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While my 2019 reading was all over the place, my 2020 reading took a sharp turn into horror. The same held true for 2021.
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 2021 Book Survey
![Erica Robyn Reads - 2021 Reading Stats - Genre](https://www.ericarobynreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-02-at-11.59.01-AM-1024x625.png)
85% horror! Phew! This isn’t surprising to me to see this where I really focused on catching up on my honest reviews.
The category I would like to see increase in 2022 is definitely Self Help. I have quite a few books in each of this category that I’ve been putting off, and I want to dive into them soon.
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My reading format was all over the place. I love how many ARC’s I was able to read this year! The beta reads were also such an honor to take part in!
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For Physical books I was at 35.9% and for Digital books, I hit 64.1%. This year I was pumped to learn about an app that I could use to overlay book covers on the photos I was taking of my Kindle, so my photos look a lot better than just displaying the book covers in black and white.
![Erica Robyn Reads - 2021 Reading Stats - Length](https://www.ericarobynreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-02-at-12.16.28-PM-1024x623.png)
I had said that I wanted to read more shorts and novellas in 2021, and that was certainly the case! 44.7% of my reading was novels, novellas came in at 38.8%, novelettes were 9.5%, and short stories were 3.4%.
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I love the page length chart! This year, most of what I read was in the 100-199 page range. This totally makes sense with my attention span and how I’ve been leaning more toward shorter works that I can try to read in one sitting.
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While I worked really hard to catch up on honest review requests, I knew most of my reads were from recent years.
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This year, I have only ratings of three stars and up! Click here to see my list of all my favorite reads both from 2021, and from my backlist!
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I loved the books completed by month chart! I read the most books in October by far. March is surprising to me because it’s the second year in a row where my reading was lowest there. I’m curious to see if that’s the case for 2022 as well.
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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. With another crazy year, I really loved being able to purchase books directly from many authors who also took the time to sign them for me.
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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 were only available on Amazon.
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This publisher chart is by far the prettiest chart! I love seeing the huge chunk of self published books along with all of the small presses!
Acquisitions
Next up, I usually have a section on Acquisitions… but again this year, I totally dropped the ball here and didn’t track this data. Hopefully next year!
Thanks for reading!
What stats do you track year over year?
If you’ve created a post like this, I would love to take a look! Feel free to add your links below!
That’s a really cool template – and that’s awesome that you read so much horror. 🙂
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