Favorite Books of the Year

1. The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer
2. Yes, Please by Amy Poehler
3. Fire by Kristin Cashore
4. Dead Wake by Erik Larson
5. The Martian by Andy Weir
6. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
7. The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
8. Saga Vol. 1-4
9. First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen
10. Furiously Happy by Jenny Larson

Honorable Mentions: The HM category is reserved for rereads that I really loved.

• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
• Fables Series

Total Books Read –  117 books

Total Pages Read – 35,897 pages

I averaged 2908 pages per month.  My lowest month was December with only 1769 pages.  My highest month was April with 4544 pages.  I hope to read 35,000 pages next year.

Book Rating Stats 

• 5 stars — 45 books
• 4 stars — 40 books
• 3 stars — 30 books
• 2 stars —1 books
• 1 star — 0 books
• DNFs — 3

Special Projects/Features

Readathons —I completed 5 readathons this year. While I enjoy readathons, my life now just doesn't allow much time to do a readathon. Next year I won't be participating in any.

Bloggiesta in September —I enjoyed spending a weekend working on my blog. I completed a fair number of tasks and made progress on a few more. I'll definitely be participating next year.

Day Zero Project  –- After restarting this project in early 2015, I've made decent progress on this large-scale project.

Quote Wednesday —An easy post that I now do biweekly.

Currently -- I like to sprinkle these in sometimes.

Music Monday —Always love my Music Monday posts.

Top Ten Tuesday — I didn't participate that much this year, but I occasionally do...

Fashion Friday —Love my Fashion Friday posts. They are a lot of fun to make.

Arthur Updates —Since Arthur is now 2 years old, I'm only doing these twice a year...

Thanks/Odds and Ends/Fun Videos —Definitely keeping this rotation next year. I helps change up the posts.

Reading Challenges

Here’s the final breakdown:

• Fantasy Project 4/5  80%
• Nonfiction Adventure 10/10 100%
• NPR Scifi and Fantasy 2/5  40%
• NPR Teen 5/5 100%
• Top 100 YA 4/5  80%
• 21st Century Women Authors 2/5 40%
• US of YA 0/5 0%
• Time Top 100 0/5 0%
• Rory Gilmore 2/5 40%
• 1001 Books 2/5 0%
• Anne Rice  0/5 0%
• Feminism 4/10 40%
• TBR Reduction 46/48 95.8%
• Mount TBR  36/36  100%
• Library 12/12 100%
• Ebooks  22/25  88%
• Read Your Freebies   12/12  100%
• A to Z 20/26 76.9%
• What’s in a Name   6/6  100%
• Picture Books   150/150  100%
• Seriously Series  9/10   90%
• Books to Movies  7/12 58.3%
• 52 Books in 52 Weeks   52/52  100%
• Fairy Tale 10/10 100%
• Dewey Decimal 10/10 100%
• Banned Books 0/5  0%
• Back to the Classics   6/10  60%
• New Author   15/15  100%
• Blogger Recommendations 1/10  10%
• Outlander 1/8 12.5%
• OLW Home 10/10 100%

Total:  12/31 challenges  38.7% done

Total:  458/533 slots  85.9% done

Overall Thoughts/Reflections/Musings/Ideas