Annual books read summary
I read 30 books this year (last year’s total was 59). The complete list is Here
I previously talked about some of the reasons I read so much less this year, so let's just look at the stats for what I did
8, were acquired secondhand
8, were purchased new
6, were Arc’s, Giveaways or Gifts
5, were from the library
2, were Beta-reading
1, was a digital books
0, were re-read
I actually acquired more books than I read in 2013
I have started tracking the gender of the authors I am reading
Of the 30 Books, 16 were written by male authors, 14 were written by female authors, however I only read 22 different authors and of those 12 were female and 10 were male (I count Mira Grant and Seanan McGuire as 1 author in this case).
I read almost 2/3 Fantasy and roughly 1/3 SF
19, were Fantasy (2 “Period Fantasy”, 6 “Urban Fantasy”, 2 “YA”)
9, were Science Fiction (6 "Space Opera", 1 “Post-Apocalyptic”)
2 were “Superhero” books which contained both Fantasy and Science Fiction elements.
My reading was even more contemporary than last year, all of it was written this century
When books were first published
6, 2000-2009
3, 2010
3, 2011
10, 2012
6, 2013
2, Unpublished
I still read some small press books, but like the rest of my numbers, it went down.
Publisher
10 by Macmillan (8 TOR) “Big 5”
7 by Small Press Publishers (1 Angry Robot, 1 Baker [Bethany House], 1 Night Shade Books, 1 Prometheus [Pyr], 1 Quirk, 1 Tyche Books, 1 Self published)
4 by Hachette (4 Orbit) “Big 5”
4 by DAW
2 Unpublished
1 by HarperCollins (EOS)“Big 5”
1 by Random House (1 Del Rey) “Big 5”
1 by Amazon (47North)
I previously talked about some of the reasons I read so much less this year, so let's just look at the stats for what I did
8, were acquired secondhand
8, were purchased new
6, were Arc’s, Giveaways or Gifts
5, were from the library
2, were Beta-reading
1, was a digital books
0, were re-read
I actually acquired more books than I read in 2013
I have started tracking the gender of the authors I am reading
Of the 30 Books, 16 were written by male authors, 14 were written by female authors, however I only read 22 different authors and of those 12 were female and 10 were male (I count Mira Grant and Seanan McGuire as 1 author in this case).
I read almost 2/3 Fantasy and roughly 1/3 SF
19, were Fantasy (2 “Period Fantasy”, 6 “Urban Fantasy”, 2 “YA”)
9, were Science Fiction (6 "Space Opera", 1 “Post-Apocalyptic”)
2 were “Superhero” books which contained both Fantasy and Science Fiction elements.
My reading was even more contemporary than last year, all of it was written this century
When books were first published
6, 2000-2009
3, 2010
3, 2011
10, 2012
6, 2013
2, Unpublished
I still read some small press books, but like the rest of my numbers, it went down.
Publisher
10 by Macmillan (8 TOR) “Big 5”
7 by Small Press Publishers (1 Angry Robot, 1 Baker [Bethany House], 1 Night Shade Books, 1 Prometheus [Pyr], 1 Quirk, 1 Tyche Books, 1 Self published)
4 by Hachette (4 Orbit) “Big 5”
4 by DAW
2 Unpublished
1 by HarperCollins (EOS)“Big 5”
1 by Random House (1 Del Rey) “Big 5”
1 by Amazon (47North)