Outread Aubrey! Challenge discussion

In the interest of not having to look up and stalk each other's profiles for comparison purposes....how did you do last year? Did you meet your goals? Read a lot of books? Favorite book overall? Least favorite? Let's chat!

I went way over my goal, which was excellent. I tried for 160 and got 215. Favorites are hard for me...I enjoyed a lot, for vastly different reasons. I did get a favorite new genre, though...Christian thriller/suspense! Least favorite...tried Lynn Morris with disappointing results and read Tracie Peterson's Brides of Seattle #1 and couldn't stomach it. Both had glaring deficiencies in writing and characters whose attitudes jumped from period to modern at random.

What about you, Katie?

233! Goal was 75, so way over. Proud of a couple of books that were around 700 pages as I tend to balk at long ones. I worked in a library so there was lots of variety. :)

My Goodreads shelf says that I read 18. I thought I read more than that - but I must have forgot to list it. I know that did lots of research for the 1930's, but I'm not sure that I ever read the entirety of any of the books. If I really only read 18, than that's rather pathetic. Good thing I'm pretty sure I just forgot to log my books this year. :P

I read 76. I read most of them before July. My goal had been 100, but I adjusted it down to 75 in October when I realized that 100 wasn't going to happen.

I read a lot of good books this year though, and finished/caught up with a few series (something I never do). Not sure I can choose a favorite. Not sure I can choose a least favorite, either.

Here I was all proud of my 172 books and all you people read over two hundred. My goal was original 140 and then when I reached that in November I upped it to 150. About forty of those were research in norse mythology and Scandinavian culture, which is my new obsession.

My goal was 100 and I read 107.

I deliberately didn't set a GoodReads goal last year, since I wanted to focus on other goals without the distraction of trying to reach a count of books read, but I only read 31 books.

My original goal: "Goodreads goal of 55 novel sized books but after seeing everyone's goals, I'm switching it to 100 counting everything: comics, graphic novels, and picture books/easy readers (I'm taking a Books & Media for Children course)."

My Year in Books

I ended up reading 80 books and 61 comic books/graphic novels, so I made my goal! Someday I do want to hit 100 novels/books (not counting comics/GNs), but since I'm finishing up my last semester, I don't envision that happening this year ...

I read 82 books. Not as impressive a number as some of the rest of you but i'm well content with the amount and quality of the books i read.

I finally got down and read War and peace. And i discovered several new to me great books such as C. S. Lewis space trilogy or The Sword in the stone.

227! And my goal was 150. I'm very happy :)

I didn't actually set a reading goal, but I ended up with 93.

If I had to pick just one favorite book for the year, it'd be Greensleeves by Eloise Jarvis McGraw. Here's my top ten (and I did another roundup post on other books I read this—er, last—year).

I love Greensleeves! It's one of those books you never expect to anyone else to read! My sister, who read it at the same time I did, hated it. She thought it was a smutty book. This was ten years ago. She and I still have arguments about it that horrify my mother. Have you read the Striped Ships by her? It's a completely different genre and feel but it's about the Norman invasion and the Bayoux tapestry and it's some of the most useful and authentic feeling historical fiction I've ever read.

I never expected to like Greensleeves so much, because it's a totally different era and genre than I usually enjoy! I haven't read anything else by McGraw yet, but I see she wrote historical fiction set in several different eras—Moccasin Trail intrigues me, naturally.

^I need to read that book, apparently. McGraw is a wonderful writer. Moccasin Trail and The Golden Goblet are favorites of mine.