Happy new year!
I’ve done these year-end summaries for a few years now, you can check out what I was up to in 2015, 2014, and 2013
Total books read: 234
2015’s total: 286
2014’s total: 217
2013’s total: 223
2012’s total: 227
2011’s total: 171
That looks about right. It tends to be somewhat evenly split between men and women writers. I want to work on reading more books by women this year.
About half of my reads are graphic novels and comics, which is how I manage to read more than 200 books every year.
This year I want to work on more classics, more short stories.
I’m a big fan of the library but I really ought to read more books from my own library!!
This was the first year that audiobooks made some inroads in my reading life. Not very much but I hope to steadily grow that number as the years go by, as for me audiobooks means going on regular walks.
I hope to read more consciously and get the percentage of diverse reads up to 50!
I didn’t do so well with translated books this year, a slight drop from last year which was 14%.
Specifically, I read 46 books published in 2016. The oldest book I read was published in 1901.
Page length
The longest book I read was City on Fire at 944 pages (luckily it was an e-book). The shortest was Faith #0 at 32 pages.
Here’s to a wonderful reading year ahead! Despite everything else that happens, we will always have books.
Real Life Reading 
Fun batch of graphics. I am never this organised. lol
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Hehe! I just have fun making up pie charts!
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Where did you get your charts!? I love the way you broke it down. I’m working on my list to put out by the end of the week (probably the beginning of next week if I’m being really honest) and would love to use some too!
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Oh I do it via Word (as in insert pie chart and put in your own numbers). I don’t know if there’s a better way to do it! This is how I’ve always done it! 😛
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I never would have thought to put the two together! They look gorgeous!
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The funny thing is that each year when I plan to do this I have to sit at my laptop for a bit while I try to remember what exactly I did to make the pie charts! 😂😂
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OMG, how *do* you read so many books?!?! Cool charts. I’ll record what I read this year and see how it tallies at the end of 2017!
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Heh as you can see about half of them are comics, which are often very fast reads!
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Wishing you all the best for more book-filled pie charts in the year(s) ahead!
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