Well, even though it seems like my piles of books are bigger than ever, I did do a fair bit of reading in 2012.
Altogether I read 207 books.
I kept some statistics for the year.
Here is the breakdown.
by Audience
Adult: 164
Teen: 16
Children`s: 27
Format
Physical book: 149
Ebook: 23
Audiobook: 35
Graphic novel: 0 (now that surprised me, have to change that for 2013)
Fiction: 172
Nonfiction: 35
Translated: 11
by a Canadian author: 57 (not bad)
with a European setting: 45
Poetry: 3 (must increase that for 2013)
Short Stories: 5 (thought I read more of these than this!)
Essays: 3 (want to read more of these too)
Library books: 81
Author gender
Male authors: 94
Female authors: 112
Male and female author: 1
Genre: (I only kept track of a few)
Biography or Memoir: 14
Mystery: 46
Historical Fiction: 34
Fantasy: 18
Science Fiction: 3
Great record keeping, good for you with your # of Canadian authors and library books, I'm impressed. And yes, graphic novels still sort of don't inspire me. must do better as well. Happy New Year fellow reader.
ReplyDeleteI love reading everyone's year end stats. I think I will expand the categories that I keep track of for 2013, as I'm finding so many intriguing ways of sorting what's been read in everyone else's roundups! I should look at genre and see what shows up.
ReplyDeleteThanks Irene. I have a copy of the graphic version of Moby Dick that I`ll be starting soon.
ReplyDeleteGreat ideas from your stats too Melwyk, I`m going to start tracking the translated languages like you do.