2019 Reading Stats
Last year I had a secret goal to read 100 books and I wasn't quite able to reach it. This year though, I far exceeded my 100 book goal! You all know I'm a big ol' nerd and love to keep statistics on the books I read each year. I spent quite a bit of time making these graphs and added a few new ones that I didn't do last year. I'll try to explain each chart below the picture of it, because some of the words are pretty small under each chart. At the end of this post I will talk a little bit about the challenges I was attempting to complete by the end of the year.
Here is a breakdown of the formats I read books in. I have always preferred to read books physically, but this year I was able to listen to audiobooks while I was at work so I ended up reading a ton of audiobooks this year. The small percent of "Physical/Audiobook" was for books that I went back and forth between listening to the audiobook and physically reading the book.
The oldest book I read this year was from 1969 and I ended up reading nine 2019 releases. I am not surprised that the years a read the most from were 2017 and 2018, because there were a bunch of books from those years that I wanted to read during them but wasn't able to get to during those years.
In 2019 I set out to read from more female authors and I was definitely able to do so! I read two books by non-binary authors and in 2020 I aim to read more books by trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming authors. The category for "Multiple" is for books written by multiple authors with multiple genders.
The font is kind of small on this and for a lot of the genres listed I only read one book in that category. The two genres I read the most of were Young Adult Fantasy and Young Adult Contemporary. Last year my top two genres were YA Contemporary and Nonfiction, which was because of all the books I had to read for school that were nonfiction. I also read from a lot more genres this year than I did last year, so I am super proud about that!
I have no clue how I did it, but the most books I read in a month was 19! Last year my highest in one month was 13 and I did that much or more in four months of 2019!
I don't think I have ever given a book one star and I don't know if I ever will because it feels too harsh (I'm too nice I guess lol). Even so, I also rarely ever give books two stars because I've gotten to the point where if I'm not enjoying a book I will just stop reading it. Both this year and last I have given more four-star ratings than any other rating. This chart does not include my unrated books or those that I did not finish.
Challenges
Last year I did a 52 week challenge that had a bunch of challenges to complete throughout the year. This year I decided to try the POPSUGAR Reading Challenge for 2019. I ended up completing 38/50 of the challenges, which is worse than I did last year. I didn't put as much pressure on myself to complete these challenges this year because at the end of last year I got very burnt out and was reading a lot of books I wasn't enjoying toward the end of the year. I also created an arbitrary list of "Books I Must Read Before 2020" and I did not end up reading all of those on the list. However because it was just a list I created to try to finish books that I have had on my shelf for a long time, I'm not hung up on not finishing those.
For 2020 I'm setting my reading goal to 100 again because I do not think I will be able to listen to audiobooks at my new job, so I'm not sure how that will affect my reading. Hopefully I will be able to go above and beyond the 134 books I read this year though! Thanks for putting up with my bookish nerdiness and I hope y'all enjoy checking out my stats for the year :) ~Em
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