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My last post of the year! Wow, what a year. I've had a lot of interesting dives into genres and topics within my books this year. I've had a lot of surprisingly wonderful stories that I've fallen in love with. I love stats and I'm excited to see them all in one place. Hope you enjoy taking a peek at my reading year.
I've read 113 books this year. I originally wanted to read 175 which I've done once before in 2012 but 2020 was such a dumpster fire year that I'll forgive myself. I changed it to good old 100 because I knew I could make it. It was a struggle at the end but I unexpectedly reached 113 books. I'm not doing a yearly goal next year. I don't particularly like the obsessiveness I get when looking at this challenge every time I go on Goodreads.
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I read less than last year but I am okay with that. I want to focus on the genres I want to give more of a chance to like horror, sci-fi, adult fantasy, etc. I also want to focus on older series. But out of everything, I want to focus on trying to read the best books possible next year. I want to shoot for five star predictions for every book I read.
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According to Goodreads, I read 30,549 pages which is unbelievable to me. When I finally let go and read whatever I wanted and didn't expect myself to read a lot at the end of the year, I was able to read over 30,000 pages. I'm very surprised by that number. I obsess over the number of books I've read and the page count that it's funny that I'm shocked by the results of letting go of that obsessiveness.
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The page count stats for this year is like usual. I would like to add more books over 400 pages in the new year but it isn't a priority. I just like looking at the percentages.
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I got the stats on my genre from The Storygraph. As you can see I've read mostly fantasy, romance, and contemporaries. Historical is surprisingly high and horror, sci-fi, and mystery are pretty good too. I want to get those smaller genres up in percentages in the new year. I also read 14 nonfiction books this year which is like my usual. I'd like to keep it the same.
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My percentage of male authors read has gone up by 3% which is something... I'm not too focused on this but I like to keep a record because I want to eventually and naturally change my reading to a larger percentage of male authors. I think I connect with a lot of female authors being a woman myself but male authors create some great books too. Hopefully in the new year when I am exploring more genres, I will read from some great male authors as well.
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The percentage of YA I've read has gone down 3% only haha. But my adult reading has gone up by 10%. Middle grade books went up by 8%. Children's books have gone down by 16%. I was at first disappointed with the percentage of YA I read but 1) I love YA so it makes sense and 2) the adult reading went up 10%. That's so much! If I can get adult books to be 10% more next year I'll be happy. I would like YA to go down by at least 6%.
I also wanted to figure out how many Hispanic ownvoice stories I read this year and it was 12. That's unbelievably good for me. I'd love to keep it up. I've read in total 47 out of 113 books with minority, lgbtq+, and disabled characters which is 41.5%. Didn't think I did that well. However, I did make an effort in the middle of the year to read diversely. If I want to maintain that for next year then I'll have to read about a third or half of my monthly reading to diverse books. I don't want to necessarily force it. I will look out for books by and about minority, lgbtq+, and disabled authors that I'm really interested in throughout the year. If they are on my tbr then I am more likely to read them. I will make sure I look for Hispanic and disabled reads specifically. Hispanic because I'm Cuban and disabled because those stories aren't told that much.
Overall, I'm happy with my reading year. I see some changes I want to make next year like focusing on diverse specifically Hispanic and disabled characters. Also sci-fi, horror, and mystery/thrillers. As well as adult books. I'm so excited for the new year. It's my favorite time other than Christmas. Hope you all have a wonderful new year!
How was your reading year?
Are you focusing on anything in the new year?
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