So this is it! Another year end which means another wrap up! Last year I posted my first ever Yearly Wrap Up for this blog and had a such a good time making it. The year hadn’t even started and I was excited to create my 2019 Wrap Up! I did leagues better this year than I did last year which I am really happy about. I did think I planned abit to much though and restricted my choice of what to read. At one point I knew what I was reading for the next 5 months and it did slightly suck the fun out of reading. I am going to try and avoid that next year.

For these stats I used a mixture of my own reading spreadsheet and the Goodreads Wrap Up! Some of this data is skewed slightly as I did DNF 7 books this year. I have no problem DNFing and I still count myself as reading 57 books but some of page statistics might be wrong. I try to read at least a quarter of the book before DNFing it but sometimes I just knew after a chapter or two I wasn’t going to like it. I will try and make sure next year I only count the pages I did read. For a full list of the books I DNFed this year check out my blog post!

Basic Stats

• I read 21,687 pages over 57 books this year!
• My average book length was 380!
• My average rating for 2019 was 3.6 stars!

Rating Breakdown

Now we are going to break it down into what books I gave a certain number of stars to. I am also going to link my reviews to the books that I reviewed

Books that I gave 1 star – 1

• Fire and Heist – Sarah Beth Durst (DNF)

Books that I gave 2 stars – 10

• A Curse So Dark and Lonely – Brigid Kemmerer (DNF)
• The Catcher in the Rye – J.D Salinger (DNF and technically a 1.5 star)
• The Boundless – Kenneth Oppal
• The Wizards of Once – Cressida Cowell (DNF)
• The Girl from Everywhere – Heidi Heilig (DNF)
• The Two Towers – J.R.R Tolkien (DNF)
• Titans of History – Simon Sebag Montefiore
• A Spell of Murder – Kennedy Kerr
• Monsters and Mythical Creatures – Heather Frigiola (DNF)
• The Allingham Minibus – Margery Allingham

Books that I gave 3 stars – 15

• The Fellowship of the Ring – J.R.R Tolkien
• The Monogram Murders – Sophie Hannah
• Legendary – Stephanie Garber
• How To Adult – Stephen Wildish
• The Storm Crow – Kalyn Josephson
• Viper – Bex Hogan
• Equal Rites – Terry Pratchett
• The Big Four – Agatha Christie
• Mooncakes – Wendy Xu and Suzanne Walker
• Doing Time – Jodi Taylor
• Death Beside the Seaside – T.E. Kinsey
• Spinning Silver – Naomi Novik
• Hills Like White Elephant – Ernest Hemingway
• Dorothy Must Die – Danielle Paige
• Murder at the Dolphin Hotel – Helena Dixon

Books that I gave 4 stars – 19

• The Light Fantastic – Terry Pratchett
• Obsidio – Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
• Arm of the Sphinx – Josiah Bancroft
• The Next Person You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
• The Power – Naomi Alderman
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
• The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August – Claire North
• Resort to Murder – T.P. Fielden
• The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency – Alexander McCall Smith
• The Man in the Brown Suit – Agatha Christie
• A Monster Calls – Patrick Ness
• Sadie – Courtney Summers
• The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
• Mort – Terry Pratchett
• The Body on the Train – Frances Brody
• Requiem Infernal – Peter Fehervari
• House of Night and Chain – David Annandale
• To Best the Boys – Mary Weber
• Mortal Engines – Phillip Reeve

Books that I gave 5 stars – 12

• Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow – Jessica Townsend
• Thunderhead – Neal Shusterman
• The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet – Becky Chambers
• The Girl in the Tower – Katherine Arden
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K. Rowling
• The Secret of Chimneys – Agatha Christie
• The Final Empire – Brandon Sanderson
• Fullmetal Alchemist Vol 1-3 – Hiromu Arakawa
• Fullmetal Alchemist Vol 4-6 – Hiromu Arakawa
• The Lightning Thief – Rick Riordan
• The Eye of the World – Robert Jordan
• A House of Ghosts – W.C. Ryan

I added 11 of these books to my favourites of all time shelf but I will be making a separate post about those.

Genre Breakdown

Next, I will break down the different genres I read this year and how many books of that genre I read.

• Classics – 3
• Fantasy – 25
• Literary Fiction – 1
• Graphic Novel – 1
• Historical Fiction – 1
• Horror – 2
• Manga – 2
• Mystery – 13
• Non-Fiction – 2
• Sci-Fi – 7
• Thriller – 1

Page Length Breakdown

• 100 pages or less – 1
• 100 – 200 – 1
• 200 – 300 – 15
• 300 – 400 – 18
• 400 – 500 – 13
• 500 – 600 – 4
• 600 – 700 – 4
• 800 – 900 – 1

Format Breakdown

• Hardcover – 7
• Paperback – 37
• Kindle – 13

Age Group Breakdown

• Adult – 33
• YA – 20
• Middle Grade – 4

So that is my year! I personally love looking at the stats of my reading year. Seeing it all come together in numbers, it’s just really satisfying for me. This post was more about the data/numbers side of things but my next post will be focusing on the actual challenges I took part in over the course of 2019.