2024 Reading Stats

This is one of my favorite posts to do every year because I just love looking at these graphs and seeing how they change over the years. Grab a snack because it's going to be a long one 😅

The one big difference this year is all those manga! I think that the last time I read a manga was back in 2019, and this year I read 21! And only one DNF! Yay!

This year I re-read significantly fewer books. I only re-read the Heroes of Olympus series. Last year I re-read 13 books!

I don't know what happened in September, but I read SO much! Lol.

Here is a closer look at my reading year and you can tell when I fell into my reading slump (June) and how I slowly got out of it until September when I read like a maniac. Lol. Also, idk why there's always a dip in October. Interesting.

This chart is very different from last year. Last year I read 25 of those shorter, under 100-page novellas/short stories. Why? Because I was trying to complete my reading challenge 😂 This year I still read a lot of shorter books, but most of them were over 100 pages.

This year I read about 10 fewer ARCs than I did last year. I've gotten pretty good and not requesting so many books from Netgalley 😅 It used to be a real problem. Lol.

And this one is also quite different from last year! Last year about 63% of the books I read were ebooks, but this year it's physical books! I think the thing that really helped was the manga I read. Most of them were physical books. However, I did read about 20 fewer digital books than last year, so that's interesting too.

This one is crazy! I read about 35 MORE books from the library than I did last year!! I love my library, but I also need to do a better job at reading the books I own 😆

This one is pretty similar to last year. Like I said, I need to do a better job at reading those books I've owned for a while 😅

Omg this one is pretty much exactly the same as last year 😂 Except this year I read 5 more books that were part of a series. Lol.

And this one is pretty much the same as well.

This one is a bit different than last year because this year I added the 'Caught Up' and 'Abandoned' categories to this chart. Last month I went through my TBR and got rid of a bunch of series I knew I was never going to get to. It was very satisfying 😌

I am so easily entertained 😂 However, I have decided that starting in 2025, I'm gonna start giving out half stars because in 2024 I found myself stuck between two star ratings for a couple of books. So this chart will be quite different next year! I do love that most of the books I read were good ones though!

This is another one that is pretty much the same... though this year I read less books from the 90s and 2000s.

And here is a more detailed breakdown of the years. So many new releases. Lol.

Last year, about a third of the books I read were indie-published, but this year I read significantly less. That makes me a little sad since I do love indie books.

And here is a more detailed look at individual publishers. The Disney Hyperion books were ALL the Percy Jackson books I read this year, including the re-reads. Lol. And the Viz Media and Kodensha Comics books are all the manga I read!

This one remains pretty much the same as well. I tend to read more books by female authors. Though this year I read about 10% more by male authors (all the manga probably lol).

This chart makes me pretty happy! And the thing that helped was, again, the manga! Lol.

Oooh this year I read about 14% more new-to-me authors! Look at me branching out. Lol.

This one is a little surprising. Most of the books I read tend to be female POV, but this year I read significantly more that were a mixed POV!

And this one is also quite different because most of the books I read tend to be single POV, but this year it was the opposite! Interesting...

Same with this! Usually, the books I read are 1st person POV, but this year more were 3rd person POV!

This one is a little shocking... but only a little. This is the FIRST year I read MORE adult books than YA!! I mean, it's not by a lot, and in other years the race was pretty close too. But still! (Also, read a bunch of Percy Jackson, as you can see. Lol.)

This year I read 3 more nonfiction books than I did last year! As the years go by, I'm reading more and more nonfiction books.

This year I tried something a little different with this chart and did a bunch of subgenres instead of just your average sci-fi, horror, etc. Idk if I like it? It's interesting for sure to see the detailed breakdown though.

This one has been the same for many years 😅 I think I need to actively work on those backlist books. Lol.

Same with this one, though the chart this year is MUCH worse than last year 😅 It's all those books I got from the library. Lol.

And this is WILD! Look at how much money I saved using my library! 🤩

And that's it for this year's reading stats. I love numbers, so this is always fun for me to do. I just hope it's at least marginally interesting to read 😅