A few years ago now I started trying to count things like how many books I read in a year, what age range I was reading for, and how well I was succeeding at reading more diversely.  This has lead to me keeping ever more detailed spreadsheets of my reading.  This year, I didn’t track pages read.  I started 266 books in 2016, and finished 243 of them – about the same as the last couple of years.

Without further ado, I present my year in reading graphs.

The What

As usual, most of my reading is fantasy. This is a lot of realistic fiction for me!

Yep… I loves me some books for kids and teens.

The How

How I read – still mostly traditional print. Time-wise, audiobooks might actually be ahead- they take more time!

The Who – Authors

Yes, I admit I’m biased in favor of female authors.

OK, so less informative graph – but slightly less than a quarter of my authors are something other than white.

And breakout – here’s a look at just the authors of color.

This year I was focusing more on ethnicity than reading around the world. Not doing so well reading outside the English-speaking world!

The Who – Characters

This is the first year I tracked this, and it was a lot of fun!

Character Ethnicity (not counting 1 green goblin). Excel is not my friend today.

As I thought might be happening, I read more books with diverse characters than is shown when looking at the authors.  I’ve really appreciated the search for #ownvoices authors in 2016, and plan to keep that up, too.

For reference, here’s my reading from 2015 and 2014.