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Welcome to my 2024 reading stats post! This is where I represent all the books I read in 2024 with pie (charts). It was a pretty terrible reading year, but that's fine because it was a pretty okay year of life. I learned a ton of stuff and survived a few adventures.
In 2024, I read 52 books, which is my lowest number in recorded history. However, several of them were awesome. Here are the best books I read in 2024. You should read them in 2025.
Let's make graphs. Or, more accurately, let's remake graphs. I don't know if normal people pay attention to the Pantone color of the year, but 2025's color is Mocha Mousse, which is . . . brown. I made all my graphs brown so they'd be trendy! I wanted to be inspired by Mocha Mousse! I quickly learned that Mocha Mousse is highly uninspiring. I kept a few of the brown graphs and remade the others so they're slightly less depressing.
Okay, enough yapping:
📉 2024 Reading Statistics 📈
2024 Quick Stats
Total number of books finished: 52
Total number of rereads: 4
Total pages read: 23,416
Average pages read per day: 64
Number of pageviews the blog got in 2024: 364,324
Average number of pageviews per day: 998
Stats From Goodreads
Analysis: The freakin' EMT school textbooks messed up my Goodreads stats! Literally nobody comes here for textbooks! I didn't even rate or review the things because nobody cares! (The reviews of EMT textbooks are amusing, though. They're like "One star: too much gore; not enough romance.")
Pie Charts From My Ridiculous Spreadsheet
Star Rating
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4 stars = above average
3 stars = average
2 stars = below average |
Analysis: I read a bunch of classics last year, and I hated quite a few of them, but I didn't want to DNF because I enjoy being pretentious. Saying, "I read War And Peace" sounds fancier than saying, "I read 300 pages of War And Peace and got bored." A lot of my 2-star and 3-star books are classics that I suffered through for the sake of pretentiousness.
Genre
Analysis: Where's the poetry? Where's the graphic novels? I feel like my reading was very one-note last year. I need more variety. I really like novels, though. Fiction is my thing. There's not much to say about this graph except I'd like to read more things that are not novels. There are tons of nonfiction books that I'm stoked about. Now I need to read them.
PUBLICATION DATE
Analysis: I read exactly one book that was published in 2024. I read a bunch of books from 2021. I guess I finally read the stuff that people were raving about four years ago. Nicely done, me. Way to stay on top of things.
TARGET AUDIENCE
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| "Children" includes young adult books |
Analysis: As you can tell by the decorations on the graph, I'm a very serious grownup, so it's not surprising that I mostly pick adult books for myself.
PUBLISHER
Analysis: For the first time ever, Penguin Random House is not my favorite publisher. I read a crap ton of classics that came from university presses. They all ended up in the "Small / Indie" category.
BOOK SOURCE
Analysis: Where did all my books come from? My goal in 2024 was to read the books I already own instead of buying new ones. I did pretty good with not buying books. I started the year with 26 unread books. I finished with 9 because I got some books for Christmas.
I did not do good with staying out of the library. The library has better books! The ones on my shelf look so boring!
DO I READ DIVERSELY?
Analysis: This graph looks vastly different than it has in previous years. I usually seek out books that meet my definition of diversity, so the "Yes" category is always bigger. In 2024, I read a ton of classics. Those books seem to be written by white men, about white men, and for a white male target audience. Since the cast of classics isn't very diverse, they killed my graph!
My graph only tracks the presence of a diverse cast of characters. It doesn't track the accuracy of the representation. Here's how a book ends up in the "Yes" category:
It’s #OwnVoices
And/Or
It’s a work in translation
And/Or
It features a point-of-view character who is a member of a minority community
And/Or
It discusses issues that disproportionately impact minority communities
AUTHOR BIRTH COUNTRY
Analysis: Every year I say I'm going to fix this, and every year I don't. Why is it so hard for me to read books by people who aren't from the US? I need to try harder to find translated books. I think that's the problem. I'm too lazy to do the research.
AUTHOR GENDER
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| Multiple = Two or more authors who are different genders |
Analysis: This graph looks different every year. In 2023, I read more male authors. In 2024, I read more female authors by far. I don't pay attention to the gender of the authors I read. Maybe I should pay attention?
THE 2024 POSTS YOU CLICKED THE MOST
That's it! Do you keep spreadsheets to track the books you read?
And, more importantly, how do you feel about the color Mocha Mousse?
I love these posts. I do not keep a spreadsheet, I just look back over my list on the blog to figure out the stats. You read some real chunksters this past year and I do hope you get to work that into conversations.
ReplyDeleteInteresting statistics. I think the ratio of men/women writers are inverted between us.
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