Call me a nerd, but I do love my graphics posts! I first started properly keeping track of my reads in Excel back in 2016, making it possible to finally put together some graphics. I’ve done a bunch of ‘The Numbers’ posts over time, including my 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 posts, and it has been revealing interesting things about my reading habits. So why stop? 😉 Let’s talk nerdy and see what my numbers were like for 2022, shall we?

First of all some quick facts. In 2022 I read no less than 243 books with a total page count of 83.563 pages; an average of about 344 pages per book. This is a little more books, but slightly less pages than the previous year. The average rating is 3,51 stars, which is way lower than in previous years and this kind of makes me sad. Only 52 books had a 4,5 or 5 star rating and 78 books received a rating 3 stars or below… Which means I enjoyed reading about 67.9% of the books so far; again lower than in previous years. Another fun fact: 101 of the 243 books I’ve read so far were actually ARCs; about 42% of the total. This means I wasn’t able to keep my promise to keep the ARC ratio below 40% after all (although it’s still pretty close).

And now some graphics and pie charts for those who like them as much as I do. 😉

Last year I decided to start looking at how many books I manage to read each month instead of just naming the total amount of books read… The numbers are pretty good overall, although December was my weakest month of the whole year.

This graphic above explains exactly why my average rating ended up being lower than usual… About 54% of the books I read had a 4 star rating or above, while about 21% received a 2,5 star rating or below; definitely not as good as last year.

Oh boy, I’ve been seriously slacking with my YA and MG reads! I already knew I was reading even more Adult titles than usual, but it seems like it’s getting worse and worse each year. Although I have to say that I did improve at least the YA number in the last four months of 2022.

One of the things I’ve been trying to do is read more books by male authors, because somehow I always seem to be reading more books by female authors (even though I never base my choice of books on the gender of the author). And while the number of male authors went down in the last four months of 2022, the overall number is still better than last year.

I’ve been reading more backlist titles and known authors this year as well as catching up with a couple of series, and it shows… I’m not complaining because the numbers were still better than in 2021.

I’m happy to see that I’m still reading translations even though I wasn’t able to increase the percentage compared to last year. I read a total of 18 translations, and one more in a different language too (not shown as this graphic only shows translations).

I thought it was interesting to keep track of the author nationalities… The majority of my reads were between UK and US authors (no surprise here), but this is the first time since 2019 that the US authors have won the race. I’m happy to see quite a few other countries on here as well though. It’s a total of 18 different countries; not as good as previous years, but still not bad at all.

This is what the previous graphic looks like on a map! The countries in orange represent the nationalities of the authors I was able to read in 2022.

And here is another map, this time around of the different settings I managed to travel to with the help of the books I read during 2022. A total of 48 different countries; a new record! In case you noticed: I’ve decided to split the US in states because I started keeping track of the states in 2022.

(I’m using this page to create the maps.)

The main genre is basically the most dominant genre I feel each book belongs to. As always mystery/thriller/horror is the biggest group (there’s truly no surprise there for those who follow my blog). What IS more of a surprise is that almost quarter of my books were romance reads; a genre I didn’t read exactly much in the past, but I’ve started to enjoy it more and more in recent years.

I decided to start keeping track of the POV in each story in 2020, and it’s been fun to see that a surprising amount of stories end up having more than one POV where both genders are represented.

This average rating graphic actually makes me kind of sad as the ratings are considerably lower than usual for most genres. Only historical fiction has a decent 3,74 rating, but the rest are mostly horribly low. I guess the 7 DNF and multiple lower ratings had a bigger impact than expected.

I’ve been able to balance out my stand-alones and series better than expected considering I’ve been catching up with some series… But then again, I do love my stand-alones as well.

I joined the Beat The Backlist challenge again to help me read older titles, and I’m happy to see that at least 29% of the books I picked up were published in 2019 or before… And a total of 49% of the books were published before 2022. I guess it shows that I’ve been reading lots of ARCs as well as new releases in general though.

As always most books I’ve read have between 300 and 399 pages, which seems to be a pretty good number and a sign of a story that’s not too short and not too long. There are exceptions of course; some stories are just too complex to be told in under 400 pages… A total of 23% of my books had over 400 pages; lower than last year, but I still like those numbers.

I also decided to start looking at the page count I managed to get each month instead of just writing down how many pages each book had… I’m quite happy in general with these numbers, although some months were pretty weak compared to others.

I’m finishing this post with one last graphic! My list of most reads authors during 2022… I guess we have a clear winner: Robert Dugoni. No surprise here, since I’ve been catching up with the Tracy Crosswhite series before the ARC of book nine was due in August. It makes me happy to see that favorite author Amy Harmon took second place though.

Tired of numbers yet? I know I am! That’s it for this post… Happy reading everyone!

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