In which I analyze exactly what I read, in what formats and genres and such-like. (I like my personal counts to match my Goodreads page, so I count fully-read magazine issues and individually-published short stories and novellas as “books.”)
BOOKS
I exceeded my Goodreads initial goal of 100 books, and my updated Goodreads goal of 125. I did not attempt “To Be Read” Challenge this year.
TOTAL READ: 139
FICTION: 131
· Anthologies: 8
o Horror: 1
o Christmas: 1
o Weird West: 1
o Transgender Spec Fic: 1
o Pulp Adventure: 1
o Science Fiction 2
o Crime: 1
· Chapbooks: 2 (both pulp adventure)
· Single-Author Story Collections: 10
o Horror: 1
o Christmas: 1
o Crime: 1
o Mystery: 5
o Science Fiction: 1
o Mythology: 1
· Graphic Novels: 37
o Super-Heroes: 17
o Horror: 8
o Crime: 2
o Comedy: 1
o Fantasy: 2
o Urban Fantasy: 2
o YA Urban Fantasy: 3
o YA Comedy: 1
o Pulp Adventure: 1
· Magazines: 12 (all Lightspeed)
· Novels: 38
o Alt-History Fantasy: 2
o Christmas: 2
o Fantasy: 8
o YA Fantasy: 2
o Urban Fantasy: 4
o Historical Fantasy: 1
o Steampunk: 2
o Science Fiction: 5
o YA Science Fiction: 1
o Crime/Mystery: 5
o Super-Heroes: 1
o Horror: 3
o Adventure: 1
o YA Literary: 1
· Novellas: 19
o Christmas: 2
o Alt-History Fantasy/Romance: 1
o Science Fiction 5
o Fantasy: 3
o Mystery: 2
o Horror: 2
o Urban Fantasy: 3
o Historical Fantasy: 1
· Short Stories: 5
o Romance: 1
o Pulp Adventure: 1
o Urban Fantasy: 2
o Alt-History Fantasy/Romance: 1
NON-FICTION: 8
· Memoirs: 7
o Alison Arngrim
o Carrie Fisher (x2)
o Debbie Reynolds
o Joel Grey
o William Daniels
o Dick Van Dyke
· Book of Essays: 1 (Neil Gaiman)
OTHER DATA:
# OF AUTHORS/EDITORS/ARTISTS: roughly 107
SHORTEST READS: 20 pages (A Very Merry Blue Christmas; Caesar’s Children; In Sea-Salt Tears)
LONGEST READ: 459 (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Hammer of Thor)
FIRST BOOK READ IN 2017: Locke & Key Vol 1: Welcome to Lovecraft, by Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodriguez & others
FINAL BOOK READ IN 2017: The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King
TOTAL # OF PAGES READ: 26, 987
AVERAGE # OF PAGES PER BOOK: 197
FORMAT SUMMARY:
· Audio:27
· Ebook: 26
· Hardcover: 21
· Softcover: 65
STORIES
I exceeded my goal of 365 short stories. I did not really track how many in each genre this year.
TOTAL READ: 380
# OF AUTHORS: 212
SOURCES:
· Anthologies: 14
· Single Author Collections: 9
· Magazines: 10
· Author Websites/Patreon/Self-Pubbed: 17
First Story Read in 2017: “Rate of Change” by James S.E. Corey, in Lightspeed #79
Final Story Read in 2017: “Pups” by Kate Folk, in One Story #235