More About 2013's Reading

Last week in my year-end post I mentioned that I'd read 128 books in 2013. If anybody's interested, here's the breakdown in what genres they were:

46 Westerns

25 Graphic Novels

22 Mysteries

10 Science Fiction

7 Horror

7 General Fiction

6 Non-fiction

2 War Novels

2 Romance

1 Humor

As far as formats go, here are those numbers:

Books Read Electronically (e-books, PDFs, Word documents – 66)

Hardbacks – 15

Trade Paperbacks – 30

Paperbacks – 8

Pulps – 6 (although there were probably at least a dozen pulp reprints scattered through the other formats)

I read 14 books that were sent to me as review copies. It seemed like more than that, so I may have overlooked one or two. I read 24 books from libraries. I read multiple books by various authors:

Garth Ennis – 5

Ed Gorman – 5

Frank Roderus – 5

Keith Souter – 5

Robert J. Randisi – 4

Jory Sherman – 4

Lawrence Block – 3

Geoff Johns – 3

I read 2 books by 'way too many authors to list. I've never been the type to go on a binge and read a bunch of books by the same author, though. 5 or 6 is usually the most I'll read by the same author in one year.

The most important thing is that I read a bunch of good books last year. My plan is to do that this year, too.