How Much I Spent on Books in 2016

Here’s the third edition in my series of how much money I spend on books each year.  You can read my posts from 2015 and 2014.

Books I Bought in 2016

Hardcover

• $20 – The Force Awakens
• $10 – Illuminae
• $17 – Jack
• $17 – Red
• $17 – Bloodline
• $11.16 – Calamity
• $0.75 – Star Wars Golden Books
• $18 – Star Wars Life Debt
• $16.19 – Lost Stars (Star Wars)
• $20 – Dracula
• $17.09 – Immortal Throne
• $16.66 – Star Wars Aftermath
• $15 – William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return
• $15 – William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back
• $22.50 – Bleak House
• $18 – Gemina
• $20 – Rogue One

Total Hardcover: $272.35 (was $133 last year)

Total number of Hardcovers: 17

Average per Hardcover: $16.02 (was $19 last year)

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Subsciption Boxes

(New for 2016! I put the full price of the book since it came with other items and I don’t know how much the book actually cost)

Owlcrate

• $18 – Da Vinci’s Tiger
• $20 – Worlds of Ink and Shadow
• $22 – The Serpent King
• $18 – The Love that Split the World
• $18 – This Savage Song
• $18 – Vassa Night
• $20 – Hearless
• $10.99 – Alice in Wonderland (paperback)

Uppercase

• $18 – Girl Against the Universe
• $18 – My Lady Jane

Once Upon a Book Club

• $26 – Lilac Girls
• $15.99 – The Ringmaster’s Wife

Litjoy

• $17.95 – Iron Cast
• $17.99 – Diabolic
• $18.99 – Scythe

Total Books from Subscription Boxes (book only price): $277.91

Total Books: 15

Average per book: $18.52

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Paperback

• $6.83 – Heir of Fire
• $6.70 – Firefight
• $9.17 – Loving What Is
• $1 – Earthbound
• $6 – Monuments Men

Total Paperback: $29.70 (was $69 last year)

Total number of Paperbacks: 5

Average per book: $5.94 (was $9.85 last year)

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eBook

• $10 – My Brilliant Friend
• $10 – The Nightingale
• $13.87 – The Everything Box
• $10 – Harry Potter #1 ibooks edition
• $10 – Harry Potter #2 ibooks edition
• $10 – Harry Potter #3 ibooks edition
• $10 – Harry Potter #4 ibooks edition
• $4 – Passanger
• $12.99 – Executioner’s Song
• $1.99 – Golem and the Jinni

Total eBook: $92.85 (was $79.25 last year)

Total number of eBooks: 10

Average per book: $9.29 (was $3.44 last year)

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Vintage

(New this year!)

• $37 – Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
• $50 – Emerald City of Oz
• $4 – Swan’s Way
• $20 – The Fountainhead
• $45 – Old Man and the Sea

Total for Vintage Books: $156

Total number of Vintage Books: 5

Average per book: $31.20

Total Spent on Books Overall:

$828.81

Number of books: 53

Average per book overall: $15.63

Last year I spent a total of $281.25 on books.  So…yeah. I spent a lot more this year.  Like almost 3 times as much.  Even without the vintage books (**see below), I spent twice as much as I usually do on books.  I think the subscription boxes had a lot to do with that.  Last year the average price per book was $7.60 which was a lot lower than this year because I got tons of cheap ebooks.  Man, reading is an expensive hobby!

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**Without Vintage Books

Since the vintage books I got might skew the numbers, I thought I would calculate the numbers without them.

Total spent without vintage books: $672.81

Number of Books: 48

Average per book without vintage books: $14.01