Happy New Year’s Eve!! 🎉
This year was…. unexpected. And awful. But I read a hell of a lot of books. Here’s the breakdown –
Total books: 185
Total Pages read: 61,077
Average rating: 3.7
Rating Breakdown
This obviously doesn’t account for half star ratings, but it gives a good general picture.
Stats in Pie Charts!
All of these charts were 100% accurate as of December 27 when I read 185 books. I had to cut it off to give myself enough time to make the graphs and write this post.
If you’re a stats lover this is the section for you 😅 Here are a bunch of pie charts showing my reading breakdown.
Rating
Monthly Breakdown
This is surprisingly even… Although you can clearly see when I went into lockdown in April and read ALL THE BOOKS. Things have definitely slowed way down toward the end of the year. I got a bit slumpy at the end of September..
Release Date
I broke this into 3 categories – this year, last year, and backlist. I didn’t read any 2021 books yet (I honesty just didn’t want to have a 2021 release on any of my end of the year lists)
The vast majority of my reading was new releases!
Format
I broke this down into 4 groups – Physical books, Audiobooks, ARCs, and Ebooks (KU, purchased, etc)
If a book was an ARC I marked it as so, regardless of how I read it.
Genre
I got kinda specific with this one this year. So here’s the genres and how I defined them –
- Contemporary – anything set in present day where the focus wasn’t romance
- Contemporary romance
- Mystery (historical mysteries are in here as well)
- Fantasy/PNR
- Fantasy
- Sci Fi
- Nonfiction
- Magical – slightly magical stories set in the real world (Legendborn, Winterwood, etc)
- Thriller/Horror
- Historical Romance
- Historical – anything historically based that didn’t focus on a mystery or romance
Age Range
This is probably my biggest surprise. I had no idea that I read so much more adult that YA this year… I feel like I read a lot of YA but apparently not so much 😅
Other Lists
Here are some other random facts/stats/lists!
Favorite Book: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
Least Favorite Book: The Return by Rachel Harrison
Most Surprising: Winterwood by Shea Ernshaw
Most Disappointing: One by One by Ruth Ware
Shortest Book: The Babysitter by Jack Harbor (44 pages)
Longest Book: House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City #1) by Sarah J. Maas (803 pages)
Favorite New-to-Me Author: Jennifer L Armentrout
Most Read Authors:
Jennifer L. Armentrout: 19 (wow….)
Nalini Singh: 10
Katee Robert: 9
Lexi Ryan: 7
That’s a wrap on 2020! (Thank fucking god….) Here’s hoping 2021 is a little less of a garbage fire!
Have a safe and happy new year!
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What a great post!! I think it is so amazing that you read 185 books. Wow!! I hope you have a great NYE and that 2021 is filled with happiness, good health and lots of books. 🙂
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Thank you so much!! I hope you have an amazing NYE too and 2021 is kinder to us all. Happy reading ❤️❤️❤️
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I love a good graph! The monthly breakdown is really interesting to me.
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I’m glad other people find them interesting too because they’re such a pain to make lol. And I love that one too – you can clearly see when I went into lockdown in April 😅
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I love all the graphs! It’s so nice seeing a year of reading broken down like that! Hope you have a lovely new year and can’t wait to see all what you read in 2021! -Amber
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Thanks! I hope you have an amazing new year too!!! ❤️❤️
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Addie was also my favourite of 2020!
Congratulations on such an epic year of reading! 🙂 185 books is amazing! — and having so many highly-rated books is even better!
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I also read House of Earth and Blood, and I really enjoyed it. I am now chomping at the bit to read Addie LaRue! Everyone is waxing poetic about it. I also am really excited to read From Blood and Ash. Great post!
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I absolutely love seeing stats! Great post 🙂
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