Since I began tracking my books in a spreadsheet in 2018, I’ve got a bunch of data I can now look at on my reading habits.

One thing I took a stab at was a “duration chart” that could show the reading patterns over time, based on when I started and finished each book.

Using this stacked bar chart style, you can see which books I stalled out on and put down for long periods. Not a judgment on those books’ respective merits, more of a criticism of my dodgy reading habits. The Federalist had probably a full 6 month fallow period where I forgot about it.

Some other fun-but-meaningless statistics:

Total Pages

18,983¹

Type

• Fiction: 24%
• Nonfiction 76%

Formats

• Audiobook: 57%
• Kindle: 13%
• Real Book: 30%

Authors I read more than one from

• Nassim Taleb
• Cixin Liu
• HP Lovecraft
• Jonathan Haidt

Oldest book

• Epictetus’s Discourses, written 108 AD

Top 5 genres (from tags)

1. History
2. Philosophy
3. Psychology
4. Science
5. Business