Recap of 2023 Reading Year

 I'm a little late on putting this together. I met my overall reading goals for the year, but only completed one of the challenges I engaged with, the 16th Canadian Reading Challenge. For my challenge activity see my 2023 Reading Challenge page. 

Of the books I read, 158 were for adult readers, 8 for teen readers, and 9 for children.

My reading had a flow to it, with an upsurge at the end of my teaching term, and another in late summer / early August as I was first away from work, and then reading as an escape. 

I read much less nonfiction than most years.

My Genre reading was what I expected, with my two most read genres being mystery and romance

Books in Translation

For translated works, I read 9 this year, 3 from German, 3 from French, 2 from Italian, and 1 from Swedish. 

Origin

85 of the books were ones I owned, with 63 of them leaving to go to other readers. 87 were borrowed from my local public libraries (I use 2 regularly), 4 were borrowed from friends or family, and 9 were e-galleys that I had temporary access to. 

Setting

Of the setting of the books, one was set in a fantasy world, 20 in Canada, 80 in the United States, 1 in Africa, 3 in Asia, 2 in Latin America, and 66 in Europe. Some, of course, weren't the kind of book that had a setting. 

Publication Date

These ranged from 1929 through 2024, with a few in the 1960s, and most in the last 10 years. 

Authors

28 of the authors identified as male, and 141 as female, with 2 books with multiple authors that included both. 

Format

Most of my reads were physical books, with 28 ebooks, and 7 of those from Netgalley. 

Series

71 of the books were part of a series

Mood

This is an interesting statistic that Storygraph provided. 

as is this one, 

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