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Monday, 6 January 2025

Statistics 2024

    

My statistics for the last years are here:
Going back to 2009-12, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023  

And these are the results of my reading lists for 2024:

* Statistics 2024 *
 
I did 178 posts in 2024 which was about six fewer than last year.

My regular posts are either weekly (Book Quotes, Top Ten Tuesday, ThrowBack Thursday, Wordless Wednesday) or monthly (Happy Month, Six Degrees of Separation, Spell the Month in Books), so I posted more or less the amount of weeks or months in a year. I didn't do them all regularly, though. Especially the Top Ten Tuesday, I've participated so long and have done a lot of the topics already, so I just do them from time to time.


I also did a few lists that are more or less statistics about half of the year and a comparison to ten years ago:
I also participated in Non-fiction November.

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And then there are, of course, all the challenges I have done over the years.
I read books that contributed to the following challenges. Some of them count for more than one category:

Challenges (number of books read for the challenges in brackets)

I read more on this topic but they were not on this list.
I added all the books he chose this year to my list but haven't been able to read any of them. Yet.
(Das Lieblingsbuch der Unabhängigen = The Favourite Book of the Independents)
Every year I find some more books I can add to my list of favourite books. 24 this year. Not too bad, I guess.
Some books taking place in France.
(German: Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels)
We read 1937 and 1970 this year. It's a good idea to add some reads from former years that we might not have touched before.
I read 15 chunky books in 2024 of which 4 are considered a chunkster. Mor-book-ly Obese again.
I read suggestions from friends all the time, just haven't kept up with who recommended which book.

Book Clubs:

Some of the challenges are older and I only add to them if I happen to read one of the books. No new books on these lists:
100 Greatest Fiction Books as Chosen by the Guardian 
101 Best Selling Books of All Times 
I already said this last year. Only three more books on my list, maybe I'll get to "Slaughterhouse Five" one day.
Best European Literature 
I already read most of those that interest me, there are a few more that I could tackle one day.
Books That Changed the World 
Esperanto Books 
Here we mostly read short stories.
Le Monde - The 100 Books of the Century The non-western books that every student should read 
The only thing I miss from our old place is the library that would get me any book I wanted. Not so easy here where we only have a small church library and they only get the biggest best-sellers. And all of them in German only, of course.
Some of the challenges are older and I only add to them if I happen to read one of the books.

Books Read: 73
Pages read: 25,412 which results in 348 pages/book, 70 pages/day, 6 books/month
Last year (2023), I read 83 books with 26,717 pages which resulted in 321 pages/book, 73 pages/day, 7 books/month. So, while I read fewer books, they were larger.
The average novel contains between 140 and 320 pages, i.e. 230 which would make 110 average books (compared to 16 last year). 

Books dating from which year:
Pre 1800s: 2
1800s: 2
1900-1949: 4
1950-1999: 14
2000s: 51 (2 from 24)

Male Authors: 38
Female Authors: 33

Nobel Prize Winners: 7

Fiction: 50
Non-Fiction: 33

Chunky Books - more than 450 pages: 16, of which more than 750: 4
Library/Borrowed: 11
Re-Read: 2
TBR Pile: 18

Oldest Book: 1838
Dickens, Charles "Nicholas Nickleby. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby" - 1838/39 - 1838/39
Newest Book: 2024
Orth, Stephan "Couchsurfing in Ukraine" (GE: Couchsurfing in der Ukraine) - 2024
Steinmeier, Frank-Walter "We" (GE: Wir) - 2024
Longest book: 1,100 pages
Oates, Joyce Carol "Blonde" - 2000
Shortest book: 122 pages
Fosse, Jon "Morning and Evening" (NO: Morgon og kveld) - 2001
Longest book title: 38 letters
Bontscheva, Antonia "The beauty of Balchik is not a serene one" (GE: Die Schönheit von Baltschik ist keine heitere) - 2021
Shortest Book Title: 3 letters
Steinmeier, Frank-Walter "We" (GE: Wir) - 2024
Funniest Book:
Kishon, Ephraim (english) "Next year everything will be different" (GE: Im neuen Jahr wird alles anders) - 1982
- "Kishon for all occasions. 327 useless pieces of wisdom" (GE: Kishon für alle Fälle. 327 unbrauchbare Lebensweisheiten) - 1987
Güngör, Dilek "Pretty German. My Turkish family and I" (GE: Ganz schön deutsch. Meine türkische Familie und ich) - 2007
Saddest Book:
Weirdest Book:
Erpenbeck, Jenny "Kairos" (GE: Kairos.) - 2021
Most disappointing:
Sieg, Sören; Krohn, Axel "I didn't understand you visually. Overheard German dialogues" (GE: Ich hab dich rein optisch nicht verstanden. Deutsche Dialoge mitgehört) - 2015

New author (for me) that I would like to read more from: 5
Jon Fosse, Matt Haig, Florian Knöppler, Abraham Verghese, Caroline Wahl 

Translated Books:
14 from 9 languages
1 ea from Catalan, Japanese, Swedish, Turkish
2 ea from Hebrew, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish

Books read in another language:
Dutch: 0
French: 0
German: 24

Numbers in Book Titles: 22,39
Place Names in Book Titles: Baltschik, Cannery Row, deutsch, Europa, Kronsnest, Moscow, Napoli, Revolutionary Road, Siberia, Teufelsmoor, Ukraine, Wigan
Names in Book Titles: Algernon, Austen, Benson, Copperhead, Demon, Jane, Kairos, Kishon, Nicholas Nickleby, Páramo, Pedro, Rebecca, Sommer, tschick, Winter
Colours in Book Titles: Blue

My Favourite Books: 16
Calvino, Italo "If on a Winter's Night a Traveller" (I: Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore) - 1979
Falcones, Ildefonso "The Painter of Souls" (E: El pintor de almas) - Die Tränen der Welt - 2019
Follett, Ken "The Armour of Light" (Kingsbridge #4) - 2023
Fosse, Jon "Morning and Evening" (NO: Morgon og kveld) - 2001
Haig, Matt "The Midnight Library" - 2020
Ivey, Eowyn "To The Bright Edge of the World" - 2016
Janesch, Sabrina "Sibiria" (GE: Sibir) - 2023
Knöppler, Florian "Kronsnest [Name of Village]" (GE: Kronsnest) - 2020
Orth, Stephan (German reviews) "Couchsurfing in Ukraine" (GE: Couchsurfing in der Ukraine) - 2024
Taschler, Judith W. "David" (GE:  David) - 2017 
Tokarczuk, Olga "Drive your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead" (PL: Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych) - 2009
Verghese, Abraham "The Covenant of Water" - 2023
Wahl, Caroline "22 Lanes" (GE: 22 Bahnen) - 2023
 
With my books, I visited places in the following countries:
Africa (4):
Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe
Arctic (1):
Arctic
Asia (5):
India, Indonesia, Israel/Palestina, Japan, Kazakhstan
Australia/Oceania (3):
Australia, Melanesia, Oceania
Europe (38):
Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom
North America (6):
Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Mexico, USA
South America (2):
Brazil, Venezuela:
Countries "visited" in total: 55

Authors come from:
Africa (1):
Zimbabwe
Asia (3):
India, Israel/Palestine, Japan
Australia/Oceania (1):
Australia
Europe (12):
Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom
North America (2):
Mexico, USA
South America (1):
Chile
Author countries in total: 20

See also "My Year in Books" (and here on Goodreads).

You may find some even greater statistics by better bloggers than me, e.g. at "Stuck in a Book".
 
If you want more information on any of the lists mentioned, please, let me know.
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