After adding my new books to Goodreads yesterday, I went down the rabbit hole of looking at my categories and found them woefully incomplete. Cue 4 hours of listening to music while adding books that were on my Amazon wishlist, making sure all the kids books were labeled, adding a new category for teens and cross checking the rest of my adult fiction and non-fiction titles.
I’m not done yet but there has been a significant change in the numbers.
According to Goodreads I own 1204 books, a number which does not reflect the books I have multiple copies of (something I’m trying to resolve) and I’ve logged 1372 books.
Books to buy: 133
YA/Children’s books: 611 aka 50%
Teen: 140 or 11%
“Adult”: 453 and we so need a better descriptor for these titles
I mark all books, owned or not, as fiction or non-fiction. I’m thinking I should add a category for Poetry
Fiction: 1075 – 78% and probably a bit high with mis-tagged books
Non-Fiction: 216 – 15%