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2022 was an AMAZING reading year for me! I always love seeing how my stats break out each year, and this year had really some fun data!
If you’re a fan of analytics like me, I hope you’ll love this!
Let’s dive in!
My 2022 Book Survey
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My genre percentage when it comes to horror is holding pretty steady, coming in this year at 84.3%! My other genres were limited this year as I really zeroed in on my horror to-read pile.
To make this chart a little more interesting, for 2023, I am going to track sub-genres as well.
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My Format stats this year were pretty scattered, but ebook is still the largest percentage that I read from. While I do love my Kindle, I need to make sure I’m switching off between ebooks and physical in 2023 to prevent reading burnout.
From these stats, I was very excited to see what percentages ARC’s were! I’m still quite behind on my list, but should be able to get caught up in 2023, finally!
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Dang, just look at all of those novels and novellas, 44% and 39% respectively! I love the Length charts so much. Of course, most of what I read was in the 100 – 199 page range.
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There were SO many amazing books that came out in 2022! I’m so excited that I was able to read many of the ones I had been looking forward to, while still getting to some of my backlog. This Year Published chart reflects that wonderfully. I feel like I should go ahead and delete some of those early decades.
In 2023, my goal is to read a lot of what I own but haven’t yet read, but there are an amazing number of books publishing in 2023 that I can’t wait to read… So I’m super curious to see how this chart displays next year!
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Look at all of those 5 star reads! I’m so excited that I have been able to keep up with my personal preference of DNFing books if I’m not loving them. Even those two books that I rated 2 stars were books I would absolutely still recommend to other readers, they just weren’t really my cup of tea.
But that being said… I just lucked out and picked up really good books this year. I only ended up DNFing a few:
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I started 2022 out very strong with my reading, having read 13 books in January. The month in which I read the most was May, coming in with 14 books! That’s absolutely wild to see!
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I love seeing this Location chart! I will forever be impressed by the authors and publishers that sell books directly! While I am not at all pleased with that Amazon percentage, I am happy that I was able to cut this stat in half compared to 2021! I know that this year, my Amazon purchased continued to be ebooks that I couldn’t find anywhere else. I would love to see that drop by half again in 2023 not that more and more publishers and authors are offering up ebooks directly from their websites!
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The Publisher chart! Always the most colorful, this is the one I look forward to the most. I read from 51 different publishers in 2021! And for the self publishing folks, I read from 17 different authors!
Acquisitions
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Not a surprise here at all with the number of books I acquired in 2022, 92.5% was Horror followed by 4.6% Mystery.
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As for my Acquisition Format, the vast majority is physical books! I can definitely thank the Merrimack Valley Book Fest for that (see below). Now to make a bigger dent in reading all of those books in 2023!
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Closely related to the one above, I also track where each book came from. In 2022, I bought a TON of books, heavily outweighing the books I was gifted or given for review.
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But as for where my money all went, the vast majority of it went directly to the authors (47.6%) or publishers (15.1%)! I’ve got the bookstores and book subscriptions that I purchased from in the chart as well. Amazon is at 7.2% for the year, and as always, I’d like to see that decrease in 2023.
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!
Wowza you really love horror🗡🤣
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I don’t track anything, but I love seeing what other people track because it’s fun. Well, I guess I track LGBT+ books on Goodreads but that’s it.
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