My 2017 Reading Stats

Well I just managed to scrape past 100 books. I had 102. This year I only counted books that I completed. This means that in February - June I only averaged 3.3 books a month because I started a ton of stuff that I then discarded. I give a book 30-50 pages and then it goes in the scrapper. Well, not really the scrapper - it just goes back to the library. But I promptly forget about it. Hence the not even bothering to try to keep track!

As usual, I read mostly YA - 38 titles. I read 26 books for adults, 15 middle grade, 12 children's books and 7 picture books.

And as usual, I mostly read fiction - 82 titles vs. 20 non-fiction titles. And most of my non-fiction were memoirs or essays. What can I say, I like a story...

I had a banner year for graphic reading! I read 18 graphic novels - eight of which were biographies or memoirs.

I read 27, 510 pages this year - 2,292 a month - 529 a week - 75 a day. Of course, this only counts the books I finished, so really, I am just a monster of reading.

And now - the actual books! They are all 4 or 5 stars. I will highlight my best of the year in the next post...

YA

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Solo – Kwame Alexander

Landscape with Invisible Hand - MT Anderson

Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo

Crooked Kingdom - Leigh Bardugo

Shadow and Bone – Leigh Bardugo

Language of Thorns – Leigh Bardugo

I am Deborah Sampson – Patricia - Clapp

Constance: A Story of Early Plymouth - Patricia Clapp

Jane-Emily - Patricia Clapp

Don't Get Caught – Kurt Dinan

For the Record - Charlotte Huang

I Kill Giants - Joe Kelly

We are Okay - Nina LaCour

Like No Other - Una LaMarche

Outrun the Moon – Stacey Lee

Betsy was a Junior - Maud Hart Lovelace

Warcross – Marie Lu

Devoted - Jennifer Mathieu

Moxie - Jennifer Mathieu

Down Among the Sticks and Bones – Seanan McGuire

Every Heart a Doorway – Seanan McGuire

One of Us is Lying – Karen McManus

When Dimple Met Rishi – Sandhya Menon

Holding Up the Universe - Jennifer Niven

Lost at Sea - Bryan Lee O'Malley

Hanging Out With Cici - Francine Pascal

My First Love and Other Disasters - Francine Pascal

Long Way Down - Jason Reynold

Anna and the Swallow Man – Gavriel Savit

I Woke Up Dead at the Mall – Judy Sheehan

Thornhill – Pam Smy

Our Chemical Hearts – Krystal Sutherland

The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas

Amy, Chelsea, Stacey, Dee - Mary G. Thompson

Paper Girls - Brian K. Vaughn

Paper Girls 2 - Brian K. Vaughn

Paper Girls 3 Brian K. Vaughn

Love & Gelato - Jenna Evana Welch

Spill Zone – Scott Westerfeld

The Sun is Also a Star – Nicola Yoon

ADULT

Menopause Confidential - Tara Allmen

California Dreamin' - Penelope Bagieu

Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell - W. Kamau Bell

Sleepwalk with Me - Mike Birbiglia

Tetris - Box Brown

Andre the Giant - Box Brown

I'll Have What She's Having - Erin Carlson

Going in to Town - Roz Chast

Al Franken, Giant of the Senate - Al Franken

Girl in Dior - Annie Goetzinger

Victoria - Daisy Goodwin

Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi

We are Never Meeting in Real Life - Samantha Irby

Anne Frank - Sid Jacobson

An Age of License - Lucy Knisley

Gather the Daughters - Jennie Melamed

How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You - Oatmeal

Prairie Song - Cheryl Ann Porter

The Alice Network - Kate Quinn

Dear Farenheit 451 – Annie Spence

The Fifth Beatle - Vivek Tiwary

A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles

The Animators - Kayla Raw Whitaker

Flapper – Joshua Zeitz

Young Jane Young - Gabrielle Zevin

St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture 

MIDDLE GRADE

War I Finally Won - Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Girls: A History of Growing Up Female in America – Penny Colman

Inquisitor's Tale - Adam Gidwicz

Stepping on Cracks - Mary Downing Hahn

Journey to an 800 Number - E.L. Konigsburg

Compass South - Hope Larson

Snow White - Matt Phelan

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - JK Rowling

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - JK Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - JK Rowling

Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - J.K Rowling

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K Rowling

On the Banks of Plum Creek - Laura Ingalls Wilder

Child Soldier - Jessica Dee Humphreys

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Thumbelina - Hans Christian Andersen

Jorah's Journal - Judith Caseley

Mary's Star - Wilma Pitchford Hayes

Eddie and his Big Deals - Carolyn Haywood

Shrinking of Treehorn - Florence Parry Heide

Dinner at Alberta's - Russell Hoban

Pippi and the South Seas - Astrid Lindgren

Fanny's Sister - Penelope Lively

Betsy-Tacy - Maud Hart Lovelace

Betsy Tacy and Tib - Maud Hart Lovelace

Three by the Sea - Mildred Myrick

I Go By Sea, I Go By Land - P.L. Travers

Farmer Boy - Laura Ingalls Wilder

PICTURE BOOKS

Hoop Genius – John Coy

The Boy Who Invented TV - Kathleen Krull

John Deere That's Who - Tracy Nelson Maurer

Pop: The Invention of Bubble Gum - Megan McCarthy

Where's Walrus? - Stephen Savage

The Dark - Lemony Snicket

Awesome Minds: The Creators of the iPhone – Marne Ventura