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Because I continue to be exactly the same person I’ve always been, I have once again compiled some stats about my reading life. For those of you who read my post about this last year, I hope that enough has changed throughout this year to keep things interesting. For those of you who are new to my stats obsession: Welcome and I apologize.
Last year, I did a little write-up to explain my stats, but I feel that they’re pretty self-explanatory. So this year, you’re just getting lists of the top few stats for each category. If you would like more information about anything, feel free to ask. To remind everyone, I started tracking my reading in May 2005, right after I graduated 8th grade, so these stats are from May 2005 through December 2022. Total Books Read: 1,630 Total Pages Read: 502,017 (Fun fact: In 8th grade, we had to make a goal we wanted to accomplish by the end of the school year. I said I wanted to read 1,000,000 pages. I clearly underestimated how long that would take considering it’s taken me 17.5 years to get halfway to a million.) Re-Read Books: Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys (6 times) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (6 times) The Body by Stephen King (5 times) (Someday, when I’m no longer a teacher, I’ll be interested to see if a book that’s not part of my curriculum makes its way into the top 3.) Authors: Stephen King (44 books) Mary Higgins Clark (29 books) Margaret Peterson Haddix (15 books) Meg Cabot (15 books) Gender Breakdown of Authors: 1,014 female authors 720 male authors 6 non-binary authors Page Ranges: 300-399 pages: 557 books 200-299 pages: 479 books 100-199 pages: 266 books (I’ve still read only 5 books that were over 1,000 pages, so let me know if you can recommend a good door stopper of a novel.) Genres: Coming-of-Age: 139 books Historical Fiction: 138 books Fantasy: 123 books Reading Levels: Adult: 822 books Young Adult: 620 books Middle Grade: 189 books Publishing Years: 2017: 155 books 2016: 151 books 2015: 95 books (I clearly need to read more new releases, as I’ve read only 4 books published in 2022.) Reading Formats: Physical Copies: 1,317 books Digital ARCs: 167 books Audiobooks: 136 books Where I Get the Books: My Personal Library: 436 books Oberlin Library: 264 books Hays Library: 233 books Would I Recommend a Book to Others? Yes: 1,478 books No: 153 books Nationality of Authors: American: 1,237 authors British: 146 authors Canadian: 49 authors (I’m really working on this one, I promise!) White Authors: 1,435 authors Authors of Color: 154 authors (I’m also really working on this one!) I recently discovered that Book Riot has a very intense spreadsheet that I’m going to use to track my reading in 2023 (in addition to the spreadsheet I’ve been using for years, of course). At the moment, I’m trying to convince myself that I absolutely do not need to copy that spreadsheet and attempt to input ALL of my data from the past 17.5 years into it. So far, I’ve kept myself from doing it. But it makes the charts for you, so I’m pretty sure I’ll give in eventually.
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