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Books 2022 + Book Stats

Books 2022 + Book Stats

I read 50 books this year - that’s a more normal total for me in recent years. The 80-something books I read in 2020 and 2021 were pandemic anomalies.

The books I read this year were mostly fiction (86 percent). This is the highest percentage of fiction I’ve read since I started keeping track of this statistic in 2006. I would like to read more non-fiction but I find that really good non-fiction books just don’t cross my radar that much anymore. Every once in a while I’ll binge-search for non-fiction books to read but it’s tricky to find the ones that will be right up my alley.

The books I read this year were overwhelmingly Adult (70 percent), first-time, stand-alone (not part of a aseries) reads (94 percent). I had a ton of DNF’s (particularly in October/November) but only read a substantial enough amount of two of those to record them in Goodreads (A Shadow in the Ember and The Dead Romantics).

A category I started keeping track of last year is Romance, and this year 26% of the books I read belonged to that category.

About 64% of the books I read this year were on the Kindle app on my phone, mostly borrowed from the library (94%, whether Kindle or hard copy).

Below you can see how the reading distribution shook out this year (the date is the day I finished a book). November was so painful! It’s the worst reading slump I’ve ever had and if it weren’t for Small Game I am sure I would have finished zero books that month. I started and DNF’d NINE books in October and November. Brutal. We bought a house during that time period and with packing and moving and working and (what felt like) throwing piles of money around I was just extremely stressed. Instead of reading, I found myself getting Genius Level on Spelling Bee every night or scrolling through various streaming services looking for something to watch and never settling on anything. It was bleak.

My best books of 2022 (and other distinctions)

My best books of 2022 (and other distinctions)

Corinne (Rebecca Morrow) book review

Corinne (Rebecca Morrow) book review