This being New Year's Eve, what better way to spend it than by collating the stats of all the books I've read this year? I was going to do Jamie's End of Year Survey (and may still) but my attention span is crap at the moment, so here we are.
I read 90 books this year and this pretty stats picture I made will give you the general idea. Basically...
The only stats on here that I'm proud of are the number of books I finished and the percentage of female authors I read. The rest are pretty shocking, but I turned them into a pretty picture because it's important to pinpoint where you need to do better.
I'm hoping my Read the World Project will help with some of these, and I'm signing up for #ReadMyOwnDamnBooks again in 2017, plus the Spending Freeze means I won't be buying books except for on bookshop crawls so that should help too. Besides that though I'm giving myself permission to read whatever the hell I want during 2017.
My year of reading indie has been a massive failure stats-wise, but in terms of awareness I'd call it a huge success. I spend far more time looking for independently published books in chain bookshops now and am far more aware of small presses and what's coming out from them. I also started a business dedicated solely to the promotion and discovery of independent publishers (Ninja Book Box, check it out) which has been a massive thing and is already causing big changes in my reading life so watch this space for more of that next year!
How's your reading year been?
I haven't sat down and went through my reading year yet. I read a lot of books, and a lot of really good books, but that is about all I have thought about at the moment. lol
ReplyDeleteMy reading has been shockingly white, maybe about 6 books from BAME authors. I guess I don't know about the race of a lot of the comics people but I'm assuming it's similarly white-washed. I do think there has been more representation in characters, just not the people writing them. Something to definitely be aware of.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, happy new year!
I'm so impressed that 78% of your reads were by female authors - that's amazing! Don't be disappointed with 27% independent reads. I think that's an amazing stat, especially if this was the first year you tried to read more independently published stuff.
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