This post is extremely late, but we’re going to ignore that fact because at least it’s done!

Essentially, even though we’re well into 2022, I still wanted to do my annual look back at my reading from the past year by the numbers. These stats offer a comparison point for past and future reading years, and I always find them interesting, even if this post maybe isn’t as fun for me to create as my favorite books of 2021 post.

Let’s do this thing.

Total books read: 120

Total pages read: 38,727

Average rating: 3.9 stars

Shortest book read: Writing into the Wound by Roxane Gay (39 pages)

Longest book read: Plain Bad Heroines by Emily Danforth (640 pages)

Average book length: 322 pages

Most popular book I read this year (according to Goodreads): A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (1,625,561 other readers)

Least popular book I read this year (according to Goodreads): How the Blessed Live by Susannah M. Smith (633 other readers)

Highest average rating on Goodreads: White Rage by Carol Anderson, 4.56 stars

 

Author breakdown by gender

 

Adult vs. YA

 

Format

 

Release Year

 

Longest books read in 2021:

Winter’s Orbit	448 pages
Black Sun	454 pages
Legendborn	512 pages
Harrow the Ninth	512 pages
Plain Bad Heroines	617 pages