I decided to give myself a day or two to get this post ready, so I am publishing it on the 1st of the new year. It is a nice first post to start the year with (or so I hope). My longlists were published earlier and you can look them up if you have not already.
Happy New year to everyone reading this! I fervently wish for this year to be kind to everyone, especially those who need a break after the load of the year gone by.
I made two such posts which would make sense with this:
I read fewer books in the second half than the first – mostly because I was uprooting and moving across the globe (in a sense). Also, I have a few festering at the bottom of an unreviewed pile of read books which I will get to next year. I just reviewed enough to reach the arbitrary limit of 300 I had set on Goodreads.
This is, as always my longest post ever. I love putting it together (once I get started) and I am glad that I did not give into lethargy to skip it this year. If you like graphs and/or are curious about what my year in books looked like…this is EVERYTHING I could describe about it all.
My Fiction Vs Non fiction
has improved somewhat from last year’s but not from my Mid-year state (I was at 13% then)
Number of Books/ Genre
Cozy Mysteries beat out my earlier Chicklit genre!
Total number of Non-audio Pages read: 78236. Of these, when further divided by genre
The Author Gender
There has been a mild improvement in Male authors, with the numbers up by 6 as well as assorted authors (I read quite a few short stories this time around)
| Nationality of Author | Female writer | Male Writers | Multiple assortment |
|---|---|---|---|
| American | 96 | 48 | 1 |
| Argentinian | 1 | ||
| Australian | 4 | 3 | |
| British | 72 | 26 | 1 |
| Canadian | 4 | 2 | |
| Chinese | 1 | 1 | |
| Dutch | 1 | 1 | |
| French | 1 | 7 | 1 |
| German | 1 | ||
| Greek | 1 | ||
| Indian | 1 | 1 | |
| Indian American | 2 | ||
| Iraqi | 1 | ||
| Irish | 5 | 1 | |
| Israeli | 1 | ||
| Italian | 3 | 1 | |
| Korean | 1 | ||
| Korean American | 1 | ||
| Malaysian | 1 | ||
| New Zealander | 1 | ||
| Norwegian | 1 | ||
| Romanian | 1 | ||
| Tunisian | 2 | ||
| World | 3 |
Translated Works: 17 ( I still am only reading in English)
| Arabic | 1 |
| French | 11 |
| German | 1 |
| Italian | 2 |
| Korean | 1 |
| Tamil | 1 |
Audio Count: 416 hours = 17 days and 7 hours. I was more than overjoyed when NetGalley introduced Audiobooks! – 43 books
This significant decrease despite the increase in options is solely due to lack of outside movement. My shopping/cycling/walking this year was lesser than the last year.
| Genre | Kindle | Library | NetGalley |
| Chicklit | 1 (8) | 2 (19) | |
| Drama | 3 (21) | 1 (9) | |
| Dystopia | 1 (11) | 1 (9) | |
| Fantasy | 3 (33) | 1 (10) | |
| Historical Drama | 1 (9) | ||
| Historical Fiction | 1 (8) | ||
| Mystery | 4 (27) | ||
| Police Procedural | 2 (23) | ||
| Romantic Thriller | 1 (10) | 1 (10) | |
| Thriller | 19 (200) | ||
| Uplit | 1 (9) |
No. of audiobooks by genre and gender of narrator
Once again I have read an almost equal number of standalones and books which are part of a series!
The position in a series and the no. of books I read. Looks like I started quite a few brand new series’! Yay me
I worked really hard to get my NetGalley ratio to 80% and it shows!
No. of Books by type and where I got them from
| Special Reasons I picked up certain books |
|---|
| Blogosphere recommendation (4) |
| Bought the book after reading (1) |
| Originally an ARC, used KU (2) |
I had a slightly better year than the last on an average
Ratings by genre and type, there is a very obvious trend here.
Where the stories were based:
Not much to takeaway from this graph in comparison to the last years but I continue to try
Finally, The short stories I read and graphic novels fell under various other genres but I left them under the umbrella because there was nothing interesting to be dug from it (believe me I tried!)
I look forward to the next year and what it might hold!
My Long Lists:
Superfluous Reading 
Love the graphs! Also omg, you’ve read so much this year! Here’s to an even better reading year in 2021! ❤️
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Thank you! Hope you have a great reading year as well!!😃
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