Another year down, another year of reading on Goodreads.
I think this is my favorite Goodreads feature, simply because I love seeing my yearly book totals broken down. I’m such a dork, but it’s like getting even more intimate with my reading year.
I also love sharing my totals with you!
I hope to see your break down too.
Total Books/Pages
While I did hit my Goodreads goal of 100 books this year, I wasn’t nearly as productive as last year. I went down 19 books, and 4662 pages. I do think I read more short stories last year, so that’s what helped with my number of books. (It’s almost like cheating, I think.) However, that doesn’t explain my page drop. I’m not unhappy with this, since in the past I’ve struggled to hit 100. I’m still kicking butt, and I still think I owe that to blogging!
Book Length
Maybe A Conjuring of Light isn’t as long as last years Winter, but it sure was a better read! It was 624 pages of a book I loved, so it ended feeling like it was only about 300 pages. And then, anything written in the Captive Prince world feels epic, so it doesn’t matter that Charles, the Veretian Cloth Merchant was only 26 pages. It was still a fantastic little story all its own. My average page length didn’t change much. I’m not surprised. That is the book page length I’ve come to favor as an adult.
Popularity
I felt like I read a lot of popular books this year, so I was a little surprised to see All the Bright Places was the most read book on my shelf. I’m not surprised because it was bad, it wasn’t. I just wasn’t aware so many other Goodreads members had read it. On the other hand, I’m not surprised that so few have read Symbols. It wasn’t a good read, and I don’t recommend it to anyone. (Though, I do like the cover. Not the naked chest, you perv. I love the hummingbird.)
Average Rating
This doesn’t really shock me either, and it didn’t really change much from last year. Joining Goodreads, writing all these reviews, I’ve discovered that a book has to be REALLY bad for it to get less than a 3, and most books get a 4 star rating from me. I’m easy to please!
Overall, Highest Rated
Okay, so it’s TJ Klune, and I am ecstatic that he has such a high rating. I just, I’m the kind of person who compares the average rating to how many people have read the book. The more people who’ve read it, the higher the rating, the better I think the book will be. Right now, because it’s a recent release, The Consumption of Magic only has 546 ratings. If we want to be fair, still looking at TJ Klune, The Queen and the Homo Jock King should be here. I read it in 2017, it has 2154 ratings, and it’s still at a 4.43 average.
My 2017 Books
Birdie Bookworm 
Glad you had such a great reading year! Happy holidays! 🙂
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Thanks! I did!
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I read a lot less than last year but that is ok. My average rating is like yours at 4.0. It takes a lot for me to rate less than 3 stars. Looks like you read some great books – hope you have a great reading year coming up!
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Thanks! I’m okay with hitting less than my previous year, but I still always strive to at least hit 100. Even if they’re just short little 20 page novellas. 🙂
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I love this Goodreads feature too and this reminds me that I still haven’t looked at mine yet, lol. It looks like you had a pretty fabulous reading year 🙂
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I really did! And I just love analyzing like this! I hope you do a Year in Books post, I’d love to read it.
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I enjoyed yours so much that I definitely plan to do one. I think it’s so interesting to see how my reading habits change each year.
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Me too, I totally agree.
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I LOVED this feature on Goodreads this year! How did you share it on your blog?
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I actually just cut and pasted the images using the snipping tool on my computer, lol. That way I could formulate it the way I wanted.
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Why am I not surprised that TJ Klune is your highest rated Wendy? And I’m also easy to please. To give less than 3 stars the book has to really be badly written.
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Exactly!! How was your Year in Books?
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Good job! That is a lot of books! My goal is 100 and I am 10 away and quickly running out of time.
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2 books per day…. if they were all short novellas maybe? I’ll be rooting for you!
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Holy, this was such a cool post. I’ve been thinking of posting my Goodreads year on my blog for a while now and I think you have definitely motivated me to do it! ❤
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Yay!! You’ll have to let me know when it’s up so I can come read it! They’re so interesting. 😀
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Congratulations! I always love seeing my Goodreads stats at the end of the year too. I always end up surprised!
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I know, me too, lol! I especially love scrolling through all the books I’ve read.
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I love that goodreads feature too! I’ll do mine soon. I loved Shades of Magic…I read that during the Xmas Holidays last year. I miss them!
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I miss them too, and I read them more recently! They’re fantastic. Did you read the Monsters in Verity duology yet?
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Nope but I have another one of her books….I forgot the title….I think it’s a standalone one. I haven’t read it though. Did you know that she’s going to write more books set in the Shades of Magic world? I can’t wait! I hope it features Kell and Lila!
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Is it Vicious that you have? I’ll read that soon. I heard she might, but I didn’t realize she was planning it for sure. I hope it’s Rhys and Alucard! 😀
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Yes, that’s the one! She already signed a contract with her publisher to do more books. I think it will be about other characters set in that world.
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That’ll still be pretty awesome! I love the 4 Londons.
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Wow, it looks like you had an awesome reading year! Don’t worry, I get super dorky about my reading stats too!
Did you enjoy The Inexplicable Logic of My Life? I’m only a few pages in and so far I’m not so sure about it.
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I did enjoy The Inexplicable Logic of My Life, but it’s a slower read and it’s more about family and friendship, with not a huge plot.
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[…] recap on Goodreads. I’ve never actually shared my stats on the blog before, but I enjoyed Birdie Bookworm’s 2017 Goodreads Year in Books post so much that I decided to follow her lead and share how I did reading-wise in […]
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Glad you had a good reading year! I still have yet to check my GoodReads year in books (I love this feature though) but can’t wait to do so 🙂
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I tried to wait as long as I could, because I wanted it to capture everything. Now I have to try not to finish another book before the 1st…. which will be tough! 🙂
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Well done on reading so many books! Yeah I didn’t realise so many people had read All the Bright Places cos I read it a while ago and the numbers weren’t even nearly as high- not complaining though, it’s a great book 😉 And I get what you mean- I think the majority of the books I read end up being somewhere around 4*. Awesome wrap up!
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Thanks so much!
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You’re welcome!
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Great job!
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Thanks!
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