Book publishing numbers are inconsistently kept and reported by book sellers – and take even longer to be gathered and analyzed. So we are usually behind in evaluating dynamics like book sales by category. But it’s still good to keep a picture in mind of what happened last year! Here is a very top line look at what books are being read – or at least bought – for the year ending 2013.

What books did people buy to read in 2013?

2013 Reading by Category