Reading Statistical Breakdown: Mid-Point 2015

Welcome to my reading statistical breakdown for the first 6 months of year!

I am going to take all the book, novels, comics, magnas, magazines, and stories I have read (so far) this year, and break it down into a bunch of bookish statistical nonsense and then completely over analyze all of this reading data.

This isn’t going to be Chaos Horizon level in depth, but don’t worry… there will be GRAPHS 😀

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*NOTE: All data below is as of July 2, 2015

As of the mid-way point, according to Goodreads I have 40 “books”. You’ll notice I used parentheses. That is because “books” is such a broad term… Check it:

40 Books

• 26 novels
• 4 novel omnibuses
• 3 novellas
• 2 mangas
• 1 manga omnibuses
• 2 comic single issues
• 1 comic volume
• 1 magazine

You see, not all “books” are the same.

Now lets break a few of those down one more time:

• 4 novel omnibuses
  • 6 novels
  • 2 novellas
  • 1 novelette
• 1 manga omnibus
  • 3 mangas
• 1 comic omnibus
  • 5 comic single issues
• 1 magazine
  • 6 short stories
  • 3 poems
  • 5 essays

Which means I have actually read…

40 Books

• 32 novels
• 5 novellas
• 1 novelette
• 6 short stories
• 3 poems
• 5 essays
• 5 mangas ( at 3 volumes per manga is 15 volumes)
• 7 comic single issues

PHEW! That was a lot of work! But don’t worry… there is more fun to come.

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With those 40 books, I have read 14,883 pages. That is an average of:

• 372 pages per book (Damn comics killing my average)
• 6.67 books per month (and I rounded up… \\m//  \m/ )
• 82.68 pages read per day! (My goal is at least 75 pages a day, so I’m very happy about this)

I suppose I could breakdown novels/omnibuses and everything into separate categories to get a “true” average per novel and book, but that would requite too much work… and I think may be overkill XD

See, I don’t keep spread sheet data of my reading – this is all Goodreads right now. Besides, I don’t want to get carried away with a bunch on statistical nonsense 😛

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*NOTE: This following section will not breakdown the magazine into individual works: the whole magazine is considered 1 book. It has 1 male and 1 female editor which will each be consider as authors.

28 different authors (and editors)

• 21 authors one book
  • 17 male authors
  • 4 female authors
• 7 authors multiple books
  • 6 male authors
  • 1 female authors

For those of you keeping that diversity score at home:

• 8 books by female authors (10% of reading)
  • 5 different authors ( 0.625 books per different female author)
• 32 books by male authors (90% of reading)
  • 23 different authors ( 0.719 books per different male author)

(Goodreads doesn’t show nationality or ethnicity, so that’s as diverse I’m going to go into my stats.)

Most Read Authors

1. Brandon Sanderson (4 books)
2. Joe Abercrombie (3 books)
3. Hiromu Arakawa (3 books)
4. Stephen King (3 books)
5. Mark Lawrence (3 books)
6. Michael J. Sullivan (3 books)
7. Brian McClellan (2 books)
8. 21 authors tied (1 book)

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Now, for the grand finale!!!!!

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Wasn’t that incredibly fun? And I no way whatsoever did I breakdown my “books” and authors and reading stats too much. I mean, obviously all the data is absolutely important and relevant, and totally worth all the time I wasted doing it 😛 (For the record, this I what I did this weekend while watching the RedSox)

Seriously though, I think this data is somewhat useful:

1. The gap between male and female authors is going to grow, but I will actively seek out to read more females.
2. I would like to get my average pages read per day up to 100.
3. I want to keep that books read per month between 6 and 8

The biggest question of all though: Who do you think will win the game of authors? Will Sanderson keep the lead and come out on top? I’m reading The Dark Tower series right now, and plan on finished Powder Mage, so could King or McClellan make a comeback? Or could it possibly be some author tied at one?

Who do you think will win YOUR game of authors?

Hope you enjoyed reading this!

-DJ