Last year I signed myself up for the Goodreads Reading Challenge. It's a great idea if you wish to increase the number of books that you read and it also means that you can keep a list of what you have read which I find nice to look back at.
In 2015 I set myself the challenge of reading fifty two books. I knew that I could realistically read this amount (I read during my daily commute) and i didn't want to challenge myself to read an unobtainable amount of books that would make my reading become a chore. Last year I read 57 books which I was very pleased about.
For my 2016 challenge I again decided to read fifty two books and was ecstatic to realise that at the end of the year I had managed to read sixty three books!
This year Goodreads provided me with some nerdy figures (which I love!)
Apparently I read some 20,638 pages. The shortest book that I read was just 160 pages long and the longest book had 512 pages.
The most popular book that I read was Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty which was read by 425,821 other people. The least popular was All that Glitters by Pearl Lowe which was read by 154 others.
The majority of the books that I read were general fiction, I read thirty four. I also read eleven thrillers and three volumes of short stories. Non fiction books that I read numbered seventeen in all and comprised ten biographies (or auto biographies), two books of photo essays, two manuals, two social studies books and one travel book.
Of course there were a few books that I didn't enjoy all that much but mostly I was happy with the books I chose to read. My favourite book of the year has to be Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh, it was so well written and so atmospheric, I simply loved it!
If you would like to take part in the Goodreads Challenge it's not too late to join in. Visit goodreads.com and sign up, not only is it a nice way to record and review what you have read it is also a great motivator.
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