2017 Wrap-Up

2017 finished over two weeks ago now, and that means it’s time to wrap up what i read in 2017. Without a doubt 2017 has been my most successful reading year to date. I’ve read the most books i’ve ever read in a year and also found some absolutely incredible ones that have stayed with me throughout those twelve months (a post on this to follow).

My challenge for the year was to read fifty-two books. It’s what my Goodreads Challenge was set to, and also just what i wanted to achieve for myself. I felt as though fifty-two was a good, achievable number. Here is the list of what i actually got read from January to December.

1. The Sun Is Also A Star by Nicola Yoon
2. Hold Still by Nina LaCour
3. Asking For It by Louise O’Neill
4. This Raging Light Estelle Laure
5. The Last Lecture Randy Pausch
6. Rebellion (The 100) by Kass Morgan
7. Caraval by Stephanie Garber
8. A Quiet Kind Of Thunder by Sara Barnard
9. The Drowning of Arthur Braxton by Caroline Smailes
10. We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
11. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
12. The Accident Season by Moira Fowley-Doyle
13. Milk And Honey by Rupi Kaur
14. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
15. Spot The Difference by Juno Dawson
16. Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn
17. Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han
18. Release by Patrick Ness
19. We Come Apart by Sarah Crossan and Brian Conaghan
20. Wing Jones by Catherine Webber
21. The Witch’s Kiss by Katherine & Elizabeth Corr
22. Noah Can’t Even by Simon James Green
23. The Girl In Between by Sarah Carroll
24. Girl Hearts Girl by Lucy Suitcliffe
25. I have No Secrets by Penny Joelson
26. The One Memory of Flora Banks by Emily Barr
27. Doing It by Hannah Witton
28. One Of Us Is Lying by Karen McManus
29. Flight Of A Starling by Lisa Heathfield
30. Moonrise by Sarah Crossan
31. David Inside Out by Lee Bantle
32. Wonder by R.J. Palacio
33. Alex Approximately by Jenn Bennett
34. A Change Is Gonna Come an anthology
35. Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart
36. Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
37. Turtles All The Way Down by John Green
38. The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
39. The Loneliest Girl In The Universe by Lauren James
40. Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughan & Cliff Chiang
41. Blackbird by N.D. Gomes
42. The Christmasaurus by Tom Fletcher
43. If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
44. Anthropology by Dan Rhodes
45. It Only Happens In The Movies by Holly Bourne
46. We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
47. Through The Woods by Emily Carroll
48. The Unpredictability of Being Human by Linni Ingemundsen
49. I Am Traitor by Sif Sigmarsdottir
50. I’ll Be Home For Christmas (an Anthology)
51. The Twelve Days Of Dash And Lily by David Levithan & Rachel Cohn
52. The Creakers by Tom Fletcher

I’m really pleased with the amount that i got read this year. It’s the most i’ve read before and i’ve found some of my absolute favourite books from this year alone (there will be a full post on this, i promise).

More importantly, i managed to finish my reading challenge! I set my goal this year to read fifty-two books (one a week) for the year. And although i often didn’t read a book a week and fell a little behind, i managed all fifty-two. I might have finished on the 30th of December, and literally only read fifty-two and not a single page more, i managed to do it!

Books Read – 52

Pages Read – 15,233

Pages Per Day – 42

Five Stars – 9

Four Stars – 23

Three Stars – 12

Two Stars – 5

One Star – 2

Average Rating – 3.3

Male/Female Authors – 37 female & 13 male