2016 Wrapup

I thought I'd make a thread so we can share any thoughts wrapping up 2016 as we begin the new year!

Here's my stats for 2016. In general, 2016 was an average year for me. I did improve my male/female author ratio, though I'd like to get closer to 50/50. I'm thinking of the best way to add non-English authors and minority authors to my stats for this year.

Total Read
111

Author Gender
Male: 82 (67%)
Female: 41 (33%)

Living/Dead
Living: 117 (96%)
Dead: 5 (4%)

Medium
Hardback: 29 (26%)
Trade: 30 (27%)
Paperback: 3 (3%)
eBook: 49 (49%)

Category
Fiction: 79 (71%)
Nonfiction: 32 (29%)

Source
Library: 88 (79%)
Mine: 23 (21%)

Other
ARC: 10
Reread: 9
Series: 40
Group Read: 2

I failed to reach any of my goals for 2016. My first goal was to read 150 books and 50000 pages. Instead, I read 131 books and 46,662 pages. Historically, this is the third time and the second lowest total. I did not acquire fewer books than last year, I did not get rid of more books than I acquired, and I failed even more miserably than the previous year in reading books off my own shelves. Looking back, it is interesting how my data tracking got more fine-tuned over the years. The numbers are, in order, books read, pages read, books off my own shelves read, books acquired and books out the door.

2008: 158
2009: 114
2010: 140, 41012, x, 112, x
2011: 170, 54874, 26, 137, x
2012: 171, 55180, 16, 79, 68
2013: 161, 54244, 40, 88, 55
2014: 172, 58563, 22, 88, 40
2015: 152, 51842, 11, 70, 79

2016: 131, 46662, 8, 84, 42

Final Figures for 2016

Books read: 131
Pages read: 46662
Average pages per book: 356
Average pages per day: 127

Format:
Kindle - 40
Hardback - 42
Trade paperback - 30
Mass market paperback - 19

Source:
Library - 40
Books acquired this year: 71
Off my shelves - 8 new books, 20 rereads

Genre:
Science Fiction - 17
Fantasy - 72
Children’s - 8
Nonfiction - 15
Romance - 6
Mystery - 9

Author gender: 101 female, 30 male

Country of origin:
Australian - 2
Canadian - 13
England - 18
Author brought up in England but now living in US - 5
Israel - 1
US - 92

Books acquired: 84
Books read of those acquired this year: 52
Kindle - 37
Physical books - 47

Average cost per book - $6.50
Total spent on books - $546.76

Books out the door: 42
8 via PaperBackSwap, 7 as gifts, 26 sent to Richard’s library, 1 to my school library

You can find my new thread at
http://www.librarything.com/topic/245001
See you there in 2017!

Jim, what an excellent page! You inspired me to keep statistics and here are the results for 2016. I didn't quite get to 100 like I wanted to, but I read more than last year. If I say I'll read more this year I'll get jinxed, so will just leave it that I will read and keep stats.

I read 50% male and 50% female authors this year, although by number of books read it was 44% male and 56% female. Interesting differential. *smile*

2016 Statistics, Final

Note: This does not include books/pages/hours abandoned. I'm going to keep track of those separately in 2017.

YTD average pages read per day 87
YTD average pages per book 341
YTD Audiobook hours 104
YTD Physical pages read 31,717
YTD Page Equivalents read 34,951

257 books acquired in 2016
121 books culled in 2016

Culls were given to daughter or donated to the thrifts store or given to our cleaning crew! Little Yellow Table in the Sunroom ready to go for 2017 culls. The only books on it are books loaned to me, absolutely none of which I'm interested in, and need to return soon!



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Author
Male 44%
Female 56%


Living 73%
Dead 27%


US Born 69%
Foreign Born 31%


Medium
Hardcover 45%
Trade Pback 26%
Mass Market 18%
Audiobook 10%
e-Book 1%


Source
My Library 99%
Other 1%


Misc
ARC/ER 3%
Re-read 20%
Series 42%


Fiction 87%
NonFiction 13%

Author Birth Country
Australia 2%
Denmark 1%
England 23%
Ireland 1%
Netherlands 1%
Scotland 1%
Switzerland 1%
US 69%
Zimbabwe 1%

Original Year Published
1643 1% / 1991 2%
1861 1% / 1992 2%
1926 1% / 1993 3%
1929 1% / 1995 1%
1932 1% / 1996 1%
1934 1% / 1998 2%
1939 1% / 1999 1%
1945 2% / 2001 1%
1946 2% / 2002 1%
1952 1% / 2003 2%
1953 2% / 2004 2%
1955 1% / 2005 5%
1958 1% / 2006 1%
1960 2% / 2008 2%
1962 1% / 2009 2%
1969 2% / 2010 1%
1974 1% / 2011 1%
1979 1% / 2012 3%
1983 2% / 2013 5%
1987 1% / 2014 6%
1988 1% / 2015 6%
1989 1% / 2016 15%
1990 1%

I am in awe of you folks! This is serious!
My favourite line is in >3 ronincats: "I failed to reach any of my goals in 2016."
For me......... no goals, no failures!

>5 mdoris: Yeah, that's sorta my approach. :)

Wow - so much to learn from you listers! Perhaps I'll do better with keeping stats for 2017. Meanwhile:

COUNTRYLIFE'S 2016 IN REVIEW

Books Read:
audiobooks – 84
eBooks – 54
paper books – 52
total books = 190

Pages Read:
60,993

Genres Read:
historical fiction – 48
mystery – 47
general fiction – 42
BAM (biographies, autobiographies, memoirs) – 13
other nonfiction – 12
romance – 10
science fiction/fantasy/horror – 9
short stories - 6
YA – 3

My Top Five Reads of 2016:

The Return of the Soldier, Rebecca West
Adam Bede, GEORGE ELIOT
The Orenda, Joseph Boyden
This House of Sky, Ivan Doig
The Lion of Flanders, Hendrik Conscience

Anita's 2016 in numbers

total books read: 252
total pages read: 72.452

average pages per book: 287,5
average pages read a day: 198

own 88 / 164 library
book 163 / 89 e-book
female 65 / 187 male
Dutch 100 / 152 translated

non-fiction: 20
childrens/YA : 70
mysteries: 91

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38 books culled

I am amazed with everyone's ability to keep track of so many interesting stats. Love 'em. Me on the other hand, I'm just lucky I can record that I read something.

Here's my recap. (Tho my categories don't add up to my total, I guess I dropped something during the year, oh well). My total read was an incredible blow out to my usual. Doubt I'll repeat, but its fun trying.

2016 Recap Statistics

Total Read - 102

Owned - 10
Bought 2016 - 11
Free/Found - 5
Library - 4
Gift - 5
Audio - 18
eBook -
Early Review - 6
Graphic Novel - 39

In no particular order, here are my 5 favs from last year.



Dark Matter - Blake Crouch
Grief is the Thing with Feathers - Max Porter
The Orphan Master's Son - Adam Johnson
All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
Dodgers - Bill Beverly

Okay I'm feeling some pressure here. So I read a skimpy 50 (not including kids books) and I will have to go back and do an anylysis, (maybe).
Pretty much everything was from the library. I ❤️ the library! Toxic Oil (veg. oils) purchased as it is only availble from Australia.
All were hand held paper books. (old fashioned girl who should branch out).

FAVOURITE 2016
Fiction
Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao- Junot Diaz
Hag-Seed Margaret Atwood
All Quiet on the Western Front-Erich Maria Remarque
My Name is Lucy Barton-Elizabeth Strout
English Creek-Ivan Doig

Non Fiction
Evicted Poverty and Profit in the American City- Matthew Desmond
Nordic Theory of Everything in Search of a Better Life-Anu Partanen
The River- Helen Humphreys
Big Magic- Elizabeth Gilbert
Toxic Oil- David Gillespie (there will probably always be a "food' book on the best of list!)

No pressure - I'm just interested in what people thought of their year in reading!

No worries, just using "pressure" as a turn of phrase. I agree it is so interesting at year end to hear summaries and get reading recommendations.

OK, here's my rough summary of what I read in 2016.

Total books read: 112
Books Pearl-ruled (or some version thereof): 5

Non-Fiction Books Read: 28 (this is almost exactly 1/4 of my entire reading---I'd like to get the number up to 1/3 or more)

Children's and YA Books Read: 9

Books by Women: 51
Books by Men: 58
Books by one or more of each: 2
Books by The Lady Chablis: 1

Books in Translation: 5

Books Acquired: 134
Books Culled: 98

Library Books Read: 31
Audio Books Completed: 2
Graphic Novels: 1
e-books 1

Re-reads: 3

Challenges:
Canadian Authors 5 of 12
American Authors 10 of 12
British Authors 8 of 12
Non-Fiction 9 of 12

Books Read from My Own Shelves: 37
(Books in my possession at least 1 year
at the time of reading-- My goal for this category was 50. I really need to get better at this!)

Faulkner reads: Not a single one. What a shame.

Glad you loved Dark Matter. I really want to read it.

My 2016 Wrap-up

Books Read

Numbers

Total books read - 144
Average days to read a book - 2.5

Total pages - 40,669
Average pages per book - 282
Average pages per day - 110

Series read - 66
Books read from series - 107 (74%)


Medium

Audio - 10 (7%)
Ebook - 117 (81%)
Print - 17 (12%)


Source

ARC - 21 (14%)
Library - 5 (4%)
New - 88 (61%)
Reread - 11 (8%)
TBR - 19 (13%)


Genre

Children - 1 (1%)
Fantasy - 18 (12%)
Fiction - 6 (4%)
Middle grade - 11 (8%)
Mystery - 78 (54%)
Nonfiction - 6 (4%)
Picture - 1 (1%)
Science Fiction - 21 (15%)
Young Adult - 2 (1%)


Authors

Authors by book - 144

Female - 81 (56%)
Male - 59 (41%)
Both - 4 (3%)

Unique authors - 90

Female - 49 (54%)
Male - 39 (43%)
Both - 2 (2%)

Authors read for the first time - 47 (52%)

Nationality of unique authors

American - 48 (53%)
Australian - 1 (1%)
Belgian - 1 (1%)
Canadian - 1 (1%)
English - 31 (34%)
Irish - 2 (2%)
Japanese - 1 (1%)
Scottish - 3 (3%)
South African - 1 (1%)
Unknown - 1 (1%)

Living or Deceased

Living - 79 (88%)
Deceased - 11 (12%)


Ratings

5.0 - 14 (9%)
4.5 - 14 (9%)
4.0 - 72 (50%)
3.5 - 21 (15%)
3.0 - 20 (15%)
2.5 - 2 (1%)
2.0 - 1 (1%)

Average rating - 3.9


Decade published

Prior to 1900 - 1 (1%)
1910-1919 - 1 (1%)
1920-1929 - 1 (1%)
1930-1939 - 6 (4%)
1960-1969 - 2 (2%)
1970-1979 - 5 (3%)
1980-1989 - 12 (8%)
1990-1999 - 9 (6%)
2000-2009 - 22 (15%)
2010-2016 - 85 (59%)

51 were from 2016 (35%)

Favorite 2016 books by Genre

Fantasy - The Woodcutter by Kate Danley
Literary fiction - The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Middle grade - The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Mystery - The Murder of Mary Russell by Laurie R King
Science Fiction - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Young Adult - The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky



It was very difficult for me to pick favorites out of the 4.5 and 5.0 star books. This was the only way that I could narrow it down.

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Books Added

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For anyone who is interested in keeping statistics on their reading, I found a fantastic new tool. For many years, I have used a Microsoft Access database, which is definitely not for everyone. However, just recently, I discovered a free online database which is easy to use and automatically provides a lot of features that one would actually have to program in Access. It's called Airtable, and can be found at www.airtable.com. There are many demo databases you can pick from and then make your own changes. I also like that it works with another site I really love called IFTTT (If This, Then That).

>16 rretzler: Oooh...I must try that database. I've never got the hang of Access---I don't suss things like that out very well on my own, and never had anyone to show me how to use it.