It’s been about 1 year and 8 days since my last year-end book roundup.
In that time, I’ve read 60 books, graphic novels, and comics, for a total of about 17,000 pages. 35 were books, 25 were graphic novels or comics. This represents a change in my reading habits compared to last year - where I did not read many graphic novels and comics, if at all.
I attribute this change to two factors - the first is that this year I prioritized learning more about tablet hardware, and so I acquired a few tablets to tinker with over the course of the year.
It’s quite easy to find dystopian sci-fi.
I think that this is because our current state and path leads us exactly towards one. However, it is harder to find the opposite; while it’s hard to imagine any fully utopian science fiction that provide the stakes, structure, or depth necessary to also make an entertaining book, I think that there are places to find science-and-speculative fiction that is written with better days in mind.
Some Stats According to my Storygraph, in 2023 I read 28 books of a total of 8965 pages. 12 books were “adventurous” in mood, and 10 were “reflective” or “emotional”. 80% was nonfiction, and the most popular genres were LGBTQIA+ (13 books), Science Fiction (11 books), and Contemporary (8 books).
A caveat - I only started tracking my reading in mid-August, while I was traveling in Philadelphia, so this recap is not the focus of a complete year.