In June/July, I actually did a ‘My Year (so far) in Books‘ post, so that I could share with you where I was regarding my Goodreads challenge. Now that it’s the end of the year, I can look back and see whether any my statistics changed and whether I reached my goal or not *spoiler: I didn’t*

So, my goal for 2018 was 150, but when I realised that it wasn’t going to happen, I lowered it to 100. I read 119 books in 2017 so I thought that was quite attainable. Turns out that it wasn’t. Don’t get me wrong, 87 books is still a lot, but I can’t help but think that I could have read more if I wasn’t scrolling through Twitter for most of my day retweeting pictures of Kpop stars. (see pictures of all of the books that I read this year at the bottom of this post!)

However, seeing that I read 26,623 pages IS INSANE! I never think about the total number of pages that I read, but knowing that it’s a 1/4 of a million. DAAAAYYUUUMMMMM.

I actually had to read The Yellow Wallpaper for my Gothic module at university, and I only had to read that one short story, which is definitely shorter than 64 pages… So I don’t really think that counts as a book because it’s a short story; which means I don’t really know what the shortest book that I read was.

I can’t believe how big European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman is. I listened to the audiobook and that was 24 hours long. YUPPPPP. A WHOLE DAY. I think I listened to it in 3 days? I’m not sure. I got the physical version of the book for my birthday and when I saw how massive it was, I’m glad that I listened to the audiobook because I know that reading the physical version would have scared me.

 

Well, there’s no surprise. Although actually… Yes, I am. I thought that more people would have read The Hate U Give, but then TOG HAS been out for much longer.

Hunters was a graphic novel that I requested off of Netgalley. It wasn’t very good.

I don’t know whether this is really high or not? I did read a lot of ‘average’ books in 2018 though. But then again, I read a lot of amazing ones as well. So this isn’t surprising.

 

Another one that isn’t a surprise at all. The Hate U Give is a masterpiece and if there is anyone out there that hasn’t read it yet, please do. You will not regret it. At all.

And here we have it, the final total. I was 13 books behind reaching my goal which makes me very sad. I could have read loads of graphic novels or manga, to be honest, so that I could reach the goal, but for the past 2 months, I have been in the biggest reading slump ever and I didn’t even want to pick up a book. I love how it says ‘better luck in 2019’. Cheeky sods.

For 2019, I’ve set my goal to 80 books, so let’s see how it goes with that. I might have to make the goal bigger or even smaller, but we’ll see how the year goes!

1. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (review)
2. Shadow House: No Way Out by Dan Poblocki (review)
3. the princess saves herself in this one by Amanda Lovelace (review)
4. Fireblood by Elly Blake (review)
5. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (review)
6. Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur (review)
7. Rafferty Lincoln Loves… by Emily Williams (review)
8. Saga Vol. 5 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (review)
9. Saga Vol. 6 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (review)
10. Saga Vol. 7 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (review)
11. Saga Vol. 8 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (review)
12. Scythe by Neal Shusterman (review)
13. the witch doesn’t burn in this one by Amanda Lovelace (review)
14. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (review)
15. Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo (review)
16. The Dark Intercept by Julia Keller (review)
17. The Diabolic by S.J. Kincaid (review)
18. Monstress: Awakening, Vol. 1 by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (review)
19. Dreamfall by Amy Plum (review)
20. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas (review)
21. Paper Girls Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang (review)
22. Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas (review)
23. Paper Girls Vol. 2 by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang (review)
24. The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton (review)
25. Paper Girls Vol. 3 by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang (review)
26. The Sacrifice Box by Martin Stewart (review)
27. Orlando by Virginia Woolf (review)
28. she felt like feeling nothin by r.h. Sin (review)
29. The Damned Vol. 1 by Cullen Bunn (review)
30. The Damned Vol. 2 by Cullen Bunn (review)
31. The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter (review)
32. Heart of Betrayal by Mary E. Pearson (review)
33. Oleanna by David Mamet (review)
34. The Beauty of Darkness by Mary E. Pearson (review)
35. Bad Girls with Perfect Faces by Lynn Weingarten (review)
36. Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson (review)
37. Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp (review)
38. Graceling by Kristin Cashore (review)
39. The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw (review)
40. Nemesis by Brendan Reichs (review)
41. Genesis by Brendan Reichs (review)
42. Shadowman Vol. 1 by Andy Diggle (review)
43. Letter 44 Vol. 1 by Charles Soule (review)
44. Spectacle Vol. 1 by Megan Rose Gedris (review)
45. Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman (review)
46. Fire by Kristin Cashore (review)
47. Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller (review)
48. Daughter of the Siren Queen by Tricia Levenseller (review)
49. Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore (review)
50. Big Bones by Laura Dockrill (review)
51. Bookshop Girl by Chloe Coles (review)
52. Hunters by Paul Maybury (review)
53. The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco (review)
54. Infinity 8 Vol. 1 by Lewis Trondheim (review)
55. The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter by Theodora Goss (review)
56. The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James (review)
57. Goodbye, Perfect by Sara Barnard (review)
58. Everless by Sara Holland (review)
59. The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert (review)
60. The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon (review)
61. The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton (review)
62. Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli (review)
63. Orphan Monster Spy by Matt Killeen (review)
64. Valiant High by Daniel Kibblesmith (review)
65. Mae Vol. 1 by Gene Ha (review)
66. Zojaqan: The Complete Series by Jackson Lanzing (review)
67. Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan (review)
68. Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley (review)
69. A Bad Boy Stole My Bra by Lauren Price (review)
70. The Same Blood by M. Azmitia (review)
71. LIFEL1K3 by Jay Kristoff (review)
72. A Sky Painted Gold by Laura Wood (review)
73. Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton (review)
74. Traitor to the Throne by Alwyn Hamilton (review)
75. European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman by Theodora Goss (review)
76. Heart of Mist by Helen Scheuerer (review)
77. Wicked Like a Wildfire by Lana Popović (review)
78. Escaping from Houdini by Kerri Maniscalco (review)
79. Beneath the Citadel by Destiny Soria (review)
80. Reign of Mist by Helen Scheuerer (review)
81. Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi (review)
82. Hero at the Fall by Alwyn Hamilton (review)
83. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
84. Trapped in Room 217 by Thomas Kingsley Troupe
85. The Lantern’s Ember by Colleen Houck
86. We See Everything by William Sutcliffe
87. Dawn by Octavia E. Butler

 

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