It’s one of my favorite blog posts of the year to write!!!
It’s my reading stats from 2021. If you missed it, I already published a post with all of my read from 2021, organized by my star ratings on each book. This post is more an overview of all the books that I read and some unique way to organize them.
Books Read: 114
Pages Read: 33, 834
Longest Book: I Know This Much is True – 897 pages
Shortest Book: The Duties of Parents- 38 pages
Average Book Length: 297 pages
Male Authors: 23 books (20%)
Female Authors: 91 books (80%)
Books by Authors of a different race or nationality as me (BIPOC): 11 books (9%)
Fiction Books: 64 books (56%)
Non-fiction Books: 50 books (44%)
Most Books Read in a Month: 17 books (June)
Least Books Read in a Month: 3 books (March)
Print Books: 95 books (83%)
Audio Books: 19 books (16%)
Ebooks: 0 books
Earliest Publication Year: Jane Eyre – 1847
1800s: 1 book
1900-1950: 6 books
1950-2000: 5 books
2000-present: 102 books
Star Ratings:
5 Stars: 21 books (18%)
4 Stars: 50 books (43%)
3 Stars: 31 books (27%)
2 Stars: 12 books (10%)
I love looking deeper at my book stats because it shows me where I am at, and where I can really improve! I would love to read more books from around the world and from authors who are different from me, as well as a few more classics. I would also like to do better at curating my reads so that I do end up having far more five star reads than wasting time on books that end up being 2 stars but were popular on bookstagram or wherever I got the recommendation. I was surprised at how many female authors I read this year, but I guess that fiction tends to lend itself more towards female writers, so that ends up balancing out.
I have one more book blog post to round out the year- my top books of the year! Stay tuned for that one!
2022 Reading Goals:
- Read 100 books
- Read 20% books by BIPOC
- Read 20 books from my own shelves
- Read 15 books published before 2000