I know 2016 was the fashionable year to hate, but I actually had a great 2016, both personally and reading-wise. I read a ton, branched out into genres I didn’t have any interest in prior, and found many of my new favorite books. This year, not so much. I relapsed into the genres that interested me because I realized late last year how little I actually enjoyed reading almost all YA fantasy and science fiction, and how adult fantasy and science fiction appealed to me even less. So I stuck to contemporaries and mysteries and, of course, historical fiction this year. Here's my final breakdown for 2017!
Average rating: 7 out of 10 (rounded up by not much)
Genre breakdown: 55 historical fiction
46 contemporaries
45 mystery-thrillers
14 nonfiction
5 horror
5 science fiction
5 dystopians
4 fantasy
4 paranormal
3 graphic novels
2 magical realism/surrealism
2 plays
1 romance/chick-lit
Of those, 103 were adult, 82 were YA, 4 were middle grade, and 2 were children's
Total: 191
I didn't read as many books as I did last year (I put last year's final count as 197 books). The most notable change, though, is that I read more adult books than YA this year, when last year I read almost all YA. I've been enjoying adult books a lot more lately than I have YA. I will stick around for some YA- I'm not doing a year without YA or anything like that-, but not as much as I used to read and I won't actively seek it out like I used to. Other than reading more adult books in 2018, I want to read more obscure fiction, which I've been enjoying a lot, and more classics (which I feel like is bookish equivalent of the going to the gym resolution). But that's enough of me babbling. Here's to one hell of a 2018!
Let me know how your 2017 went. I'm always curious to hear how others reading year went. Hopefully yours was better than mine.
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