I know everyone loves the end of year lists, but I personally like this post the best. I like looking back and seeing what my reading year looked like. So maybe this post is mostly for me, but I hope a few of you enjoy it as well. You can skip to the bottom if you just want to see my goals for 2012.
Some Numbers
Books Read: 93 (up from 76 last year)
100 books wasn’t really my goal, but when I saw it in reach, it unofficially became one. However, the pregnancy threw my reading for a loop and my numbers fell drastically the last three months of 2011 (it’s a sad day when reading makes you nauseous). All in all, I am happy with 93 and it is still my best year ever.
Print: 60
Audio: 33
Pages Read: 20,264
Average Pages per Book: 337.7
Average Pages Read per Day: 55.5
Longest Book: Habibi (672 pages)
Shortest Book: Our Town by Thornton Wilder (114 pages)
Audio Hours: 354.9 (almost 15 days!)
Average Length of Audiobook: 10.2 hours
Average Time Spent Listening to Audiobooks per Day: 55 minutes
Longest Audio: The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukerjee (20.8 hours)
Shortest Audio: Earth, the Audiobook by Jon Stewart (3.6 hours)
Fiction: 79
Nonfiction: 14
Rereads: 12
Female Authors: 67
Male Authors: 30 (2 books had both a male and female author)
New (to me) Authors: 57
Most Read Author: Jasper Fforde (6)
Target Age
Adult: 58
Young Adult: 33
Middle Grade: 2
Genre
Contemporary Fiction: 29
Paranormal: 14
Dystopian: 10
Other Fantasy: 9
Classics: 5
Memoirs: 4
Science: 4
Verse: 4
Gothic: 4
Short Story Collection: 3
Biography: 3
Other Nonfiction: 3
Graphic Novel: 2
Library books: 38
Review Copies: 23
Books from my existing collection: 22
Purchased in 2011: 10
Average Rating: 4.06 out of 5
Published in:
2011: 41
2010: 18
2009: 5
2008: 6
2007: 1
2006: 4
2005: 1
2004: 1
2003: 1
2002: 2
2001: 1
2000: 1
1900s: 11
1800s: 1
2011 Goals – How’d I do?
- Read more during the week. I do most of my reading on the weekend but there is no reason that I can’t read for 30 minutes or an hour every day. [I did alright at this one in early 2011. Not so great the second half.]
Keep up with Goodreads. I’m going to just start from this point on and really try to use it.[Done!]- Read more of my own books. I read a lot of library books this year. I’d like to balance this out a little. [Fail. Fewer library book but more review copies.]
Along those lines, limit myself to two books on hold at once at the library. I hate when all 10 of the books I have on hold come in on the same day.[I did pretty good with this one.]Use audio mostly for nonfiction and rereads. I enjoy these audiobooks the most and I really want to focus a little more on nonfiction and rereads in general.[All of my rereads were audio and I read a lot more nonfiction.]
- Aim for reading a print and an audio a week.
- Write reviews within 5 days of finishing the book.
- Read more backlist and classics. Less emphasis on new releases.
- Read more of my own books.
- Catch up on my series.
my books. my life. 
Wow, those are impressive numbers. I especially like that you averagely read 55.5 pages and spent 55 minutes listening to an audiobook per day. What a coincidence!
I wish you a happy reading year and hope that you still get to read a lot after the birth of your child!
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I liked the 55 coincidence as well. 🙂
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I’m not changing much this year, other than to just read every day. However, I’m with you in reading more backlists and classics.
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I’m with you on reading more classics. I’m doing the Back to the Classics Challenge and I’m actually starting with North and South! I know you read that one 🙂 I’m not sure if I’ll be able to read that one just by itself, since it’ll take me a while, so I think I’ll read a couple YA’s along with it.
I’d like to read more audiobooks too. I tried a couple fiction ones earlier but didn’t like them too much, so I’m thinking nonfiction is the way to go. Earth by Jon Stewart sounds like a good one to start with!
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I prefer nonfiction or fiction rereads in audio. I do read some new fiction that way but I prefer to read print.
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It looks like you had a great year of reading! I wish I could get myself into audio books more
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I think reading our own books is a big trend over the last year or two. Review copies have a way of taking over if you let it. These look like reasonable goals, although you never know the impact of a baby. I see so many bloggers handle it without a blip. My kids were 20 months apart, so I don’t think I read a book for about three years!
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Thanks for sharing, I had very close numbers with a total of 99.here is my recap: http://wordsandpeace.com/2011/12/30/year-of-reading-2011/
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Congratulations on a wonderful reading year, Michelle! 93 books is awesome! I love the way you read quite diversely with respect to genre. I also loved your average rating – it looks like you liked most of the books you read. Hope you have a wonderful reading year in 2012! Happy Reading!
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