I am a geek and always curious about the breakdown of the books that I am reviewing. :) Here you can see my stats for male vs female authors, where I get my books from, the years of publication and how many books were read by year. These stats are updated regularly as more book reviews are posted.
Last Updated: 01MAY2013
I currently have 323 book reviews posted to the site:
120 reviews from 2004
12 reviews from 2005
5 reviews from 2011
163 reviews from 2012
23 review from 2013
I am working to get all my old reviews posted here though there are huge gaps in my records for 2009, 2010 and 2011.
I’ve reviewed:
171 – Fiction
149 – Non-Fiction
2 – Poetry
Currently the authorship split is:
175 - Male Author
129 – Female Author
19 - Multiple Authors
I’m working to get it to an equal split or thereabouts between the sexes.
Based on the reviews posted to date I have sourced my books from:
3 – Bought via Amazon
68 – Bookcrossing
24 – Chain bookshops (Waterstones, Borders, W H Smith etc)
35 - Charity shops
5 – Friends/Family/Gift
13 – Independent bookshops
50 – The Leeds Library (members only library)
23 – My own shelves
5 – New Books Magazine
56 – Public Library
17 - Publisher via NetGalley
8 – Publisher (Direct)
11 - Secondhand bookshops
5 – We Love This Book Magazine
I have reviewed books translated from:
Czech | Danish | Dutch | French | German | Hungarian | Icelandic | Italian | Japanese | Old English | Persian | Portuguese | Russian | Spanish
I have reviewed fiction/poetry written by authors from:
America | Argentina | Australia | Austria | Brazil | Canada | Corsica | Czech Republic | Denmark | Dominica | England | France | Germany | Hungary | Iceland | India | Ireland | Italy | Malaysia | Mexico | The Netherlands | Persia | Russia | Scotland | Singapore | South Africa | Sweden | Wales
I have reviewed books first published in the following years:
1823
1846 | 1848
1855 | 1856
1860 | 1862
1871 | 1873 | 1874 | 1879
1881 | 1886 | 1887
1890 | 1891 | 1894 | 1895
1900 | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909
1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 | 1914 | 1915 | 1916 | 1917 | 1918 | 1919
1920 | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 | 1926 | 1927 | 1928 | 1929
1930 | 1931 | 1932 | 1933 | 1934 | 1935 | 1936| 1937 | 1938 | 1939
1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 |1946 | 1947 | 1948 | 1949
1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959
1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965| 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969
1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979
1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989
1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999
2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009
2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013
I have reviewed 172 books published by the ‘Big Six’ and 151 from independent presses.
I’ve reviewed books produced from the following publishers:
The Big Six – Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group/Macmillan | Hachette | HarperCollins | Penguin Group | Random House | Simon & Schuster
Independents & Small Presses – Allison & Busby | Alma Books | And Other Stories | Andrews McMeel | Atlantic Books | Bloomsbury | The British Library | B T Batsford | Cambridge University Press | Canongate Books | Carroll & Graf (pre-2007) | Chatto & Windus (pre-1987) | Cleis Press | Collins (pre-mergers) | Conari Press | Concord Free Press | Constable & Robinson | Corporate Link | The Devonshire Press | Doubleday (pre-1986) | Duckworth | Europa Editions | Evans Bros | Faber & Faber | First Second | Folio Society | Fraser & Neave | Gallic Books | Granta Books | Graywolf Press | Great Northern Books | Harcourt Brace and Co | Hesperus Press | Honno | I B Tauris | Icon Books | Island Press | John Murray (pre-2004) | John Wiley & Sons | Kennedy & Boyd | Kohl Publishing | Marion Boyars | McEvoy Group | Methuen | Myrmidon Books | Oneworld | Open Road Media | Other Press | Oxenwood Press | Oxford University Press | Pallas Athene | Peirene Press | Persephone Books | Pickering & Chatto | Pluto Press | Profile Books | Pushkin Press | Quercus | Reprint Society | Rider & Co | Routledge | Salt Publishing | Secker and Warburg | Serpent’s Tail | SFBC | SnowBooks | Sort of Books | Sourcebooks | Sphere | Stork Press | Syracuse University Press | Telegram Books | Two Roads | Victor Gollancz | Virago (pre-1996) | Virago (1996-2006) | W W Norton & Co | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | Wordsworth Editions | Yale University Press
Non-Fiction History Presses – Amberley Publishing | The History Press | Oxbow Books | Pen & Sword Books
Leeds Presses – Basil Jackson Publications | Friends of Leeds City Museums | H. Jenkinson | Jowett and Sowry | Leeds Phil&Lit Society | S R Publishers | Smith Settle
