My Year In Books 2020

Hello bookworms!!

Ok two things before we get into the actual post. First this is the final post of blogmas for me. I did it guys I posted every single day this month. I knew I could because I have done it before but it had been a while. Lastly sorry this post is going up so late in the day. I always wait until the last minute to do these posts because they take me a while to put together. One day I will be better organized. 

Now on to what this post is actually about. Today I am going to be sharing my year in books with y’all. I’ve always got these statistics from Goodreads but this year I will also be including some stats from The StoryGraph and some things that I have kept up with on my own. Just like last year some of the stats are a little bit off but luckily I keep up with it in my journal. Also to keep this post from being extremely long I have made a separate post that will have a list of every book I read in 2020 along with pictures and links to reviews I have written and it will be going up tomorrow. Without further ado here is my year in books for 2020.

Ok So I have actually read 92 books this year. I beta read 2 books for authors that aren’t up on Goodreads yet so I couldn’t add them but I did count them in my final numbers. Like last year I can’t actually give you an accurate page count because between Goodreads, The StoryGraph and my own number I have 3 different numbers. Goodreads says I’ve read 29,954 pages, The StoryGraph says 26,664 pages and I say 29,144.

 

The shortest book I read this year was actually Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer: A Couple of Misfits coming in at 20 pages. I added it on Goodreads so I don’t know why it  shows a different book as the shortest. My average book lenght has gone up a little since last year.

These stats don’t really surprise me. The least popular book was Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer: A Couple of Misfits. My average rating went down from 3.9 last year to 3.7 this year.

I wasn’t expecting to see this as the highest rated book. Not because it’s not a good book because it is and I highly recommend all of this authors books. I was surprised because it’s not as popular as a lot of the books I read this year. I am glad this one is here though because like I said I recommend everything this author writes.

Now we are moving over to the stats from The StoryGraph. I love how this site breaks it down for us. This one breaks down the mood of the books and if I was to click on a color it would give me a list of all of the books with that mood.

This doesn’t surprise me. I prefer fast paced books and again I can get a list of all of the books in each section if I was to click on it.

I’ve noticed over the years that I don’t tend to pick up very long books although reading King has changed that a little. I think between 300 and 500 is typical for me. And once again if I wanted to see which books were in each category I could just click on it.

The first year using The StoryGraph and the first year I actually read a non-fiction. I never read non-fiction but I did this year because of the group I read Kings books with. I read On Writing and actually ended up enjoying it more than I expected. 

 

Ok this is probably my favorite stats breakdown. I am horrible at figuring out what genre each book I read is and The StoryGraph has done it for me. Also I am not at all surprised that romance is my most read genre are you?

My Star Ratings

– 12
–  44
– 31
– 8
– 1

I didn’t have very many 5 star ratings this year and I had only 1 DNF which is what my 1 star ratings are for.

Female Authors: 43

Male Authors: 10

New To Me Authors: 40

Authors I’ve Read Before: 14

I know these numbers don’t add up to the amount of books I read this year but there were several authors that I read multiple books by throughout the Year.

Borrowed From Library: 6

I didn’t use my library as much as usual this year because of Covid but I did manage to borrow some from the library before lockdown.

Audiobooks Listened To: 50

I listened to 50 audiobooks this year thanks to Scribd. I’ve never really kept up with this before so I can’t say for sure but I am pretty sure this is the most audiobooks I have listened to in a year.

Owned Books: 39

Of the 39 owned books I read 13 were ebooks and 26 were physical books. I didn’t read the books I had planned too at the beginning of the year but I still managed to get some off of my TBR so that’s good.

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That’s all for todays post. Let me know how your year was in the comments below. What was your most shocking statistic?