It was a pretty good reading year, with no DNFs or 1-star books.
Stats:
Total New Books: 94
Total Including Rereads: 104
Average Rating: 3.8
Pages Read: 36,283
Audiobooks: 30
Ebooks: 12
Science Fiction and Fantasy: 50
Nonfiction: 20
Longest Book: Gone with the Wind (1,037 pages)
Runners-up: The Way of Kings (1,007), The Thousand Deaths of Ardor Benn (784)
Favorite Books:
I absolutely adored these books:
Home Before Dark (Riley Sager)
Woven (Bree Moore)
The Thousand Deaths of Ardor Benn (Tyler Whitesides)
The Wendy (Erin Michelle Sky and Steven Brown)
Honorable Mentions:
These were awesome, too:
The Devil Aspect (Craig Russell)
Age of Empyre (Michael J. Sullivan)
Starsight (Brandon Sanderson)
The Goblin Emperor (Katherine Addison)
Active Memory (Dan Wells)
Re-Reads:
I re-read some favorites, including The Way of Kings (Brandon Sanderson), The Amulet of Samarkand (Jonathan Stroud), and Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (J. K. Rowling).
Top Nonfiction:
United States of Socialism: Who’s Behind It. Why It’s Evil. How to Stop It. (Dinesh D’Souza)
False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet (Bjørn Lomborg)
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 (Garrett M. Graff)
Best Indie/Small Press Books:
Strangers (Michaelbrent Collings)
Woven (Bree Moore)
The Wendy (Erin Michelle Sky and Steven Brown)
Author Friends:
Some of my writing group friends have books out, and I made an effort to read more of them this year. These are the ones I got to, and they’re good:
Shatter (Nikki Trionfo)
Blood Creek Witch (Jay Barnson)
Crystal King (John Olsen)
Stonebearer’s Betrayal (Jodi Milner)
Series Progress:
I also tried to focus on sequels and was able to finish these series:
Beyonders (Brandon Mull)
Mirador (Dan Wells)
Magnus Chase (Rick Riordan)
Harry Dresden (Jim Butcher)
The Others (Anne Bishop)
Themis Files (Sylvain Neuvel)
I made small progress in these series:
Heroes of Olympus (Rick Riordan)
Discworld (Terry Pratchett)
The Queen’s Thief (Megan Whalen Turner)
The Guide and the Sword (Jared Garrett)
Chaos Walking (Patrick Ness)
Old Man’s War (John Scalzi)
Books I Edited:
These are books I did various kinds of editing for:
Age of Empyre by Michael J. Sullivan (beta read, gamma read/proofread)
Fly With Me by Julie Hahn (content, copy edit)
The Perfect Outcast by Melissa Ott Hansen (content, copy edit)
In the Wake of Captain Lord: A Tony Flaner Mystery by Johnny Worthen (copy edit)
Tips and Tricks for ADHD Writers by Robin Glassey (copy edit)
Spooked by a Suspicion by Risa Nyman (content, copy edit)
Nolyn by Michael J. Sullivan (beta read)
Least Favorite Books:
These were two-star books that I read for challenges:
Pompeii (Robert Harris)
A Graveyard for Lunatics: Another Tale of Two Cities (Ray Bradbury)
A-Z Challenge:
Going by author last names, I got all the alphabet except I, J, Q, R, U, V, W and Z. If I’m allowed to count first names as well, then I was only missing Q, U, and X. Authors with M last names topped the list at 19 books. S authors were close behind with 18.
