J.L. Neyhart: 2018 Reading Recap (Book stats, and graphs, and charts, oh my!)

Image of my book tracking spreadsheet from 2018

Goodreads Reading Challenge

Number of books read: 130

Number of pages read: 30,006

Average Length: 230 pages

(From my Goodreads year-end info-graphic)

I had a very good reading year. As far as the number of books read, it's my 2nd highest. Somehow I managed to read 142 in 2016.

My average rating is slightly higher than last year's 3.5. Here's the breakdown:

Mode of reading:

Audiobook (88), Ebook (24), Print (18)

- According to Audible, I listened to 337 hours of audiobooks in 2018.

Book Genres:

Fiction vs. Nonfiction is almost 50-50.

More specific genres I track:

C. S. Lewis Studies: 3

Inklings: 1

Seminary: 15

Theology: 15

Spiritual Memoir: 8

Science Fiction: 20

Fantasy: 34

Fiction: 14

Nonfiction: 20

(Goals for 2019 include reading a lot more in my C. S. Lewis Studies category. I plan to re-read Till We Have Faces and the Space Trilogy, and probably The Chronicles of Narnia. And that's just the tip of the iceberg, I hope.)

For this chart I grouped Seminary, Theology, and Spiritual Memoir together as "Theology", and I put the Inklings in with C. S. Lewis.

Male/Female Authorship:

Female: 58 (compared to last year's 17)

Male: 72 (compared to last year's 67)

I'm really glad I evened this percentage out this year. Last year 80% of the books I read were written by men. This year it was 55% men and 45% women.