Time for my yearly post!! :)
How many books read in 2019:
105, the first time I've read over 100 since high school :O
How many fiction and non fiction?:
Most were fiction. I think I read 3 non fiction books? (a book about the history of King Arthur, a biography on Chaucer, and a self-help book for autistic adults).
Male/Female author ratio?:
I think it was roughly equal?
Favorite book of 2019?:
Skyward by Brandon Sanderson
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
Kenobi by John Jackson Miller
Defy the Fates by Claudia Gray
The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord
Knights of the Old republic comics (read the last chunk) by John Jackson Miller
Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
Tales of the Jedi (the second half)
Star Wars Clone Wars: Endgame
Galaxy of Fear series by John Whitman
Honor Among Thieves by James S.A. Corey
Razor's Edge by Martha Wells
The Winner's Kiss by Marie Rutkoski
Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina by various
The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet by Backy Chambers
Attack on Titan mangas by Hajime Isayaa
Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
The Vulcan Academy Murders by Jean Lorrah
Spock's World by Diane Duane
Least favorite?:
The Kiss Quotient
Dear Martin
Shadows in Flight
Old Man's War
Newest?:
Defy the Fates, I would think (it recently came out in 2019).
Longest and shortest book titles?:
Longest - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Shortest - Emma
Longest and shortest books?:
Longest book was Warbreaker at 688 pages
Shorest book was Legend of Korra Turf Wars 1 which was 76 pages
How many books from the library?:
The majority were, BUT I have been working on reading books I own as well.
Any translated books?:
Attack on Titan from Japanese
Fullmetal Alchemist from Japanese
The Three Body Problem from Chinese
Most read author?:
Probably John Whitman (since I read the entire Galaxy of Fear series this year).
Any re-reads?:
I re-read some Attack on Titan mangas in order to catch up
Favorite character of the year?
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Spensa Nightshade
Noemi Vidal
Abel
Miryem
Alex
Grace Delarua
Zayne Carrik
Nomi Sunrider
Vima Sunrider
Joe Miller
Kestrel
Arin
Dllenahkh
Amanda Grayson
Sarek
Spock
Nemesis
Jarael
Vivenna
Siri
Vasher
Kelsier
Vin
Tash Arranda
Emma
Nya
Samantha
Mokoya
Akeha
Julie Mao
Harper
Which countries did you go to through the page in your year of reading?:
England, France, Lithuania, Russia, China, Ireland, etc
Which book wouldn't you have read without someone’s specific recommendation?
I probably wouldn't have gotten to The Diabolic/The Empress, Etiquette and Espionage, The Black Tides of Heaven, The Three-Body Problem, The Eyre Affair, Redshirts, and All Systems Red this year without them being recommended to me.
Which author was new to you in 2019 that you now want to read the entire works of?
Karen Lord, Naomi Novik, James S.A. Corey, etc.
Which books are you annoyed you didn't read?:
several
Daughter of Smoke and Bone (nearly done with the audiobook)
Jurassic Park (currently reading though!)
Trials of Apollo: The Tyrant's Tomb (also reading currently)
The Collapsing Empire (Still reading)
Morning is a Long Time Coming (I DID interlibrary a loan it)
Did you read any books you have always been meaning to read?
YES! :)
Twelfth Night
Tales of the Jedi (read the second half)
Knights of the Old Republic comics (finished it!)
Clone Wars: Endgame (finished the last comic for this series)
Galaxy of Fear series
Honor Among Thieves
Razor's Edge
Sister's Grimm: Council of Mirrors
Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian
Old Man's War
Skyward
Mistborn: The Final Empire
Warbreaker
more Attack on Titan mangas (almost caught up now)
Before I Fall
Emma
The Winner's Kiss
Chemistry
Tales from the Mos Eisely Cantina
The Shifter
Scoundrels
Uprooted
Made of Stars
Living Independently on the Autism Spectrum
Star Wars A New Hope Journals for Leia, Han, and Luke
Legend of Korra: Turf Wars
The Diabolic and The Empress
The Unhoneymooners
Redshirts
Between Shades of Gray
Shadow on the Crown
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Medusa Uploaded
What books are you planning to read in 2020?
Daughter of Smoke and Bone (finish)
The Collapsing Empire (finish)
Jurassic Park (finish)
The Tyrant's Tomb (finish)
Radiance (finish)
The Tower of Nero
Acting in A---- (finish)
The Hive (finish)
Morning is a Long Time Coming
Star Wars books (Tales from the Empire, Tales from the New Republic, Splinter of the Mind's Eye, The Empire Strikes Back novelizations, Tales of the Bounty Hunters, Shadows of the Empire, Return of the Jedi novelizations, The Bounty Hunter Wars, The Truce at Bakura, Jedi Prince series, Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor, X-Wing series, The Courtship of Princess Leia, Corphelion Interlude, A Forest Apart, Tatooine Ghost, Thrawn Trilogy, Dawn of the Jedi comics)
The Way of Kings (and maybe more in the Stormlight Archives)
Starsight
The Broken Earth trilogy
Earth Unaware
Stranger in a Strange Land
Call Down the Hawk
Oliver Twist (finish)
Persuasion
Wayward Son
Saga comics
Serpent and Dove
I Hope You Get This Message
Crier's War
Caliban's War
Don Juan
The Odyssey
The Naked Sun
The Collapsing Universe
Sten
Angelmass
Nemesis
Mistborn: The Well of Ascension and The Hero of Ages
The Nightingale
A Court of Mist and Fury
Battlecry
Dracula
The IDIC Epidemic
More Than This
Maurice
Freedom
The Summer I Wasn't Me
The Torchkeeper: The Raising
Beren and Luthien
Sense and Sensibility
David Copperfield
Breadcrumbs
Angelfall
The Farm
Gone Gone Gone
Dark Space
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Alcestis
The Oresteia
The Kiss of Deception
The Demon King
The Warrior's Heir
Luna
The Guinevere Deception
The Goldfinch
Simon vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda
If I Stay
After (no, not the crappy one)
The Girl of Fire and Thorns
The Great Santa Search (finish)
Planet Fall
Record of a Spaceborn Few
Gods of Jade and Shadow
The Loneliest Girl in the Universe
My Dark Vanessa
The Glittering Hour
Radio Silence
The Flat Share
Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating
The Hate U Give
There There
The Break
Like a Love Story
Unpregnant
House of Dragons
A Sorcery of Thorns
The Wind from Hastings
The Sound of Stars
The Sky is Everywhere
Lovely War
The Dark Forest
The Red Strings of Fate
