#reading statistics

[lottiestudying]

05.03.2024—storygraph update. finished 77 books in Feb, on to March. my user is lottie1803, drop me yours and I’ll follow back. 🤍

(side note that all reading is good reading, i have hyperlexia and naturally read very fast. i average about 2 books a day. i am currently studying part time so have more time to read. i do lean towards shorter books, but read a fair amount between 300-400 pages according to my stats)

[whilereadingandwalking]

Let's jump back in to my reading log statistics breakdown. Reminder: I read 252 books in 2021, or one book every 2.15 days, or around 21 books a month. 

As my reading world continues to expand, some of these numbers continue to improve. I read 66.67% books by women and 2.17% nonbinary authors, and only 30.80% books by men. I had one of the most balanced author vs. protagonist ratios I ever have had when it comes to POC: 50.79% of my books were by POC authors or artists, and 51.19% of my books had POC protagonists. My ratio for queer authors/protagonists didn't do so well: 19.05% queer authors, 34.52% protagonists. 

Only 1.98% of my reads this year were rereads. I would like to up that slightly this year. I enjoy rereading old favorites a lot, and I missed that somewhat in 2021. 

And, of course, 38.49% of the 252 books I read in 2021 were books in translation! How far we've come: at the beginning of 2020, I pledged to go from 6% to 10%. And now look at me! Writing an entire column on books in translation for Book Riot! Almost at 40%! 

25.77% of those translated books were originally in Spanish (including novels from Argentina, Spain, Mexico, and more), and 20.62% were in French (between France and Central Africa). 14.43% were in Japanese, 7.22% in Catalan, 5.15% in Croatian, 5.15% in Portuguese. I also reads books translated from Chinese, Korean, Russian, Dutch, German, Greenlandic, Ukrainian, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Arabic, Sierra Zapotec, Romanian, Albanian, Bulgarian, Lingala, and a range of indigenous Mexican languages. I'm so proud of how far I've come in this category—and don't worry, there are more lists coming throughout 2022.

[shadowtearling]

I’m laughing; I replaced my blog logo with a statistics icon just for this post. I am #dedicated. Anyway! I love numbers and statistics. It’s fun to see concrete evidence that examine my reading habits. I’m not actually talking out of my ass this time! I’m talking out of math’s ass! So many pie charts lmao

Total Books Read: 115!!!

Total Pages: 30,073

Best: The Heart Forger by Rin Chupeco & Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

Worst: It’s Not Like It’s a Secret by Misa Sugiura

Shortest Book: Opal by Maggie Stiefvater (38 pages)

Longest Book: War Storm by Victoria Aveyard (662 pages) (It really should have been The Queens of Innis Lear by Tessa Gratton because the writing on that is so TINY, but I digress)

Month to Month Comparisons

January is an outlier and should not have been counted. August is just... Sad.

Average # of pages per month: 2506.08

Average # of books per month: 9.58

Average page # per book: 261.5... lol :(

Month to Month: Audiobooks

Total Minutes: 28,095 (19.5 days worth!)

Average minutes per month: 2341.25

Average # of audiobooks per month: 3.83

Average Minutes per audiobook: 610.76 (10.18 hours!)

Genre Distribution

Fantasy still reigns supreme in my favorite genre! Though I will say that all forms of graphic work dominated my reading this year. I tried new genres, too! Romance and Mystery/Thriller were quite a surprise. Also side note, those classics are literally just all Jane Austen. The percentage would be higher if I didn’t do “Play” as a category, but I didn’t know where the non-classic plays would have gone otherwise.

Age Range

Last year, I put Middlegrade as a genre and only read 3 books total. This year, I managed to read a whole lot more! YA is still my main age range, though.

When did I read from?

2017 books are my biggest chunk because I’m always at least a year late to the party. The number of 2018 books surprised me, though. I read a lot of backlist books, but also a lot of new releases! I got to most of my highly anticipated ones, but there are a handful that are staring me down from my shelves.

How did I consume books?

So the big pie charts are conveying the same information. I’ve read 59% physical, non-audiobooks and 41% audiobooks. The smaller pie charts break down each slice. For all the physical, non-audio books I’ve read, more than half were Comics or Manga (the percentages are part of the 115 total). For all the audiobooks I’ve listened to, about three quarters were with physical copies of the books.

How’d I do at reading books I own?

Not good (for me). I borrowed more than half of the books I read. Not all of these are library books, though a lot of them are. And this doesn’t account for the fact that almost all of the audiobooks I listened to were borrowed (I own two, which were some of the worst books I read this year so uh... yeah). OR the fact that I borrowed ebooks but also owned physical copies? I like traveling with my kindle. I found that this year I was more selective in which books I want in my collection that I’ve already read, instead of buying even the ones I knew I would never reread again or weren’t favorites.

Those are all my stats! I love looking back on the year with numbers just to see what my reading habits were. I can’t wait to see how 2019 compares :D

[bibliophilecats]

My reading wrap-up of 2025

Details under the cut

I am happy with the amount of books I read from the library (though it does mean much more ebooks) and the higher percentage of non-fiction.

I find it a little frustrating that most read authors does not equal most liked authors - it can distort the picture.

I started adding tags because despite what Storygraph writes, "young adult" and "middle grade" are NOT genres (especially as "adult" is absent from the list). Therefore, I added tags for age groups and included a tag for all the books I got from the librar

How was your reading year? Are you happy with the books you read, did you enjoy them?

[bookthorns]

my 2025 mid-year break down + every stat i could think of 📚📈✨

Hey everyone, welcome to or welcome back to my blog! I know I’m more than a bit late with this post, but I’d already done all of the work to get these stats together, so I thought I may as well still post this, even if I just use it as something to look back on in the future. Continue reading my 2025 mid-year break down + every stat i could think of 📚📈✨

my 2025 mid-year break down + every stat i could think of 📚📈✨

[carica-ficus]

✨2023 Wrapped✨

I'm a sucker for statistics, so here's a little graphical analysis of my reading statistics from 2023.

Here's a few details I find interesting compared to my stats of 2022:

I read less than I did in 2022, but I did read more larger books and less comics. I also read less anthologies. So my overall average book length is higher and I did read more pages in total.

My average rating is the same as it was in 2022. I had more 5 star books than in 2022, but also more extremely low rated books.

The highest rated book I read this year is from my friend, and I'm really glad her book managed to surpass even "Fourth Wing" which has a whooping 4,62.

I read a little less non-fiction this year.

I read a little less anthologies this year.

It seems the largest category I read in was romance. And I'm really surprised it is. I do like romance, but it isn't my go to genre. I like when it acts as a very strong subplot, but otherwise I don't reach out to such books. I'm also pleasantly surprised that horror took up a nice percentage as well. Looking back, I feel as if I haven't read that much horror this year, but I guess I was wrong.

Croatian authors took up first place with a really impressive 37%. I did read quite a lot of local authors this year, and I hope I'll keep that same percentage in the year to come. The truth is, Croatian literature is often overlooked in local book communities and seen as lesser, especially compared to international booksellers, but there's quite a few prominent authors and I read some really unique work from them this year!

I chose just a few books to represent my favorites of this year, with "Gideon the Ninth" by Tamsyn Muir taking the spotlight. "A Day of Fallen Night" by Samantha Shannon, "If We Were Villains" by M. L. Rio, "The Betrayals" by Bridget Collins, and "Od Kolijevke do Groba" by Antonija Mežnarić are all a very, very close second, and I recommend each and every one of them if you're looking for a good read.

Overall, I'm happy what 2023 brought me reading wise. I had a lot of fun discovering new works and authors, and had just a few true disappointments. A thing I finally want to learn in 2024 is to stay away from popular books because they're clearly not for me.

That's it! I hope 2023 was a good reading year for you too! Feel free to comment some of your statistics and your feats (however big or small they are) and happy New Years! I wish you all good luck, lots of love and happiness!

[aspiringpolymath]

So, I still track on Goodreads, bc I was an early adopter and it's social in a way that StoryGraph hasn't managed to be for me (yet), but I'm a bit behind on tracking there, so I thought I'd screencap my progress. This is from mid-late June 2023, so sort of Mid Year Ish.

I would say that more like 98% of my books are LGBTQIA+, but the genres are getting more accurate as time goes by (and it is definitely leading the pack). SG is also getting better at having the obscure queer romance books I read, but there are a few still missing.

Today, I have 277 books listed on GR, so I'm going to try and catch up a bit on SG this weekend.

I might post my answers to the Mid Year Check In, too, bc I love to share my fave books and see what other people are into.

[signourneybooks]

Time to Crunch Some Numbers | Reading Stats 2022

Woah we are already 2 weeks into 2023 and it just seems to be going way too fast. It means that it is about time for that time of year where I dive into my reading stats of the previous year. In 2021 I read a 110 books. In 2022 I read 130. That is something to consider when comparing. Previous years 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 Ratings So here we are. The darker purple is…

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