Happy New Year to you all. Unlike 2018 where my most memorable reads were the ones that annoyed me, 2019 was a wonderful reading year full of excellent books – 44 which I rated with five stars! 2019 gave me a number of new autobuy authors, new insights and several books that are now on my all-time favourite books list as well as being the first year to crack 100 books since 2012. A stellar year indeed! But first to my statistics:
Books: 119
Fiction: 40 including Romance fiction: 33
Books DNFd but counted: 3 (this means I threw in the towel after tolerating 100 pages of shite)
Audiobooks: 12
Picture Books: 8
Graphic Novels: 17
Non-fiction: 71 including Memoir/Narrative: 23; Design: 17; Library/Reading Theory: 14
These are not a total with a fair amount of overlap, for instance 10 of my fiction books were audiobooks. I have listed below my favourites, I will link back to those of which I have discussed in previous posts. Continue reading