SciFi and Fantasy Book Club discussion

Once you're sure you're done with this year's books, tell us the summary from Goodreads, plus any other metrics you'd like to share! Let's see how our stacks stack up!

Here's the year end for the book club:

We read: 24/24 books
We had: 4 buddy reads in group (Seven Surrenders, Once and Future King, Tortall, Stormlight Archive)
We started the year with Karen Memory and A Darker Shade of Magic
We ended the year with The Stars Are Legion and Red Sister

The book with the most reviews from group members was: The Night Circus
The least shelved book: The Book of Phoenix
Book with most 5 star reviews: The Night Circus (35 from the group!) honorable mention: Sabriel (22 from the group)
Book with most 1 star reviews: All the Birds in the Sky (3 from the group!)
Shortest book read this year: The Book of Phoenix (232 pages)
Longest book read this year: Arcadia (608 pages)
Average page length for this year: 400 pages

Read: 71 books
First book of the year: Hard to Be a God
Final book: The Core (unless I finish another book this week).
Longest book: Cryptonomicon (1,168 pages)
Shortest book: Batman: The Killing Joke (50 pages)
Average page length: 367 pages
Most popular book I read: The Devil in the White City:
Least popular: Time Travel Dinosaur
Highest rated book I read: Saga, Vol. 7
My 2017 average rating: 3.5

Interestingly the book with the highest rating I've read for 2015, 2016, and 2017 has been a volume of Saga.

My best sci-fi books this year have been Too Like the Lightning and the The Forever War. Both are high quality literature, even if they have very different styles and subjects.

The best graphic novel/comic/manga was PLUTO: Naoki Urasawa x Ozamu Tezuka, Band 001. It is a gritty and adult take on Astro Boy. I'm looking forward to reading the other mangas.

The best non-sci-fi book was Debt: The First 5,000 Years. It is an essay on debt from an historical and anthropological perspective, not just an economic one. It shines a whole new light on debt and many misconceptions we might have on the economy.

My worst was Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh. I was looking forward to it as my first Cherryh read and boy was I disappointed. I'm not sure why it won the Hugo.

Read: 120 books since I joined when the Amazon forums closed in July 2017
First book of the last half of the year: Half a WarHard to Be a God
Final book: Placeholder *************************************
Longest book: Fool's Fate (928 pages)
Shortest book: The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince (88 pages)
Average page length: 382 pages (I did try to get some of the Humble Bundle Books in my TBR pile that were short read this year or this would be higher)

Highest rated book I read: All Creatures Great and Small, All Things Bright and Beautiful, and All Things Wise and Wonderful: Three James Herriot Classics = 1411 ratings with a 4.72

Most rated book I read: Assassin's Apprentice / Royal Assassin = 170,000+ ratings with a 4.14

Lowest rated book I read: How Ethel Hollister Became a Campfire Girl = 9 ratings with a 3.11

Kim, that is a good bit of trivia! I'm excited/nervous to try Saga this year.

Aw, CB, I love James Herriot! I almost went into big animal veterinary medicine, in spite/because of him.

Marc-Andre, TLTL was great!!! Sorry your Cherryh was a misadventure.

I've read 83 books (30,144 pages)
Shortest book: We Should All Be Feminists - 52 pages.
Longest book: (God help me) Oathbringer - 1242 pages
Most popular: Fahrenheit 451 (1,791,112 read it)
Least popular: Seasons Of Horror: A Short Story Anthology (3 people read it)
Highest rated: Words of Radiance (4.75)

My average rating was a 3.5

My tidbit is that I am both starting and ending on indie books: Digital Divide and Trust in Axion

For the SFFBC Read all the books challenge, my stats are as follows:

#books read: 12
Shortest book: Rendezvous with Rama 256 pages
Longest book: Children of Time 609 pages
Most Popular: Watership Down (315, 543)
Least Popular: The Book of Phoenix (1,992)
Highest Rated: A Closed and Common Orbit 4.37

Actually read 5 this year along with the original poll selection monthly read:


My overall "Year in Books" can be found here but I'm not quite finished yet. I hope it goes up by two...

Read: 90 books (not all are full length novel or books since I also read 20 something short stories, novelettes, and novellas
First book of the year: The Dragon's Path
Final book: The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors (unless I finish another book this week).
Longest book: The Way of Kings (1,007 pages)
Shortest book: The Fisher Queen (12 pages)
Average page length: 380 pages
Most popular book I read: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Least popular: The Sinners and the Sea
Highest rated book I read: Assassin's Fate
My 2017 average rating: 3.6 stars

I read at least 33,000 pages, which is more than last year's 32,000 (yay). To me the number of pages is more important than the amount of the books.

I read more short stories and starting to make a separate folder for female authors and joined a specific challenge for reading their books.

Also, I liked 2017 books better than 2016 (my average rating last year was 3.3). I rated at least nine books 5 stars and three books 1 star.

Read 31 (goal was 25), but includes some short stories, one which is longer poem and one that is collection of short ballads.
Some of the trivia:
Longest: Fireborn - 705 pages.
Average length: 286
Total: 8851 pages
Most popular: The Picture of Dorian Gray - 1,155M reads this year
First: City of Glass - read 1.1. - 4.1.
Last: Soldier Scarred - read 19.12.

Personal biggest positive surprise of the year: Battle Mage

2017 has seen me read more light fluff than not.

My favorites this year have been the Kelley Armstrong, Ben Aaronovich, Kalayna Price and Richard Kadry.

Read: 107 books (58 now on GR, 49 not added and reviewed when part of a series).
First book of the year: City of the Lost
Longest book: The Alchemist of Souls
Shortest book: Sideswiped (80 pages)
Most popular book I read: Angels' Blood
Least popular: Graveyard Druid
Highest rated book I read: Darkest Before The Dawn
My 2017 average rating: 4.1 (was 3.8 but went back and decided to be generous to authors with my stars while putting any mis-givings within review text).

Total seems impressive but with some of the fantasy/cozy witch mysteries, you can easily chomp through 4 in an afternoon of a rainy weekend.

I read 102 books this year or 39,853 pages with an average book length of 390 pages. My average rating was a 3.8 which isn't terrible, but next year I'd like to hit 4 (must make better book decisions!). I've read 74 unique authors and completed 5 series/trilogies/duologies. My most read authors are:

1. Stephen King with 8 books and avg. rating of 3.88
2. Jeff Wheeler with 6 books and avg. rating of 4.67
3. Bernard Cornwell with 4 books and avg. rating of 4 AND Sebastien de Castell with 4 books and avg. rating of 4.75

Honorable mentions go to:
Ada Palmer (3 books, 4.67 rating)
Megan Whalen Turner (3 books 4.33 rating)
Leigh Bardugo (3 books, 4 rating)

Longest book:
World Without End (1,014 pages) by Ken Follett
Shortest Book:
A Study in Scarlet (108 pages) by Arthur Conan Doyle

Oldest Book:
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen published in 1811
Newest Book:
Markswoman by Rati Mehrotra to be published Jan 23, 2018

Most Read:
To Kill a Mockingbird (3,431,748 ratings)
Least Read:
Wounded Tongue (8 ratings)

Highest Rated:
A Court of Mist and Fury (4.71)
Lowest Rated:
A Passage to Shambhala (3.32)

Favorites of the year:
The Flame Bearer by Bernard Cornwell
Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
Traitor's Blade by Sebastien de Castell
The Queen's Poisoner by Jeff Wheeler
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner

And some special mentions:

Favorite translated work:
The Last Wish by AndrzejSapkowski

Favorite Classic:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Most Unique Format:
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

Favorite Non-Human Perspective:
Brittle, Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill

Favorite Indie:
Alice: The Wanderland Chronicles by J.M. Sullivan

Books I meant to read and 2017 and didn't get to:
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
American War by Omar El Akkad
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell

Read 100 books, with a set goal of 90. (I am still reading until 11:59 12/31/17)

I read 23,267 pages across 100 books

Shortest Book: 5 pages Access by Andy Weir
Longest Book: 602 pages Night Film by Marisha Pessl

MOST POPULAR - 5,888,892 people also read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. I rated this book 5 Stars

LEAST POPULAR - 1 person also read The Hit by Wesley Craig Green. (I rated this book 2 Stars, probably more like 1.5)

My average rating for 2017: 3.9 Stars

Highest rated on Goodreads - Changes by Jim Butcher 4.54 average

My first review/book of the year: 113 Minutes by James Patterson

My last review/book of the year: Deck the Halls: A Christmas Horror

5 Star reads: 23!! Which is quite a few, I know; but I read some good stuff this year. Robert McCammon, Jim Butcher, reread of the Harry Potter series; a new author Ronald Malfi, and reading of his work The Night Parade. I could go on....

Edit: My hope is to increase the pages read this year.

I think I'm getting pickier with my reading, or rating more harshly. I've rated no books as 5 star this year. But also no 1 stars.

Kim wrote: "I think I'm getting pickier with my reading, or rating more harshly. I've rated no books as 5 star this year. But also no 1 stars."

Oh man that stinks! I think? I mean it's not bad that your getting pickier but not a single 5 star read? Personally my ratings probably make no sense because they are all relative anyway. Like, I'll give Bernard Cornwell 3s sometimes but even a 3 for him is usually better than other historical fiction I read.

I hit my 30,000 page goal with 82 books

8 - 5 star books
2 - 1 star

I read 15 out of the 20 book club books that I had not already read.

The first book I read was Lost in a Good Book and the last one will be Touch

I think the rating is rather subjective from person to person. To me a 5 star book is amazing/astounding/destined to be a classic and the equivalent of literary masterpieces. I seldom give 5 stars out and a very good book usually rates a 4. The only recent 5 I can think of is The Name of the Wind with following being last year's 4 stars

Remnant Population
The Great Swindle
and possibly
Blood Wedding as this one really affected me

everything else was a solid three = a good read

ETA: I know a lot of people use a different scale with a good read = 5 stars. This is why I take ratings with several grains of salt

I've read 63 books, 33,058 pages.
Longest book, The Dying Grass: A Novel of the Nez Perce War, 1,341 pages, by William T. Vollmann
Shortest book, Three Worlds Collide, 56 pages, by Eliezer Yudkowsky
Average length, 517 pages.
Most popular, The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler
Least popular, Extreme Civil War: Guerrilla Warfare, Environment, and Race on the Trans-Mississippi Frontier, by Matthew M. Smith
Highest Rated, Time Regained, by Marcel Proust
Average rating 4.0
Oldest book, Travels Through France and Italy, by Tobias Smollett, published 1766.

My favorite SciFi reads read in 17':
Pandora's Star and Judas UnchainedJudas Unchained by Peter F. Hamiliton
Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson

CBRetriever wrote: "I think the rating is rather subjective from person to person. To me a 5 star book is amazing/astounding/destined to be a classic and the equivalent of literary masterpieces. I seldom give 5 stars ..."

Yeah, we have a whole thread on ratings and reviews because everyone does it so differently.

Allison wrote: "Yeah, we have a whole thread on ratings and reviews because everyone does it so differently. "

out of curiosity, where is that thread? I'd be interested in reading it.

CBRetriever wrote: "Allison wrote: "Yeah, we have a whole thread on ratings and reviews because everyone does it so differently. "

out of curiosity, where is that thread? I'd be interested in reading it."

Sure!

There are two, near as I remember.

This one is about how you pick books, but a lot of people discuss their own methods of ratings and reviews in furtherance of that discussion:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

And then this one is about how people rate things:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

thank you

In 2017 I read 96 books, 33,614 pages, including 10 books I gave 5 stars. I read some pretty stellar books in 2017, and muscled through quite a few as well.

Totals: 110 books, 33,900 pages.
Longest book: Drood, 775 pages Rogues 806 pages
Shortest book: The Pumpkin and The Pantsuit, 48 pages
Average length: 308 pages.
Most popular: Harry Potter und die Kammer des Schreckens
Least popular: The Impressionists (not on Goodreads)
Highest Rated: The Pumpkin and The Pantsuit Average rating 4.65
Oldest book: Richard III, 1591

Favorite Science Fiction/Fantasy:
Dawn
Assassin's Apprentice
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

My Year in Books: 130 books read
Audio/ E-Book/ Print: 76/ 48/ 6
Group Bookshelf Reads: 20 + 4 books read before they became BOTM

Longest: Holy Bible: King James Version (1536 pgs)/ The Way of Kings (45:37 hrs)
Shortest: The Eye of Argon (74 pgs)/ Arcadia (2:46 hrs)
Most Popular: 1984
Least Popular: A Bluish White Light - Tanka Poetry Collection

Genre (fantasy/ sci-fi/ other): 62/ 33/ 35
Female vs Male: 33 vs 60
Multiple Books by Same Author: 20
Average Rating: 3.6

Favorites:
*Fantasy: Fool, The Eye of Argon, Akata Witch, The Girl Who Drank the Moon, The Wise Man's Fear, Welcome to Night Vale, It Devours!, Kings of the Wyld, All the Crooked Saints
*sci-fi: Run Program, Deadline
*other/fiction: Wintergirls, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, The Hate U Give, Turtles All the Way Down
*other/non-fiction: Holy Bible: King James Version, At Gettysburg, or, What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle, Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation, The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures

Reading Challenges Attempted:
*TBR 15/20
*Read All the Books 24/30
*Pop Sugar 45/52
*Read Harder 16/24
*Only Challenge Completed: Teen Titans vs Avengers 90/90

The basic breakdown of my year in books is pretty straightforward:

So far I’ve read 102 books. (I might add a couple in the next few days).

53 are “real” books, meaning primarily text with only a few (if any) illustrations.

Of those 53,
- 24 were written by men
- 27 were written by women
- 2 were written by both

The other 49 are mostly graphic novels, which were primarily made by men because that’s the nature of that business, but some were all women creators (such as Monstress, Vol. 2: The Blood) while some featured men and women creative teams.

A few were art or photography books, which tend to be by women or mixed.

Ooof! I just looked at my women vs men stats. Only 17/82 women writers. I think I need to broaden better.

Hank wrote: "Ooof! I just looked at my women vs men stats. Only 17/82 women writers. I think I need to broaden better."

Pun not intended, I assume. 😜

I didn’t do that intentionally, it was just the combination of what looked interesting + what the book clubs read.

I finished 50 books:

My best (new) read was The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
My best re-read was The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
...and those were the only two 5 star books I read in 2017

Other notable SF/F books (4 stars):
The Circle by Dave Eggers
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 4: The Minority Report by Philip K. Dick
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The City & the City by China Miéville
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian by Robert E. Howard
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman

Non-SF/F notable books:
The Long Home by William Gay
The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Savages by Don Winslow
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

I caught a virus that required me to rest for most of 2016 and 2017. How best to rest than to read. I started trying to work out how many books I had read in that time. I gave up at the 200 mark. Lots of series.
I moved between light reading , which were quick and didn't really take a lot of thought to more in depth books.
what a great two years.
Now I have a list of recommendations from this site, live around the corner from a major library , I aim to read at least an hour every day.

I'm sorry to hear you were ill, Kate, but I'm glad you're using your time to advantage! May 2018 be healthy and full of books!

Allison wrote: "I'm sorry to hear you were ill, Kate, but I'm glad you're using your time to advantage! May 2018 be healthy and full of books!"

thanks Allison. This site has had some great recommendations and I will use it constantly

I read 142 books this year but I'll keep myself to my 4 & 5 star SF/F/UF reads for this post.

I really enjoyed The Guns Above, The Eterna Files, Deathwish, Blackwing, The Book of Three (reread) Mercury Retrograde The Book of Phoenix & The Gilded Scarab

And in the manga/graphic novel realm Erased, Vol. 1 In/Spectre Vol. 1 Tokyo Ghoul, tome 1 Blue Exorcist, Vol. 1 ヴァニタスの手記 1 Vanitas no Carte 1 The Ancient Magus' Bride, Vol. 1 Devils' Line, Vol. 1 Black Butler, Vol. 1 Noragami, Band 1 Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening & 文豪ストレイドッグス 1 Bungō Stray Dogs 1

Totals: 263 books, 62,767 pages.
Longest book: Memory of Light, 909 pages
Shortest book: A Test of Mettle, 10 pages
Average length: 239 pages.
Most popular: The Hobbit(reread) - 2,398,761
Least popular: The Sandman #65 The Kindly Ones Part 9 - 50

Format wise I did mostly audiobooks. I also got into graphic novels this year and read 102 which is why my average length is so low.

I read 26 female authors and 36 male authors which is actually a much better ratio than past years.

My most read author was definitely Neil Gaiman as I did the entire 75 issue run of The Sandman.

Some of my favorite reads of the year were the Inda series, Wheel of Time, Long Price Quintet, Abhorsen and Broken Earth.

Most importantly I just managed to get the tbr and bookshelf challenges done.

Does GR track more in-depth stats?

(I feel like this has been mentioned before, but deuced if I can recall the answer.)

Read: 19,347 pages across 69 books
First book of the year: The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections (I started a reread of the series in 2016)
Final book: The Once and Future King
Longest: Green Earth 1,088 pages
Shortest book: The Tell-Tale Heart
Average page length: 280
Most popular book I read: The Fellowship of the Ring (reread)
Least popular: Harvard Classics: Selections from Plutarch’s Lives
Highest rated book I read:The Kindly Ones (reread)
My 2017 average rating: 4.1

favorites of the year:
sf: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America
fantasy: several rereads - LotR, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, The Once and Future King, Sandman
non-sff: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall War Music: An Account of Books 1-4 and 16-19 of Homer's Iliad The Histories (Herodotus) &
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War

Trike wrote: "Does GR track more in-depth stats?

(I feel like this has been mentioned before, but deuced if I can recall the answer.)"

Not much that I've seen. I wrote a program and shelve my books a certain way to get a lot of the stats I'll share.

Finished my last book today, so here's some stats. Lazy year, with only 49 books added to my reading challenge here, but the total amount of my books read this year goes above 100. They are mostly childrens books I read for work and some comics, that I don't add to my Goodreads reading challenge. Though some comics I do add, depends on what mood I am into and if they are required to be seen in some other challenges.

Read: 49 books
Of those, read in English: 10 books
First book of the year: Loppusoinnun kaiku kalmistossa
Final book: Satakielilattia, Otorin klaanin tarina I
Longest book: Alastalon salissa (826 pages)
Shortest book: Mustat aukot: BBC:n Reith-luennot (59 pages)
Average page length: 270 pages
Most popular: The Martian
Least popular: Pop! World of Pop Art
Highest rated book read: Kuolema: Elämisen kallis hinta (rating 4.46)
My 2017 average rating: 3.3

I read 327 things (88,801 pages)
Average length: 272 pages

177 Novels
21 Anthologies/Collections/Magazines *
21 Novellas / 14 Novelettes / 14 Short fiction *
65 Graphic novels / 15 Picture books

* 142 pieces of short fiction altogether (not including collections by a single author)

112 Read / 135 Audio / 80 Graphic
274 Adult / 25 YA / 9 MG / 19 Kids
136 Male / 168 Female / 12 Other

102 Fantasy
64 Scifi
60 Other speculative fiction
24 Steampunk
13 Urban Fantasy
6 Retelling
6 Classics
18 Other fiction
15 Non-fiction
19 Children's

This link goes to an image of the stats page I have in my Access database. It’s not fancy, but it keeps track of the statistics that interest me. I prefer to drive my data offline where I have more control over its format, contents, and integrity. I really just use sites like Goodreads for the social aspect, not the cataloging.

Some of the stats from the above link:

Books read:				84
Pages read:				36,078
Avg Pages per Book:			430
Avg Pages Read per Day:			99
Median publication year read in 2017:	2003 
Avg Star Rating awarded in 2017:	3.8 
Unique authors read in 2017:		38 (30 male, 8 female)
Authors read for the 1st time in 2017:	30 (24 male, 6 female)

That last data point is a little skewed since it's only as good as the data in my database, which only encompasses the past few years. There were 4 male authors counted as 1st-time reads because I read them before I started keeping track of my reading.

Some additional data, according to the "My Year in Books" page on Goodreads:

Shortest “Book”:	6 pages
Longest Book:		1049 pages
Most Popular Book:	Pride and Prejudice with 2,402,092 readers.
Least Popular Book:	Vici, with 429 readers.

well, I've had a few changes:

123 books
43969 pages

all since July

And What Year in Books page? Ooo, nevermind I found it. It's pretty much the same as my calculations

So for those of you reading regularly into the triple digits, do you also read newspapers, magazines, blogs and suchlike?

The sheer amount of news articles I read each day would easily triple my annual book count if they were packaged that way.

Trike wrote: "So for those of you reading regularly into the triple digits, do you also read newspapers, magazines, blogs and suchlike?"

I read the news online daily, but other than that and SFF short fiction magazines (included in my triple digits) and a few book blogs, not really.

Read: 68 books
Total Pages: 20,029
First book of the year: A Desert Scrapbook: Dawn to Dusk in the Sonoran Desert (I read this to my kid)
Final book: Lost in Arcadia
Longest book: Arcadia 608 pages
Shortest book: Batman: The Raven 11 pages
Average page length: 295 pages
Most popular book I read: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Least popular: Slayer
Highest rated book I read: Mrs God: Trinity
My 2017 average rating: 3.8

Some of my favorites this year:
Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance
The Night Circus
Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks: A Librarian's Love Letters and Breakup Notes to the Books in Her Life
A Man Called Ove

22/46 female to male ratio. I don't generally pay attention to the gender of the author before I start reading. But, I am still hoping I can even this up a bit in 2018.

Finished my last book of the year earlier today, so I've been hard at work with my Goodread's parser application and a fresh export of my data.

My reading continues to drop, but it's still way up from before I found Goodreads.

For anyone really curious about my year, I did a review, including my full top 10 reads, and the complete output of my application with both then numbers and some comments on them: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

These were my 5 star reads:

1) Assassin's Fate - 5 Stars - (My Review)
2) Oathbringer - 5 Stars - (My Review)
3) Sins of Empire - 5 Stars - (My Review)

And here's a sampling of the numbers:

Total Books: 81
Rereads: 6

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* Format Breakdown *
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Total AUDIO_BOOK Count: 53 (65.43%)
Total BOOK Count: 10 (12.35%)
Total EBOOK Count: 7 (8.64%)
Total GRAPHIC_NOVEL Count: 11 (13.58%)

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* Genre Breakdown *
*******************
Total FANTASY Count: 47 (58.02%)
Total HISTORICAL Count: 3 (3.70%)
Total NONFICTION Count: 3 (3.70%)
Total SCIFI Count: 26 (32.10%)
Total THRILLER Count: 2 (2.47%)

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* Author Gender Breakdown *
***************************
Total MALE Count: 61 (75.31%)
Total FEMALE Count: 18 (22.22%)

Average Rating: 3.75
Total 2 Count: 4 (4.94%)
Total 3 Count: 17 (20.99%)
Total 4 Count: 55 (67.90%)
Total 5 Count: 5 (6.17%)

Decade Published:
Total 1960 Count: 1 (1.23%)
Total 1970 Count: 1 (1.23%)
Total 1980 Count: 5 (6.17%)
Total 1990 Count: 5 (6.17%)
Total 2000 Count: 11 (13.58%)
Total 2010 Count: 58 (71.60%)

Additional Stats:
Number of Books: 28
Total Pages: 9396
Longest Book: OathbringerOathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3) - 1243 pages
Shortest Book: Lumberjanes, Vol. 6: Sink or Swim - 112 pages
Average Pages: 335.57

Number of Books (Excluding Graphic Novels): 17
Total Pages (Excluding Graphic Novels): 7804
Average Pages (Excluding Graphic Novels): 459.06

Number of Audiobooks: 53
Total Audio Hours: 926
Longest Book: A Memory of Light - 42 hours
Shortest Book: The Dispatcher - 2 hours
Average Hours: 17.47

Trike wrote: "So for those of you reading regularly into the triple digits, do you also read newspapers, magazines, blogs and suchlike?

The sheer amount of news articles I read each day would easily triple my a..."

yes,

Slate Magazine
Huffington Post
Winds of Winter
Watchers on the Wall
BBC
boingboing
book of joe
newspaper twice a week
Bon Appetit magazine
National Geographic Magazine
multiple forums
assorted other sites

ETA: I'm a self taught speed reader so I read really fast

Trike wrote: "So for those of you reading regularly into the triple digits, do you also read newspapers, magazines, blogs and suchlike?

The sheer amount of news articles I read each day would easily triple my a..."

Nope. I’ll read an article from a blog occasionally but outside of that it’s just books.

Rob wrote: "Finished my last book of the year earlier today, so I've been hard at work with my Goodread's parser application and a fresh export of my data.

My reading continues to drop, but it's still way up ..."

Really like the decade breakdown. Will have to manually go through mine now and look at my stats.

Trike wrote: "So for those of you reading regularly into the triple digits, do you also read newspapers, magazines, blogs and suchlike?
..."

Some, not a lot. My achievement is mostly no TV, no Facebook, no click-bait....

Trike wrote: "So for those of you reading regularly into the triple digits, do you also read newspapers, magazines, blogs and suchlike?

The sheer amount of news articles I read each day would easily triple my a..."
I really feel the number of books read depend on so many factors:
time ( I am retired );
how deep the books is ( some you can get through in a few hours some take longer);
how fast a reader you are ( at the beginning of Uni they tested my group for reading speed and I was excused from doing the class as I was reading really fast and had a full comprehension );
interest of the book ( some books you want to finish but they drag on and on, others are so interesting you cant put them down)

I also read newspapers, a few science journals, a few IT journals, online forums in both areas.

BUt when I was working full time I didn't read as much, maybe 3 books a week was my limit.

So Trike I am sure you will read more when your retire, although you might be a person who travels too much to even do that.

I only got to 90, not triple digits, but I did mostly remove myself from social media aside from GR and that frees up way way more time than you’d think