Tuesday 12 February 2013

2012 Round up Part II

And here come the stats...!
(all % are to the nearest %)

Total Books Read: 86
Number of New Reads: 46
Number of Re-Reads: 40
(% RR: 46.5)

Breakdown by Month

Most books read in a month : January (17)
(% RR : 94%  - 16/17)

Least Books read in a month: April (1)
(% RR: 0%)

Months in order of books read:

January = 17
February = 14
September = 12
June/ July = 8
October/ November = 6
August = 5
March = 4
May = 3
December = 2
April = 1

Months in order of New Books read:

February = 14
November = 6
July/ September = 5
March / June / October = 3
August / December = 2
January / April / May = 1

Highest % of New Books read: February, April, November, December (100%)
Lowest % of New Books read: January (6%)

Months in order of % new books read:

February, April, November, December = 100%
March = 75%
July = 62.5 %
October = 50%
September = 42%
August = 40%
June = 37.5%
May = 33%
Jaunary = 6%

Average (mean) books per month: 7
Average (mean) New books per month: 4

Breakdown By Genre

Number of Novels: 56           (35 N, 21 RR)
(% Total : 65%)       (% Total New : 76%)

Number of Graphic novels/comics : 9        (2 N, 7 RR)
(% Total : 10%)       (% Total New : 4%)

Number of Non-Fiction: 17     (6 N, 11 RR)
(% Total : 20%)       (% Total New : 13%)

Number of Short Story Collections: 4         (3 N, 1 RR)
(% Total : 5%)         (% Total New : 7%)


Breakdown by Author


Number of books read by author (of which are re-reads)

Multi authored books

Birds of Prey 1
Wonder Woman 1
(A Starfarer's Dozen)

Single Authored Books

Tamora Pierce - 27 (16)
Gerald Durrell - 7 (5)
Rich Berlew - 7 (7)
Maureen Lipman - 6 (6)
Tanya Huff - 5
Agatha Christie - 5 (3)
Phillipa Gregory - 4
Suzanne Collins - 3
Kalayna Price - 2
Terry Pratchett - 2
Bernard Cornwell - 2
George RR Martin - 2

And all with one book each:

Douglas Adams, (Amanda Brown), (Frances Brown), Jen Campbell, Gail Carriger, Jasper Fforde, Frances Hardinge, Anthony Horowitz, George Mann, Ben Miller and Ros Wiseman.



Ok, so the interesting thing is how those stats compare to last year.
Overall, I read one less book (87 vs 86), but my percentage of new reads was higher (52% vs 53.5%) Though the stats are very, very similar. My averages, both in books per month and new books per month are exactly the same.

So bets!
Will 2013 break the pattern? How will it if it does? What month will see me reading more? less? Which author(s) will I binge on? (Tanya Huff is looking to be a favourite...) Will I ever get round to updating the reviews here?

Who knows!

Watch this space...









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