2020 was a wild year for everyone. For me, among several things it meant a lot less time commuting in cars and eating lunch in the office, and also a lot less social functions (by a lot less I mean maybe two outdoor meetings in the entire year after the pandemic started cause that’s all I was comfortable with).
And what someone such as me do with all that free time? I read. I had a goal of reading 50 books in 2020 and I ended up reading 136. In 2019 I read around 90. So it was a huge growth in number of titles. But overall, what else can we tell about my year in books?
Totals:
books read: 136 (51.1% increase from 2019)
books I didn’t finish: 3 (I do not count them among any of the other stats)
pages read: 34,936 (24% increase from 2019)
hours listened to audiobooks: 359.5 hours (equivalent to 10,981 pages, 146% increase from 2019)
Favorite audiobook listening speed: 1.25x (don’t @ me)
money spent on books: $357 (9% decrease from 2019)
what would have cost me if I had bought every single book I read instead of borrowed from the library/gifts/etc: $1,664 (50% increase from 2019)
new reads: 127
re-reads: 9
shortest book:
97 pages (“84, Charing Cross Road”)
5 hours (=224 pages,“Talking as Fast as I can”)
longest book:
1,137 pages (“The Way of Kings”)
41 hours (=912 pages, “A Memory of Light”)
books that were in my TBR pile from prior years: 34
Ratings:
Average Goodreads rating of all books combined: 4.21/5 (so overall, I read well rated titles)
My average rating to all books read: 3.5/5 (sounds like I’m a harsher critic than the average Goodreads user)
Lowest rated book read: 3.12/5 for “Bowlaway” (I rated it 2/5)
Highest rated book read: 4.63 for “The Way of Kings” (I rated 4/5)"
Month by month:
Month I read the most: September, 17 books
Month I read the least: March, 6 books
Newest book read: October 2020 (I actually read FOUR books that came out on October of this year: “Cute! An Our Super Adventure Comic Collection",” “The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue,” “Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America,” and “In a Holidaze”)
Oldest book read: September 1868 (“Little Women”)
Genre:
Romance: 46
Historical: 22
Contemporary: 21
YA: 3
Fantasy: 27
YA: 17
Adult: 10
Historical Fiction: 11
Mystery: 9
Memoir: 7
Sci-fi: 7
YA: 5
Adult: 2
Literary Fiction: 6
History: 5
Business, Education, Race, Thriller, True Crime: 2 each
Classics, Comic Book, Correspondence, Essays, Feminism, Horror, Leadership, Philosophy: 1 each
Format:
Ebook: 77
Audiobook: 24
Paperback: 20
Hardcover: 15
Provenance:
Library: 78
Purchased: 45
Gift: 10
Borrowed: 3
Favorite books: