20230 Pages
For the past three years (2020) and (2021) and (2022), I set reading goals tied to the year — 20200 pages and 20210 pages and 20220 pages. As of December 25th (which is the date GoodReads last updated my reading stats), I hit 20207 pages with 60 books, but I definitely read more than 23 pages this week (to get to 20230) with my final book of the year. So I’m calling it a win.
I wish GoodReads would give you a running page count throughout the year.
To stay on-brand, I set 20240 as a goal for 2024.
My favourite things I’ve read this year:
- Tell Me an Ending (Jo Harkin)
- The Stranger Diaries (Elly Griffiths)
- A Tidy Ending (Joanna Cannon)
- La Belle Sauvage (Philip Pullman)
- Bad Summer People (Emma Rosenbaum)
- The Endless Vessel (Charles Soule)
- Death Comes to Marlow (Robert Thorogood)
- My Murder (Katie Williams)
- The Skeleton Key (Erin Kelly)
- Okay Days (Jenny Mustard)
- Grave Expectations (Alice Bell)
- One Puzzling Afternoon (Emily Critchley)
- The Christmas Guest (Peter Swanson)
- The Christmas Appeal (Janice Hallett)
- The Last Devil To Die (Richard Osman)
- The Three Dahlias (Katy Watson)
- The Windsor Knot (SJ Bennett)
What is on your list of favourite reads this year? (Feel free to list movies or television shows if books are not your thing.)
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That’s a lot of reading! 🙂 I just posted my own “Reading Year in Review.” As I say there, it’s difficult to pick “the best.” because I read a lot of really good books this year, but these were among my favourites (all reviewed on Goodreads, StoryGraph & my blog):
* “In Memoriam” by Alice Winn
* “Tom Lake” by Ann Patchett
* “Lessons in Chemistry” by Bonnie Garmus
* “The Last Devil to Die” by Richard Osman
* “Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story” by Bono
* “Spare” by Prince Harry
* “Wintering” by Katherine May
I think StoryGraph has a feature where you can set & track a goal re: numbers of pages. Overall, I prefer Goodreads, but SG has some cool features & tracks some things that Goodreads doesn’t, so I maintain both. 🙂 m
Counting books is bad enough, but pages? lol (Actually, as I wrote this sentence, I feel a blog post coming on.) However many pages, 60 books – more than one a week – is definitely a win!
I was doing a year end post draft (for next Monday), and listed some of my favourites. Song of Achilles (which I’ve mentioned before) by Madeline Miller is definitely one of them. “Lessons in Chemistry” as also included by Loribeth above. John Boyne’s “All the Broken Places,” and Sam Neill’s memoir, “Did I ever tell you this?”
Nothing really stood out for me this year, aside from Richard Osman. But I also only read 45 books this year. 😕
Thought of you when I saw this article…! (It’s a gift link.) They do have a point…!
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/01/books-briefing-against-counting-books-new-year/677031/?gift=azusxyDxDF4QjSkeyXgcQT84TODdhq5bGPaUcbGTt3g&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share