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Allison ༻hikes the bookwoods༺ (allisonhikesthebookwoods) | 1782 comments I've just calculated my stats for 2019, so now I want to share! What stats did you keep track of this year?

Total books read: 109
Total books DNF: 7

Read - 53 (49%)
Listen - 56 (51%)

Female authors - 81 (74%)
Male authors - 28 (26%)

White authors - 89 (82%)
POC authors - 20 (18%)

Author's country:
United States - 47 (43%)
Canada - 34 (31%)
England - 13 (12%)
Scotland - 4 (4%)
Ireland - 3 (3%)
Nigeria - 2 (2%)
India, Malaysia, Poland, South Africa, Trinidad, Japan - 1 each (5% in total)

Publication:
2010-2019 - 87 (80%)
2000-2009 - 5 (4%)
1970-1999 - 8 (7%)
1940-1969 - 4 (4%)
1901-1939 - 2 (2%)
1800-1899 - 3 (3%)


message 2: by ❀ Susan (new)

❀ Susan (susanayearofbooksblogcom) | 3975 comments Mod
LOL - it is a good thing that this is in a book loving group, others might think we are a bit odd with this much tracking!! i just heard my daughter muttering "book nerd" under her breath!

Total of 104 books for me this year.

52 Canadian
52 other parts of the world including the US, Sweden, England, Ireland, Nigeria, Australia and Russia

55 Fiction (53%)
49 non-fiction (47%) of which 20 were memoirs/biographies

63 Women (61%)
40 Male
1 anthology with both

20 books (19%) by authors identified as person's of colour, 6 (6%) of which were indigenous authors

63 books (61%) from the library including 20 ebooks (19%) and 13 audio

Met 13 authors this year including highlights of Margaret Atwood, Frederik Backman and Esi Edugyan


Allison ༻hikes the bookwoods༺ (allisonhikesthebookwoods) | 1782 comments I love that you get to meet so many cool authors @Susan. And congrats on so much nonfiction. That's a genre I tend to struggle with.


message 4: by Rainey (last edited Dec 31, 2019 09:38AM) (new)

Rainey | 746 comments I did no tracking this year, and have read 1,787 books.

Got rid of the TV in my bedroom so thats what I do at night. Not sleeping well - I am a restless sleeper - adds to the volume of books read.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_i...

Will go back to tracking in 2020


Allison ༻hikes the bookwoods༺ (allisonhikesthebookwoods) | 1782 comments Wow @Rainey! That's a lot of books! Congratulations!


message 6: by Susan (new)

Susan | 851 comments I read 101 books this year. Last year, I had all sorts of rules. This year I just read what I wanted, so it was interesting to see how the stats broke down (I was disappointed in the stat for white vs non-white authors).

Female: 59 (58%)
Male: 42

USA: 51 (50%)
Canada: 28 (28%)
England: 13
Ireland: 3
Morocco: 2
Cameroon: 1
Iraq: 1
Northern Ireland: 1
Scotland: 1

White: 67 (66%)
Non-white: 34

Fiction: 78 (77%)
Nonfiction: 23


message 7: by Elinor (new)

Elinor | 238 comments I read 83 books this year -- purely coincidentally, the same number as I read in 2018. I read them all, either in print or digitally. I don't have any guidelines so they ranged from books recommended by friends, to books spotted on this and other Goodreads groups, to thrift store purchases and books found at holiday rentals. This year my resolution is to be a little more selective.


message 8: by Connie (last edited Jan 03, 2020 06:34AM) (new)

Connie Paradowski | 62 comments Read 58 books last year. After seeing all your stats decided to do my own and was pleasantly surprised at the variety.

Female 37
Male 21

Canadian 23
American 19
British 3
Irish 2
French 2
Other 7
includes one each Swedish Australian New Zealand Philippines Japanese German

Classics 9

Nonfiction 6


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