Hi friends, and happy Monday! I hope you’re all well! Today I’m posting something a little different. I’m going to be looking back on some of my reading stats for last year.

I’ve been using Notion to track my reading for the past couple years now, and I’ve been loving it (before that it was on paper!), but I thought why not use that info that I’m tracking to post about it on my blog. I know the numbers are just for me, but it’s always fun to share to take a look back to see where the peaks and valleys of my reading happen.

In the year 2023 I managed to read 118 books. Here is the breakdown in graph form the number of books I read each month:

My best month was a tie between January and March at 13 books!
My ‘worst’ (I’m putting that in quotes because it’s not a bad thing, I just didn’t know what else to call it) month was July at 7 books, which tracks because I was really busy in July. November came in a close second with 8 books and I know I was busy with birthday things that month.

I averaged about 9/10 books a month last year, which is very good!

Over the the 118 books, I read a total of 39,323 pages. Here is the break down in graph form the number of pages I read each month:

My best month was January with 4037 pages!
My ‘worst’ month was November with 2744 and in close second (I like how these two months are flipped) July at 2877 pages.

I was very consistent with averaging a 3276 pages a month, which isn’t bad. Of the 39,323 pages I read, 8% were 500+ page books, 64% were 300 – 400 page books, and 28% were less than 300 page books.

My top authors of the year (thanks to StoryGraph) were:

L.M. Montgomery at 8 books.
Stephen King at 6 books.
Kelley Armstrong at 5 books.
Mackenzi Lee at 4 books.
Andrew Shvarts at 3 books.
Karen M. McManus at 3 books.
Homer at 2 books.
Silvia Moreno-Garcia at 2 books.

My top genres (thanks to StoryGraph) were:

Young Adult 42 books.
Fantasy 32 books.
Classics 25 books.
Romance 22 books.
Contemporary 16 books.

I definitely started to embrace ebooks more last year since I invested in a Kobo. Because of that 14% of my books were ebooks, while the remaining 86% were print. And my non-fiction reading was at the same as it was last year, 😅, 13% non-fiction to 87% fiction.

My average star rating was 3.71 (thanks to the StoryGraph). My breakdown:

I’m happy to report I had no 1 star books!
I had:
four 2 stars
four 2.5 stars
twenty-five 3 stars
seventeen 3.5 stars
one 3.75 stars
fifty-six 4 stars (damn!)
twelve 5 stars

My pace of reading was 18% fast, 20% slow, and 62% medium.
My top reading moods were, emotional, reflective, adventurous, dark, and mysterious.
Some other moods were funny, lighthearted, hopeful, tense, challenging, sad, informative, inspiring, and relaxing.

Not a bad reading year! How was your reading year? Feel free to share any of your stats in the comments below!