I like stats and numbering things, so let me do a quick numerical recap of my year of reading books.

Total Books read : 75

Fiction books read : 27

Non-Fiction books read : 48

Total pages read : 25 386 pages

Average number of pages per book : 338.5

Average pages read per day (completed books only) : 69.5

Average pages read per week (completed books only) : 486.9

On average, I’ve finished a book every 4.9 days.

My busiest month was July, where I finished a total of 9 books.

For these categories, I’m excluding books I have read before (re-reads), since I don’t want to repeat titles if I’m to maintain this blog for a period of time.

Oldest Fiction book : The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle (1892)

Olden Non-Fiction book : How to Talk so Kids Will Listen & Listen so Kids Will Talk, by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish (1980)

Longest Fiction book : Assassin’s Quest, by Robin Hobb (757 pages)

Longest Non-Fiction book : Humankind : A Hopeful History, by Rutger Bergman (462 pages)

Shortest Fiction book : The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie (288 pages)

Shortest Non-Fiction book : Becoming a Teacher, by Melissa D. Anderson (160 pages)

Top 5 Fiction books of the year :

1. The Farseer Trilogy (3 books), by Robin Hobb
2. Le Livre de Perle, par Timothée de Fombelle
3. Warriors : The Complete First Series (6 books), by Erin Hunter
4. The Apollo Murders, by Chris Hadfield
5. Pars Vite et Reviens Tard, par Fred Vargas

Top 5 Non-Fiction books of the year

1. An Immense World, by Ed Yong
2. Scattered Minds, by Gabor Maté
3. Humankind : A Hopeful History, by Rutger Bergman
4. Immune, by Philipp Dettmer
5. How to Talk so Kids Will Listen & Listen so Kids Will Talk, by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish

Book of the Year : An Immense World, by Ed Yong

I’ve written quite a long blog entry on this one a few weeks ago, explaining how genuinely enthralled I was with the contents of this book. Its title is as accurate as they come, explaining how the world around us, while already big from a human perspective, is actually much denser and vaster when you consider how animals, with all their physical gifts, perceive it. It felt like opening a door on a brand new universe. I’ve had time to think about it some more and still feel today as strongly as I did then : it is the best Non-Fiction book I’ve ever read.