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Review of 2015 books read
Jan. 12th, 2016 03:53 pmI decided to do a bit more in-depth number crunching on the past year of reading. Feel free to skip if you are not interested in numbers.
I read 115 books, this is down from the last few years and in fact I didn’t hit my goal of 125 books read. Sort of bummed about that but I didn’t fudge my goal number to get the virtual cookie from Goodreads. About 68% of the books I read were review copies of some type with almost half of them coming from NetGalley. Breakdown goes 54 books from NetGalley, 22 that I bought to read, 17 from Edelweiss, 14 from the local library and 8 direct from the publisher. Granted some of the books I got as review copies I might later buy a personal copy of something I first read as a review since almost every review copy I read was in a digital format.
Breakdown by subject has 64 fantasy books, 23 graphic novels, 16 science fiction, 6 fiction books and 6 nonfiction books. I didn’t bother to do separate numbers for the YA books since I didn’t read that many this year. For a M/F ratio I had 71 female writers to 33 male writers. I’m not counting books that had both male and female cowriters or if it was anthology. And at least one I read is listed a woman but I know it is a husband and wife writing together. I read 21 novellas but a few were repeats for me since they were in a single author collection, but still not bad on the novella front. I also reviewed a short story this year but only did one since it was separate and I actually had that sent to me to review.
Overall I think I want to start reading more of my TBR pile this year since that is getting a bit out of control. And of course I will try and read more than I did last year. I had several weeks that I didn’t read at all and that caused me to not hit my personal goal. Onwards to 2016 and start writing the reviews that are already backed up again.
I read 115 books, this is down from the last few years and in fact I didn’t hit my goal of 125 books read. Sort of bummed about that but I didn’t fudge my goal number to get the virtual cookie from Goodreads. About 68% of the books I read were review copies of some type with almost half of them coming from NetGalley. Breakdown goes 54 books from NetGalley, 22 that I bought to read, 17 from Edelweiss, 14 from the local library and 8 direct from the publisher. Granted some of the books I got as review copies I might later buy a personal copy of something I first read as a review since almost every review copy I read was in a digital format.
Breakdown by subject has 64 fantasy books, 23 graphic novels, 16 science fiction, 6 fiction books and 6 nonfiction books. I didn’t bother to do separate numbers for the YA books since I didn’t read that many this year. For a M/F ratio I had 71 female writers to 33 male writers. I’m not counting books that had both male and female cowriters or if it was anthology. And at least one I read is listed a woman but I know it is a husband and wife writing together. I read 21 novellas but a few were repeats for me since they were in a single author collection, but still not bad on the novella front. I also reviewed a short story this year but only did one since it was separate and I actually had that sent to me to review.
Overall I think I want to start reading more of my TBR pile this year since that is getting a bit out of control. And of course I will try and read more than I did last year. I had several weeks that I didn’t read at all and that caused me to not hit my personal goal. Onwards to 2016 and start writing the reviews that are already backed up again.
