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<\/p>\nMY FAVORITE! LOOKING AT THE NUMBERS!<\/p>\n
If you aren’t a tremendous geek, it’s probably best if you look away now. <\/p>\n
I read 205 books this year. Less than last year, but this is still only the second year I’ve broken the 200 mark.<\/p>\n
Here the ridiculous chart I maintain solely for my amusement.<\/p>\n
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Those high points tended to be when I was sick, since when I’m ill generally all I want to do is lie on the sofa and read.<\/p>\n
It is an utterly insane chart, which is why I find it so amusing.<\/p>\n
Next up, the type of book.<\/p>\n
Trade Paperback: 7
\neBook: 148
\nAudio: 50
\nTotal: 204
\nMultiple Formats: 46
\nRe-read: 94
\n% Re-Read: 46%<\/p>\n
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I listened to quite a few audio books this year–a quarter of the total. You can also see that I read almost no paper books–the ones I did read tended to be part of a series where I’ve gotten only part of the series as eBooks, and couldn’t find the books I still own only in paper on Overdrive.<\/p>\n
I also had a LOT of re-reads this year, however, part of that is because I cannot listen to a fiction book for the first time. I can only listen to fiction I’ve already read. (This is mostly due to my rule that I have to be moving to listen to an audio book, either exercising or cleaning or cooking.)<\/p>\n
I’d like to also note the “multiple formats” category. This is a story that I own in one or more formats, generally either paper and ebook or ebook and audiobook (although in some cases I own a book in all three formats).<\/p>\n
This is mostly to point out my frustration of having to purchase an electronic copy of a book I already own as a paper book. I love re-reading books, but I am not going to pay $7.99 for an electronic copy of a book I already own a paper copy of. I’m just NOT. So it frustrates me that there is once again no way to get a cheaper eBook when I already own a paper copy.<\/p>\n
Just a pet peeve.<\/p>\n
Fantasy: 95
\nMystery: 90
\nRomance: 72
\nYA: 12
\nComic: 7<\/p>\n
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Genre-wise, things were relatively evenly split between fantasy and mystery. And no, that series is larger than the total number of books I read this year, because books often fall into two categories.<\/p>\n
Male: 53
\nFemale: 118
\nJoint + Anthology: 9
\nInitials: 12
\nMale Pseudonym: 13
\nFemale Total: 70%<\/p>\n
In finally, the apparently contentious topic of the gender of the author.![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/gender-genre.png?resize=400%2C293&ssl=1\")
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Including male pseudonyms and books published under initials (which can hide the gender of the author) 70% of the books I read were written by women.<\/p>\n
If I ever get really bored, I’ll create a cross reference for gender by genre, but I have yet to feel that masochistic.<\/p>\n
I like to point this out, however, because although I read quite a few romances this year, they account for only a quarter of the books I read. Which means that the other 35% of the books written by women were fantasies or mysteries. <\/p>\n
So don’t even think about giving me that “there are no women writing good SFF” crap, because it is obviously false.<\/p>\n
And there you have it! My year in books!<\/p>\n
My favorite YA books of 2018<\/a> MY FAVORITE! LOOKING AT THE NUMBERS! If you aren’t a tremendous geek, it’s probably best if you look away now. I read 205 books this year. Less than last year, but this is still only the second year I’ve broken the 200 mark. Here the ridiculous chart I maintain solely for my amusement. Those high […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,1090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-reading","category-years-favorites"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-3Qk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMy favorite audio books of 2018<\/a>
\nMy favorite paranormal romance books of 2018<\/a>
\nMy favorite romance books of 2018<\/a>
\nMy favorite fantasy books of 2018<\/a>
\nMy favorite mystery books of 2018<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"