So another year has passed and it’s time to review my bookish statistics – I love to do this every year!
In 2016 I read 65 books, just enough to finish my GoodReads challenge! Of those 65 books:
- 31 were written by women and 34 were written by men.
- 12 were “my own damn books”, meaning books I owned before 2016 started.
- 12 books were written by Spanish authors.
- I read 14 books in English.
- I listened to 16 audiobooks (all of them in English too).
- 5 were ebooks.
- I read 24 books borrowed from the library, thanks to the book club, but also because I’ve been browsing the library in search for short books to complete the challenge – I’ve discovered a handful of authors I want to read more of!
I will include more categories this year, such as author’s nationality, year of publication and fiction/non-fiction books, to make it more complete.
I’m really pleased with the amount of books I’ve read, and with the quality too: I think that we, as readers, know ourselves better every year so we chose reads we know we’ll enjoy. I have only read three books that I didn’t like or did not finished: one was a gift, another was a book club pick, and the other was my own choice.
Among the best of the year, I want to share with you the following:
I have read the two novels of Anna Hope this year, and I enjoyed both, but I fell deeply for the characters in The ballroom.
Never let me go was an unexpected favorite in my list: a sad story of love and friendship with a premise so hard to assume.
Jodi Picoult is an author that always brings up ethical and moral issues, and in The storyteller she asks if a sweet old man should be forgiven from the crimes he comitted in the past.
Daybreak is a book written as a diary in which a woman has an affair with a man, and it’s so well narrated that one just can’t believe it hasn’t been written by the protagonist, but by a man!
Life after life made me think that what we call “right” or “the best for us” sometimes brings unhappiness.
And finally, The fireman was a thriller that made me realize that I should read more books of this genre, because I have such a good time with them!
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Hope this new year 2017 brings you wonderful reads.
Happy New Year!
From Isi 
well done on achieving that goodreads goal
Thanks Karen! Since I began my Law studies I’ve been reading less (I used to read 85 books every year!), but I’m happy I manage to pass all my exams AND read those 65 books, enjoying the majority of them.
Let’s see what books this new year brings 😉
Nice recap, you had a great year in books! 65 read is quite an accomplishment. Happy reading in 2017!
Thanks Tanya, I also think 65 is a good number, taking into account that I have to study a lot every day, so…
Happy reading for you too!
You did great!! Love your best books choices.
Thanks Ciska! Happy bookish new year!
Wow, look at those stats! You have some good ones there – liked Life After Life and loved The Storyteller.
haha Jennine, I used to read more books per year, but the teachers in the Law degree don’t seem to care about students having hobbies, you know 😉
Anyway, it has been a great year, hope 2017 brings wonderful reads for us as well. Kisses!
Happy new year, Isi! Well done on 65 and I’d agree with you – it seems as the years go on I read fewer books I find I don’t like. I’ll be reading The Ballroom shortly – more excited about it now I see it’s on your best list!
Hi Charlie, and thanks for passing by!
Oh, I hope you like The ballroom as much as I did.
And yes, this thing about enjoying the books is good, but it is also tricky because somehow it means we don’t get out of our comfort zones, right? On the other hand, I read for comfort, so it’s OK to read something I think I will like because it’s my kind of genre… Well, I think you can explain this issue much better than me in one of your debate posts, just saying 😉
I need to read Life after Life still. The Storyteller is a fantastic book!
Yes, I have to read more books by Jodi Picoult, because her stories are thought-provoking and I like that. And I hope you like Life after life – it’s a peculiar book, you’ll see.
Kisses!