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?

Cover photo by Jessica Ruscello