My 2018 Reading Statistics // hi guys, I read 37 books in a year

I literally slumped for around 80% of the year.

My goal at first was to read 100 (????) books, but then I lowered it down to fifty. Of course… as it turned out…. I didn’t actually meet my lowered goal either.

Clearly, I know what I’m doing. I’m a 10/10 book reader. I’m amazing at reading all of the books.

Also, not going to lie, but I’ve been avoiding writing this post because I’ve just felt uninspired to??? And I still feel uninspired but I mean… what can you do. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

overall statistics

• books read: 37
• pages read: 13,420*
• shortest book: The Boyfriend Bracket by Kate Evangelista
• longest book: Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
• most popular: To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
• least popular: 500 Words or Less [review]
• average rating: 4.4 stars

If y’all want to see my Year in Review by Goodreads you can view it here! But anyways, apparently The Boyfriend Bracket was 240 pages and I lowkey completely forgot that I even read that book. To be honest, it was really mediocre and had the gay-best-friend trope that was unnecessary.

I LOVED SPINNING SILVER THOUGH. Naomi Novik, my queen. *sighs*

318,899 people also read To All the Boys I’ve Loved before and I feel like so many people read it because of the movie and THIS IS WHAT JENNY HAN DESERVES. (I’m still sad I didn’t like the movie. Noah Centimeter suuucks.)

416 people read 500 Words or Less and that’s kind of shocking?? Less than 500 people read that book?? I just checked its page and… so many of the reviews were 3-stars… that’s unfortunate, but I also rated it three stars lmao.

<span style=”font-size: 10pt;”>*nice.

I think I’m actually okay with this ratio! If you consider that I read 37 books, then that’s 7 books that I read without a diverse mc, and… those might be my school assigned books as well as any others. Soooooo while I’d prefer the ratio from diverse mc to non-diverse mc to be higher, I’m not too upset at myself? 

#selflove

Y’all, please notice that single “114 days” right there. Yes, that was… My So-Called Bollywood Life. Which is 296 pages. IT WASN’T EVEN A LONG BOOK. I just… stopped somewhere in the middle of it for like two months??

AND I ACTUALLY FIVE-STARRED THAT BOOK, SO. (Y’all should read it!!! It’s a cute book with an Indian protagonist and love interest and cast & has themes of Bollywood within it!!!)

me right now.

Okay, this is like… really confusing tbh because there are so many book that overlap and I don’t even know how to properly organize this in a way that actually shows my statistics accurately, but,

anyways.

When I put “romance” as a genre in this graph, I don’t mean NA romance books, but rather books that have romance as a central arc or part of the story.

Something that I’ve noticed about my own reading is that I’m less… choosy about which contemporaries I read?? EVEN THOUGH LIKE 99% OF THE TIME I’M IN THE MOOD FOR READING A FLUFFY CONTEMPORARY.

But I feel like I usually won’t read a contemporary unless it’s diverse in some way OR if it just has a really really good nice trope, like fake dating.

Honestly, this is just a weird comment, but I feel like I subconsciously avoid books with white boy protagonists, because… they all sound the SAME TO ME. I DON’T KNOW WHY THEY JUST DO.

Seriously, these stats are lowkey useless because of the tiny amount of books I read. IF I READ 100 BOOKS THE STATS WOULD BE MORE INTERESTING.

I only one-starred one book in 2018! And 62% were five-stars, which is over half, so that’s pretty chill.

I’ve only read one book with an enby author and main character, so I definitely want to increase that number this year. (The book was The Brilliant Death by Amy Rose Capetta, by the way and it was AMAZING.)

Also, I haven’t read many books by male authors or main characters compared to the amount of books by girl authors or main character, and I don’t plan on increasing that number, tbh. I’m perfectly content with this.

I feel like I haven’t read as many sequels as I should have?? So many of the books that I’ve read were either the first book in the series or standalones, and then what happens next? I HAVE NO IDEA because apparently I hardly read sequels.

Throwback to my childhood when I would just devour series one after the other :’)

It’s really uncommon for me to reread books, unless they were some of my FIRST FIRST young adult reads like the Hunger Games or The Winner’s Curse or something that I absolutelyyyyy loved, like Warcross!

I reread Warcross this year because I was just so hyped for the sequel :’) also I know so many people hated/were disappointed by Wildcard but LEAVE ME ALONE I LOVED IT OKAY. Marie Lu is like. someone sent from the heavens or something.

I definitely want to read more middle-grade this year!! I mean, these statistics are so easily changed because of my only having read 37 books, but still. Only 9% are not YA? I want to read more diversely across categories!

I’m not surprised that the majority of the books I read were from publishers because I honestly don’t buy a whole lot of books? (even though the second majority was me buying books that I bought. shhhhhh)

I was looking back at my mid-year bookish stats and y’all, I read 21 books the first half of the year. Which means… I read 16 books in the second half. #proudofmyself

As for my stats, I realized that in the other post I included prettiest covers, best sequels, forgettable books, best plot twists, etc etc, but… I mean, I only read 16 books in the second half what do I dooooooo.

Also! Even though I’m saying I “only” read 37 books in 2018, it’s totally valid to have read that many or less. I’m only saying this because I, personally, expected myself to have read more and therefore I was just not meeting my goal of 100 books originally.

For some of the statistics I had literally no idea what I should add on or comment on so… I just left it blank. Have fun looking at my statistics I guess???

I FEEL LIKE THIS POST WAS REALLY SHORT AND NOT INTERESTING. I’m sorry I don’t know what to say that’ll make this post of better than mediocre quality but let’s. move. on.

How many books did you read in 2018? What was the source of most of your reads? Did you read mainly five-star books or did you have a worse reading year? Do you usually read ebooks or physical copies?