I’m not doing a best of or favourite books list this year. I have read too many terrific and memorable books to be able to narrow it down so I’m just going to do my reading year in review using the Goodreads stats, partly because they look nice, but mostly because they have done all the work for me!
All of the books read this year have been reviewed here on the blog. All in all, it’s been a year of good reading. Cheers to that!
Theresa Smith Writes 
You’re generous! (My average rating was 3.2) Have a happy new year.
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I feel like I’ve been super fussy in what I’ve chosen to read this year and stuck with books I ‘know’ were going to be a guaranteed good read. Comfort in familiarity, I suppose.
Happy new year to you, too!
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Cool, my top 10, which ended up 12 goes up tomorrow. So many books I didn’t get to this year, but am determined to get to next year.
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Congrats on being able to pick some favourites. I couldn’t narrow it down enough. Too many 4 and 5 star reads.
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It was a struggle, I missed some of the ones I read or listened to off of goodreads, and when I remembered them I couldn’t be bothered changing my post. I would have liked to have picked 50 😂
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I can understand that! I read 102 books and my top list might have been about 90, lol. 😂
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So many great books!
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It was a very good reading year!
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Hey, Theresa, thanks for this. I didn’t realise you could generate such a list from Goodreads.
Whoops, I had a look at my list, and couldn’t recall a lot of them. But once I started reading my comments or the book synopsis, they started coming back. My “favourite” was a book that no-one else shelved. I checked my comment:
DNF. Sorry, but when “diary” is mispelled “dairy”, consistently, I just can’t continue reading. Once is a typo, twice is unfortunate, but thrice is chuck it out the window!” [With apologies to Ian Fleming.]
I won’t deign to name the book or author (I think it was self-published).
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Dairy instead of diary!! I have to agree with you there! One of the reasons I keep listing to Goodreads instead of just sticking to my blog. I like these end of year visual stats!
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My post, all being well, will go up Friday evening, but like you it won’t have rankings. It will be more a review of highlights from different perspectives.
I’m impressed by you cover gallery! If I averaged my ratings it would be 4-ish, because basically I give most books 4. I don’t really like rating books, and any book I’d want to give 3 to I wouldn’t want to have read! So, while in my head there are many I’d give 3.5 (7) to, GoodReads doesn’t allow that, so 4 it is!
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I don’t really like rating books either and maybe that’s why my average is so high. Generally, 5 is one I loved, 4 is one I liked, and 3 is everything else. If I ever rate lower, it’s because the book was particularly bad or offensive, but that’s pretty rare. I know others are a lot more cut throat though!
I can’t take credit for the cover gallery. I just took screen shots of the Goodreads year in review and then patched it together here on my post. But I do like to see them all in the one place. Funny how you can look back and think that you read something so long ago but it was only the start of the year.
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Yes some are more cut throat … I don’t think that’s kind and, I prefer to be kind. Anyhow. I like everything I read for one reason or another, otherwise I’d put it down really. Still I would like a 3.5!
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Half ratings on Goodreads are long overdue, I think! I have finally mastered the whole putting a book down if I don’t like it instead of pressing on. Definitely wish I’d done it years ago!
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Agree re half ratings OR a scale of 10 but half ones would do.
I don’t put many down, because I try to choose well, but I do occasionally. It’s sensible really, isn’t it?
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With so many terrific books and so little time, most definitely!
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Look at all those five star reads – what a reading brilliant year! Huzzah!! xx
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*brilliant reading, that should be … my brain has decided to end 2021 by disappearing early, lol
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Ha ha! Happy New Year xo
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