#AMonthofFaves: My Reading Year

A Month of Favorites is back! Hosted by some of my favorite bloggers, Estella’s Revenge, Girlxoxo and Traveling with T, there are fun prompts all the way through to the end of December for all to join in with and review your reading year.

Today’s prompt:

#AMonthofFaves {My Reading Year} – Number of books read so far, genre you read the most from, picture of favorite (or most often used) reading location, most read author, % eBooks, hardcovers, paperbacks and/or audiobooks, hint at what your favorite read of the year is (let us guess), types of books you wish you read more of, month you read the most and least)

So I had plans to put together an all singing, all dancing, fancy schmancy infographic. But the more stats I wrote down the more daunting it became. And a typed list looked fine last year, so a typed list it is again this year. I think I need to play around a bit more with the infographic thing before trying one with so much detail.

I’ve read 57 books so far this year. A total of 18,377 pages. Which has averaged out to 57 pages per day or 6 days per book. Last year I was reading a book every 3-4 days. I had hoped for 65, but I have been in some kind of reading funk ever since vacation in August.

Some stats:

• 18 5-star books
• 31 4-star books
• 7 3-star books
• 1 books that I can’t decide on how to rate
• 3 non-fiction vs. 54 fiction (plans to step up my non-fic game never took off)
• 19 debuts (14 of them 2015 debuts)
• 10 new-to-me authors (not including debuts)
• 21 books from my own shelf vs. 36 for review
• 8 books which were part of a series (1 book from a new series)
• 7 books that have been adapted in to a movie (plus 1 for the TV)
• 35 physical books (30 paperback vs. 5 hardcover) vs. 22 e-books
• 39 books published in 2015 vs. 18 before 2015
• 15 books by male authors vs. 42 by female authors
• Shortest book was The Magic Finger (56 pages)
• Longest book was Pet Semetary (580 pages)
• Most books read in February and June (8)
• Least books read in October (2!!!)
• One book read in a single day: The Ones We Trust by Kimberly Belle (304 pages)

Most read author:

Roald Dahl (10). I’ve been reading these out loud to Jack, and it has been a lot of fun to revisit these childhood favorites. I wasn’t sure whether to include these in my stats at the beginning of the year, but with such a sucky reading year I’m glad that I did.

Favorite book:

I have so many favorites all for different reasons and I’m going to attempt a top ten list later this month, but so far that keeps changing!

Tell me about your reading year. Did you read as many books as you’d hoped? More than you expected? What was your favorite book? Who was your most-read author?