All righty, I already covered total books in 2024, my top 10 fiction, and top 10 nonfiction. Let’s talk stats.

So the headline is obviously the total number: 224 books.

Holy cow.

I thought last year’s 184 was a ridiculous number, but now I’m soaring to new heights of ridiculous. My previous record was 203 books in 2014, and back then I read a lot more middle grade fiction, which are shorter and lead to inflated numbers. This year YA, middle grade, and graphic ...