Books 2021 + Book Stats
I read 82 books this year!
The books I read this year were mostly fiction (83 percent). This is the highest percentage of fiction I’ve read since I started keeping track of this statistic in 2006. I always gravitate more toward fiction when I’m stressed or doing a lot of mentally taxing work and that definitely rings true for this year. Anyway, the books I read this year were also mostly Adult (68 percent), mostly first-time reads (89 percent), and just barely mostly standalone books (54 percent) instead of part of a series. There were three books that I started and did not finish, but read enough of to include here (Once and Future Witches, Bringing Down the Duke, and Why Fish Don’t Exist). A category I started keeping track of late this year is Romance, and this year 28% of the books I read belonged to that category. Mostly, I think they’d be categorized as “contemporary romance,” though I did read two of the Bridgerton books (on purpose), one old-timey detective lady romance (by accident; thought it was a different book), and DNF’d a women’s suffrage romance.
Jeremy and I read three of the same books this year. Miriam and I read twelve of the same books this year.
About 63% of the books I read this year were on the Kindle app on my phone. The rest were hard copies (no audiobooks at all this year). I bought, was gifted, or already owned ten of the books I read this year. The rest I checked out from the library.
Here’s how the reading distribution shook out this year (the date is the day I finished a book):
