Books 2022 + Book Stats

I read 50 books this year - that’s a more normal total for me in recent years. The 80-something books I read in 2020 and 2021 were pandemic anomalies.

The books I read this year were mostly fiction (86 percent). This is the highest percentage of fiction I’ve read since I started keeping track of this statistic in 2006. I would like to read more non-fiction but I find that really good non-fiction books just don’t cross my radar that much anymore. Every once in a while I’ll binge-search for non-fiction books to read but it’s tricky to find the ones that will be right up my alley.

The books I read this year were overwhelmingly Adult (70 percent), first-time, stand-alone (not part of a aseries) reads (94 percent). I had a ton of DNF’s (particularly in October/November) but only read a substantial enough amount of two of those to record them in Goodreads (A Shadow in the Ember and The Dead Romantics).

A category I started keeping track of last year is Romance, and this year 26% of the books I read belonged to that category.

About 64% of the books I read this year were on the Kindle app on my phone, mostly borrowed from the library (94%, whether Kindle or hard copy).

Below you can see how the reading distribution shook out this year (the date is the day I finished a book). November was so painful! It’s the worst reading slump I’ve ever had and if it weren’t for Small Game I am sure I would have finished zero books that month. I started and DNF’d NINE books in October and November. Brutal. We bought a house during that time period and with packing and moving and working and (what felt like) throwing piles of money around I was just extremely stressed. Instead of reading, I found myself getting Genius Level on Spelling Bee every night or scrolling through various streaming services looking for something to watch and never settling on anything. It was bleak.