- Total books read during this year: 54
- Total books that I started to read but didn't finish: 1 (a women's devotional my mom bought me)
- physical books read: 38
- digital/ebooks read: 17
- physical books started but unfinished: 1
- ebooks started but unfinished: 0
- Library books read: 4
- Library books started but unfinished: 0
- Books I loved: 19
- Books I liked: 28
- Books I felt neutral about: 3
- Books I disliked or found meh: 3
- Books I hated: 0
- Books I felt strongly about but can't classify as love or hate: 1
- Books purchased: 64 😐
- #1 most loved book this year (not counting my rereads):
- most loved general fiction: How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe
- most loved fantasy: The Girl Who Drank the Moon
- most loved mysteries: The Will Darling Adventures
- most loved young adult book/s: Ophelia After All, Loveless
- most loved children's book/s: The Library of Ever and Rebel in TLoE
- most loved nonfiction: How to Be Ace, Sounds Fake But Okay
I'm honestly shocked I read so much. Last year I read 45 books, and the years before that I was reading 20-some books a year (not counting my 1st pandemic year reading slump). Shoutout to my Reference Desk shifts for giving me set times to read every week.
I felt embarrassed about how many books I'd bought this last year, but in 2022 I had bought 116, so I'd say I'm doing pretty well! It helps that I'm only letting myself buy books from thrift stores and independent bookstores (with the occasional Bookshop.org deal and cheap Nook ebook). Back then I was buying books from Book Outlet a couple times a month. As it is, I've only bought 9 more books than I've read! I sold several books (a couple boxes' worth) but didn't keep track of how many, so I've eliminated the "# of books sold" bullet point.
Here are some of the charts from my amazing reading log spreadsheet created by Tirzah Price.
Fantasy remains my most-read genre, but the percentage amount has gone down slightly. In 2022 General Fiction was the third-most read genre, while in 2023 it is the second-most read. Last (last) year's second most read genre, Memoir/Bio, was barely read this (last) year (3 books). My third-most read genre this year, Romance, has nearly quadrupled in percentage from last year. The free romance novel ebooks I've downloaded from Barnes & Noble are to blame.
In terms of form, 81.8% of the books I read were prose, while the rest of the pie was tiny slivers of 3-1 books each.
[A.N.: I had the "books read by month" chart here, but it's inaccurate so I deleted it and the commentary. Some stats don't translate to the charts for some reason.]
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Author/Artist Gender: My percentage of female authors has gone up from 2022's 50% to 54.2%. The nonbinary authors percentage has quadrupled from 2.1% to 8.5%! Thusly, male authors have gone down from 43.8% to 35.6%.
Nation of Origin: The US percentage went down slightly, while the UK percentage went up a bit (I think this was the year I reread The Chronicles of Narnia). The Canada slice is due to the L.M. Montgomery collection, Christmas with Anne, that I read every holiday season. The New Zealand slice is due to a very bad and not even fun romance novel free ebook I don't want to talk about.
POC Authors (should be Authors of Color) vs. White Authors: The amount of white authors went up over 10 percent, so the amount of authors of color I read lowered the same amount :(
POC Protagonists (should be Protagonists of Color) books vs. White Protagonist books: How did this come out the same as the previous chart when they were different in 2022??
I'm tired of doing screenshots, so I'm going to write out the rest of my reading data in a list.
- Nearly 30% of the books I read in 2023 were by queer/LGBTQ+ authors and/or artists. Last year (2022) it was only 18.2%! What a jump!
- 31.5% of the books I read had queer/LGBTQ+ protagonists. Last year this was 25%. Yay for progress!
- I think the chart for trans authors is broken like the 2022 chart's was. Counting from the spreadsheet, I read 5 trans and nonbinary authors in 2023. Last year it was only 2 nonbinary authors!
- I read 2 books with trans/nonbinary protagonists this year, 3 if you count Nimona (and I kinda do). I can think of at least 1 other book with a nonbinary side character. Last year none of my books had a trans protagonist. Yay for progress!
- 18.5% of my books had disability representation, up from last year's 4.5%!!
- 3 of my books were translated, up from last year's 2 translated books. One of the poetry books I read had both born-English and translated poetry, so I counted it as translated.
- I read significantly less nonfiction this year, 12.7% (a little under half of last year's percentage). The rest was fiction.
- Very different, almost flipped, percentages for age range. Over half of the books I read were for adults, 25.5% for young adults, and 21.8% were for children.
- Nearly 15% of the books I read were published in 2023 (8, I think). In 2022 the percentage was only 4.3%. Clearly, the SimonTeen free digital read of the day was responsible for this percentage.
- I read 26.8% of the books I bought in 2023. Some were gifts, so. Last year I read 21% of my purchased books.
What a ride! I really have to try reading more authors of color and books about people of color. I also need to read the books I keep buying.
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