As I am (somewhat of) a nerd, I find it fun and interesting to review my reading stats for the past year: how many books, which kind of books, from where, which countries etc.. So with that in mind, I present the numbers for 2011:
- The total number of books read this year: 114. (2010 total: 122.)
- How much Fiction vs. Non-Fiction: 75 Fiction vs. 39 Non-Fiction. (Wierd. I would have said it was the other way around…)
- How many books I read that were *actually* on the TBR pile: 51 (or a good 45% of what I read I owned and got out the door to other places)
- How many I bought (new/second-hand): 46 (bows head in shame)
- How many were library books: 48 (42%)
- How many were e-books: 13 (mostly Project Gutenburg and Girlebooks)
- Graphic novels: 3 (Essex County/Jeff Lemur, Tamara Drewe/Posy Simmons, and Ethel and Ernest/Raymond Bradbury)
- How many classics: 15 (Not bad as I was trying to read more of those and got off to a late start.)
- Arty/Non-trad format books: The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt/Caroline Preston, Radioactive: Marie Curie/Lauren Redniss, and Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life/Amy Krause Rosenthral.
- Oldest book read: 1818 (Frankenstein/Mary Shelley)
Numbers by the Century:
- 1800’s – 9
- 1900’s – 48
- 2000’s – 53
- Book which gave me most food for thought: Delusions of Gender/Cordelia Fine
Here’s to some happy reading in 2012!
Fun round up! I’m off to check out your post on Delusions of Gender. 🙂