My favorite books of 2014 are here.
Here are some interesting (?) stats about the books I read in 2014.
The books I read in 2014 were:
66% fiction and 34% non-fiction. This is a slightly higher percentage of fiction compared to last year.
Furthermore, 78% of the fiction was Young Adult/Juvenile. This is a lot higher than last year, so I am reading more fiction, and more of that fiction is YA.
Overall, 51% of the books I read were Young Adult/Juvenile.
Ten of the 74 books I read in 2014 were non-first-time reads.
Eight books from 2014's reading list were books that Jeremy has also read, whether it was this year or previously.
I read 8% of the books in their physical, hard-copy format. This is an all-time low, compared to last year's previous all-time low of 20%.
I read 85% of the books in Kindle format. One of the books (A Narrative of the Captivity of Mrs. Johnson) I read online.
I only read four audiobooks this year, and one of them I also had the Kindle version of (The Raven Boys). I listened to the audiobook occasionally only because the reader is so awesome. I could listen to his pronunciation of "Aglionby" all day long.
(If the percentages don't seem to tally quite right, that's because a few books I had in both Kindle and hard copy formats.)
82% of the books were checked out from the library. The rest I either own/bought or were borrowed from a friend or family member. The library percentage includes books I checked out from the library in the Kindle format.
The longest stretch between completion of a book was nineteen days in November/December, between Jackaby and The Lady in the Tower. I was busy playing the piano a lot.
I had three streaks of four YA books each. To avoid listing each of those separately, I'll call my longest YA stretch the time I read three YA (The Knife of Never Letting Go, Shadow and Bone, and Siege and Storm), then the heavy memoir A House in the Sky, then four YA (Skellig, Across a Star-Swept Sea, The Tyrant's Daughter, and Life After Theft).
It was hard to pick out a most productive period of reading this year. July was good, as always - I read 11 books that month.
Hooray for reading! Here is the complete Goodreads graphic of the 74 books I read this year - that includes four books I read enough of to include on my list but ultimately marked as DNF (did not finish; they are The Eye of Minds, The Queen of the Tearling, The Tipping Point, and Storm Siren).
(For some reason, the graphic is only showing 73 books, which means I must have mis-shelved one somewhere along the way. Oh well.)
(Edited to add: also for some reason, it's showing up as a single-column list instead of a pretty grid that is clickable. UGH GOODREADS WHY CAN'T YOU JUST BE PRETTY. Maybe I can fix it.)
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Books 2014
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