95 books (and counting)
35,480 pages (and counting)
That's what I read in 2012. In January, I set a goal of reading 80 books for the year and I'm thrilled that I surpassed that goal. And I'll probably add a few more to that 95-book total before the clock strikes midnight on January 1, 2013.
Because I'm bookishly geeky and all, I'm having a blast playing around with the stats page on my Goodreads account. For instance, I can tell you that the longest book I read was Diana Gabladon's "Voyager," at 1,059 pages. Goodreads also breaks down my books from the year by how many stars I gave each one. So, without further ado, my five-star books, the best I read in 2012 (listed in the order in which I read (or, in some cases, re-read) them:
- Demonglass by Rachel Hawkins
- Send by David Shipley
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- A Million Suns by Beth Revis
- Divergent by Veronica Roth
- Spell Bound by Rachel Hawkins
- The Night Cirucs by Erin Morgenstern
- A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
- Insurgent by Veronica Roth
- Sweet Land of Liberty by Callista Gingrich
- Green Heart by Alice Hoffman
- Overseas by Beatriz Williams
- Heaven is Here by Stephanie Nielson
- Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood
- Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
- Jeneration X by Jen Lancaster
- Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
- Forever by Maggie Stiefvater
- The Boy who Was Raised as a Dog by Bruce Perry
- Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness
- Enna Burning by Shannon Hale
- How to Watch the Olympics by David Goldblatt
- Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
- The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels by Ree Drummond
- A Different Kind of Normal by Cathy Lamb
So, which books got the proverbial (or literal) five stars from you this year?
