My Year in Books

This year was another great year of reading! I started tracking the books I read aloud with the kids on my Goodreads as well because I would forget which books we read and it makes it so much easier when I can check on Goodreads to see if I've read it or not. Carter was looking over my shoulder at how many books I've read and was so impressed. He asked how many I'd read with him and I loved that I could go back through and count them. We read aloud 9 books together which feels like hardly any, but is close to a book a month. Sometimes it takes us a really long time to get through a book and other times we speed through them. I just depends on how busy we are. Usually we read a chapter at night while the kids brush their teeth, but I've noticed when I'm really into a book, I'll sometimes keep reading past bedtime. There were a couple that Ty would come in and make a comment that it sounded like we'd already finished the chapter and it was past bedtime, haha! A co-worker asked me if I track the books I read with my class, but I don't because I only read books to the class that I've already read on my own. I only track those books once instead of showing how many times I've read them. I've read The One and Only Ivan 4 times! If I've already read a book that I read aloud with Carter and Elise, I don't track it again. Read past recaps here: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018.

This was a fun notification to get when I finished reading my 170th book for the year!

This year I read 57,462 pages across 177 books.

Last year I read 51,272 pages across 171 books.
In 2021 I read 47,845 across 157 books.

In 2020 I read 56,782 pages across 186 books.

In 2019 I read 41,911 pages across 132 books.

In 2018 I read 38,074 pages across 128 books.

This was the first year I used StoryGraph to track which format I used to read books. I knew I read a few more physical books than ebooks or audiobooks, but figured I did about a third of each. It was cool to see I read almost half my books as physical books. That's definitely my favorite way to read! It also showed my breakdown of fiction vs. nonfiction which was 22% nonfiction and 78% fiction which didn't surprise me at all!

I read 87 physical books, 38 ebooks, and 51 audiobooks. 

My shortest book was This Winter by Alice Oseman at 120 pages.

My longest book was Hamilton by Ron Chernow at 818 pages.

The average length of book was 324 pages.

The most popular book I read was Verity by Colleen Hoover with 3,979,828 other people reading it.

The least popular book I read was Mascot by Charles Waters and Traci Sorell with 1,240other people reading it.

My favorite fiction book was Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson.

My favorite nonfiction book was Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby

My favorite fiction audiobook was Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.

My favorite nonfiction audiobook was Meaty by Samantha Irby.

My favorite YA book was Heartstopper by Alice Oseman.

My favorite YA audiobook was Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley

Honorable Mention (how I read them in parantheses):

• Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley (audiobook)
• The Office BFFs: Tales of the Office From Two Best Friends Who Were There by Angela Kinsey and Jenna Fischer (audiobook)
• Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (audiobook)
• Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez (book)
• A Good Girl's Guide to Murder Series by Holly Jackson (books)
• The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer (book)
• Book Lovers by Emily Henry (book)
• Life's Too Short by Abby Jimenez (book)
• The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth (book)
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (audiobook)
• Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez (book)
• The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez (audiobook)
• I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara (audiobook)
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (audiobook)
• Two Feathers Fell from the Sky by Margaret Verble (ebook)
• The Sentence by Louise Erdrich (book)
• The Art Thief by Michael Finkel (book)
• Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah (book)
• Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adeji-Brenyah (audiobook)
• Evil Eye by Etaf Rum (book)

Favorite Children's Chapter Books:

• When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller (book with the kids, they both really liked it as well)
• The One and Only Ruby by Katherine Applegate (book, Carter also read this one on his own)
• The Wild Robot Series by Peter Brown (book and ebook with the kids, they LOVED this series)
• Mascot by Traci Sorell and Charles Waters (book, I read this and Carter started it but never finished it)
• The Elephant's Girl by Celesta Rimington (book)
• On Air with Zoe Washington by Janae Marks (book)