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This was the second year that I tracked my reading using a Google Sheet and I am absolutely loving this process.
In 2019, my reading was all over the place. Click here to check out my 2019 survey if you’d like!
This year, I definitely took a sharp turn to focus mainly on my favorite genre, horror.
Note: The template that I used was create by Brock Roberts. After stumbling across this amazing template, I decided to hide a few of the columns that I personally wasn’t interested in tracking. Even so, that left me with a TON of stats!
Let’s dive in!
My 2020 Book Survey
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I was not at all surprised to see horror as the main genre for 2020, coming in at 78.6%. I was a bit surprised to see that Sci-Fi was at 4.5%, it’s not much, but that’s definitely a genre I really struggle with and thought I had moved away from.
The category I would like to see increase in 2021 is definitely Non-Fiction and Self Help, which was my goal of 2020 as well.
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I love seeing this category! While most of my reading is still physical form, the ebooks still make up a fair share of my reading as well! I totally forgot to track the audiobooks that I listened to though. I need to make sure to do that in 2021!
This year, I changed this category up a bit to make it a little specific. I moved away from just ARC and Uncorrected Proofs added categories for;
Uncorrected Proof – Physical
Uncorrected Proof – Digital
ARC – Digital
ARC – Physical
But unfortunately I totally forgot that I had split out the uncorrected proofs and merged them all into the ARC category. I think I’ll stick with just using the ARC tags for 2021.
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For Physical books I was at 59.5% and for Digital books, I hit 40.5%. I STILL need to get around to upgrading my Kindle to better show off the ebooks I’m reading! Maybe for 2021 🙂
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While I read 73% of novels, I loved seeing that my short stories (6.3%) and novellas (17.5%) are improving. I definitely want to read more shorts and novellas in 2021!
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Page length is always an interesting chart to see for me! This year, most of what I read was in the 100-199 page range. I know that I have still been avoiding some of the longer books on my TBR. We’ll see if I dive into them in 2021 now that I’ll have a bit more time after putting in my notice at one of my jobs.
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I wanted to keep up with new releases, and I sure made that happen this year as a huge chunk of my reading was all from 2020!
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I wanted to DNF more freely in 2020, but as it turns out, I just picked up some REALLY good books! I only DNFed two books.
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So speaking of the really good books I read this year… We have ratings of three stars and up! This is INSANE to me, especially paired with the fact that I only DNFed two books… Click here to see my list of all my 5 star reads both from 2020, and from my backlist!
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My books completed by month chart is interesting! I read the most books in March, October, and December. March is VERY surprising to me because work was absolutely insane with COVID hitting hard across the US. I was putting in a lot of unpaid overtime to keep my head above water there, so I thought for sure my stats for reading would be lower.
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This book status charts will forever blow my mind. Thank you SO MUCH to everyone that has sent me things to read. I’m so darn grateful! While this was a crazy year, I really loved being able to purchase books directly from many authors who also took the time to sign them for me. I would love to do more of that in 2021!
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When it comes to purchases, I really want to see that Amazon stat drop in comparison to the others. Unfortunately, many self published books, especially the ebooks, that I snagged are only available on Amazon.
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This publisher chart is SO PRETTY! Look at all of those entries! There’s one entry in there that you will not be seeing in 2021… I love seeing that the self published section is the biggest, coming in at 13.8%! Some of the publishers here are owned by the author as well, like KJK Publishing and Michael Clark Books.
Acquisitions
Next up, I usually have a section on Acquisitions… but I totally dropped the ball here and didn’t track this data. The only data that I had was for what I actually read this year, which showed 35.7% purchased and 64.3% free. Thank you again to everyone that sent me books and comics to read!
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Thanks for reading!
What stats do you track year over year? Are there any stats you’d be interested in seeing me track in 2021? I know I definitely want to see my acquisition stats again.
If you’ve created a post like this, I would love to take a look! Feel free to add your links below!
I love using a spreadsheet to track my reading. Seeing it in charts like this makes it really interesting.
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Wow this looks like a great reading year!! I love the charts 😍 Good luck with your reading in 2021!
Thank you! <3
Love looking at reading stats! Great year!
Thanks for popping by! 🙂
There is something just so satisfying about a good pie chart. I really need to put my stats in this format! I think mystery for me would be your horror. I think that’s about all I read this year!
Right?! I love it so much! The Story Graph platform has great charts as well! I’m looking forward to learning more about that site this year!
I’d like to read more self-help type of books this year. I find some of these fascinating, even if I don’t implement any of the ideas.
Yay for only DNFing two books last year!
-Lauren
I have a whole stack of self-help books that I need to get to! Fingers crossed for this year. And yes! haha I go into them hoping to at least learn ONE thing from them. If I can walk away with that, I deem it a success!
I love these stats posts! I have several spreadsheets and obsessively track my reading. I read a lot of horror last year too. It’s one of my favorite genres. I know it sounds weird, but horror helps me escape from all the stressful stuff in the real world.
I totally agree!! It’s lovely to get lost in the genre! 🙂