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Showing posts with label Reading Challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reading Challenge. Show all posts

Sunday, December 31, 2017

The Books I Read in 2017

I set out to read more books this year than I did last year, but it was not to be. In 2014 I was shooting for reading 35 books and I ended up reading 42. In 2015 I aimed for reading 50 books and I managed to read 56 books. Last year I thought I could get to 60, but as the year progressed I got really busy and reset my goal to 50 and managed to read 51 books. This year my number was much lower at 25 books, but it's because I spent a lot of my reading time writing my own book! I'm not sad about that, and I still managed to get quite a bit of reading in.

So yeah, hitting 25 books this year all things considered is something I'm happy with. I reread the entire Harry Potter series because my oldest son was. That was fun reading it at the same time as him. I bought him the first book last Christmas and he finished the series before this Christmas. That's a lot of reading! It was so cool to see his love for reading grow this year.

I hope you had a great year of reading! Thanks to the amazing people at Goodreads I have these fun graphics to show off my 2017 reading adventures below. If you're not on Goodreads, why not? It's the best! You can track the books you're reading, have read, and want to read. It's my digital bookshelf for keeping track of all my reading and a great place to read reviews and make lists of books you want to read. Thanks for stopping by! I hope you had a Merry Christmas and will have a Happy New Year. Enjoy.

Wednesday, December 28, 2016

The Books I Read in 2016

I set out to read more books this year than I did last year, but it was not to be. In 2014 I was shooting for reading 35 books and I ended up reading 42. Last year I aimed for reading 50 books and I managed to read 56 books. So this year I thought I could get to 60, but as the year progressed I found myself really busy and unable to read as much as I would have liked to so I changed my goal to 50 again. I was able to get to 51. That said I'm still very satisfied with that number, and I think I'll shoot for it again in 2017 and see where I get. I hope you had a great year of reading!

Thanks to the amazing www.goodreads.com I have a great visual layout of all the books I've read below:

  • The Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds by David A. Adler           Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
  • The Most Wonderful Tales of the Year by Audible Narrators
  • Nate the Great by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
  • The Treasonous by Rachael Ritchey
  • Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
  • Over Your Dead Body by Dan Wells
  • It Came from Beneath the Sink! by R.L. Stine
  • Unglued by Lysa TerKeurst
  • Next of Kin by Dan Wells
  • The Devil's Only Friend by Dan Wells




  • The Dispatcher by John Scalzi
  • The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King
  • Sword of Deaths by Christopher Mannino
  • Take Off Your Pants! by Libbie Hawker
  • The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
  • Revolt by Timothy C. Ward
  • Void Wraith by Chris  Fox
  • Uninvited by Lysa TerKeurst
  • The Kingdom of Oceana by Mitchell Charles
  • Kings or Pawns by J.J. Sherwood
  • The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Skene Catling
  • Scavenger by Timothy C. Ward
  • Conjesero by Carl Alves
  • Crucible and Flame by John Mierau
  • The Twelve by Justin Cronin
  • Thrum by S.K. Slate
  • Titanborn by Rhett C.  Bruno
  • The Beauty Thief by Rachael Ritchey
  • Dinosaurs Before Dark by Mary Pope Osborne
  • Shadows of the Highridge by Jay Swanson
  • Lifelong Writing Habit by Chris  Fox
  • The Body by Stephen King
  • Destroyer by Chris  Fox
  • Exiled by Chris  Fox
  • A Vanishing Glow by Alexis Radcliff
  • School of Deaths by Christopher Mannino
  • Scouts of the Apocalypse by Michell Plested
  • 2k to 10k by Rachel Aaron
  • 5,000 Words Per Hour by Chris  Fox
  • Danube Waves by Katharina Bordet
  • Putin and MH370/MH17 by David Joseph
  • Into the Nanten - The Record of My Exile by Jay Swanson
  • The Chimera Sequence by Elliott Garber
  • CTRL ALT Revolt! by Nick Cole
  • Wrong Side of Hell by Sonya Bateman
  • The Home Health Aide Textbook by Jane John-Nwankwo
  • Gardening For Beginners by Dahlia Rose
  • Strikers by Ann Christy
  • Scavenger by Timothy C. Ward
  • The Chimes by Charles Dickens