2022 Year In Review & Reading Stats

Goodbye, 2022!

It’s been an interesting year of reading. My goal was to read 80 books but I ended up reading more than 100. Not surprisingly, it’s less compared to the previous years. Mainly because this year I’ve gone back to full-time office work after a few years working from home as a freelancer, and also my social life had picked up with everything opening up again!

Highlights of my reading year on the blog:

• Gave the spotlight to some great books
• Took part in a number of blog tours
• Talked about coffee as a book companion, my reading habits, and the horrors of Adam Nevill’s No One Gets Out Alive
• Shared my favourite books of 2021 and the 12 books reading challenge
• Made reading lists for thrillers by Black authors, LGBTQ+ thrillers, new horror books for spooky season, and horror books for Halloween.
• Hosted the fourth year of Nordic Noir November!

I’ve compiled the wrap-up stats from Goodreads and Storygraph, check it out below:

Watching my reading graph from Storygraph had me questioning if it’s real! I was shocked to see my graph basically flatlining until November. I didn’t think I read as much horror as I did in the previous years but the following genre graph shows that I’m wrong!

Looking back at the stats, I probably need to read more lighthearted, less gloomy books this year! But I suppose that’s just the life of a horror fiction lover. How was your reading year?

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Cover photo by Jessica Ruscello