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!