For this post, I'm going to look at all the books I read this year and break them down by how many I read in different categories - genre, point of view, and series status. I will start by counting how many rereads I had. The books that were rereads will not be counted in the rest of the numbers. After each category, I will give a brief analysis showing my thoughts on what the numbers of what I've read this year.
Genre
Contemporary: 58 books
Paranormal: 14 books
Dystopian/Sci-fi: 19 books
Historical: 3 books
Fantasy: 2 books
Mythology: 1 book
My Thoughts: These numbers clearly reflect that my favorite genre to read is contemporary. I did read more dystopian this year, though, and I read some paranormal, but not nearly as much paranormal as I used to read before I got into contemporary. I do not read very much fantasy at all.
Series Status
Standalone: 48 books
First in a series: 27 books
Last in a series: 4 books
Any other book in a series: 10 books
Part of a series of companion novels: 6 books
Novella: 2 books
My Thoughts: At first, it looks like the majority of what I read are standalones. But when all the series categories are added together, I read 40 books this year that were part of a series. That number is not that far from 48. I read 27 books that were the first in a series, several of them being debuts, so I will be reading the second books in these series in 2014. Other books in that category are parts of series that are already released, so I may have already read the next book, or I can read it whenever I want, without having to wait for it to come out.
Point of View
First Person: 83 books
One Female Narrator: 55 books
One Male Narrator: 18 books
Two Narrators: 12 books
Three or More Narrators: 0 books
Third Person: 13 books
My Thoughts: Most of what I read is written in 1st person, and I knew that even before I did this tally. 1st person is most of what I read, and when I write, that is how I write. I tried to read more books with male narrators, but that number is still heavily outweighed by the number of books that were told from the POV of a female narrator. While I will continue to read more male narrator books in 2014, I feel like I'm still going to read many more female narrator stories, simply because more of YA is written from the perspective of a female narrator.
Katie
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