Once again, a crazy goal. This year, I officially set a goal of 50 books. Unofficially, I was still trying to read 100 books. Almost made it.
Overall, I read 91 books, totaling 35,154 pages (an average of ~96 pages per day). Still a bit of a range on length, from at only 23 pages up to 995 in . An average of 386 per book comes in just 2 shy of last year, so I think the short stories still count. 😄
For the longest time, I was average right at 100 pages per day, but over the last week or so (in a last burst to finish the year), that bumped up slightly. I ended up at an average of 104 pages / day. None too shabby.
Rating-wise, my average was even higher than last year at 4.6 stars… Hey, I read what I like. I had fewer did-not-finishes and books I chose just on the cover, which helped a bit.
Compared to my original list, I at least started everything. I actually finished Mere Christianity this time around1. On top of that, I got more into audiobooks this time around, listening to (series, all):
It’s a nice way to add a few more books. Something I can actually do while I’m working (depending on what I’m working on).
Overall, I greatly enjoyed reading as much as I did. Let’s see how 2017 goes!
Here’s the full list of reviews:
Posts in 2016 Book Reviews:
- 2016 Reading List
- Sir Thursday [The Keys to the Kingdom #4]
- Lady Friday [The Keys to the Kingdom #5]
- Superior Saturday [The Keys to the Kingdom #6]
- Lord Sunday [The Keys to the Kingdom #7]
- The Name of the Wind [The Kingkiller Chronicle #1]
- Revelation Space [Revelation Space #1]
- Chasm City
- The Aeronaut's Windlass [The Cinder Spires #1]
- Storm Front [The Dresden Files #1]
- Fool Moon [The Dresden Files #2]
- Grave Peril [The Dresden Files #3]
- Summer Knight [The Dresden Files #4]
- Death Masks [The Dresden Files #5]
- The Wise Man's Fear [The Kingkiller Chronicle #2]
- Blood Rites [The Dresden Files #6]
- Staked [The Iron Druid Chronicles #8]
- The Slow Regard of Silent Things [The Kingkiller Chronicle #2.5]
- Dead Beat [The Dresden Files #7]
- Proven Guilty [The Dresden Files #8]
- White Night [The Dresden Files #9]
- Nexus [Nexus #1]
- Small Favor [The Dresden Files #10]
- Turn Coat [The Dresden Files #11]
- Changes [The Dresden Files #12]
- Ghost Story [The Dresden Files #13]
- Cold Days [The Dresden Files #14]
- Skin Game [The Dresden Files #15]
- Crux [Nexus #2]
- The Final Empire [Mistborn #1] [Mistborn Era 1 #1]
- Apex [Nexus #3]
- Warbreaker
- The Well of Ascension [Mistborn #2] [Mistborn Era 1 #2]
- Ancillary Justice [Imperial Radch #1]
- Ancillary Sword [Imperial Radch #2]
- The Hero of Ages [Mistborn #3] [Mistborn Era 1 #3]
- The Alloy of Law [Mistborn #4] [Mistborn Era 2 #1]
- Ancillary Mercy [Imperial Radch #3]
- Shadows of Self [Mistborn #5] [Mistborn Era 2 #2]
- Red Rising
- The Fifth Season [The Broken Earth #1]
- The Nameless City
- The Colour Out of Space
- The Festival
- The Call of Cthulhu
- The Bands of Mourning [Mistborn #6] [Mistborn Era 2 #3]
- The Dunwich Horror
- Moon Called [Mercy Thompson #1]
- Blood Bound [Mercy Thompson #2]
- The Shadow Over Innsmouth
- Iron Kissed [Mercy Thompson #3]
- A Short Stay in Hell
- The Shadow Out Of Time
- Bone Crossed [Mercy Thompson #4]
- Silver Borne [Mercy Thompson #5]
- Golden Son
- At the Mountains of Madness
- The Horror from the Mound
- Legion [Legion #1] [Legion #1-2]
- Skin Deep [Legion #2]
- River Marked [Mercy Thompson #6]
- Frost Burned [Mercy Thompson #7]
- Night Broken [Mercy Thompson #8]
- Aurora
- Fire Touched [Mercy Thompson #9]
- Cry Wolf [Alpha & Omega #1]
- Hunting Ground [Alpha & Omega #2]
- Fair Game [Alpha & Omega #3]
- The Three-Body Problem
- Dead Heat [Alpha & Omega #4]
- Steelheart [The Reckoners #1]
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone [Harry Potter #1]
- Morning Star
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [Harry Potter #2]
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [Harry Potter #3]
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [Harry Potter #4]
- Cruel Beauty [Cruel Beauty Universe #1]
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [Harry Potter #5]
- Firefight [The Reckoners #2]
- Calamity [The Reckoners #3]
- Welcome to Night Vale [Welcome to Night Vale #1]
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [Harry Potter #6]
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows [Harry Potter #7]
- The Color of Magic [Discworld - Rincewind #1]
- The Time Machine
- The Light Fantastic [Discworld #2] [Discworld - Rincewind #2]
- Coraline
- 2016 Reading List Retrospective
Not my favorite. ↩︎