Yearly Wrap Up: 2019

Looking forward to 2020!

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In 2019, I read a grand total of 63 books, surpassing my goal of 50 by 13 books!

I started the year by finishing Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah (I was not done with it at the end of last year), and I finished the year off with The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

The longest book I read this year (though not technically a singular book) was The Stories of Ray Bradbury, a collection of 100 of Bradbury‘s short stories, which is 1,059 pages long. The shortest book I read this year was And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman, which is a 76 page novella.

I read a total of 18,039 pages, with the length of the books I read averaging at about 286 pages per book.

My top 10 favorite books I read this year were (in no particular order) The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, East of Eden by John Steinbeck, The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah, A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, Fly Away by Kristin Hannah, Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, The Help by Kathryn Stockett, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut, and Things My Son Needs to Know about the World by Fredrik Backman.

A few of my least favorite books I read this year were (also in no particular order) Man with a Seagull on His Head by Harriet Paige, The Innocent Man by John Grisham, Math and the Mona Lisa by Bülent Atalay, and The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris.

I also reread a few books, with those being The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton, The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

I averaged about five books per month, one book per week, and 49 pages per day. I also averaged four out of five stars across all of the books I read.

Overall, this was a phenomenal reading year for me, with over half (35 out of 63) of the books I read this year receiving five out of five stars!

I cannot wait to start reading next year, with my 2020 reading goal being 75 books! I hope everyone has a happy and healthy new year, and continues to read as we move into 2020! See you next year!

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*Not pictured above, but also read: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, The World’s Shortest Stories edited by Steve Moss, The World’s Shortest Stories of Love and Death edited by Steve Moss and John M. Daniel, Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson, Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, and No One is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg.