This page contains various statistical analyses of my reading. I like to read a lot, but I am also a sucker for statistics and charts.
The chart to the right contains a breakdown of the number of books I have read per year since I started to keep a list over what I read. This list only lists things that I have read for pleasure, not course books which explains most of the dips in the graph.
The first full year in my data is 1986 when I was 18 years old. Since then, I have read 2120 books (1223 in Swedish, 880 in English, 3 in Norwegian, 1 in Danish, and 4 in German) which boils down to about 78.44 books per year for 27 years (however, this assumes that the current year is a full year). As you can see, a substantial part of what I read is in English, sometimes ridiculously much. The proportion of books in Swedish has increased a lot lately, mostly thanks to the fact that I wrote a review column for a local newspaper for a few years.
Lately, I have discovered manga and I now follow a few of the Japanese series that are published in Sweden. I have entered comics as read too when they have been "thick enough" for a while, but they have seldom numbered more than a few during a year. This is about to change, as it seems.
You can also check up on my quest to read
something of all the nobel laureates in literature.
| Year | Books | English books | Swedish books | Norwegian books | Danish books | German books |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 82 | 29 (35.37%) | 52 (63.41%) | |||
| 2010 | 100 | 40 (40.00%) | 60 (60.00%) | |||
| 2009 | 128 | 44 (34.38%) | 84 (65.62%) | |||
| 2008 | 116 | 25 (21.55%) | 91 (78.45%) | |||
| 2007 | 148 | 28 (18.92%) | 118 (79.73%) | 1 (0.68%) | 1 (0.68%) | |
| 2006 | 163 | 20 (12.27%) | 140 (85.89%) | 1 (0.61%) | 2 (1.23%) | |
| 2005 | 133 | 29 (21.80%) | 101 (75.94%) | 1 (0.75%) | ||
| 2004 | 110 | 25 (22.73%) | 82 (74.55%) | 1 (0.91%) | ||
| 2003 | 102 | 32 (31.37%) | 69 (67.65%) | |||
| 2002 | 117 | 32 (27.35%) | 85 (72.65%) | |||
| 2001 | 112 | 38 (33.93%) | 72 (64.29%) | |||
| 2000 | 102 | 43 (42.16%) | 58 (56.86%) | |||
| 1999 | 82 | 35 (42.68%) | 46 (56.10%) | 1 (1.22%) | ||
| 1998 | 68 | 40 (58.82%) | 28 (41.18%) | |||
| 1997 | 51 | 33 (64.71%) | 18 (35.29%) | |||
| 1996 | 16 | 13 (81.25%) | 3 (18.75%) | |||
| 1995 | 42 | 30 (71.43%) | 12 (28.57%) | |||
| 1994 | 67 | 45 (67.16%) | 22 (32.84%) | |||
| 1993 | 64 | 45 (70.31%) | 19 (29.69%) | |||
| 1992 | 31 | 21 (67.74%) | 10 (32.26%) | |||
| 1991 | 76 | 51 (67.11%) | 25 (32.89%) | |||
| 1990 | 52 | 47 (90.38%) | 5 (9.62%) | |||
| 1989 | 29 | 23 (79.31%) | 6 (20.69%) | |||
| 1988 | 23 | 19 (82.61%) | 4 (17.39%) | |||
| 1987 | 64 | 60 (93.75%) | 4 (6.25%) | |||
| 1986 | 40 | 32 (80.00%) | 8 (20.00%) | |||
| 1985 | 2 | 1 (50.00%) | 1 (50.00%) |
This graph shows a breakdown of my reading on a per-month basis. As you
can see, it's a pretty bumpy ride.
For some reason,
there seems to be quite some variation in how many books I read
different months. I'm not that surprised that there is a bump over the
summer. Apart from the bump in the summer, the diagram seems to be
evening out, although the amount of books I read right now is way over
the total average.
Top twenty authors I've read most books by (which is not necessarily the same as the authors I currently like best). In total, I've read books by 1086 authors.
| 55 | Stephen King | |
| 50 | Terry Pratchett | |
| 32 | Naturskyddsföreningen | |
| 28 | Gosho Aoyama | |
| 25 | Neil Gaiman | |
| 24 | Isaac Asimov | |
| 19 | Rumiko Takahashi | |
| 17 | Ian McDonald | |
| 17 | Sam J. Lundwall | |
| 15 | Iain Banks | |
| 14 | Svenska Turistföreningen | |
| 13 | ||
| 13 | Vilhelm Moberg | |
| 12 | CLAMP | |
| 12 | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 11 | J. R. R. Tolkien | |
| 11 | Karin Fossum | |
| 11 | Michael Moorcock | |
| 10 | Arina Tanemura | |
| 10 | China Miéville | |
| 10 | Cory Doctorow | |
| 10 | Gainax | |
| 10 | J. K. Rowling | |
| 10 | Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö |