What's my most read genre?? || 2022 Reading Stats & 2023 Reading Goals
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- Опубліковано 3 січ 2023
- Hey Booktube! Here are my reading stats for 2022 and what I'm planning on changing... or not for my reading goals of 2023!
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StoryGraph is a great way to track stats. They make graphs for most of them. Storygraph also does half and quarter-star ratings.
Idk if I'm just not using it correctly but my last two brain cells were struggling when I tried it :/
And they track dnfs
and they arent part of amazon and their support was in my case very fast and helpful go storygraph :)
@@BookswithEmilyFox I don't know when you tried it last, but it was in a beta phase for a while, but I really think you'll get into it if you give it a try now, when it's more developed! Maybe a video idea? 🤞🏾😇
@@BookswithEmilyFox I also needed to get used to it, but when I switched over completely, it was very easy. I just needed a little bit of time to adjust, but that is normal when trying new things
My opinion on "you like every book you read" is that tis cause 1) you know how to pick 'em, or 2) you know how to dnf 'em, or both. Other ppl being miserable because they can't like most of what they read is not the issue I need to be responsible for)))
Absolutely! I know my average would be higher if I didn't make it a point to get out of my comfort zone or try new releases to let everyone know if I think they're worth it or popular books to see if I'll like them. Even though it's more hit and miss, I enjoy it like that!
Goodreads tip: You can make a DNF shelf! Add the shelf name, go to Edit Shelves, and make the category 'exclusive'. So whenever you're reading something on your currently reading shelf and you want to dnf it, you can click the same drop down menu you would use to say 'read'. That way you can look back on all your DNFs without it changing your Goodreads stats.
I did not explain it well, but I hope it helps!
This is what I do - works really well 😊
OMG THE REAL MVP.
Thank you!! You explained it fine btw :)
I used to remove the book when i dnf it. Thank you so much for this tip !!!
Thank you!! This was very helpful 💜
Omg you did a correlation for statistical significance?! Love a good stats nerd!
I love all of the stats! I think genre is fascinating. My genres flip-flopped this year too for the first time since 2014! Mystery/thriller and romance were both above fantasy.
Love to see the stats. This year will be my first stat video, so I'm looking forward to doing that. Great video!
I'm always looking forward to your videos as they're helping me through a very stressful time, thank you!
Hope you'll feel better
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All the stats are awesome! It's so interesting to break down your reading like that. Excel spreadsheets man 😍
Yay! STATS! 😍❤️
Such great goals Emily looks amazing so proud of you love it ❤️💚💚💜❤️💙💙📚🌈🌈🌈🌈📙📙📖📖💕💙💙❤️💜🌈📚📚🌈🌈💚💚❤️💕📖📖📚🌈🌈🌈📚💚💚💜💙
This is my favourite video of the year!! haha
All your stats were fun to hear about.
My biggest goal in 2022 was to dnf books I wasn't enjoying more often and it made my average star rating go from 3.2 in 2021 to 4.3 in 2022. I consider that goal achieved but now I have to think up another goal for this year. So far my only goal is to read through all the books I own but haven't read yet, but there's only 21 of them so I want to try and think up another challenge for myself. But I'm sure that after watching everyone set their goals I'll find some inspiration.
That's a huge increase!
My most read genre is always fantasy but you inspire me to read more non-fiction! One of my favourite books of 2022 was Radium Girls which i picked up on on your rec!
Actually, you can create a DNF shelf on Goodreads and mark it as exclusive, which will mean books marked DNF won't show up on your read or to-read shelves, but you can only do it on the computer. The cool thing is that once you create a custom bookshelf for DNF, you will be able to access and use that bookshelf on your app. That's what I do.
Wow, I had no idea about this. Thanks!
I have a DNF shelf but I didn’t know about the exclusive thing!!
@@BookswithEmilyFox You gotta do it on the desktop, and it took me a second of looking to find the option. But it works like a charm.
Your non-fiction reading is inspiring, I've made it a reading goal this year to read more of them!
Love seeing your stats and looking forward to hearing about all the nonfiction you are going to read in 2023!!
The two books I've finished so far in 2023 were non fiction already lol
I love that you love stats. They called me Mr. Statistics in Uni. 🤣🤣🤣
My favorite is always genre😁
Last year I also started using graphics, but of a different creator - HardBack Hoarder. I love it and so helpful and comfortable, so much detailed 🥰😍
Stats videos are my favorite on booktube! One thing that I track that I think is fun to see is whether the books I read are from authors I've read from before or new-to-me authors. Also, I track both author's gender and protagonist's gender - I think it's fun to see how that can differ.
I always like looking at average page length because it is often (though not always) a better indicator of how much one has read. One year my friend and I were setting up our reading tracking spreadsheets together and she decided that word count was an even better indicator, and she ended up spending forever Google searching for all the word counts haha.
Word count sounds good in theory but... too much work lol
My average rating for 2022 was 3.6 but weirdly enough I don't feel I had a great reading year 🤷♀️😵💫 Looking forward to the thrillers you find this year-I also tend to feel pretty meh about the GR nominees/popular titles🤞Well done on so many non fiction books!
The Stats I tend to look at the most are genre/rating and publisher. I find it interesting to see which publishers I’m leaning towards and try to balance smaller publishers and self or Indy pub books.
For mystery/thriller “the whisper man” and “the overnight guest” were both really good, stayed up reading them all night😊
Currently reading the overnight guest and really enjoying it!!
My goal for this year is to read more non-fiction, use my library more which means I won’t have to buy as many new physical books (in theory, but let’s see if that actually happens!), and try to read and unhaul as many physical books from my shelves as I can!
For mystery books have you tried Agatha Christie? Maybe it would improve your satisfaction in the genre 🤞
And for romance recs you could try The Brown Sisters trilogy by Talia Hibbert? They have more spicy scenes than Emily Henry's books but both of them are my favourite romance writers. The main guys aren't toxic!
I've only read "And then there were none" and didn't really care for it
@@BookswithEmilyFox I think its not one of her best books, I would try something else by her, because they tend to be what you call cozy mystery books for me, I would recommend Death on the Nile or Evil under the Sun
@@kaangunaydin1043 Agree in Death on the Nile (haven't read the other one). Was surprised by how much I enjoyed it since I didn't really care for Murder on the Orient Express.
I recently started trying to challenge myself to actually try and read some of my unread books I’ve had on my shelves for years and I’ve unhauled most of them but it’s still been incredibly satisfying to do. It’s nice to finally just confirm once and for all they aren’t for me because usually if I’ve been putting them off some part of me suspects that will be true lol. So it’s nice to finally just get them out of the way so I don’t have the guilt of having spent the money to buy them and then never read them, and it also allows me the space to buy more books I’m probably more likely to enjoy.
Also, I don’t know if you’ve heard of it but I wanted to recommend The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal as something you might enjoy. It’s a sci-fi mystery that takes place in the future on essentially a cruise spaceship where a couple go on their honeymoon. While there a passenger gets murdered and the main character’s husband is accused and the main character tries to do everything she can to clear him and find the real culprit. Alcohol is brought up a lot but this definitely doesn’t fall into the drunk-woman-unreliable-narrator trope and it’s not a domestic thriller. There’s a lot of the sci-fi stuff but it’s not super dense or complex (I understood it easily and I rarely read sci-fi). It’s also super inclusive and I think really well written. The author’s one of my favorites though so I may be biased lol. I could be wrong and you may not like it but I figured I recommend just in case!
My average is 4.1 and yes that is because I only read books I like to read haha
Genres stats is also my favorite. Always fun to see how varied it is
Love this video, great numbers! I've never read Octavia Butler; which one would be the best to start with?
Crime/Mystery recommendation: the author Cara Hunter. They’re crime novels set in modern day Oxford & they’re so good!
If you're looking for horror recs this year I LOVE Gemma Files. Her novel Experimental Film is excellent, as is her anthology In That Endlessness Our End. She's Canadian too!
I use my library app for every recommended book from UA-cam. If the library app doesn't have it, I look on thrift books and Amazon. I just started using good reads (new years resolution) to track my reading even though I've been reading my whole life. I'm going to track my reading for now on a spreadsheet. For 2023, a tale of two cities, remembrance, and the apparitionists. That's one classic, one (2) historical fiction, and one true crime.
I thought I was going to get all kinds of reading done when I broke my ankle, but I was so tired that I ended up reading all nothing.
I am really interested in seeing how many books I read as audiobooks, physical copies and ebooks. I think it’s also interesting to see what kind of authors you read in terms of race and gender. One of my favourite genre is historical fiction and I notice that I tend to prefer the books written by men in this particular genre. I will use Excel this year to record the stats. Thanks for the inspiration! I love all your videos.
I wish I was better at tracking on Goodreads. I used to be, and I have my periods, but lately I'm just terrible about it. I've had a good year I think. I've read genres I don't usually go into like westerns (True Grit was really good) and even a romance thriller (Verity was quick and fun, but whatever). Of course I've read SciFi and straight lit, but I've also read several of your recommendations which were all very enjoyable. The most impactful was definitely The Passenger/ Stella Maris. I've had some that I looked forward to and felt let down (I'm looking at you Blake Crouch) and ones I was surprised by (Never the Wind).
You know, two (living) nonfiction authors I have always loved are Dava Sobel and Mary Roach. They both write science themed, Sobel has also gone into the fiction world with Galileo's Daughter, and Roach is funny, but they write about science in such a wonderful way.
I'm a stat nerd, lets'goooo
What's your favorite book stats?
Genre!
Moods! (on the storygraph)
I'm going to be picking up 3 non fiction in 2023 based on your recs: Atomic Habits, Ace and Mediocre.
I really enjoy stats and tracking my reading as well. My average was also 3.5, which I feel good about. I'm generally happy with 3.5 star books so that means half the reads I quite enjoyed or really loved. I'm hoping to get that average higher this year now that I know my reading taste better. I need to be very selective about my YA fantasy and avoid thrillers I know I'm not going to like (i.e. avoid domestic thrillers like the plague).
I am one of those people who give out a LOT of 4 and 5 stars 😂 I think I tend to skew my ratings half a star higher haha. Going to try to be a bit more strict this year!
Hey we read the same number of books (130), although my avg page count is lower, so you win! 😂😂 As for star ratings, everyone interprets them so differently. For me 3 is an okay read, 4 is one I really enjoyed, and 5 is wowza superlative everyone should read it now. 2's are ones that straight-up annoyed me, and a 1 is one I would DNF if not forced to read it, so I don't have a lot of those. I really aim for most of mine to be 4, so my avg rating is usually 3.8 - 3.9, even though I'm quite stingy with 5's. Why wouldn't I want to like most of the books I read?? I think your Thriller category is dragging your average down!
I am a library super-user. I also just did my stats, and a whopping 111 came from the library (that's physical but also ebooks and audiobooks - the latter two I exclusively get from the library; I've never bought an e- or audiobook, which together are about half of my reading).
One of my favorite stats to keep track of is how many series I start/finish in a year and how many series I'm currently up-to-date with. 2022 was definitely series-heavy for me, I started 8, finished 5 and I'm up-to-date on 72% of 11 series. Over all the years (since 2014) I tracked my book stats I also finished 30 series and decided to not finish 21.
I also have stats on average star ratings for different categories, but I think the most interesting stat for you is that I gave books YOU recommended 4.17 stars on average vs 4.05 which is my average on all books.
Inspired by this, I just checked my stats. My reading was down a bit this year compared to the past 2 years but still better than years prior to that. Setting a slightly more ambitious goal for 2023. Given you like your thrillers with a bit of sci-fi, have you tried The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes? It manages to mix a thriller with elements of sci-fi and also feminism. (There is a limited TV series based on this starring Elizabeth Moss, but I was a little disappointed in it, having loved the book.)
As far as ratings go, I think as long as your ratings are consistent across your reads then that is more important as it’s is a fair representation! Bring on the 5*’s!🎉 How do you get such detailed stats from Goodreads? I only get the short summary. Also, my average rating across 43 books was 3.8.
Mine is 4.2 for 29 books. I’m not too picky but I sincerely believe I loved the books I read this year leading to higher avg rating 😅😂
Hmmm it's ok to read shorter books or novellas or even short fanfics. As long as you are reading something.
I would be interested in seeing the statistic between your ratings of new releases to older releases to see which you enjoyd more overall.
Oh that would be interesting to look into!
My average for last year was 3.94, same for 2021. I think I'm easily pleased.
Or you know when to put some down!
I love stats! I should track where I get my books from but I already know it's like 90% library haha. I read almost exclusively ebooks/audiobooks and they're so easy to borrow.
My stats... Books: 125 | Pages: 38,353 | Page Average: 307 | Average Rating: 3.8 | Top 2 genres: Fantasy (42%), Romance (26%)
I don’t know if thrillers are getting worse or if my reading tastes are changing, but the ones I enjoy are fewer and farther apart with every year that passes. Ugh.
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Have you tried The Storygraph? It's waaay better than Goodreads. Not only the quarter stars but they separate pages read from hours listened (something I hated from GR since the wrapped up wasn't accurate enough). Also the dnf shelf and the grahs
I give 3, but mostly 4 and 5 stars to most books I read. It is not because I am not picky. I am. I simply am very good at making the selection beforehand, because I know myself very well and I think I have good intuition when it comes to pick up a book. Also, your average rating may be almost the same in different years despite you feeling very differently because the mean is not a very accurate statistic measurement. Meaning, outliers count a lot when the mean is used. And they skew everything because of how much they weigh. I do not know honestly why the mean is such a popular statistic form of measurement, when I think the median should be way more.
people commenting "you like everything you read" like it's some kind of criticism when finding books you like and reading them is literally the whole point of reading 😅
Didi, I'm in trouble,can u give the captions in ur video???!!!
My ave is 3.5 or higher, I don't complete books im not enjoying, and I don't rate books I haven't completed. makes sense to me.
I've been tracking book word count as opposed to pages read. The reason for this is that page totals tend to be arbitrary, and according to type face size. So you could have a book such as A Feast for Crows (paperback) that is 974 pages, and has 295,000 words, whereas A Dance with Dragons has 1051 pages, and 414,788 words. The word count is increased by near 120,000 words in the latter, but only 180 pages. In the former, the max number of words per page is 374 and in the latter it is 451 words, an increase of near 75 words per page. In this way, I've used word count to set my goals for the year. The Kobo website is good for showing words in a book.
"it's a toe!" hahahh
My average rating is 4.2 because I put research into every book before I buy and read it so I know I'm not wasting money by knowing that I'm gonna love what I'm reading 😅 I still have 300 books scattered around my small room 😂
Emily please I love stats but am so so bad at Excel. Never learned it, can't get it in my head. Would you ever consider making a tutorial or sheet on how to track you book stats on Excel? 🥺
I included a link to the creator of the spreadsheet I use in the description box (I use her 2017 version)
@@BookswithEmilyFox Oh sorry I completely missed that! My bad, thanks!!
When you read by audiobook, do you include what would be the pages of the physical copy to your total pages? I don't think Goodreads does it and that's part of the reason I started tracking it separate, but I haven't kept up with it. I'm restarting in 2023.
I put the ebook version usually and use that page count. I have a shelf for audiobooks in case I forget
@@BookswithEmilyFox Oh, that's good. I think I'm going to use that, too.
I DNFed 41 books this year so my average ended up at 4.01 😅 perfect for me but I don't know if my recommendations are good as I'm so picky
I like "year published" stats as well, but few years ago I've read Gilgamesh and it completely destroyed the graph
As a pretty heavy romance and contemporary reader, I’m pretty sure I read mostly books by female authors. I don’t track that as a stat though, but I think if I were to look it would be mostly female authors.
Lol I usually just keep my mouth shut when people talk about their average rating because last year my average was 4.4 😅. I don’t want people to think I have no critical thoughts about anything haha. I am pretty easy to please but I think it’s more that I rarely read things are outside what I expect to like or things I haven’t heard reviews for. Maybe some people find that boring, but if I’m looking for variety I try to read more diverse authors rather than more diverse types of literature.
I have no 1 or 2 star ratings because I quit those books and therefore never rate them. So my average tends to be mid to upper 3s. I’m rather picky and will DNF a book quickly.
I give 4 and 5 stars so much because I DNF books that I don’t like. Like my ratings are high because I don’t read books I don’t like lol
How do you see these stats on goodreads? On the website vs the app? 😢 I wannna see!
On the website, if you go on your page (or anyone's page). Just under the bookshelves, there's a Stats|More...
Click on stats and you'll see them!
Also, you can see "your 2022 year in books" on the right side on your main page. You'll get some more there.
3.5 is such a high average rating honestly! 👀
Right? I thought it was good!
Emily, a question: would you be comfortable sharing who the non-binary author you've read is? 14:07
If you already said and I missed I apologise in advance, I'm trying do expand my author reading list as well
Pretty sure it was The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey :)
@@zachreads thank you!
It was the echo wife, you're right! There's also "An Unkindness of Ghosts" by Rivers Solomon for more rec by nb authors!
@@Lion_Tess if you want a couple books with non-binary rep, I recommend Son of the Storm by Suyi Davies Okungbowa and The Singing Hills Saga by Nghi Vo! I recommend starting with When the Tiger Came down the Mountain even though that's book 2. There are probably several more but those are the two that came to mind.
I do indeed like every book I read. 😂 Plus I feel bad for being “mean” to the authors?
LOL that's understable! I pretend they don't exist XD
what is that outlier book from 1650😅😅
Dom Juan lol
It's okay if you read just scifi & fantasy. A lot of UA-camrs have made it a point of reading just scifi (Media Death Cult) and/or fantasy (Daniel Greene).
Oh absolutely but ever since starting Booktube, I've always read from every genre so it's always weird when people comment I solely read SFF (I've also had people say I read mostly YA which is also weird)
16:25 author race, you are from the USA, right?
No
I believe Emily is French Canadian
I recently stopped rating books because they became meaningless since most were 4s and 5s.
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I read almost exclusively books by women, it’s like 90%. I only read 3 books by men last year and 5 books by non-binary authors
I wish there was a book club that works through WhatsApp or something. I’d love to participate that way 😢
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Please please please don't start writing in books. I love books and writing in them is horrible 🙀. If you never did until now, please don't start 🙏
I’m using the CAWPILE spreadsheet that G from the channel bookroast provides each year, I like the fact that it is really detailed 🤍 this year’s version includes also buddy reads and readathons, and separate tabs for series management and new book purchases (including cost)