2019 End-of-the-Year Stats

Happy New Year, Wormies!

It’s finally day one of the new year and I am excited for the new year. There have been many changes in the last few months – mostly in my life – and I am just glad that 2019 is over. A new decade is starting and I welcome changes in my reading habits, and of course, my life.

Now, I will be sharing my 2019 stats with pie charts! I love pie charts and this is the one time of the year when I can play with them and share them with everyone on my blog!

2019 was a year of relaxing and exploring new authors. While I didn’t read as much as I read in 2018 – I read 185 books – I can say that I read more new-to-me-authors. While I only read a total of 116 books, I am very content with what I have read. I do wish I would read more in 2020, but we shall see.

I have set my reading challenge goal for 2020 at 12 books, which is basically 1 book a month, which I KNOW I will meet in a couple of months. Again, this is me not stressing myself out.

2019 is again the year of adult books. Meaning, I read more books filed under adult, as compared to new adult and young adult. Sadly, this was not the year of the YA because I only read 2 books (1.7%).

Let’s break it down by specific genre! Again, this was the year of contemporary romance! Sadly, historical romance has not been a genre that I have wanted to read in 2019 and I really don’t know why. As you know, historical romance has always been my favorite genre, and I’m really bummed that I haven’t been reading more HRs.

Surprisingly, I read my very first non-fiction book in 2019! That was really surprising to me because I never read non-fiction! Bad Blood by John Carreyrou was really so interesting, though!

In 2018, I also promised to read other genres that I normally don’t read and I have to say that I tried a few other genres outside of my comfort zone!

This doesn’t need any additional explanation. In the last few years, I have moved to reading and listening digitally. Audiobooking has helped me so much because I mostly listen to audiobooks now!

For me, hardcovers are only for collecting and I haven’t actually picked up a hardcover and read it because dang, they are heavy!

Let’s look at where I got all my books! Mind you, I DID NOT include books that I didn’t read because then, that would be craaaazy. I mean, I just can’t possibly list down all the books I got for free, purchased, and won from giveaways, right? That would definitely drive me insane!

There has also been an increase in “borrowed” books because I subscribe to Audible Escape and Kindle Unlimited and because I technically only borrow books from that subscription service, I classified all my AE and KU books under “borrowed”

I’ve been reading a lot of backlist books in 2019! And it really shows! I’ve started catching up on all the books released by new-to-me authors this year, which is another crazy thing!

This year was not the year of the reread! Despite all the reading slumps that I’ve had in the last year, I have only picked up 5 reread books! I was extremely surprised by this!

As always, all the reads that I rated were mostly 4-star. However, 23 books were rated 5-star reads, which is amazing and a huge number!

I want to add that I will probably reread Pretty Reckless next year. This year, I read Vicious again and I really enjoyed it. So, I will be finishing that series and starting this spin-off series.

Because I read physical and ebooks, I have divided the shortest-longest books into pages read and minutes listened!

Most Read Author

KENNEDY RYAN

Total Books read: 9

NUMBER OF AUTHORS READ

NUMBER OF PAGES READ

NUMBER OF MINUTES SPENT LISTENING TO AUDIOBOOKS

NUMBER OF SERIES READ

STANDALONES READ

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to review as much as I wanted to in 2019. It may be due to multiple slumps but I also am not a prolific reviewer! I will definitely change that this year!

How did your year go? Did you create a stats post?

Did you go crazy with your stats as I did?

Share your link so I can stop by and check it out!