2024 Reading Stats!

The time has come to go through my 2024 reading stats! This is the last of my 'end of year' posts (you can find part one and part two of my best books of 2024 lists here and here, respectively!) and it's usually one of my favorite s to make because it's really fun to just get a broad look at what my reading year was like as a whole and be able to pinpoint certain trends and even better understand my reading. To obtain these stats, I take a few graphics from the Goodreads year in review, and the rest are from my personal Excel spreadsheet where I keep track of the books I read throughout the year and some additional information about them like page counts, format, publisher, etc. I do this every year, and last year's post can be found here.

Before I get into the stats, just a quick note to say I apologize for not getting this up last week as I had planned! I live in the Los Angeles area and the recent fires definitely impacted my ability to focus and get some things done. I fortunately live a little outside of the evacuation zones and am safe here with my husband and dog, but it's been really heartbreaking to see all of the devastation occurring around us. I'm hoping this post can be a little bit of a reprieve where I can just focus on books and reading and you can also just focus on books and reading, so let's get into it!

Yearly Totals:

The funniest part is that I think I read less pages than last year, yet more books! I think this is because for some reason, there were a lot more novellas and just slightly shorter books that were published this year and I happened to read a lot of them, I guess. Has anyone else noticed that the average page count of new releases seems a bit shorter than they used to be, or is it just me?

The average page length was 377 last year, so definitely lower this year and my reading hasn't changed too much.

This almost always ends up being my average rating because it's usually a little inflated since I typically round up my ratings on Goodreads (for instance, I do a lot of .25, .5, and .75 star ratings).

Unsurprising top book (not the best, but I'm committed to the series at this point), but ya'll, go read Baby Bird for all your body horror needs and give it some love!


So this is the book that came up in the my end of year review, but I went to my shelf on Goodreads to verify and there were actually two books with a 4.57 average rating at the time so I'm taking that as a tie and I'm including both books! Both of these make sense for having really high ratings because one, of course they are great reads, but two, they are later books in different series and typically people who have made it that far in a series are already enjoying and are likely to keep enjoying it. That being said, both of these reviews are a blast and I recommend both. 

I just wanted to include this because I loved this book so much. I don't think I did a full length review for it, though, only shared my thoughts here on Goodreads. 

Stats:
Alright, now it's time to get to the nitty-gritty details of what I read this year. In this section, I'll take a look at genres, page count, format, etc. I tend to compare it to my previous year's post to see how things change year to year. So, let's have a look:

Genre

Some of these numbers are ridiculously similar to last year, so I guess I can be fairly consistent. This year, my fantasy slice (38.3%) is just about the same as last year (38.6%), and my historical fiction is also about the same as last year (6%). I did mean to read more historical fiction this year because I really do love it, but I guess that didn't really happen, haha. I thought my horror slice (22.8%) would be bigger this year because I felt like I read a lot of horror, but it was actually slightly lower than last year (25%), and I am wondering if I included any thrillers in the horror section last year. This year I have a general 'fiction' category (9.4%) that includes general fiction and literary fiction, and that is relatively the same. My science fiction slice (8.7%) declined a bit, but my nonfiction is probably what increased the most–from 2.3% last year to 11.4% this year! I really did read a decent bit of nonfiction this year, and that's something I'd love to keep up this year. 

Target Audience

This, as usual, is no surprise. I mainly read books in the adult category (94.2%), and very seldom pick up young adult books (3.9%) these days. I am a bit surprised my middle grade category (1.9%) is so low, though, as I really do love some good middle grade, so I'll have to pay more attention to that one this year!

Format

These are surprisingly stable, as well. The biggest change is hardcover, which was 6.7% last year and is up to 14.9% this year. I chose not to separate out finished copies sent from publishers from library/owned copies, so that could account for it a bit this year as well.  Physical ARCs also decreased slightly to 20%, though I feel like I got more finished copies than ARCs this year for some reason from publishers. Audiobooks only went up one percent (37%) from last year, and eARCs went down to 15.6%. It's still wild to me sometimes that audiobooks make up such a big part of my reading considering how much I struggled with them in the past, but now I really enjoy them. 

Book Source

There are definitely some changes on this one! One change I made this year was I combined gifts that I have purchased and books that I've received as gifts into one 'owned' category. Still, I read more in the owned slice (25.3%) than last year's gifted and purchased combined (2.3%+11.5%), so it's always good to see I'm reading books off my shelves, haha. NetGalley is down a little this year at 17.5% (23.8% last year), but I do think I made it through ebooks a bit more slowly this year for some reason. My library usage (31.2%) apparently doubled this year, so hooray for that! I love my library, and I also love being able to use the Libby app to more easily access audiobooks. Publisher (24.7%) also decreased slightly, but I think that's because I tried to focus on some of the books I already owned as well last year. I also included author (1.3%) as a source, since I do still occasionally review books from authors who directly request a review! I used to do a lot more of these, but it's tapered off a bit in recent years. 

Page Count

Most of my page counts are similar to last year, with the only noticeable increases being in the 1-200 page range, which tracks with what I mentioned earlier about somehow ending up reading a lot of shorter books that were published this year. I have a feeling this year might get me back into higher amounts of chunkier books due to some fantasy reading plans, among other, but time will tell!

Tell me about your year in books! Do you keep track of information for stats like this? If you do and you made a post that I haven't seen–or any type end of year post–leave me a link below because I love checking them out!

2021 End of Year Book Stats & Overview

 

Well, this post took far longer than I expected to finally post, but it's here! This is one of my favorite yearly posts to make because I love getting to step back and see how my overall year of reading went and what sort of books I gravitated to over the year. 2021 in particular was a weird year where I felt like my reading was a bit more unpredictable, and being a mood reader I never know what to expect from any year. There's a lot I could say about last year, but I think we should just skip that and move into the stats, starting with some information provided from Goodreads' annual Year in Review!

I am so surprised that I ended up reading 167 books this past year! Last year was truly crazy, between finishing up my Master's, searching for a new job, moving, and adopting a dog... let's just say there were a lot of days where I barely read anything. Three things I think I'd credit somewhat for still having read so much was that I really leaned into just letting myself read what I felt like rather than forcing myself to read things, reading more audiobooks, and maybe even reading more horror (I seem to speed through horror far quicker than others... I just have to know what's happening!). I'm really glad I was able to get in so many books last year, but I definitely don't plan to try to match that number next year (though I wouldn't complain if I can!). 

My average book length was a bit shorter this year, but it's still pretty on point for the type of books I read. I felt like I read a lot of pretty fat tomes this year, but I also recall that there seemed to be more shorter books I read as well, so I guess it all evens out. The Stormlight Archives books almost always seem to take the prize for longest book if I read one that year, so that makes sense. And The Drowned is a horror graphic novel from Laini Taylor and Jim DiBartolo, which was a fun look into some early work of theirs. 

I don't really take too much stock in these average Goodreads ratings, but I always like to share them anyway. Mine are always inflated because I tend to round up on Goodreads, and I do a lot .5 or .75s. I guess I'm either somewhat easy to please or I'm good at picking books I'll like. Still, it seems overly high!

This is one of those years where I sort of wish I had taken out the least popular book to see what it really was because I am literally the only person on Goodreads to have read it. It's a personal family ancestry-related thing, and I added it to Goodreads in order to add it to my books for the year, so yeah, it's pretty obvious it'd be the least popular, haha. I think Alice's Adventures in Wonderland being most popular is not that surprising, either. I re-read it this year via audio for the first time and it was a really fun new experience to read the story. Alice is a favorite!

In case you can't read that tiny font, that's a 4.72 average, which is crazy high! In all fairness, Jade Legacy is the final book in a trilogy which often predisposes books to higher ratings, but that's still exceptionally high and all the kudos to Fonda Lee for writing such a fantastic finale. I absolutely loved it and think it more than deserves that high average rating. 

Stats:
And lastly, my favorite section: the stats! I keep a running spreadsheet throughout the year with some basic info about the books I read, and then I create some fun graphs with some of that info every year to see what I'm reading, where it's from, who it's for, etc. I love doing this, and I also love seeing other peoples' stats, so if you have your own end of year post, do let me know. Without further ado, let's jump into the stats!

Genre

In a surprise to no one, I read a lot of fantasy (48.8%) this year! I would say the biggest change this year is how much horror (15.2%)  this year. I really got into horror this year and I'm excited to keep exploring the genre–I don't think I ever realized how much I really seem to enjoy it until the last couple of years. I also read a bit more nonfiction (6.7%) this year which I'm happy about because I've been wanting to incorporate more into my reading. I also read more sci-fi (9.8%) than last year (yay!) and quite a bit less historical fiction (5.5%), but for some reason I just wasn't feeling it as much last year? Hopefully this year I get back into that more .

Target Audience

And yet other obvious one, the majority of my reading was comprised of adult books (87.4%). I surprisingly read more young adult (7.8%) than middle grade (4.8%), and I'm hoping to find more middle grade this year to check out. I've struggled a lot with young adult lately, so I didn't expect it to be very high.

Format

This one is pretty evenly spread out overall, with one new category–audiobooks! 2021 is the year I really ran with audiobooks, and I'm glad I've finally been able to figure out that I can really enjoy some! I'm a little surprised at how close eARCs( 20.3%), physical ARCs (20.3%), paperbacks (22.2%), and hardcovers (27.8%) are! I actually find reading hardcovers more uncomfortable than paperback so that's also interesting, but libraries and new releases tend to be hardcover. I feel pretty good about these stats.

Book Source

This was an interesting one! I'm so glad that I was able to read so many books that I already owned this year (28.8%)–it's nice to actually work on that TBR, haha. Library usage (17.1%) was down a little as well because of various library closures and the fact that I was reading more of my own books. I also got quite a large number of books from the publisher (33.5%) and NetGalley (15.9%), so that makes up a good portion. I'm just glad it means I'm not spending that much on books... right?

Page Count

This year had more books on the lower range than there usually are and I have no idea why! Maybe there were just more smaller books published or something? Who's to say? Still, the majority of those pages came in between 300-500, which makes sense since that's the most average page count size. 

Tell me about your year in books! Do you keep track of information for stats like this? (If you do and you made a post that I haven't seen, leave me a link because I love looking at them! Or if you have any 'end of year' sort of post, link that also so I can check it out!)

2019 End of Year Book Stats & Overview

Now that I've shared all of my favorite books from the past year, I finally get to share my favorite beginning of the year post--yearly stats! I love the information the Goodreads 'Year in Review' provides and ever since I started keeping track on my own of some information about the books and authors I read this year I've loved looking at those charts as well. 

I didn't include any of the readings I did for school, which would definitely add a few more books, but I figure I'll try to keep them separate from those I read more for pleasure.

150 books genuinely shocking to me. I always felt like it was taking me a long time to get through books this year, yet my monthly wrap-ups always seemed bigger than I anticipated...and somehow it ended up at this. That comes out to roughly 12-13 books a month and that seems mostly accurate (somehow). I always set my Goodreads goal around 50 or 60 books because I know I can probably hit that without too much stress, but I also unofficially aim to read a few books more than I read the previous year (without pressure), but next year I think it's safe to say that I am not going to attempt that, haha. This year was also busier for me than previous years, considering I started working more hours, started grad school in the fall, and still had my blog. I'm thinking I must've just really dived into my books as stress relief more heavily than I used to, otherwise I have no idea how this happened (or maybe I'm using my time more efficiently?).

I anticipated that Islandia would be my longest (second was probably Kingdom of Ash at ~900+, which was one of the first books I read this year!) and the two short stories by Mike Thorn would be the shortest, so no huge surprises there. It's a little amusing to see just how far apart those numbers are, though. Average length at 404 pages seems about right given that fantasy is my favorite genre and they tend to be on the longer side, though last year's average was apparently 382 pages. It's probably all those sequels that somehow grow in length after the debut!

I want to know what the most popular book would've been before I read The Night Circus since I have to say that I'm not that surprised by it being the most popular. I thought more people had read Mike Thorn's stories, but 30 still beats the the 3 from my low last year! My average rating, unsurprisingly, stayed the same from last year at 4.2 and that's largely due to the fact that I can't do half-star ratings on Goodreads. 

Also, I'm so excited that Spit and Song is the highest rated! It is highly deserved and such a great book, I'm glad people are loving it as much as I did. 

Stats:
Now we can dive into some of the stats I've collected from my spreadsheet! As with last year, I'd like to apologize for some of the font/color sizes on the labels on these charts. I'm not super fancy and used Google Sheets, so I couldn't adjust things as much as I'd like to be able to.

Genre

Compared to last year, I read 5% less fantasy and filled that in with other genres, so I guess I did a good(ish) job of branching out from fantasy, even though it's still the majority of what I read. The overwhelming majority of what I read is still within the speculative fiction realm, though, with categories like science fiction (10.7%), post-apocalyptic (1.3%), horror (6%), etc. I managed to up my historical fiction a bit as well, though for how much I love historical fiction I'm still surprised at how small of a percentage that one is. 

Target Audience

Once again, this is pretty predictable for me. I mainly read adult books with the occasional YA fantasy and I tend to read middle grade books at night before bed (I like to keep my books a little lighter because I tend to have very vivid dreams and would rather avoid any inspired by a dark book before bed). 

Format

This one's always interesting to me to see the result of. Just to explain my labels, ARC (23.5%) just means physical ARCs, eBook (3.4%) are those that I actually purchased, and eARCs (15.4%) are those from places like NetGalley or review requests from authors. Considering how few eBooks I buy (I prefer to buy physical), 3.4% seems like a lot. I am surprised that I read so many in hardcover format, but I think that has to be because of newer releases that come out in hardcover first.

Book Source

This is another one I always find really interesting! I can't believe so many come from publishers, but it makes me so thankful to authors and publishers for being willing to let me read books in exchange for a review--it's crazy to me that that is a thing and I'll never stop appreciating it. It also motivates me to stay up to date on my blog and keep going strong! I'm not sure if the fact that 15.4% are ones I've purchased means I'm good at not buying books or bad at reading books I already own...so we'll just gloss over that one.

Page Count

I don't know why Sheets organized this chart and its labels the way it did, but here we are. About ~65% of my books read this year are between 300-500 pages, which makes perfect sense considering those tend to be average page ranges of most books. It also cut out labels for 800-900, 900-1000, and 1000+, but I suppose that makes makes since I read only one book in each respective range.

This year I also kept track of some author stats for my own knowledge, so I figured I'd share the gender breakdown of books I've read! (For reference, 'both' refers to books that were coauthored by both a man and a woman, such as Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman for Aurora Rising). It's nice to see women dominating and I'm excited to add in some gender neutral rep this year. I hope to continue to expand and discover books from wide ranges of authors!

Tell me about your year in books! Do you keep track of information for stats like this? (If you do and you made a post that I haven't seen, leave me a link because I love looking at them! Or if you have any 'end of year' sort of post, link that also so I can check it out!)

2017 Year In Books + End of Year Survey Pt. 1

   

It's been a crazy year! Here's a brief look into this year's reading! The first half will feature my Goodreads year in books, followed by the first part of The Perpetual Page-Turner's End of Year survey.

My full Year in Books pages is here: https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2017/11188049?

For a second year in a row I have read more than I ever had before (well, since I started using Goodreads, anyway. I'm sure I read a lot when I was a kid!) I'm incredibly surprised by this number and I still have no idea how I managed to read that many, what with finishing up university, taking care of my mom during surgeries and chemo, and moving. I think it's just because books are what truly help me deal with everything going on around me, whether I want to have characters to relate to or a world to just completely disappear into. 

This is also the year that I became a Book Depository affiliate and an Amazon affiliate! Any purchases you make through my affiliate links (found in various links on posts and always through my banners on the right side of my page) provide me with a small commission that is so helpful in managing my everyday necessities and making this blog better--I plan to expand in 2018!

It's no surprise that Oathbringer took the cake for the longest book, and it was absolutely worth it because every page was amazing! The Sleeper and the Spindle is such a lovely little Sleeping Beauty re-imagined tale and I can't recommend it enough.

Cinder is definitely popular! I hope more people get around to reading Anne Bonnie sometimes also, it's just a fun little graphic novel, especially for younger readers who are looking for an awesome female protagonist who goes on adventures!

I'm pretty surprised by my average rating. I think I'm usually pretty good at picking books that I think I would like, but part of this is also because I read a lot of 3-3.5 star books and on Goodreads I round them up to four. 

And of course Oathbringer would have the highest rating so far (it's up to 4.71 now!), considering Words of Radiance has 4.77 rating with 118,000+ ratings!

I encourage you to fill out this survey, also! It can be found at The Perpetual Page-Turner's blog. I've decided to split this into two posts because of how extensive it is. The second part will be up on Friday!

 

Number Of Books You Read: 124

Number of Re-Reads: 0 – Yeah, I’m not big on re-reads. I do have a lot of books that I want to re-read, I just always get so distracted by books that I haven’t read…

Genre You Read The Most From: I haven't counted, but I can easily tell you that the answer is undoubtedly fantasy.  

 

1. Best Book You Read In 2017?(If you have to cheat — you can break it down by genre if you want or 2017 release vs. backlist)

I have to cheat, so I'm letting it be a four-way tie between:

Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff (review)

The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne (review)

A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones

2. Book You Were Excited About & Thought You Were Going To Love More But Didn’t?

This has to be a three-way tie between:

Flame in the Mist by Renee Ahdieh

Falling Kingdoms by Morgan Rhodes

The Once and Future King by T.H. White -- I was so sad at having to include this one, but I was so disappointed)

 3. Most surprising (in a good way or bad way) book you read?  

This is a tough one, but I’m going to with:

 The World of Tomorrow by Dave Matthews (review) - This was a pleasant surprise  mainly because I really didn't know what to expect at all and it ended up being fantastic!

 The Changeling by Victor Lavalle - I had vague notions of what this book would be about ("dark New York fairy tale"), all of which it lived up to, but.... it got a little crazy. And I'm not sure if it was a good or bad surprised, but the second of this book definitely surprised me. 

 4. Book You “Pushed” The Most People To Read (And They Did)?

Well, I’m not really sure how many people actually picked up some books I highly recommended to them, but my mom did pick up (and love) the A Court of Thorns and Roses trilogy this year after I raved about them so much and encouraged her to read them. I also got my boyfriend to start Sabaa Tahir’s An Ember in the Ashes (and the sequel!), which made my pretty happy. He even enjoyed them (he tends to read mainly nonfiction when he does read)!

 5. Best series you started in 2017? Best Sequel of 2017? Best Series Ender of 2017?

These are so hard!

Best series I started: Way too  many! The Court of Broken Knives by Anna Smith Spark, A Plague of Giants by Kevin Hearne, Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones (reading Shadowsong right now!), The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan, The Empire’s Ghost by Isabelle Steiger

Best sequel: Does Oathbringer count? Also, Gemina by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff, and Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff

Best ender: A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

 6. Favorite new author you discovered in 2017?

 Josh Malerman, Kevin Hearne, technically Robert Jordan. I hadn't read any of these authors before, so even though I knew of them before this I still hadn't read anything by them. 

7. Best book from a genre you don’t typically read/was out of your comfort zone?

Emperor of All Maladies by Siddharthe Mukherjee – medical nonfiction

 Extreme Measures by Jessica Nutik Zender (review) --medical nonfiction

I read my fair share of nonfiction throughout the year, but it usually is not even close to medical related (not interested, usually), but these two were great!

 8. Most action-packed/thrilling/unputdownable book of the year?

 Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff

The Thickety: The Whispering Trees by J.A. White
Scourge by Gail Z. Martin (review)

 9. Book You Read In 2017 That You Are Most Likely To Re-Read Next Year?

Honestly, too many to list! I would like to re-read a lot of what I read this year. In particular, I'd like to re-read a lot of the fantasy debuts I read this year, as well as many of the series I've already read.

10. Favorite cover of a book you read in 2017?

The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo (review)

Wolf in White Van by Josh Darnelle (review)

Caraval by Stephanie Garber

Yvain: Knight of the Lion

Hiddensee by Gregory Maguire (review)

Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff

11. Most memorable character of 2017?

A Court of Wings and Ruin- all of them? Amren, Mor, Cassian, Azriel, Feyre, Rhysand.... I just love this group.

 12. Most beautifully written book read in 2017?

The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo

13. Most Thought-Provoking Book of 2017?

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (review) - an incredibly important book about the black lives matter movement and racial issues that are still very present.

Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed (review) - a fascinating look at gender roles, cult-like societies, and the power of the mind

Bird Box by Josh Malerman - this really just made me think about fears and what can escalate them. The necessary blindness in this book, along with the unknown element and the question of insanity and madness have provided for many thoughtful moments. 

 14. Book you can’t believe you waited UNTIL 2017 to finally read? 

Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde (review)

 15. Favorite Passage/Quote From A Book You Read In 2017?

I have a lot, but I’m narrowing it down to… less than a lot, but still more than only a few. I’m sorry. Books are beautiful.

From Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff

“The heavens grant us only one life, but through books, we live a thousand."

“Conquer your fear, and you can conquer the world.” – This one has helped me endlessly this year. I have repeated this phrase in my head so many times this year, it’s actually crazy. Thank, Mr. Kristoff.

From A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab

“Arneisians had a dozen ways to say hello, but not word for good-bye.

When it came to parting ways, they sometimes said vas ir, which meant in peace, but more often tey chose to say anoshe--until another day.

Anoshe was a word for strangers in the street, and lovers between meetings, for parents and children, friends and family. It softened the blow of leaving. Eased the strain of parting. A careful nod to the certainty of today, the mystery of tomorrow. When a friend left, with little chance of seeing home, they said anoshe. When a loved one was dying, they said anoshe. When corpses were burned, bodies given back to the earth and souls to the stream, those left grieving said anoshe.

Anoshe brought solace. And hope. And the strength to let go.” – I am indeed considering an Anoshe tattoo one of these days. I’ve dealt with a lot of loss in my life and I think that this is just such a beautiful word and idea, it really resonates with me.  

“Love and loss,” he said, “are like a ship and the sea. They rise together. The more we love, the more we have to lose. But the only way to avoid loss it to avoid love. And what a sad world that would be”

From Before the Devil Breaks You by Libba Bray:

“Depressive,” Evie said, testing the word on her tongue. “I didn’t know there was a name for that feeling. Like there’s a rain cloud in your soul.” She knew that feeling well. Sometimes she was the life of the party. But other times she was lonely, bleak, and sick with disgust at herself, and certain that the people who said they loved her were only pretending. She called these times the “too muches”: too much feeling, like opening a door and seeing, really seeing, into some deep, existential loneliness underlying everything. When the “too muches” arrived, Evie feared that whatever hope lived inside her would drown from the storm of her own aching sadness.”

From Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson:

“I love tradition… I’ve fought for tradition I Make my men follow the codes. I uphold Vorin virtues. But merely being tradition does not make something worthy, Kdash. We can’t just assume that because something is old it is right.”

"‘Have you ever considered, bridgeman,  that bad art does more for the world than good art?Artists spend more of their lives making bad practice pieces than they do masterworks, particularly at the start. And even when an artist becomes a master, some pieces don’t work out. Still others are somehow just wrong until the last stroke.

‘You can learn more from bad art than you do from good art, as your mistakes are more important than your successes. Plus, good art usually evokes the same emotions in people--most good art is the same kind of good. But bad pieces can each be bad in their own unique way. So I’m glad we have bad art, and I’m sure the Almighty agree.’"

“‘Sometimes, a hypocrite is nothing more than a man who is in the process of changing.’”

“Art is about emotion, examination, and going places people have never gone before to discover and investigate new things. The only way to create something that nobody hates is to ensure that it can’t be loved either. Remove enough spice from soup, and you’ll just end up with water."

From The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo:

“You see, some people are born with a piece of night inside, and that hollow place can never be filled - not with all the good food or sunshine in the world. That emptiness cannot be banished, and so some days we wake with the feeling of the wind blowing through, and we must simply endure it as the boy did.”

“Bad fates do not always follow those who deserve them.”

From A Face Like Glass by Frances Hardinge:

“In many respects, poor Neverfell’s overactive mind had coped with her lonely and cloistered life in the only way it could. It had gone a little mad to avoid going wholly mad. To break up the dreary repetition of the day it had learned to skip unpredictably, to invent and half-believe, to shuffle thoughts until they were surprising and unrecognizable.”

16.Shortest & Longest Book You Read In 2017?

Shortest- Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman

Longest – Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson

 17. Book That Shocked You The Most (Because of a plot twist, character death, left you hanging with your mouth wide open, etc.)

Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff -- I don't have any idea who else could possibly win this award other than Mr. Kristoff himself. 

18. OTP OF THE YEAR (you will go down with this ship!) (OTP = one true pairing if you aren’t familiar)

The only that comes to mind at this moment would be Feyre and her partner (I realized saying who it is could be a spoiler? But those who have the book will know!) I'm also quite a fan of Rhys and Alucard from the Shades of Magic series. 

19. Favorite Non-Romantic Relationship Of The Year

This is a difficult one. There are a lot of friend/etc. relationships that I loved in a lot of books I read this year, but I think the friendship between Adelaide, Eleanor, and Beatrice in The Witches of New York by Ami McKay (review) was truly quite lovely. I love strong female friendships.

20. Favorite Book You Read in 2017 From An Author You’ve Read Previously
This was surprisingly more difficult than I expected. I would say A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab. Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor was also a pleasant addition to Taylor's other work. 

21. Best Book You Read In 2017 That You Read Based SOLELY On A Recommendation From Somebody Else/Peer Pressure:

Cinder by Marissa Meyer! I never planned to read this series because cyborgs just didn’t sound interesting to me, but wow was I wrong and everyone else was right!

22. Newest fictional crush from a book you read in 2017?

This is hard! I'm not actually sure if I have any *new* ones...

23. Best 2017 debut you read?

Now this is just cruel because there were somany. Can I just make a brief list of some of the best ones?

Godblind by Anna Stephens
The Court of Broken Knives by Anna Smith Spark (review)
Soul of the World by David Mealing (review)

24. Best Worldbuilding/Most Vivid Setting You Read This Year?
Oathbringer, hands down, because Sanderson is the king. 

25. Book That Put A Smile On Your Face/Was The Most FUN To Read?

Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
A Face Like Glass by Frances Hardinge (review)

26. Book That Made You Cry Or Nearly Cry in 2017?

The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
Lost Boy by Christina Henry (review)
A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab

27. Hidden Gem Of The Year?

A Path Begins (The Thickety) by J.A. White
Miranda and Caliban by Jacquline Carey
A Plague of Giants by Kevin Hearne (review)

28. Book That Crushed Your Soul?

The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne.

29. Most Unique Book You Read In 2017?

Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde 
The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
S. by J.J. Abrams an Doug Dorst (review)
Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle

30. Book That Made You The Most Mad (doesn’t necessarily mean you didn’t like it)?

House of Names by Colm Toibin (review)
White Lotus by Libbie Hawker

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