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2008 Reading Retrospective

It looks like I didn’t get all that close to my average 130 book this year. Oh well, it’s been a busy year and in order to have an “average” you need to have some numbers lower than that average. Anyway, here’s my 2008 reading stats:

Books: 107
Fiction: 76
Non-fiction: 31
Print: 76
Graphic Novels: 12
Audiobooks: 17
eBooks: 2
Total pages: 23810
Male authors: 105
Female authors: 16

2007 Reading Statistics

Now that 2007 is over I can post all the stats I kept regarding my reading habits of the past 365 days. In 2007 I kept more detailed records so I'm just just relating "here's the number of books I read". The stats for 2007 are:

• Number of books read: 150, of those...
• Print books: 81
• Printed pages: 25826
• eBooks: 3
• Audiobooks: 52
• Fiction: 126
• Non Fiction: 24
• Graphic Novels: 14
• Male authors: 147
• Female authors: 16

A few notes on these numbers. The total number of authors will be higher than the total number of books since some books had multiple authors. These numbers do not include magazines and non-fiction articles. Also, I consider audiobooks "reading" though they can't be included in the page count.

Lastly, I'm totally surprised at the very low number of female authors that make up my reading habits. It isn't intentional but this is the first year I've tracked author gender so I don't know if it's typical or not.

Here's to a book-filled 2008!

Update 2 Jan 2008: The nubmers have been fixed.