At the end of the year (or the beginning of the new one!), I like to look back on my reading as a whole instead of just by month. Thanks to the Currently Reading podcast patreon, I have been tracking my reading in an incredible spreadsheet for the last two years and it produces some fancy charts and graphs to tell the story of what I read this year. I read over 37,000 pages this year! While it’s not just about a number at the end of the year, it is fun to see how much I have read, and how my reading life has grown over the last few years.

• 2023: 113
• 2022: 127
• 2021:146
• 2020: 71
• 2019: 89
• 2018: 55
• 2017: 59
• 2016: 69
• 2015: 44

My 2023 STATS

• 72% fiction and 28% nonfiction (which was 3% more nonfiction than last year!)
• 30% in print, 43% digital, 27% audiobook (which was more digital and audio than last year!)
• 3042 published in 2023 and 65% were backlist
• 37% Own Voices (as authors and/or protagonists, which was sadly the same as last year)
• My Genres: I’m only surprised that Historical Fiction is as large as it is.

I’m proud to have read books by authors from countries other than the US, UK and Canada (my top countries for sure), including unpictured countries: Denmark, El Salvador, Germany, Ireland, Nigeria, Peru, and Uganda. I also track who recommended books to me, and I can see which recommenders point me towards books I will LOVE!

2023 was another great reading year for me. My biggest challenge is that I keep adding to my To Be Read list faster than I can read books, which says a lot considering how fast I can read! I’ve already made a plan to chip away at that TBR list by putting hold requests in to my library for a few great mysteries that I can’t wait to read. I also have some Christmas books calling my name, a year of Book Club reads with Laura Tremaine, and I never know what new book which appear to me next. Cheers to a new year of reading great books in 2024!