I’ve been perusing the old jotter that I use to write down the details of books I’ve read, as I finish them. It looks like I’ve read:

38 books by male authors

65 books by female authors

21 by Scottish authors

34 historical fiction books

9 non-fiction books

8 vintage crime books

3 books in translation

35 classics

18 children’s/YA books

1 poetry book

20 ish on my Kindle

I was surprised to see that there’s such a difference between the male and female writers, in previous years it has been fairly 50 – 50. I have read quite a few aimed at children or young adults and most of them have been by women I think. I must have missed some out though as according to Goodreads I read 115 books in 2022 so my stats don’t quite add up correctly. I was also surprised to see that I had read only eight vintage crime books as that is one of my favourite genres. In 2023 I hope to read more vintage crime, classics, books in translation and non-fiction. That’s the plan anyway!