Favorite Books of the Year (in no particular order):

1. The Great Halifax Explosion by John U. Bacon

2. NOS4R2 by Joe Hill

3. Circe by Madeline Miller

4. For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund

5. Paper Girls Vol. 1-4

6. Every Heart a Doorway (and sequels) by Seanan McGuire

7. The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

8. Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

9. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

10. Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

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

• Dracula by Bran Stoker

Total Books Read – 217 books

Total Pages Read – 59,137 pages!!!!!

I averaged 4928 pages per month.  My lowest month was August with only 3477 pages.  My highest month was June with 9362 pages.  I hope to read 45,000 pages next year.

Book Rating Stats 

• 5 stars — 90 books

• 4 stars — 92 books

• 3 stars — 32 books

• 2 stars — 2 books

• 1 star — 1 books

• DNFs —  0 books

Here’s the final breakdown:

Total: 10/16 challenges  62.5% done

Total: 477/491 slots 91.7% done

Overall Thoughts/Reflections/Musings/Ideas

2018 was a record year for reading! I’ve never gotten past 150 books in a year and here I am sitting at 217. Truly I don’t know how I did it. I do know that I prioritize reading as my downtime activity. But I also do read 15 minutes here and there while semi-engaged with other activities (monitoring kid bath time, watching for dinner to finish simmering, etc). I doubt that 2019 will see the same results, but I’m going to continue my reading.

Next up on the TBR pile: