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2024 By the Numbers

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Let’s take a look at IHS by the numbers for 2024!

TB here.

I’m still trying to come to terms with the fact that 2025 has started. The older I get, the faster the years fly by. Which is a little terrifying.

In good news, IHS had its best year yet. We had our fingers crossed we’d hit 2 million views and over 250,000 visitors. We smashed both of those goals! See the actual numbers below.

In 2024, we introduced a few new features.
  • Guess the Author gives readers five clues, one in each of our Monday through Friday posts, before revealing the author’s identity on Saturday.
  • Over on our Patreon account, we feature an author each week, which includes the insanely popular 3 truths and a lie post on Mondays.
  • Every Sunday we publish a list of preorders.
  • We also hosted two mini-reading challenges in addition to the yearlong challenge. All three were popular with readers.

We have some ideas about new features for 2025. Stay tuned!

All the hard work paid off, because not only did we crush our 2024 goals, but the sheer number of kind emails from readers powered us through the stressful times when we had to juggle so much. This website is a lot for the two of us to manage, but it’s a real labor of love and we hope it has a true impact for sapphic readers and authors.

Before we get to the most-clicked books of 2024, here are some IHS stats for last year.

2024 stats for:

Clicks on Genius links: 531,420 (Up 67,530 from 2023)
Site views: 2,120,036 (Up 666,632 from 2023)
Website Visitors: 264,053 (Up 60,053 from 2023)

Overall numbers:

Number of books in the database at the end of 2024: 8,171 (2,743 were added in 2024)
BookFinder (database) & All Categories searches during 2024: 100,906
Most viewed page in 2024: Bookfinder
IHS Facebook Reader Group member total at the end of 2024: 5,111 (1,409 joined in 2024)

Most Clicked Books of 2024

Without further ado, here are the top 25 most clicked books on IHS during 2024. We’ve listed them starting with number 25.

And the most clicked book of 2024 is…

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