{"id":13120,"date":"2016-12-31T09:54:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T14:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=13120"},"modified":"2022-12-31T19:44:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T00:44:31","slug":"the-books-of-2016-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/13120","title":{"rendered":"The Books of 2016: Stats!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love statistics and manipulating and Excel more than is normal, so when I have a data set, I love looking to dig into it for meaning.<\/p>\n

Because: geek.<\/p>\n

I read a LOT of books this year. More than any other year since 2003 when I started keeping track.<\/p>\n

2016 – 189
\n2013 – 174
\n2014 – 167
\n2006 – 164
\n2012 – 160<\/p>\n

That turns out to be an average of 15.8 books a month.
\nwith a minimum of 9 and a maximum of 23 in a single month. Interestingly, nine has been the minimum number of books read in a single month for four of the past eight years.<\/p>\n

Here is something that shouldn’t come as a surprise, and yet it does. I read zero mass-market paperbacks this year. Zero mass-market paperbacks.<\/p>\n

Paperback : 0
\nTrade Paperback : 5
\neBook : 173
\nHardback : 2
\nAudio : 9<\/p>\n

We got our first ereaders in December of 2010. It was a nook and I wasn’t especially impressed with it.<\/p>\n

That changed once I got my first Kindle.<\/p>\n

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\n(The numbers are off by one because I finished the chart a couple days ago<\/em>)<\/p>\n

But even I’m surprised that I didn’t read any mass-market paperbacks this year.<\/p>\n

But that’s reflected in the fact there were 50 books that I have in multiple formats. Nine of those were audio books, which means the rest were books I had in paper and got again as ebooks, so I could read them a second time.<\/p>\n

Multiple Formats : 49
\nRe-read : 68<\/p>\n

There are actually a LOT of books I’d like to re-read, but when I have the paper book, I’m not willing to pay $8-12 for a second copy.<\/p>\n

Which means I don’t re-read those books.<\/p>\n

I’ll note right here that the Shelfie app<\/a> has allowed me to got reduced price ebooks when I own a paper copy of the book. So kudos to them–and I wish more books were available.<\/p>\n

Genre-wise, mysteries came out on top this year, but not by a lot, though this is the second year in a row I’ve read more mysteries than fantasy.<\/p>\n

Mystery : 87
\nFantasy : 79
\nRomance : 33
\nYA : 7
\nAnthology : 6
\nComic : 4
\nCookbook : 3<\/p>\n

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If you’re curious as to that drop in the number of mysteries, Grandmom died in 2011, and she loved mysteries, so I didn’t feel like reading mysteries for awhile after that.<\/p>\n

Now comes the bit I find super interesting: author gender.<\/p>\n

Female : 120
\nMale : 40
\nMale Pseudonym : 18
\nInitials : 8
\nJoint + Anthology : 3<\/p>\n

120 is a pretty big number, however, the actual number of books written by women is 146, once you add in women writing under male pseudonyms or their initials.<\/p>\n

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This is, I admit, a confusing graph, but it’s also the clearest way I found to look at both author gender and book genre at the same time.<\/p>\n

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And that should be the final geek out of 2016.<\/p>\n

Happy New Year and Happy Reading!<\/p>\n

The Books of 2016: Stats!<\/a><\/p>\n

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Christmas Cookies 2016: Not Cookies<\/a><\/p>\n

The Books of 2016: Great Covers (Modern Setting)<\/a><\/p>\n

The Books of 2016: Graphic Novels<\/a><\/p>\n

The Books of 2016: Graphic Novels<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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