#Doesn’t include short stories (unless part of a collection)/fanfic/rereads/etc.

[crowns-of-violets-and-roses]

2023 Reading Stats

I read 76 books in total.

36 were written by men, 36 by women and 4 by others (i.e. non-binary). I wasn't intentionally trying to have a 50-50 split between men and women; it just worked out that way.

American (13), Japanese (9) and Canadian (9) were the most common nationalities of the authors of the books I read.

Those two things are the only author demographic info I've been recording as they're generally the most evident in brief bios.

The mean publication year was 1941, the median was 2004 and the modal was 2022.

I read 13 books from before 1900, 23 first published in the 20th century and 40 released this millennium.

I read 12 books published in 2022.

The oldest book I read was originally published, or well actually originally performed, in 431 BC.

I read four books that were published or completed in 2023 (Pale Lights Book One: Lost Things, Pale, Camp Damascus and Drinking from Graveyard Wells) but I'm not going to check which one was the most recently released.

35 or 46% of the books I read were translated into English.

My most read author was Engels (3). My second most read author was a tie between Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Karl Marx, Graydon Saunders and Yōko Ogawa (2 each).

My average book rating was 2.935. This isn't actually on a five star scale but if you pretend it is you wouldn't be too far off.

I'm not going to name the sole book that got my lowest rating because it was by a self published author without an enormous profile so I'd feel like a dick if I did.

I didn't rate 14 books. 11 of these were non-fiction which I often don't rate but this also included De Sade's Justine, Medea, and Pale.

The three books that got my highest rating were Hav by Jan Morris, Nabokov's Pale Fire and The Silent Cry by Kenzaburō Ōe.