Esther's Friend Comments

Reading statistics for 2018:

Goodreads tells me that I've read 64 books and 20'758 pages in 2018.
Here are my statistics:

Nationalities of the writers I read:
16 % American, French, German
8% Italian
6 % British
4% Swiss
3 % Austrian, Congolese, Spanish
1,5 % American-Nigerian, Cameroonian, Canadian, Canadian-German, Dutch, Finnish, Israeli, Israeli-American, Japanese, Japanese-American, Morrocan, Nigerian, Russian, Saudi Arabian, Vietnamese-American

Sex of the writers I read:
64 % male
36 % female

Genres of the books I read:
75% Fiction
6,5% Biography (in the largest sense)
6,5% Non-Fiction
6,5% Psychology
5% Travel


My ratings:
5* for 9 books
4* for 32 books
3* for 20 books
2* for 3 books

Languages I read this year:
31 % French
31 % English
31 % German
6 % Italian


Form of the book
67 % in paper form
22 % as e-book
11 % as audiobook

Source of the book
52 % library
45 % own
3% from friend

The books I liked the most:
Girl at War Sara Novic
Walking the Nile Levison Wood
Das Genie Klaus Cäsar Zehrer
Small World Martin Suter
The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
Les Maquisards Hemley Boum
L'Arminuta Donatella Di Pietrantonio
Un océan, deux mers, trois continents Wilfried N'Sondé
Patria Fernando Aramburu

Oldest work I read this year
Der Meister und Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov 1967

Newest works I read this year:
Speak No Evil Uzodinma Iweala
The Immortalists Chloe Benjamin
Die kommenden Jahre Norbert Gstrein
The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen
Patria Fernando Aramburu
Un océan, deux mers, trois continents Wilfried N'Sondé
Von Vögeln und Menschen Margriet de Moor
Unter der Drachenwand: Roman Arno Geiger
La Belle de Casa In Koli Jean Bofane
La Vraie Vie Adeline Dieudonné
Sechs Koffer Maxim Biller

Most voluminous book:
New York Edward Rutherfurd (1'020 pages)

Least voluminous book
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates (152 pages)

Reading statistics for 2014:

Nationalities of the writers I read:
16.18 % German
14.71 % French
13.24 % British, US Amercian
10.29 % Swiss
5.88 % Austrian, Iranian
2.94 % Italian
1.47% Bosnia and Herzegowina, Cameroun, Canada, Colombia, Finnland, Japan, Nigeria, Peru, Rwanda, South Africa, Spain, Ukraine

Sex of the writers I read:
70 % male
30 % female

Genres of the books I read:
69.11 % Fiction
14.70 % Travel
5.89 % Non fiction
5.89 % Guide books
4.41 % Biography, Autobiography

Average number of pages per book: 283

My ratings:
5* for 18 books
4* for 24 books
3* for 23 books
2* for 3 books

Languages I read this year:
36.76 % French
29.42 % German
27.94 % English
2.94 % Italian
2.94 % Spanish

Kai wrote: "Wow, Du bist ja noch vieeel fremdsprachiger unterwegs als ich. Was die Inspiration angeht: Gern geschehen ;-) Falls es Dich interessiert, kann ich Dir auch meine Excel-Datei als Muster zukommen las..."

Danke für das Angebot! Aber ich bin doch mit einem Ingenieur verheiratet (der mir eine Excel Datei gebastelt hat, die die Statistiken in Prozente umrechnet :-) )

Wow, Du bist ja noch vieeel fremdsprachiger unterwegs als ich. Was die Inspiration angeht: Gern geschehen ;-) Falls es Dich interessiert, kann ich Dir auch meine Excel-Datei als Muster zukommen lassen, die rechnet einen Teil der Statistiken automatisch für mich aus.

Following the example of a friend on Goodreads, I have also calculated some reading statistics for 2013:

Nationalities of the writers I read:
25.00 % German
21.88 % French
12.50 % Swiss
6.25 % US Amercian
3.13 % Belgian, Brazilian, British, Israeli, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, South African, Spanish

Sex of the writers I read:
74.47 % male
25.53 % female

Genres of the books I read:
87.23 % Novel, Stories
10.64 % Travel and Geography
2.13 % Biography, Autobiography

Average number of pages per book: 334

My ratings:
5* for 11 books
4* for 22 books
3* for 12 books
2* for 2 books

Languages I read this year:
36.17 % French
31.91 % German
29.79 % English
2.13 % Italian

(DANKE für die Inspiration, Kai!)