Saturday, January 7, 2023

My End Of The Year Reading Wrap Up 2022

Well whoops, this was supposed to have posted on January 1st. Oh well, better late than never.

I love love love seeing My Year In Books on Goodreads. It's one of my favorite things. If you'd like to see every single book I've read this year, you can check out my Year In Books. But here is some details that I enjoy:


I finished a total of 393 books

89 of those were audiobooks
 
280 of those were Manga/Graphic Novel volumes
 
24 of those were a combination of traditional e-books and physical books
 
18 of those were ARCS I was asked to read and review
 
 
I read a grand total of 87,874 pages which averaged about 223 pages per book. (shorter than normal because I read so many manga this year. It was totally worth it.)
 
 
The shortest book I read was Under One Roof by Ali Hazelwood at 112 pages

 
The longest book I read was House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas at a whopping 805 pages (yes I finally finished it annnd, oh boy the ending.)
 
 
 
3.7 stars - my average rating for the year


First Book Read in 2022--Maid Sama vol. 4 ~Hiro Fujiwara
 
 
 
 
Last Book Read in 2022*-- Matcha Made In Heaven vol.1 ~Umebachi Yamanaka
 
 
 
Most Popular Book--Book Lovers~Emily Henry (1,237,063 people also shelved this book)
 
 
 
Least Popular book-- Monster To Parent by Ichi Sayo (0 people also also shelved this book. It was worth it though 😂)
 
 
 
Stay tuned for a break down of my favorite, least favorite, and my A-Z of 2023, coming at you in the next few weeks.
 
 

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Thursday, May 5, 2022

The 52 Most Beloved Young Adult Novels of the Past Two Years (according to Goodreads)

 So this list is currently a thing on Goodreads right now, so I decided to look at it and see how many I've read. I used to be a ferocious YA reader. I still read it, but now it's mostly YA Fantasy, and I think that looking at this list and what I've actually read off of it reflects that. If you want to see the actual list click HERE to see it on Goodreads, otherwise, read on!

BOLD = Books I've Read

Italicized  = Books On My TBR

RED = Books I DNFd

 

  1. Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong
  2. Chain of Iron by Cassandra Clare
  3. Chain of Gold by Cassandra Clare
  4. Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
  5. Concrete Rose by Andie Thomas
  6. Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo
  7. Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko
  8. Fire Keeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley 
  9. Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson
  10. Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender 
  11. Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
  12. A Sky Beyond the Storm by Sabaa Tahir
  13. Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim
  14. We Free the Stars Hafsah Faizal
  15. Ace of Spades by Faridah
  16. Benjamin Alire Sáenz
  17. You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
  18. Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales
  19. Namesake by Adrienne Young
  20. Fable by Adrienne Young
  21. House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland
  22. Skyhunter by Marie Lu
  23. These Hollow Vows by Lexi Ryan
  24. Gods & Monsters by Shelby Mahurin
  25. Gallant by V.E. Schwab
  26. She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlan
  27. Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi
  28. Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon
  29. The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna
  30. The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar
  31. These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
  32. A Song of Wraith and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown
  33. One of Us is Next by Karen M. McManus


So, I've read 14/52 which is not too bad, but I should probably look into reading some more of them lol


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Sunday, December 26, 2021

My End Of The Year Reading Wrap Up 2021

Okay, okay, I know what you're saying: "But Kait, it's like, not even technically the end of the year yet, you have about a whole week left."

Yeah,  I KNOW. But for the last few years I've posted this to my friends on The Facebook on the 26th, so we shall continue with the trend. You can stop looking at me like that right now, thank you.

If you want to see allllll of the specific titles of the books that I finished you can click to see my Year in Books over on Goodreads

Otherwise, here are the important deets:


I finished a total of 319 books

133 were audio books

140 were manga/graphic novel volumes

46 were a combination of traditional e-books and physical books


I read a total of 86,657 pages which averaged about 271 pages per book

 

The shortest book I read was Home Is Where The Heart Is at 24 pages

 
 
The longest book I read was A Court Of Silver Flames at 757 pages
 

 
My average rating for the year is 3.6

The first book I read in 2021 was Kingdom Of The Wicked

 
 

The LAST book I read in 2021 was Duke, Actually



I was going to add in my favorite and least favorite books for the year, but now I'm thinking that I will wait and do that in a completely separate post.

Stay tuned!



 


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