How many books do you read in a year? Do you set yearly book reading goals? What is the most books you have ever read in a year?
Julie:
Since I actively use Goodreads, I have the past few years of number of book data I can share. As you can tell from the table below, my book reading isn’t exactly consistent. I had a HUGE jump from 2010 to 2011, and have fluctuated a bit in the following years. So far in 2014 I’ve read less than 70 books. I kind of have an excuse, don’t you think? Moving, having a baby, it kind of changes your free time. I do set yearly goals in the Goodreads challenge, and I try to base them realistically off the previous year. Sometimes I’ve had to reduce my goal based on how things were going, sometimes I’ve increased it. 2012 is definitely my best year.
| Year | # of Books read |
| 2013 | 129 |
| 2012 | 146 |
| 2011 | 115 |
| 2010 | 37 |
Rose:
Last year was the first time I ever set a goal for myself and I chose 100 books in a year as my goal. I met this goal. I think I even read 2 extra books! That is basically 2 books a week which is amazing for me! This year I knew with running the book club, this blog and going back to school to finish my teaching certificate, I could never read 100 books! So I made my goal for 2014 50 books! I started the year out slow then built rapid momentum and this fall I have completely slacked! It is not exactly my fault. In addition to book club, blogging and school, I have to complete 50 hours of professional development for teaching as well as complete 30 hours of classroom observations. It has been so tough lately. That is the reason for my non existence on this blog for which I feel just awful, but hopefully, our newest blogger, Lynn can help us out! YAY! SO far this year, I have managed to still read 43 books. According to the goodreads challenge, I am one book behind schedule which is the book I am currently reading for my book club which MUST be done by Tuesday night, because that is when we meet to discuss this book! YIKES! I better stop typing and start reading!
I always lose count so I’m not sure, but I’d be surprised if I don’t read at least 100 a year. Even when I’m pregnant, I’m usually so sick that I spend a lot of time lying on the couch with a book, and then once the baby comes, I read while I nurse! Fun question!
Thanks for sharing this at Booknificent Thursday! Tina
I haven’t mastered the reading while nursing yet. Still working on making that happen 🙂
My goal this year was to read 100 books, but I didn’t even come close thanks to pregnancy 🙂 But in the past few years I have set some goals and came pretty close to reaching them. I don’t know if I’ll be able to set a high goal for next year since I will have a newborn plus two toddlers but I am aiming for 12, 1 a month. I know that’s doable and hopefully I will max that goal in no time! Thanks for linking up at Book Notes!
Yea I had to reduce my goal due to pregnancy as well. I haven’t read a book now in over a month since I’ve had this baby heh. I think one a month is a good goal when life is so busy. But you might surprise yourself 🙂
In the previous years I managed to read around the 100-120 books in a year. This year I got busier and had more work, so I adjusted my goodreads goal for that. I challenged myself to read 75 books and reached that goal a few weeks ago. I probably will reach the 80 or so at the end of the year, although I did read a lot of novella’s this year, else the amount would be much lower.
I think 80 books is just about right for a good comfortable amount to read in a busy year 🙂
I never thought to track how many books I read in a year. When I was in college and first married, I read at least a book a day. Life is busier now and I’ve slowed down a lot.
I love your idea of setting a goal and tracking the number of books I read! 🙂
Ha, yea life does tend to change our hobby habits heh.
As time has gone on, I’ve steadily read more books as well. Last year it was 100 books, this year it is 120 and I think the year before was 80. I love those goodreads challenges that help us keep track as well! It’s definitely understandable with all the moving and stuff if you’ve had a busy year. Great post ladies!
I love that about GR as well – best way to track books. Only issue I’ve found is if you re-read and update the date read, it updates your past challenges and if you just barely met the goal, it makes your challenge say not met.
This is the first year I set a reading goal on Goodreads and I far exceeded it. I set my goal of 50 books. I am at 141 and counting! Going to try hard to beat that next year.
Woot look at you nearly tripling your original goal 🙂 Good work!
I’ve been actively keeping track of my reading process ever since I joined Goodreads, and for the past three years, I’ve always set my reading challenge to 100 books. I always read a little over it, but it’s a matter of 1-10 books more, so not enough to up my challenge.
I think 100 books is right around perfect for a goal 🙂 I had that as my goal, but then had to reduce it a bit.
I started using Goodreads actively in late 2008 and there has been a steady increase each year. This year I finally hit the triple digits (but before that – law school), this is also the first full year of the blog. For full years it’s gone from 39 in 2009 to 103 (so far) this year.
I also like tracking pages, because a lot of those lower book years I read some crazy chunksters.
Yea I read a lot of the Outlander books this year, they should count as multiple books for Goodreads purposes hehe.
Aah, I don’t know. My reading fluctuates. It was at my lowest when I had a baby boy three years back. I read only 20 books! I am always envious of people who get to the triple digits in a year, it almost never happens for me. I average between 3-6 books in a month, I think.
Well I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one who hasn’t read much since the baby was born. You did get back into a normal reading routine right?
I read about 200 books a year, but it definitely depends on my life circumstances. The past couple of months I’ve slowed way down with reading, but I still think I’ll hit my 200 book goal. I’m at 189 right now, so it’s definitely doable.
About 200 is a really awesome reading goal to make and you’re right there to meet that goal 🙂
100-150 depending on what’s going on in my life. This year will be closer to 130 I think. But wow! How is it possible to read 427 books in one year?! I thought my 150 was a lot. Whew! And yes, moving and a baby are valid non-reading excuses. 🙂
I have absolutely no idea Leila, I just like to read in my spare time (though I don’t have that much of it!) and apparently I read fairly quickly!
I know, lady ma’am Laura is a reading MACHINE!
Last year was the first year that I ever kept track,so I haven’t actually got much historical info to go on. I did realise that I read far more than I think I do, and this year has really shown that, I’ve currently read 427 books (which is slightly crazy I know) and I’m still not sure how, I was in my last year of Uni til July so didn’t have that much time! (And I’ve had a job the whole year as well)
OK lady ma’am that is more than one book per day!! how how how? teach me your trick!!
I wish I had a trick! Sometimes It’ll take me days to finish a book and sometimes hours (obviously shorter books take less time though that isn’t always the case) so it just kind of happens!
I have no idea but I imagine it’s between 100 and 200. This year since I started blogging I have the impression I’m reading less! I want to try to find a better balance next year.
Blogging does take up a lot of reading time, I’m so with you on that.
This year is the first year I’ve kept track all year and I’ve read almost 130 books. I think that’s going to be a high year for me too – because I haven’t had as much going on work/school wise as I will next year. But I’m blown away by people who read in the 300s! Terri @ Second Run Reviews goes by pages and I think I’ll start doing that next year, since books come in different lengths. I just have to decide if I can do it with audio books.
Going by pages is an interesting idea, but yea hard for audio books or ebooks. I guess track it by the number of pages the hardback equivalent would have.
To track the pages of an audiobook or eBook w/o pages, I select one of the physical editions of the book on GoodReads. I have a shelves for eBooks and audiobooks so I know if the version I actually read was electronic or audio. Although, I will admit, I’m not good a actually putting books on those shelves!
There’s a slight problem with tracking pages that I’ve found, not all books on Goodreads actually have the number of pages listed on them, which makes it harder (unless you write it down every time you read something. Also don’t ebooks normally have more pages than their print counterparts?
I think you’re both doing great! (and yes Julie, moving and baby trumps reading! *ha*) I think I consistently read about 150 books a year…sometimes a little less, sometimes a few more. (like this year) Since I’m constantly adding books to my shelves, this 150 doesn’t remove too much. But since I’m doing the Read What I Own challenge next year, I expect to see some real progress in moving books from my TBR shelves to my read shelves. 🙂
You are a reading and reviewing machine miss lady!