#amonthoffaves

All December,
Estella’s Revenge, Girlxoxo, and Traveling with T
will be sharing their fave bookish
experiences from throughout the year.
Click on the logo above to check the schedule
and join the fun!

I enjoyed this event last year, so I am back. I will not be able to post every day of the month, but I’ll try as often as I can.

MY READING YEAR

Dec 1 is for
#AMonthofFaves {My Reading Year} – eg. Number of books read so far, genre you read the most from, picture of favorite (or most often used) reading location, most read author, % eBooks, hardcovers, paperbacks and/or audiobooks, hint at what your favorite read of the year is (let us guess), types of books you wish you read more of, month you read the most and least)

As I plan to read possibly 8 more books before the end of December, with a total of about 110 books, and as I do a massive statistics post with charts and pies at the beginning of January, I cannot tally everything yet.
BUT I can already tell you that this year brought me lots of joy on the reading front.

Number of books

So far, I have read 98 books, my goal was 100

Genre

I often say my favorite genre is historical fiction, but if I look at my stats so far this year, numbers tell another story more my biggest categories:

general/literary fiction = 28
mysteries = 26
historical fiction = 15
nonfiction = 12

Out of 98 books, 19 are audio and 35 are ebooks (18 ebooks last year!)

Fun timeline

And here is a fun timeline:

JANUARY= when I finally discovered Elizabeth Peters!
FEBRUARY= when I finally got to listen to Gone Girl!
MARCH= when I read the most pages = 3218, that is an average of 103/day. That day, I also read 4 historical novels
APRIL= when I read and translated in French my first novel by author Tanya Anne Crosby, Speak No Evil
MAY= when I read my highest number of books = 11. And read 3 nonfiction
JUNE= when I devoured 2 audiobooks by Louise Penny in a same month
JULY= when I finally read The Woman in White
AUGUST= when I listened to my highest number of audiobooks = 6, and read/listened to 5 mysteries
SEPTEMBER= when I eagerly read the latest book by Selznick: The Marvels. Awesome!
OCTOBER= when I read my lowest number of books = 4
NOVEMBER= when I did not manage to finish 1 audiobook!
DECEMBER= when I need to start reading books already scheduled for review in 2016!!

Favorites

I usually don’t think about THE favorite book of the year
– though looking back now, my favorite in 2014 was probably the one from the Historical fiction – audio category:

Instead I choose a favorite in 4 categories: Fiction, Historical fiction, Nonfiction, Mystery,
respectively in print, ebooks, audio, so I end up with 12 favorites, plus a favorite one in the category Religion.