2024 Blogging Stats AND New Wild Cards for 2025!

Check out this sweet infographic to see the blogging stats for 2024!

Please note: there are extenuating circumstances for the readers of both the most and least books in 2024. Annie started blogging in November, so she obviously didn't have enough time to blog as prolifically as other bloggers. And because of my ALA committee, I read WAY more than I would otherwise (and honestly would not recommend trying to read at the rate I had to, especially in November and December). So keep that in mind as you look over the data!

ALSO: we have new wild card categories for 2025 books! This year, books get extra points if they:

• Feature a library at some point in the book (make sure you tag "library" in your blog post if you want those points!)
• Have a preposition in the title

More info is on the Wild Card page of the blog. If you need any other clarification, ask Regan or me!

September totals AND new wild cards!!!

Christa  12/2878

Jan  4/1152

Kara  8/2969

Kathleen  1/270

Linda  1/478

Regan  5/1391

Total: 31/9138

Hey, September means a new blogging year and new wild card categories! This year, we'll be getting extra points for:

• Books featuring train rides
• Authors with their middle initial on the cover
• Bloggers who have NEVER BLOGGED BEFORE

Check out the wild card page for more details on those, glance over your September titles to let me know if there were any train-inclusive books I missed in my counting (psst! I guarantee I missed a bunch), and start leaning on your coworkers to start blogging!

Challenge year totals and new wild cards!

The official Missouri Book Challenge year has finished, and we're now 9 days into the next challenge year. Here are the final totals for the year, which ran Sept. 1, 2014-Aug. 31, 2015:

Amy  52/15,411
Christa  113/31,784
K  6/1,305
Kara  87/24,038
Karen  84/25,864
Kathleen  57/18,271
Linda  46/16,169
Marilyn  12/3,338
Natalie  1/192
Patrick  95/33,591
Rob  1/430

Grand total: 554 books/170,393 pages/11 bloggers

No, these aren't the wild Cards we're talking about.

2014-2015 wild cards: 
12 books originally published more than 100 years ago
27 books told from an animal's point of view
6 bloggers who have worked here for 5 years or more

****NEW WILD CARD CATEGORY ANNOUNCEMENT****

During the 2015-2016 challenge year, we get extra points for books that feature diseases or medicine; books that have been translated from another language; and for bloggers who were born outside of Missouri. Please tag your posts with "disease" or "translated" if your book applies!