#reading statistics

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. 🤍

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%! 

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)

Details under the cut

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 📚📈✨

✨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.

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.

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…