June Reading Wrap-Up and 6 Month Check-in

Oh man, look at time just flying by. Half the year is already done. And I am all kinds of ready for a vacation. In terms of reading, I didn't get a huge amount done, but that is in part due to my decision to start reading another Game of Thrones/Song of Ice and Fire book, and those are an estimated 50,000 pages each so it's taking some time. But I did manage to get some resolutions fulfilled so that's something. I also thought I'd take a look at how things are shaping up for the year so far.

Now, let's see how things look for June.

Number of books read
3
Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
Coronado & Other Stories by Dennis Lehane
The Dinner by Herman Koch

Number of pages read
786

Percentage of fiction
100%

Percentage of female authors
33%

Percentage of white authors
...100% dammit

Percentage of US authors
66%

Book formats
paperback 100%

Percentage of rereads
0%

Percentage of review books
0%

Books by decade
1970s - 33%
2000s -66%

Books by genre
mystery - 33%
people being terrible. that's a genre, right? FINE, psychological thriller - 33%
short stories - 33%

Resolution books
66%
Crocodile on the Bank  was written in the '70s which is before the '90s (I'm so good at math).
The Dinner was originally published in Dutch and the author is from the Netherlands

Not too shabby.

Now let's see how I'm doing year-to-date with these stats.

Number of books read
18

Number of pages read
7,446

Percentage of fiction
75%

Percentage of female authors
67% That's not too bad. I like being in this area for the split

Percentage of white authors
94% This, however, is pretty pathetic

Percentage of US authors
61% I'm actually pretty surprised by this one. Good job, me

Book formats
ebooks - 44%
paperback - 50%
hardback - 6%

Percentage of rereads
0% - I'm currently re-reading The Martian so this will change soon. Also I've been re-listening to WWZ for the 50th time. But I'm always sort of re-listening to that.

Percentage of review books
6% - I didn't mean to give up on review books so much. But I feel like I've been reading less and especially with this resolution, I've been pickier

Books by decade
1850s - 6%
1970s - 6%
1990s - 17%
2000s - 33%
2010s - 39%

Books by genre
fantasy - 6%
health - 6%
literary fiction - 11%
humor - 11%
dystopia - 22%
essays - 6%
historical fiction 11%
classic - 6%
mystery - 11%
short story- 6%
suspense - 6%

Resolution books
50% - alright!
Of those resolution books (will go over 100% for all the books that check more than one of these boxes):
non-US author: 78%
translation: 33%
non-white author: 11%
written before 1990: 22%

The year is actually looking pretty good. Except with non-white authors. That's ridiculous and I really need to fix it. All of the other criteria have been easily met.

Let's see what the rest of the reading-year holds