hey folks it's Abi from Abi of Pellinor and today I’m going to be going through my 2021 reading
stats so I managed uh what some might call a ridiculous number of books in 2021 if you include
books that I dnf'd it's 105. if you don't then it's 103 don't ask because I don't fucking know
but we're going to go through all of the stats for them and just diving straight in the first
stats that I’m going to be doing is if I shuffle over the number of books that I read each month
this fluctuates massively but there is a general downwards trajectory towards the end of the year
as I’ve mentioned approximately seven million three thousand and thirty eight times I moved
house and moved job so I stopped reading but the best month for reading for me in terms of number
of books was February where I read 15 books which is fucking ridiculous and my absolute worst month
unsurprisingly is October that is the month that I moved it is the month that I got the new job
and it is the month that I had my birthday so I read four books in October four good books but
only four on average I seem to be reading about 10 each month if you average everything out which I’m
pretty happy with it's a lot more than I expected it to be but then if we look at the page count
it is very different so I can't actually see the exact numbers for each month here
um in terms of the page count overall in the year I read 3200 at no 32399 pages and my worst month
obviously October was only 1053 pages now I can't see the exact number for the best month because
it's white on white and we're just gunna accept that uh but it looks to be around 4500 pages
in one month which is um shocking and I don't know how I managed it and the page count fluctuates a
lot more like January I read nine books but my page count is just over a thousand so uh I don't
think they were very big ones but I think my page account seems to average around if you include
the low months about two and a half thousand pages each month that is not what I would like
it to be I want it to be higher purely because I’m trying to read bigger books and uh clearly
failing but we'll see we'll see how that one goes and then as I mentioned I had dnf two books
those were right at the end of the month one in November and one in December technically I’d also
dnf'd another book earlier on in the year which I think was in like August and that was Double Cross
by Malorie Blackman I just wasn't in the right headspace to read it but I’ve only recently
started actually counting my dnf’s properly so we're just running with it and the reason for the
dnf’s were general apathy and everything is sucky so I just wasn't in the mood for them it was Dr
Jekyll And Mr Hyde which was everything is sucky and then The Bazaar Of Bad Dreams by Stephen King
which was just general apathy I was just like eh then into the reading method unsurprisingly I read
primarily physical books from my tbr and I read 85 physical books which is fucking high and now
I’m even more mad that my tbr is still massive how do I still have 124 books on my physical tbr
if you want to see all of those I don't know why but there's the video
but yeah somehow I managed that then eBooks I read 15 eBooks again surprisingly high and then I
read five audiobooks and I’m pretty sure all of those were right at the end with my new job I can
listen to things while I work I had been listening to music I had been watching BookTube videos but
I’ve decided to try and make use of that time for reading so now I listen to audiobooks while I work
yes I’m very lucky to be able to do that then for the genres that I was reading each and every month
so it looks as though I read across nine different genres and to nobody's bloody surprise fantasy
is the biggest genre so out of the 103 books that I read 47 of them were fantasy but then
I am pretty surprised by second place which is non-fiction at 16 books which I’m very happy with
third place still surprising 15 books were classics
what have Caitlyn and Olivia done to me and then another incredibly
surprising one is 12 historical fictions I thought that I wasn't reading historical fiction anymore
where the fuck did they come from what the hell I don't even know what they were I genuinely am not
sure what they were but uh that's what it says and then for the rest of them it's got one in
a genre that's not listening on the pie chart I’m not sure what that is
going down it is five contemporary no more of those thank you four thrillers three mystery
and then one whatever that was who knows maybe a romance I highly doubt it
um but yeah so that is the genres we are not surprised that it is almost half fantasy
I would like to bump up my science fiction a bit more only reading 12 of those I do want to
boost that up and try and make it more sff rather than just f but we'll see how I manage
in 2022. then for the length of the books that I read for some reason the lengths of books read
in CAWPILE is in a pie chart rather than a bar graph for 2021 she's changed it for 2022 but
it's a little bit weird to look at um it does let us still see the biggest one which is I read 14
books that were between 100 and 150 pages so very very short but then the next biggest section is
between 300 and 350 which is like quote unquote “the standard length” for a novel so I’m pretty
happy with that I’m pretty happy actually I read 12 books between 400 and 450 pages
in 2020 and before I would have considered that a really big book now that's just kind
of like a standard book so I’m very happy with that my biggest books that are on the pie chart
that I can actually fucking see is 600 to 650. I read four books in that page bracket
however there are some bigger I don't know what the 700 page book is but I can tell you
that that yellow piece of that pie jar is war and peace my edition is like just under a thousand
pages but it is the Wordsworth classic edition where all the chapters are smushed together and
all the writing is magnifying glass required uh so I just say that I’ve read an over 1000 page book
you can find me so yeah that is the length of the books that I read I did read some bigger books and
I am really happy with that but I did read quite a lot of small books as well so trying to push
myself towards bigger books because I used to love them when I was younger um and I would soak them
in and I’ve been putting them off because I’m intimidating when I’m older so I’m intimidating
sure sure then for the age category of the books that I read 48.6 51 of my books were adult books
I’m not surprised I had been surprised in 2019 and 2020 when I’d first had these stats come up
because like what the fuck I thought I read my a I do not I read primarily our books now I am
25 I’m gunna be turning 26 this year I’m not mad about that that's fine um then I did still
read quite a bit of why a uh 33 books were YA which is still a fair number and then I read
let me zoom in 14 books that were middle grade and seven books that were for children so I felt that
it could have been younger than middle grade or middle grade I’m pretty happy with that actually
um a lot of the year books are backlists or really hyped books um that I kind of get pulled into so
I’m glad that I’m getting through those still I’m glad that I’m primarily reading adult and I
don't want to stop reading middle grade and kids books entirely because there are some fantastic
reads in there my first read of 2022 was Amari in the Night Brothers and it's fucking amazing
so I’m very happy with this breakdown then looking at my star ratings I had a pretty good year I read
48 books which is 46.2 percent that I rated four stars that is pretty damn high uh my five stars
were 30 different books I really five stars that is fucking ridiculous and I went through them
again and I agree with all of my ratings so I had a very good 2021 for my reading like what then I
had 21 three star books which for me is just that the book was fine like it's halfway it's like if
you were to do it on an out of 10 scale that's like a five it's decent and then I had five two
star books two of those were the dnf’s Such A Fun Age by Kylie Reed is definitely in there
and obviously a couple others but yeah that's a very good reading year wow then for the
publication year again this pie chart is difficult to read because I read across a lot of different
years however my main year was 15 books and that is 2021 which is insane I do not think I have ever
read that many books and had like the main bulk of my books come from the year that I’m reading
in primarily I read backlist so that is really surprising and actually kind of weird but like
nice to see still I read seven books from 2020 and 11 books from 2019 and I read one book from 1843
not sure which book is that War And Peace I don't know because I read a lot of classics so who knows
but yeah so primarily from the year that they were published in which is really fucking weird
and I’m loving it then how I got the books so the way that I did this is I kind of wrote in my
own my own choices so I have books from my tbr so books that I owned before 2021 started books that
are marked as owned are ones that I was rereading gifted obvious bought new ones in 2021
NetGalley obvious and then there is a three and I’m not sure what that is
maybe borrowed that might have been books that I borrowed um primarily 50 books so almost half
of my books were from my physical tbr from before the year started which is really fucking
good because I needed that I needed to get some books off of my tbr so 19 books that I’ve marked
has owned those are the rereads those are going to be mostly Skulduggery Pleasant books let's
be real here um I read 15 books that were gifted those were mostly from Caitlyn from Mad Cheshire
Rabbit and Kari from Kar-ing for Books thank you both and then only eight books that I bought
which considering how big my tbr is I need to fix that I’ve actually read what I fucking buy
uh so yeah I’m still really happy that I read mostly from my tbr from what I already owned
but I I do need to read a lot more of the books that are already on me that I’m bringing in okay
so it could be worse could be worse then next up we have the LGBTQIA+ representation these
are marked first as whether there was nothing whether it's the main character or whether it
was just present in the book as a different character I primarily read straight books or
books where the sexuality wasn't mentioned 66 of my books 21 of the books that I read
had the main character be openly LGBTQIA+ and 18 of the books were a non-main character
out of that 21 a lot of them are gunna have been like maybe 12 of them I will have marked down um
for the Skulduggery Pleasant books it is
our main character Val is bi so she is definitely boosting that up but yeah that is something that I
don't read a lot of I do need to increase it priority has been getting more authors of colour
onto my shelves I’m doing better with that so now I need to start increasing my numbers of LGBTQIA+
authors and characters onto my shelves hopefully from people of colour the breakdown of kind of the
66 books that I did read that were in the the gay bracket 12 of them were bi those will be
the Skulduggery Pleasant books so primarily bisexual Skulduggery Pleasant I read 4.2 percent
books with pan representation pansexual so that is just one book
not sure what that would have been actually I read three books with demisexual representation oh yeah
so that'll be all The Bone Season series because I read the two novellas as well the main character
in the bone season is demisexual then three books with gay characters and three books with I’ve
marked as wlw women loving women um so it doesn't specify their sexuality but it does show two women
in a relationship so that is what I ended up reading for that I am already reading a bit more
of LGBTQIA fiction this year I’ve already read some more so that is always good and hopefully we
can boost that right up then on to the rereads so I had 20 rereads and 85 books that I read for the
first time I’m not sure what else I read that was a reread I can't remember because obviously it was
12 books that were Skulduggery Pleasant so I don't know what the other eight are made of but hey
at least I read them and then in terms of whether it was a series or a standalone
this is the first time in a while that this has been almost 50 50 split 53 books were from a
series and 52 books were standalone I read quite a few standalone books and I love that for me
love a good standalone so I do not want to change that at all actually I’m quite happy with that
still getting through my series still like starting some new series getting through some
series that I love but also still reading a lot of books that can stand by themselves then we have
whether I read books from authors of colour this is nowhere near fucking high enough it is a lot
better than 2020. that doesn't make it good 81 of my books were by white authors or authors that I
couldn't determine the ethnicity of 19 of my books were by authors of colour broken down there were
14 books from Black authors four books from Asian authors and one book from an Indo-Caribbean author
again I’m already doing better with that in 2022 hopefully I continue to do better with that
if you see my February tbr that is like five books by Black authors so already that is
better hopefully I can keep that up um I have quite a lot of Asian authors on
my tbr so I’m really excited to read those as well this year and finally get around to them
this is something that is slowly improving my tbr shelves are seeing the improvement faster than my
actual reading no one is surprised there related to that we have own voices or not the options are
yes and not applicable I don't read that much LGBTQIA fiction or disabled fiction or anything
like that so the majority of this is essentially just whether or not it is by a person of colour
there is a bit of discrepancy there's two or more books in the yes to own voices so I must have read
something where it was for example a book with disability representation with a disabled author
so that is slightly different but it's essentially the same again something else I need to work on
and then who it was written by this is oh yes so I read 58 books by female authors and 43 by
male authors and most of those male authors are white I in 2020 read way more women than men way
more so it is kind of weird that it swung back I don't really want to be reading a lot of white men
like male authors of colour yes give me uh non-binary which again is I think only two
of the books that I read give me I read two books with multiple authors in but yeah I’d need to
start reading so many white men hopefully as I get through my tbr and knock them down that'll help
maybe also because I read 15 classics and a lot of classics are written by men that might have had an
impact um but yeah a lot more men than I usually read in terms of the nationality of my authors
I’m going to hang my head in shame right now I read primarily Americans 39 books
from Americans that is too high that is far too high I think that is because I’m trying to get
through my backlist and also a lot of the authors of colour especially Black authors and Indigenous
authors that I mentioned come from the US so when I’m trying to expand that bracket a lot of that is
from there so I need to find a lot more authors of colour from Britain from Europe and from elsewhere
in the world but yes so that is higher than I’d like uh only 28 British no that's a lie
that is a lie 28 English authors I specified 28 English authors five books from Scottish authors
three of those were from the Four Treasures series by Caroline Logan because they are
amazing um what else is there we have one Japanese American author we have 19 books by
Irish authors so the 12 books from Skulduggery Pleasan and then I did read another maths five
no oh look at me so many books seven books by Irish authors that weren't from Derek Landy
nice no wait it's five Derek Landy came out with two new books in 2021 fuck five books
from Irish authors that weren't Derek Landy the only one I can think of off the top of my
head is Sarah Maria Griffin she's a fantastic author she's amazing so highly recommend her
three books from Canadians four books from Swedish authors we love and then I can't see the rest of
the breakdown so there was a tiny amount for the rest in there so yeah too many Americans
no thank you need to remove those which is probably offensive to Americans but like
it's just it's so much of what we see so much of what is pushed and I want to kind of
read outside of my norm which for me is British so anything English or Scottish
and then American because we get so much of that so anything outside of
English and American I’m here for technically Scottish is my experience and so it's debatable
whether I should want to read more of that but we don't see a lot of Scottish authors
um they are not that prevalent and I would love to see a lot more of them and read a lot more
from Scottish authors so they're separate just the English and the
Americans I want English to be higher than American and I want American to be gone
and those are my 2021 reading stats so that is my breakdown as I said just over 32 000 pages which
is a not high enough but we'll we'll get there we'll get there let me know down below if you know
the number how many books you read just to say right now if you read five books that's amazing if
you read 50 books amazing 500 amazing it doesn't actually matter how many books you read as long as
you're happy with the number I’m trying to read a lot because I own a lot of unread books and
so I want to get the number down that is why I’m reading a lot and also this is my primary hobby so
yeah that is why I read so much I also read really fast so like again if you're trying the same thing
just it's fine if you read three books in 2021 that is fantastic but let me know down below
how many you read and if you know your favourite technically my favourite book of the year by the
ratings is All Systems Red by Martha Wells which I fucking loved so I’m not mad at that at all
thank you so much for watching folks please hit subscribe if you'd like to see some more from
me and see how my reading progresses in 2022 and I will see you in the next video, bye!