It’s finally the end of the year and I would like to share my 2018 reading experience. Earlier this year, I had set my reading goal to read 50 books. Last year, I did 100 books and ended up reading 119 books and back in 2013 I even finished 251 books. So why did I only 50 books this year? Because I felt that this year I would be quite busy working and I had wanted to try new hobbies such as knitting (which was a total mess) and personally, I didn’t want to push myself too hard in case I got a reading slump.
Did I achieve my goal?
Yup, I ended up reading 60 books and according to Goodreads, it was equivalent to 22,876 pages. The thickest book I read this year is The Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas (which also my most favorite in 2018) and the thinnest is Love & Misadventure by Lang Leav, each 980 and 176 pages thick. The most recent book I read this year is The Power of Six by Pittacus Lore. It was the second book in a series of a total 7 books, which means I have to continue the next series next year.
Rating
According to Goodreads, my average rating this year was only 3.4. Not too big huh? Anyway, the books that I gave the highest rating (5 stars) were as follows:
- How to Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo
- A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
- Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas
While my least favorite book this year was The Fire Queen by Emily R. King. I only gave a 2-star rating (which means it was an OK read) because I got bored of the story and I thought it was too long and too slow progressed so I got uninterested by the end of the book. Finally, I decided to drop this series and did not continue with the other 3 books.
2019 Plan & TBR
I have got several unavoidable plans next year, so I decided to read only 50 books by the minimum. Well, hopefully, I will still pass the target as I did in previous years. There are also some books I aim to finish reading by next year. So here are 20 books in my 2019 to-be-read list:
- Aru Shah and the End of Time – Roshani Chokshi
- Spinning Silver – Naomi Novik
- The City of Brass – S.A. Chakraborty
- Lord of Shadows – Cassandra Clare
- Queen of Air and Darkness – Cassandra Clare
- The Invasion of Tearling – Erika Johansen
- The Burning Maze – Rick Riordan
- The Last of August – Brittany Cavallaro
- The Case for Jamie – Brittany Cavallaro
- Outrun the Moon – Stacey Lee
- Children of Blood and Bone – Tomi Adeyemi
- House of Furies – Madeleine Roux
- Court of shadows – Madeleine Roux
- The Wicked King – Holly Black
- Dragon Pearl – Yoon Ha Lee
- Chain of Gold – Cassandra Clare
- King of Scars – Leigh bardugo
- A Reaper at the Gates – Sabaa Tahir
- Wildcard – Marie Lu
- Four Dead Queens – Astrid Scholte
So, those are goals that I achieved in 2018 and plan for 2019.
What about you? Did you achieve yours?
And do you have any books to recommend?
Feel free to drop comments and see you in next post. 🙂
Sincerely.Sylvie 