Year End Reading Stats And Goals For 2021

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So, I don’t really care about my stats this year. I read 208 books, but for some of them I was so distracted and checking Twitter every 1.5 seconds. It’s a high number, but it doesn’t mean much. Still it is interesting to me to see what my reading year looked like so that next year I can compare.

I like to binge read certain authors

There were 8 authors that I read three or more books from this year. In 2020 these eight authors made up 18% of my reading: Stephen King (8), LM Montgomery (7), Louise Penny (7), Jane Austen (4), Frederik Backman (3), William Kent Krueger (3), Ann M Martin (3), Colson Whitehead (3)

Audiobooks Were My 2H2020 Coping Mechanism

I went crazy with the audiobooks this year, mainly in the 2nd half of the year. When I couldn’t sit still to read I could put my ear buds in and listen while I walked or puttered. In 2020 45% of my reading was via audiobook.

I Felt Like All I Did Was Re-Read, But It Wasn’t As Much As I Thought

My re-reading this year wasn’t as high as I thought it was- only 17%. I don’t take issue with re-reading like some people do, but I am glad to see that more than 80% of the books I read helped take some of the stress off my TBR.

Non-fiction Isn’t That Hard

Again, this stat surprised me. I didn’t think I would have had the patience to read much non-fiction this year, but it was actually 22% of my reading.

2020 Challenges

No I’m not talking about the challenges of a crazy year. I’m talking about the challenges I signed up for.

  • I read books from 20 countries and 34 states

  • I read and cooked from 9 different cookbooks (dropped this one when getting groceries got hard)

  • I read books from 11/12 #AuthorAMonth authors from Litsy. I skipped Mary Roach. One of her books almost made me vomit on metro once. This was my favorite- it was challenging and fun at the same time.

  • I read books that started with every single letter of the alphabet.

2021 Goals

I set my overall goal for 200 books again, but in 2021 I want to read more chunky books, be more intentional about reading from my TBR, take part in #AuthorAMonth again, and take part in various Litsy challenges like Litsy A to Z, Food and Lit, Reading Asia, and Reading Europe.

I’m looking forward to a better year in all sorts of ways for 2021!