2016 Books in Review
It's the last day of the year, and like everyone else I know, I spent a few minutes analyzing my book reading spreadsheets. Oh, you didn't? Well, YOU are the weird one.
Nerdy Statistics:
Total: 127 books
Average number of pages: 299
First book finished: Troublemaker by Leah Remini
Last book finished: Negroland by Margo Jefferson
72% of the books I read were ebook and/or audiobook
64% of the authors I read were female
3 books were re-reads
9 countries were represented (79.5% US authors)
Shortest (adult) book (128 pages): A Beautiful Mess by Danielle Strickland
Longest book (916 pages): Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Oldest book: The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (published in 1920)
78% of the books were published in 2011 or later
22% of the books were published in 2016
Troublemaker was probably the book that most surprised me because I loved it way more than I thought I would. Negroland was also pretty spectacular, so the year began and ended on high notes. When I looked back over the list, there were several books that gave me pitter patters in my heart when I passed their titles, so I think they're worth mentioning.
Books I Really Loved (in no particular order):
The Knife of Letting Go (Patrick Ness)
Pit Bull (Bronwen Dickey)
The Kingdom on the Waves (MT Anderson)
Lily and the Octopus (Steven Rowley)
This Is the Part Where You Laugh (Peter Brown Hoffmeister)
Furthermore (Tahereh Mafi)
Above Us Only Sky (Michele Young-Stone)
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake (Anna Quindlen)
Just Mercy (Bryan Stevenson)