My Year in Books - 2014 - Smiling Shelves

My Year in Books - 2014

12/30/2014

Last year, I was incredibly excited to take a look back at what I had read over the year in 2013. I had never really kept track before, but Goodreads allowed me to figure out all sort of geeky statistics about my reading.

Well, I'm no less excited to figure out those geeky statistics this year. And this time, they come complete with pie charts!

Books read: 119
(3 of those were audiobooks)
Pages read: 40,174
Fiction: 78%
Nonfiction: 22%
Male authors: 41%
Female authors: 59%
Set in the United States: 29%
Set in Europe: 48% (of which most took place in England. . .)
Set elsewhere in the world: 26%

I also went a little crazy in signing up for reading challenges this year, but I somehow managed to complete them all! If you want to know what books I read for each challenge, you can check out my Reading Challenges page. These are the reading challenges I completed in 2014:

Mount TBR
I Love Library Books!
Newbery
Color Coded
Full House
What's In a Name?
Nonfiction
European
Global
Around the World in 12 Books
Read It Again, Sam
You Read How Many Books?
Chunkster
Alphabet Soup

My Top Finds of 2014

Favorite fiction book: Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn (or Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson)
Favorite nonfiction book: One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson
Favorite children's/young adult book: Wonder by R.J. Palacio
Favorite series: Daughters of Boston by Julie Lessman

4 Comments

Joyful link

12/30/2014 05:00:35 am

You sure have had a great year of reading! That's a lot of books! I don't know if I will do ANY challenges in 2015. I dropped the ball in 2014. :(
I still love to read but not the stress that comes with challenges.

Julie @ Smiling Shelves link

12/30/2014 05:29:10 am

I really enjoyed this year of reading. So far, reading challenges have been more fun than stressful, but I know they can easily get to be too much work. The most important thing about reading is that you have fun with it! :)

Kathryn link

12/30/2014 07:52:33 am

I love your image showing what you read around the world. Very nice and great visual to give the info. I loved Wonder, I read it to my class when I was teaching - everyone loved it, and many read it again independently after I had read it to them.

Julie @ Smiling Shelves link

12/30/2014 11:20:07 am

I haven't had a chance to read Wonder to my class yet, but I hope to. Right now we are reading Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library. I'm glad you liked my map. It was fun to create and very interesting!

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