Favorite Books of the Year

1. The Magician's Land by Lev Grossman
2. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
3. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
4. Bunker Hill by Nathaniel Philbrick
5. Valiant Ambition by Nathaniel Philbrick
6. Cinder by Marissa Meyer
7. Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink
8. Forevermore by Kristen Calihan
9. The Lost by Sarah Beth Durst
10. Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon

Honorable Mentions: The HM category is reserved for rereads that I really loved.

• The Magicians by Lev Grossman
• The Magician King by Lev Grossman
• Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Total Books Read – 132 books

Total Pages Read – 38,650 pages!!!!!

I averaged 3221 pages per month.  My lowest month was December with only 1421 pages.  My highest month was January with 4951 pages.  I hope to read 35,000 pages next year.

Book Rating Stats 

• 5 stars — 57 books
• 4 stars — 52 books
• 3 stars —  20 books
• 2 stars — 3 books
• 1 star —0 books
• DNFs — 2 books

Reading Challenges

Here’s the final breakdown:

• Perpetual 20/20 100%
• Read My Own Damn Books 40/40 100%
• I Love Libraries 24/24  100%
• Nonfiction 20/20 100%
• Popsugar 32/40 80%
• What's in a Name 3/6  50%
• Fairytale Retelling 7/10  70%
• Book to Movie 10/10 100%
• Finishing the Series 5/6  83.3%
• Graphic Novel 36/52  69.2%
• Women Authors 20/20  100%
• 52 Books in 52 Weeks  100%
• Picture Books 100/100  100%

Total: 8/13 challenges  61.5% done

Total:  369/400 slots  92.3% done

Overall Thoughts/Reflections/Musings/Ideas

2016 was a decent year of reading. I finished a couple of series, knocked a few books off my perpetual lists, and enjoyed some 5 star reads. Predictably, my reading pace slowed considerably after Quentin arrived at the end of September. But hopefully I can bring my reading back up to at least 30 minutes a day in 2017.