Not including DNFs!
Just like the rest of the year, everything about my stats is skew-whiff. I’m obviously happy that my average rating was so high and I had a very small number of low rated books. What I’m pretty baffled by, however, is how I read fewer books in genres I love- especially fantasy, which was down from my usual 1/3 to just a 1/4! I do think this was a blip (especially considering most of my favourites from 2020 were fantasy books). I also think that this could be a good thing– since varying the genres so much meant that I never got genre fatigue (and I guess I just stuck to high quality fantasy instead of just ploughing through a bunch I wasn’t really enjoying). Predictably I read fewer challenging books, including classics, however on the flipside, I read SO MANY non fiction this year (some of which was True Crime which I don’t normally go for). For some reason, when life was stranger than fiction, I ended up with a craving for real life (and I guess this makes more sense of my reduced number of fantasy reads: basically everything seems to be fantasy right now, so it makes no difference what genre I read!)
In terms of other stats, I’m sadly listening to fewer audiobooks (I really need to get on looking for a bigger list to dive into, because what I have listened to, I’ve really enjoyed!). However, most exciting of all, this year I decided to start checking out my library stats. Inspired by Pages Unbound post with their stats back in 2019, I decided to keep track of how many books I’d read were borrowed from a library. Last year it made up 43% and, remarkably, this year it was even more at 57%! On that note, because I know a lot of people aren’t aware of this, but libraries are still a-go in the middle of this pandemic! I know that across London, where I’m at, you can order books to collect and make use of ebooks (through Libby/Overdrive and Borrowbox). And the same goes for a lot of the UK and the US- definitely worth checking online to see what your library can offer you!
Okay PSA over- now let’s check out the rest of my stats:
There was a lot packed into this! I never would’ve guessed it was so short!!
This was really the longest?! It didn’t feel it! It went by so fast! I suppose that’s the mark of a good book!
Sorry Booker Prize stans, not a fan of this.
Going to mention my favourite new author this year, because both her books- Ten Thousand doors of January and Once and Future Witches– cast a spell on me!
This is the year I finally learnt the meaning of “LIFE’S TOO SHORT!” I DNF’d a grand total of *11 books*!! That’s a new record for me- by quite a distance!
7- very happy with this! Especially since they were all a delight to reread!
The Hobbit- bit of a problem when I do rereads- cos I’m sure this has come up before.
Well I’m not happy about this being least popular, cos I enjoyed it! By the fabulous Fran Laniado- a lovely retelling of Beauty and the Beast- it’s well worth checking out!
Yeah this was underwhelming for me- but I don’t think it deserves the lowest rating!
Even if I’ve read fewer audiobooks, I did listened to some incredible ones. Holly Chase was *so much fun* to listen to and gave me wonderful Christmassy feelings 😀 I also really liked the Aurora Burning audiobook- it’s made me definitely want to continue the series that way! I also listened to the whole Diviners series on audiobook and that was a creepilicious delight!
And a new category…
Inheritance- I never would’ve discovered this if not for the library! I saw it being requested a few times and thought the story behind it was intriguing… so glad I picked it up! And highly recommend if you want to read a genealogical detective story!
And that’s a wrap! So how was your reading year? Have your ratings been good? Did you discover any brilliant books? Let me know in the comments!
These are always so cool to me! I love it!
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I did stats this year, and found that I seem to have spent nearly a full year reading Contemporary and Fantasy YA, but not much else! I need to expand a bit in 2021 I think. I ended up DNFing Girl, Woman, Other quite early on, there was something about it that just didn’t grab me.
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Looks like you’ve had a good reading year. With some great books on the list. There are a few I never got around to this year, so maybe I’ll pick them up in 2021. Hope 2021 is a great reading year for you!!! Happy Reading!!
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I love pie charts and bar graphs. Read on 2021!
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You read 201 books? You are a reading machine!!!! I did read more this year than normal as I had more time being stuck at home though! Hope 2021 is a great reading year for you 😁
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GREAT YEAR!! I was in the mood for “light reading” and it went with my them so I did read and have fun with Hygge Holiday, but at another time I might have DNF. I finished Murmur of Bees, but it was kind of a chore!
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Hahahaa. I’m writing up my Year in Review post and my number of re-reads was over 40 this year 😀
Big congrats on DNF’ing so many. DNF’ing is always a hard thing, so good job on getting in the habit. Life IS too short 🙂
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I love your stats and graphics! The Ten Thousand Doors Of January was one of my absolute favorites this year too.
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Great seeing your stats. I haven’t done mine yet, but mine will be a bit skewed too. I read more than I ever had in a while and went out of my comfort zone to read more romance.
Wish I’d picked up more nonfiction too though.
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Wow, grats on your totals! And varying genres is definitely a good thing!
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Love this wrap-up ❤️
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Loved seeing your stats!
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Great year!
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Great wrap up! I will be writing my reading stats next week. My average rating was good, may be 4.
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I really enjoyed Fran Laniado’s Beautiful as well; glad to see it get a mention here! 🙂 And my audiobook listening is way down this year too… but at least in my case I know why. It’s because I’m not driving 30 minutes each way for my commute to work right now…
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WOW you got so much reading in and not too bad of an overall rating for the year either! I’m sure you know that I’m loving all these stats as well. Happy reading in 2021!
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I love a good reading stat, so your pie charts and graphs were ~immensely~ satisfying :’) Happy New Year, and cheers to a whole fresh year of reading ahead of us!!
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Yay, stats! You had so much greater variety of genres than I did, I love that you read more widely. I keep meaning to do that but then people keep writing more fantasy books–haha. 🙂
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Haha! That answers my question! Holy sh…! 201 books?!?! You’re amazing! 😂 I have serious book envy! Good idea about the stats regarding library books, will have to do this too since really most books I read are from the library – no way had I enough money to afford reading so many books. 😂 xxx
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