I saw everyone doing End-of-the-Year things and decided to do a bit of a year in review for myself! First, we have some brief statistics about my reading, and then I gave “awards” to some books! Reviews are linked in the titles. Tomorrow, I’ll be doing a follow-up to my Quarterly Goals (just so you know I haven’t forgotten!).
Reading Statistics
Number of Books Read: 55
Number of Pages: 13949 (I read a lot of graphic novels)
Average Rating: 2.9
Shortest Book: Authors for Goodreads
Longest Book: Law and the Legal System (hello, textbook)
Average Length: 268 pages (that’s rather short for me)
You can also check out my Goodreads Year in Books if you like!
3 Favorites
VICIOUS by VE SCHWAB
Most Inspiring
New Favorite Author
MAGONIA by MARIA DAHVANA HEADLEY
Most Tears Shed
Most Beautifully Written
RAT QUEENS VOL. 2 by KURTIS J. WIEBE, ROC UPCHURCH, & STJEPAN SEJIC
Most diverse cast
Most fun
5 Honorable Mentions
A MADNESS OF ANGELS by KATE GRIFFIN
Best Worldbuilding/Setting
SPEAK NOW: MARRIAGE EQUALITY ON TRAIL by KENJI YOSHINO
Best Nonfiction
PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER by PATRICK SÜSKIND
Best (and Most Surprising) Read for Classes
ON WRITING: A MEMOIR OF THE CRAFT by STEPHEN KING
Best Memoir
EVE: THE AWAKENING by JENNA MORECI
Best Debut
3 Disappointments
BERGKRISTALL (ROCK CRYSTAL) by ADALBERT STIFTER
Most Bland
DAS URTEIL (THE JUDGMENT) by FRANZ KAFKA
Most Pointless
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN by PAULA HAWKINS
Most Predictable
What were your favorite books this year?
Have you read any of mine? Would you agree with their awards?
Happy Reading and Happy New Year ❤
The Book Boulevard 
Yesssss, Vicious. I haven’t read any of the others but Vicious is definitely my favorite this year.
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It was my first 5 stars of the year and it was totally worth the wait~
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On Writing is an amazing book. Glad you had a great reading
year!
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I really appreciated being able to see King’s journey through and advice on writing. It was fascinating to read!
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Yikes I still haven’t read Vicious nor Magonia *hides* Please don’t be mad!!! *puppy dog eyes*
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Of course I’m not mad ❤ I do hope you enjoy them if you get to them, though! I know a lot of people weren't a huge fan of Magonia because of the weirdness, but I just adored it.
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I haven’t read Vicious yet but I read A Darker Shade of Magic and I love it so much!! Happy New year!
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I definitely plan on reading A Darker Shade of Magic sometime soon, but I want to get to The Archived first because I already have it on my shelf xD
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I have The Archived in mine as well! I hope I could read it soon! 😀
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Fingers crossed! And again in the hopes that it’s as wonderful as her other writing!
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Wat. There is someone in the community with a lower average rating than I?!
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Oops. Didn’t mean to steal your record ;] What’s your average?
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Perfume is a criminally underread book. I adore it. Have you ever read The Wasp Factory? For some reason I associate the two, probably just because I read them around the same time in my life.
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I’m not familiar with The Wasp Factory, no. Why did you enjoy it? 😀
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Yesssss. It’s by Iain Banks (the guy who did all the Culture sci-fi books as Iain M. Banks–huge difference 🙂 ) and it’s just a horrifically creepy account of a 16 year old Scottish sociopath. It’s one of those terrifying books that scares you because you can imagine the bad guy being real.
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Oh that sounds wonderful! I’ll have to check it out–I can definitely see why you might associate it with Perfume xD Thank you for the recommendation!
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Wooo to Vicious! Can’t wait for the sequel 🙂
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I am really anxious for the sequel. So excited to spend more time in that world, and a little scared that I won’t connect to it as enthusiastically as I did Vicious, if only because my own expectations are cruel.
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