2021 reading year in review

2021 Goodreads reading challenge goal: 1111
Total books read in 2021 according to Goodreads: 1346
2021 Goodreads challenge completed on: 11/7/2021

2 book challenges completed
2021 Book Riot Read Harder Challenge (12/12/2021)
2021 PopSugar Reading Challenge (12/12/2021 (not including the Advanced section))

2021 total (from this blog & my private database): 1360
Broken down by category: 
751 picture books
194 youth nonfiction
146 graphic novels
73 young adult fiction
60 youth fiction
47 adult fiction
46 adult nonfiction
29 manga
7 young adult nonfiction
5 comics
2 fanfiction

My month of the least reading was in July when I read 40 books.
My month of the most reading was in March when I read 185 books.

I think March was when one of the public libraries close to me opened back up for browsing--I read a lot of picture books and youth nonfiction that month!  I moved across the country in July and August and those, consequently, were my two lowest reading months (40 and 61, respectively).  June was the only other month I read under 100 books (85) and that was likely because I was packing for my move!

For comparison, my 2020 totals:
Total: 1199
387 picture books
156 graphic novels
142 comics
125 young adult fiction
104 manga
81 youth fiction
75 adult fiction
75 youth nonfiction
48 adult nonfiction
5 young adult nonfiction
1 magazine

For comparison, my 2019 totals:
Total: 1148
549 picture books
182 graphic novels
128 manga
111 youth nonfiction
71 young adult fiction
46 adult nonfiction
33 adult fiction
28 youth fiction
1 young adult nonfiction

2014 book summary

My Goodreads 2014 challenge was 750 books and I made that goal on August 19th. :)

2014 total: 1359

Here's the breakdown by category...
873 picture books
108 graphic novels
91 adult fiction
87 youth fiction
72 young adult fiction
51 manga
39 youth non fiction
29 adult non fiction
8 comics
1 young adult non fiction

My month of the least reading was in April when I read 54 books.
My month of the most reading was in August when I read 159 books.
:)
Even if you take out all the youth books, picture books, graphic novels, manga, and young adult books, I still read 120 "adult" books.  Woo hoo!
 
for comparison, my 2013 totals:
520 picture books
132 graphic novels
81 adult fiction
65 young adult fiction
58 youth fiction
50 adult non fiction
23 comics
21 manga
19 youth non fiction
1 young adult non fiction
2013 total:  970

My Goodreads 2015 challenge is 1000 books.  I'm already doing pretty well because I'm trying to catch up on my comics.  ;)  I am also doing the Series Ender challenge again this year, which I'm looking forward to.  I found another cool book challenge I'm going to try.  I'll see if I can post it here some time.

Happy reading in 2015!

2013 book summary

My Goodreads 2013 challenge was 750 books and I more than made it. :)

2013 total: 970

I was so close to 1000!  Here's the breakdown by category...

520 picture books
132 graphic novels
81 adult fiction
65 young adult fiction
58 youth fiction
50 adult non fiction
23 comics
21 manga
19 youth non fiction
1 young adult non fiction 

for comparison, my 2012 totals.

2012 total: 834

369 picture books
100 graphic novels
72 adult non fiction
71 young adult fiction
68 youth fiction
66 adult fiction
48 manga
22 comics
18 youth non fiction

I decided to do 750 again for my Goodreads 2014 challenge.

Finished a notebook!

In case you didn't know, in addition to keeping track of the books I've read on here and on goodreads.com, I also write them in a little notebook.

Yesterday (well, technically on 2/13/11), I filled in the last page of my little notebook. Yay! I started on 3/10/09 in this notebook with Just in Case: A Trickster Tale and Spanish Alphabet Book by Yuyi Morales and finished it with Sophie Simon Solves Them All by Lisa Graff & Jason Beene on 2/13/11. :)