Reading Roundup Year in Review, 2018/19

By tradition, I track my reading from September through August, so now that September 2019 is underway, I am doing my annual report on what reading I did last year.

It was a slightly below average year for me (my annual average is 153), but pretty close to average, and better than I was expecting, actually, given the challenges and events of the past year. Maybe it was all the middle-of-the-night reading during sleep training?

Here's how my reading this year broke down by category: (I typically only break out a series or author if I read more than one in the past year)

SERIES/GENRE/AUTHOR	# OF BOOKS	BOOKS/ MONTH	% OF ALL BOOKS
Star Trek1	19½	1.6	13.4%
Doctor Who	12	1.0	8.2%
Star Wars1	7	0.6	4.8%
Planet of the Apes	1	0.1	0.7%
Media Tie-In Subtotal	39½	3.3	27.1%
The Expanse	5	0.4	3.4%
Ursula K. Le Guin	3	0.3	2.1%
Discworld	2	0.2	1.4%
Other SF&F	37	3.1	25.3%
General SF&F Subtotal	47	3.9	32.2%
The Transformers	5½	0.5	3.8%
Superman	2	0.2	1.4%
Legion of Super-Heroes	2	0.2	1.4%
Other DCU Comics	3	0.3	2.1%
Marvel Comics	3	0.3	2.1%
Brian K. Vaughan	3	0.3	2.1%
Other Comics	5	0.4	3.4%
Comics Subtotal	23½	2.0	16.1%
Hornblower by C. S. Forester	11	0.9	7.5%
Charles Kinglsey	2	0.2	1.4%
Other Victorian Literature	11	0.9	7.5%
James Bond by Ian Fleming	3	0.3	2.1%
Other Literature	3	0.3	2.1%
General Literature Subtotal	30	2.5	20.5%
Other Nonfiction2	6	0.5	4.1%

1. Comic books in series that are predominantly not comics I don't count under my "Comics" category, but under the series's main designation.
2. Nonfiction connected to a particular series or author (e.g., Le Guin, Hornblower) is included in that series or author's count.

I always kind of fret about this distribution; somehow I never read as much "literature" as I intend. Last year, "General Literature" was 5.8% of my total, so that is a pretty nice increase. On the flipside of the high/lowbrow divide, I went from 20 Transformers comics last year to just 5½ this year! Thank God I finally got to the end of all those Humble Bundles. As always, my non-tie-in SF&F is buoyed by reading Hugo finalists, which was the whole idea of doing it.

Here's a graphical sense of how this year compares with previous ones:

You can compare this to previous years if you're interested: 2007/08, 2008/09, 2009/10, 2011/12, 2012/13, 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18. (I didn't do ones for 2010/11 and 2013/14.)