Reading Challenge: Wrapping Up 2015
I'm so glad I saw that web page a year ago that got me reading all those books. The challenge didn't say they had to be books that were new to me, but it felt great to broaden my horizons by choosing books I hadn't read before. I've finished fifty-nine books in 2015, which is better than one a week; this includes the challenge and seven others.
I felt a little stifled by mid-November because there were several books I wanted to read, but none of them fit into a category I hadn't already fulfilled. So I ventured away from the challenge several times starting in October, but I came back to finish the challenge, reading the last two books between Christmas and New Year's Eve.
My favorite books from 2015 were:
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
The Night Circus
The Lions of Al-Rassan
The Newsflesh Trilogy (Feed, Deadline, and Blackout)
The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Watership Down
Station Eleven
Longbourn
The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
This is a Year in Review page that Goodreads offers, and it includes the seven extra books I've read this year.
Here's the main spreadsheet. Columns from left to right are the order in which I read each book, category, title, and first author listed. Click for a full size image.
This is my "Coverage" spreadsheet. I juggled categories more than once, having read a book to fulfill Category A and then changing it to Category B. I knew going in I was probably going to do this, which is why I did this spreadsheet. Each column is a book, and each book qualified for multiple categories. Each row is a category -- obviously. The book titles aren't visible here, but they're in order of reading, so the book with a 1 in the left column in the spreadsheet above -- Watson and Holmes: a Study in Black -- is the first column on this spreadsheet. Click for a full size image.
27 books written by women, 25 by men. All seven of the extra books were written by women, as well. *fist pump*
Farewell, 2015 Challenge. It's been an amazing year.
On to my 2016 Reading Challenge:
