2024 was another busy year. I said in my last wrap up post how we'd moved (and then moved again) because the housing market is crazy in this neck of the woods. It's no less crazy now but the good news is that we were able to somehow find something in our preferred neighborhood, not far from the place we were renting which meant there was no need to worry about pulling Matthew out of school because we were still in the district. We moved in May but are still in the process of unpacking (it feels like a never ending task) but the books are unpacked! All 980 of them!
Work has also been something. Again, in my post last year I mentioned I started a new job because my old one sold the brands I was working on. I'm still at that (not so) new job, BUT this company has announced that they are selling off the brand I work on so again, things are a bit up in the air. Good news is I'm a bit more relaxed about it all because what are you gonna do?
And then my reading for the year was surprisingly strong. Moreso than I would have thought though I couldn't really say why other than reading is great and audiobooks make it at all possible to read while having to get everything else done (cooking! cleaning! commuting!) Again. ididn't make any cool graphics which I'm sure I should have because it would definitely make this more visually interesting to look at but is just not going to happen. Instead please enjoy this list of stats compared to my historic average (2013 - 2023)
What will 2025 hold? Who knows? I 'm just going to try not to make any sudden moves or spook it in any way and we'll just see what happens.
Total books read
63
Last year was the most books I had read in a year over the past 10 years.
This year, I exceeded that. I dunno why. Meaning I didn't go out of my way to try to read more than last year and indeed, I didn't actually realize that was the case until writing this just now.
Historic average: 54
Year with the most books: 2024 / Year with the fewest books: 2016 & 2018 (48 books)
Total pages read
20,365
Historic average: 17,758
Year with the most pages: 2013 (21,681) / Year with the fewest pages: 2018 (13,525)
Months with the most / fewest books
November (9 books) / Feb, May, Jun, Sep (4 books)
Historic average: as I said last year, every month is either 4 or 5 books on average with the exception of July which for whatever reason is a light year and the average is 3
Months with the most / fewest pages
November (3,135) / June (1,170)
Historic average: Sept (1,699) / May & July (each with an average of 1,243)
Fiction
74%
Historic average: 60.7%
BIPOC authors
15%
Historic average: 18.7%
Female authors
56%
Historic average: 57.8%
Author's nationality
US: 52% (Historic average: 67.4%)
UK: 29% (Historic average: 20.4%)
Canada: 5% (Historic average: 1.7%)
Australia: 3% (Historic average: 2.0%)
Japan: 3% (Historic average: 1.5%)
Sweden: 3% (Historic average: 0.8%)
Malaysia: 2% (Historic average: 0.2%)
New Zealand: 2% (Historic average: 0.2%)
South Korea: 2% (New country!)
Translation
8%
Historic average: 3%
Rereads
24%
Historic average: 19%
Book format
audiobook: 85% (Historic average: 45.1%)
ebook: 10% (Historic average: 27.4%)
hardback: 5% (Historic average: 3.9%)
Where'd I get the book
library: 69% (Historic average: 29.2%)
Kindle/Audible: 19% these weren't new books but rather me finding rereads (Historic average: 34.1%)
gift: 10% (Historic average: 9.0%)
indie bookstore: 2% (Historic average: 15.6%) though a few of the gifts came from indies
Decade published
1840s: 2% (New Decade Unlocked)
1970s: 2% (Historic average: 1.4%)
2000s: 3% (Historic average: 14.9%)
2010s: 23% (Historic average: 55.7%)
2020s: 71% (Historic average: 15.3%)
Top Genres
Mystery: 33% (Historic average: 10.2%)
Adult fiction: 10% (I didn't have this genre previously and I dunno even know if it's entirely right now but whatever)
Fantasy: 7% (Historic average: 5.2%)
Humor: 7% (Historic average: 7.3%)
Literary Fiction: 7% (Historic average: 9.8%)
Resolution books
55%
Historic average: 49%
