How Did My Reading Stack Up In 2019 Against Other Years?

Yesterday I posted all the books I read in 2019. Now the question is how that stacks up against other years. I only read 226 books, which would put 2019 as my third slowest reading year of the last ten. However, I kept reading a ton of long books. Poor Fellow My Country; Ducks, Newburyport, the Mission Earth series; the Malazan Book of the Fallen series; and so on. I may have only read 226 books, but that’s approximately 71,729 pages, or 6th place in the total page count. Way higher than that 226 would suggest. 2019 ties for first place for longest average book length at 317 pages. It’s not always a straight comparison across the board given the different size of different books, different complexity levels, and so on.  Anyway, here those stats for the last ten years listed out:

2019: 226 books 71,729 pages 317 page average per book

2018: 202 books 46,859 pages 231 page average per book

2017: 333 books 86,157 pages 258 page average per book

2016: 250 books 59,509 pages 238 page average per book

2015: 225 books 57,506 pages 256 page average per book

2014: 303 books 86,425 pages 285 page average per book

2013: 313 books 87,441 pages 279 page average per book

2012: 247 books 72,973 pages 295 page average per book

2011: 318 books 90,266 pages 284 page average per book

2010: 169 books 53,593 pages 317 page average per book