Mid-Year Stats 2023

I did not think I would get to this stage this year. I was (and still am) very behind on multiple things, namely:




Listening to audiobooks



adding all the books I reviewed to an excel sheet (something I just managed to do before sitting down to type this out)



Reviews!




I have been reading like a maniac this year. For the past couple of months, I have had no other outlet. I have not indulged in any of my other hobbies except for working through my Netgalley list. This basically means I have read more than the stats here will show, but I continue to stick to the policy of counting something only if its reviewed in that month/year. My last year’s post was: Mid-Year Stats 2022 . I reviewed a total of 156 books thus far, a significant increase than last year although some of the other stats are curious if you take that into account.






Most Read on Goodreads:



1,404,774 people







Least read on Goodreads:



3 people






I have been a little more serious about my ratings, so it has fallen from last year. It has changed from 3.7 to 3.54




No. of audio hours : 93 . I have not listened to as much audio as I would have liked to. It might change by the end of the year.



Total number of pages read /reviewed: 35291



Shortest Book : The Living Mountain by Amitav Ghosh



Largest Book  :  The Ivory Tomb by Melissa Caruso




Top-rated books on Goodreads




Healing Hearts at Bumblebee Barn by Jessica Redland



The Sandycove Sunset Swimmers by Siân O’Gorman



Maya Makes Money by Diya Garg




Lowest-rated books on Goodreads




The Piano Tuner by Chiang-Sheng Kuo



The Sleepless by Victor Manibo



A Very Typical Family by Sierra Godfrey





I felt like I read more nonfiction this year, but the numbers beg to differ!




No.of Books by Genre (F and non-fiction are in different colours)



Genres of Graphic Novels Science Fiction Thriller Historical Fiction Humour Genres of Short Stories Science Fiction(3) Mystery(2) Drama(2) A lot more short stories than ever before- with more to come!



I did not check at this point last year, so I cannot comment on the male/female ratio, but multiple writers and those who do not fall under either







No.of Non-Audio Pages vs Genre



Had more fantasy at this stage!



No.of Books Vs Genre Vs Gender







No.of audio hours with gender of narrator. Gray is Multiple and Orange is Male



Where I got the books from







Position of a book in a series



Translated works (Stayed pretty much the same at this point last year)



Chinese(2) French(2) Italian Swedish



Significant changes in my overall ratings


Rating vs Genre



Years of publication. Definitely reflects my commitment to clear my NetGalley list



Year of the story (Still sticking to covid ignorers not actually counting under 2020 to 2022)



This looks pretty much the same as last year, which is not too bad