Happy New Year and welcome to my breakdown. Don't get excited - I mean my breakdown of what I read this year.
I read 106 books between January 1 and yesterday and I didn’t even have to do that thing that I usually do where I go to the public library and get 20 picture books the week between Christmas and New Years to goose my number over 100!
I think the reason is that I have been listening to audiobooks in the car. Learning that I could speed them up has been a game changer. I start at 1.25 and as I get into the story I speed it up until the reader’s voice gets too weird. Usually 1.5 or 1.75. I got Harvey Fierstein up to 2.0 and he still sounded like 3 packs of smokes a day. The man is a national treasure.
Here are my stats -
Familiarity
98 new books
8 rereads
Format
34 audiobooks
72 print books
0 ebooks
Reading level
0 picture books
5 children’s or middle grade books
44 adult books
57 YA books
Type of content
62 standard fiction
10 graphic nonfiction/biography/memoir
12 graphic novels
11 memoirs
7 nonfiction
4 novels in verse
Age of books
18 published pre-2000 - all were beloved re-reads, Janet Lambert or instructions for a better life
10 published between 2000-2019
78 - published in the 2020s - Thanks, Mass Teen Choice Book Award!
I read 32461 pages which means I averaged 89 pages a day. I was surprised to see that I was pretty consistent in how much I read each month. If you want to peruse the whole glorious spreadsheet feel free - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-NlPVKSKC4L42RhhLb7NSZBzxUUx5tq_dtmRzrcAO1s/edit?usp=sharing
No one cares about this part so I am going to post it now and then post my top 21 - stay tuned!
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