I have read 5 books since my last post! I'd thought I would do more, but I spent the last few days of the year blazing through a whole lot of writing to get one last fic posted on the AO3, and it's not as though I didn't already read a whole bunch this year, so I'll take it.
( A few last books to see the year out! )And now, as always, my top ten for the year, and some statistics about my reading overall.
My top ten, in no particular order:
- Stars, Hide Your Fires by Jessica Mary Best
- Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
- Paladin's Faith by T. Kingfisher
- Mortal Follies by Alexis Hall
- Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo
- The Red Scholar's Wake by Aliette de Bodard
- Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
- System Collapse by Martha Wells
- Scholomance Series by Naomi Novik
- Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
Overall, I read 165 books this year, thankfully 21 down from last year, which was a bit excessive. I didn't do a great job of savoring, as I had vague hopes of last year, but still, I read some good ones this year!
Of these books:
- 24 were rereads, down even from the year before, which was pretty similar to this year
- 9 were nonfiction, a vast change from the last two years of 3 apiece! Doing my book bingo really helped with that
- 6 were graphic novels, doubled from last year
- 2 were poetry, both by the same author
- 87 were SFF, which is drastically down and feels wrong somehow! Maybe I miscounted?
- 65 were romances, again down, but I think that's because there was a bit less fantasy/romance crossover
- 15 were mysteries (including the Beka Cooper books and Fugitive Telemetry), a new category for me to track
- 24 were written for YA or lower
That is my reading from the year, all summed up! I'm glad I met goals like getting a blackout on my book bingo card, which I intend to try again this year, and I did read at least a bit less than last year, but I just don't know if I really do much savoring, as a reader. Even when I take a long time to read something, it's reading in 100-page bursts several days apart. So I don't know if I should ask something of myself that simply isn't terribly feasible! In absence of that goal, I'll stick with book bingo, and trying to be better about putting things down when I'm not enjoying them, a perpetual goal I'm not great at.
What are your reading plans for the year?