Favorite book of the year: Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
Honorable Mentions: Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson, Firstborn by Brandon Sanderson (seeing a trend here?), The Pyramids of London by Andrea K. Höst, My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga, and The High King's Golden Tongue by Megan Derr (all five-stars!)
Favorite series: Percy Jackson and the Olympians/The Heroes of Olympus by Rick Riordan. (Yes, I'm calling them one series. I'm okay with that.)
Book That I Didn't Expect to Like As Much As I Did: dog songs by Mary Oliver, Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Longest in pages: Freedom And Not Peace by Lightning on the Wave, at 2,226 pages (go go crazy long fanfic?)
Longest in minutes: The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan at 30 hrs and 2 mins
Series to finish: The Lunar Chronicles, The Raven Boys, The Wheel of Time, Throne of Glass (and like eighty more, but these are the standouts)
Authors I'm probably going to read everything by: Brandon Sanderson, Robert Jordan, Rick Riordan, Sarah J. Maas, Tana French, Rachel Caine
Total books ingested: 316
Re-reads/listens: 41, or 12.97%
Total books read: 296 or 93.67% of my books
Total pages read: 84,348
Average pages per book: 266
Average pages per day: 231
Audiobooks ingested: 20 or 6.32% of my books
Minutes spent listening: 11,800 (just counting finished books), or 196.6 hours or 8.19 days. So more than a week. Out of 52 weeks. Or, actually, given I discovered audiobooks halfway through the year almost exactly, out of 26 weeks. Good gog.
Average minutes per audiobook: 590, or 9.8 hours.
Average minutes per day: 32, so half an hour a day (or, again, given I only picked them up halfway through the year, an hour a day I was actually listening. Good grief.)
Scores:
1: 12 (3.79%)
2: 24 (7.59%)
3: 192 (60.75%)
4: 82 (25.94%)
5: 6 (1.89%)
Did not finish: 2 (Officially marked as such--there's a crop I may never get back to, but I didn't actually decide I'd never read them, just that I wouldn't read them now. The perils of a mood reader...)
So I liked 88.58% of what I read. Pretty good odds, really.
Average: 3.14 (Pi! If ever there was a need to prove I am a geek (you know, beyond nested parentheses on the math portion of a book blog), there it is!)
Reviews Written/Published: 177, or very close to one every other day.
Sorry for all the math, but it is loads of fun.
This was a pretty good year, all told. A solid selection of five-star books, I read quite a few, I managed to get into comics and audiobooks (both of which have been on my list of things to try for years), and I accidentally got addicted to a few new authors/series/books. All in all, a year I can look back on in pleasure.
Have a look at my favorites from the past 12 months. Maybe you'll see something you'll want to give yourself as a gift this holiday season.
Also, feel free to let me know your favorite reads from the past year. Slap a link or a list in the comments below.
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