Sunday, December 30, 2018

My books of 2018

I'm not sure how this happened. But I read 120 books this year.


Yes, I know I read a lot, but this is a lot a lot.

I have switched to listening to audiobooks in the car instead of listening to the news. It takes about a month to listen to a book with regular "around town" driving. Throw in an extended trip or two and I listen to more in less time of course.

I decided to post my books on this blog. But you can also view my challenge on goodreads. I love goodreads. It helps me keep organized with all the books I've read, want to read, and am currently reading. Here is where you can see my 2018 year in books.

Just a quick note about my books choices. I'm a firm believer that there are too many books and too little time. So I don't want to waste my time on books that are not wonderful or at least very good. I weeded out my "to read" list and eliminated any book with a rating of less than 3.5 stars. And I used goodreads to research a book before I take it out of the library or add it to my "read" list. The result was more 4 star books this year! Woohoo!

Here is my reading year:


Here are some statistics of my year in books:





Relative to other Good reads readers:


And this is an interesting statistic....this book was great! I listened to it in the car. 


Here are my favorites of the year:


And there were many more - many with four star ratings.

Here are all my books - not sure how Goodreads sorts them.









This is the last book I read this year:



We will see how many I read this year! I'm still going to set my goal at 75. I don't want to stress out about reading more than that. If it happens, it happens.

Happy Reading!