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December 2018 & Annual Wrap-Up

In December, I acquired 42 books and read 6. As always, book links are provided by clicking on the title.

Books I read (ranked in order of most to least favorite—and in the case of the last one: utter shit)) were:

1. The Grey Bastards by Jonathan French

2. The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland by Rebekah Crane

3. A Partial History of Lost Causes by Jennifer duBois

4. Freedom City by Philip Becnel

5. A Separate Peace by John Knowles

6. Descent by Tim Johnston

Books I acquired during December

Books acquired via giveaways:

1. The Warner Boys: Our Family’s Story of Autism and Hope by Curt and Ana Warner

2. My Fight for My Family by David Jordan

3. Hell Inc. by Dick Wybrow

4. The Burnt Summer by Chris Ledoux

5. The Martin Chronicles by John Fried

6. Eden at the Edge of Midnight by John Kerry

7. When I Grow Up, I Wanna Be Kenneth Tobey by Wesley R, Mullen

8. Living Proof by Peter J. Thompson

9. Murder, She Vaped: The Ironic T-Shirt Caper by Gregg Maxwell Parker

10. The Whole of the Moon by Rush Leaming

11. Five O’Clock Shadow by Karen Lenfestey

12. House on Fire by Bonnie Kistler

13. Surviving Minimized by Andrea White

14, Seeking Glory by Patricia Hamilton Shook

15. Culling the Herd by Edward R. Etzkorn

16. Winter’s Heist by Emily Duvall

Free books I received

1. The Road Beyond Ruin by Gemma Liviero

2. Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch

3. Luna: New Moon by Ian MacDonald

4. The Armored Saint by Myke Cole

Books I Bought

1.Tales of the Peculiar by Ransom Riggs

2. The Rose & the Dagger by Renée Ahdieh

3. Slasher Girls & Monster Boys by April Genevieve Tucholke

4. Crota by Owl Goingback

5. The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

6. Nevernight by Jay Kristoff

7. The Book of Swords by Gardner Dozois

8. The Chrysalids by John Wyndham

9. 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill

10. Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

11. The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

12. The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld

13. They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

14. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

15. A Reaper at the Gates by Sabaa Tahir

16. Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage

17. The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

18. Sadie by Courtney Summers

19. Legendary by Stephanie Garber

20. The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe

21. Mitosis by Brandon Sanderson

22. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

I ended the year having read 24,576 pages across 78 books. That does not include the books I DNFed.

The average book length was 314 pages, with the shortest book being 22 pages and the longest being 752.

My average rating was 3.2 stars, which seems like kind of a “meh” year to me, which I guess it was. Out of the 78 books, only 6 were 5-star reads for me. And on reflection, there are two of those I would probably drop to 4 stars.

Looking ahead to 2019: my goals are to read 50 books, with at least 12 of those being Stephen King books since I own so many of them.

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