I read 61 books this year, but I cannot claim it was a standout year in terms of reading. Many of the books I read were not all that memorable, and some were not very good.
I usually like to compile some statistics about my reading. According to my Goodreads Year in Books, I read 19,146. I don’t know how it figures in audiobooks, so that may be pretty inaccurate. The average length of the books I read was 313 pages. My average rating was 4.4 stars, which surprised me since I didn’t feel like it was all that memorable a reading year. Here is a breakdown of genres:
- 38 works of fiction (novels)
- 3 poetry collections
- 19 works of nonfiction, including 5 memoirs
- 1 graphic nonfiction
- 3 re-reads
- 9 books that had been on my TBR for more than a year
Probably my favorite book this year was Emily St. John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility. However, the following books also made my favorites list:
- To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
- Country by Michael Hughes
- Weyward by Emilia Hart
- The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
- How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur
- The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
- Tastes Like War by Grace M. Cho
- Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
- Above Ground by Clint Smith