it fixed everything :)
DeleteHi Mae
DeleteI have tried to fix this in the template, but if I do it breaks everything else. Eventually I will find another template but not sure when.
I love stat roundups like this! It's always interesting to see what people focus on and how it shook out.
ReplyDeleteI have been keeping them for years Nicky. Every now and again I think of something else I should record!
DeleteI still notice that your blog is cut off on my devices and I miss several words on the left hand margin. Great job on your 2024 reading!
ReplyDeleteSorry, I have tried to fix it in the template but if I do change it it breaks everything else. Can you try zooming to make it less than 100%?
DeleteI enjoyed seeing your stats. Last year was the first year I started tracking, but I started mid year. Looking forward to seeing my stats at the end of the this year.
ReplyDeleteI'll be interested to see them too Olivia!
DeleteI loved seeing your stats. I always read more female authors than male, and I make a goal to read more male authors, but it will never be even, and I may stop trying, LOL!
ReplyDeleteMine will never be even either Cindy!
DeleteCongratulations on a great reading (and blogging) year!
ReplyDeleteThanks JoAnn!
DeleteLove seeing your stats! I totally fell off keeping up with my stats this year. I never thought to track copyright year. That's kind of interesting to see.
ReplyDeleteThat's one that I have been keeping for a while now. There's always at least one outlier!
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