Favorite Books of the Year
- The Magician's Land by Lev Grossman
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- Bunker Hill by Nathaniel Philbrick
- Valiant Ambition by Nathaniel Philbrick
- Cinder by Marissa Meyer
- Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink
- Forevermore by Kristen Calihan
- The Lost by Sarah Beth Durst
- Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
Honorable Mentions: The HM category is reserved for rereads that I really loved.
- The Magicians by Lev Grossman
- The Magician King by Lev Grossman
- Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Total Books Read – 132 books
Total Pages Read – 38,650 pages!!!!!
I averaged 3221 pages per month. My lowest month was December with only 1421 pages. My highest month was January with 4951 pages. I hope to read 35,000 pages next year.
Book Rating Stats
- 5 stars — 57 books
- 4 stars — 52 books
- 3 stars — 20 books
- 2 stars — 3 books
- 1 star —0 books
- DNFs — 2 books
Reading Challenges
Here’s the final breakdown:
- Perpetual 20/20 100%
- Read My Own Damn Books 40/40 100%
- I Love Libraries 24/24 100%
- Nonfiction 20/20 100%
- Popsugar 32/40 80%
- What's in a Name 3/6 50%
- Fairytale Retelling 7/10 70%
- Book to Movie 10/10 100%
- Finishing the Series 5/6 83.3%
- Graphic Novel 36/52 69.2%
- Women Authors 20/20 100%
- 52 Books in 52 Weeks 100%
- Picture Books 100/100 100%
Total: 8/13 challenges 61.5% done
Total: 369/400 slots 92.3% done
Overall Thoughts/Reflections/Musings/Ideas
2016 was a decent year of reading. I finished a couple of series, knocked a few books off my perpetual lists, and enjoyed some 5 star reads. Predictably, my reading pace slowed considerably after Quentin arrived at the end of September. But hopefully I can bring my reading back up to at least 30 minutes a day in 2017.