2018 Wrap-Up

Let’s look at what I accomplished last year.

Books read: 93

Pages read: 21053

Favorite Book of the year

5 stars to 

Other favorites

Challenge Updates

1. Read at least 40 books (Goodreads goal) – I read 93 books, yay!
2. Read more classics (at least 15) – 9 😦
3. Read more owned books (at least 20) – 16 😦
4. Read huge books (at least 3) – Shantaram, Gone with the wind and one more – Sadly didn’t do this.
5. Re-read two favorite books – Anna Karenina and Thirteenth Tale – Nope 😦
6. Read more non-fiction/ memoir/ autobiography (at least 10) – 16, yay!

2018 ultimate reading challenge

1. A book you read in school
2. A book from your childhood
3. A book published over 100 years ago – Heart of Darkness
4. A book published in the last year – Genuine Fraud
5. A non-fic book You can do it
6. A book written by a male author – The Gift of Therapy
7. A book written by a female author – Sunbathing in the rain
8. A book by someone who isn’t a writer – When breath becomes air
9. A book that became a film – The painted veil
10. A book published in the 20^th century – Changing Planes
11. A book set in your hometown/ region – How I Became a Farmer’s Wife
12. A book with a name in the title – A Man called Ove
13. A book with a number in the title – Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
14. A book based on a true story – Dying Well
15. A book someone else recommended – 1984
16. A book with over 500 pages
17. A book you can finish in a day – Ghachar Ghochar
18. A previously banned book
19. A book with one-word title – Malice
20. A book translated from another language – Moonrise From the Green Grass Roof
21. A personal growth book – The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
22. A memoir or a journal – Tiger tiger
23. A book by someone from another country – The Notebook
24. A book set somewhere you’ll visit this year – The Blue Castle
25. An award-winning book – Pulitzer Prize – Angela’s Ashes
26. A book you read in school
27. A book with a character with your first name
28. A book with a place in the title – The Mayor of Casterbridge
29. A book set in the future – Cinder
30. A play – The live Corpse
31. A scary book – Dracula
32. A funny book – Where did you go, Bernadette
33. A book of short stories – Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
34. A trilogy or series Me Before You
35. A bestseller – The Hate U Give
36. A book you own but haven’t read – Haroun and the sea of stories
37. A book about philosophy
38. An epic poem
39. A Victorian novel
40. A book of poetry
41. A book with a colour in the title
42. A book with an appealing cover – Everything everything
43. A book about psychology – Love’s executioner and other tales of psychotherapy
44. A book about science – The Mind’s Eye
45. A graphic novel – Asterix the gaul
46. A self-published book
47. A book from a different culture– Shanghai Girls
48. A young adult book – This sky
49. A book of non-fiction essays – At the same time
50. A book by an author you haven’t read before – Gifts
51. A book set in a country you’ve never been to – Into the water
52. A book set in the place you live today

39/ 52 Done

Definitely, lots of improvement is needed. Haha. Hoping 2019 is better reading-wise. How was your 2018?

Best Reads of 2017

Well, 2017 was a good year in terms of quantity (77 books read) but not so much in quality. I just had one 5 star read. One! Drumroll please. The award goes to-
It was also the longest book I read this year (473 pages) but it’s sheer brilliance.

On number 2, with 4.5 stars each are-

and   Highly recommended!

And here are all the 4 star reads –

Have you read one or more of these? What did you think of them? Put your best books of 2017 links in comments and I will come add more books to my TBR. Haha.

Wrap-Up 2017: What did I read this year?

Total Books read – 77

Total number of pages read – 18741

Shortest Read – The hungry caterpillar (26 pages)

Longest Read – Unbroken (473 pages)

Average length – 273 pages

Most books read in – November (14)

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How was your 2017 reading wise?