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 This year I set my Goodreads challenge at 150 books, and I ended up with 251. I also achieved my goal of reading more nonfiction (20, as opposed to last year’s…one). 

I did not achieve my goal of writing more reviews, instead of just ratings, and in fact I’m pretty sure I did even fewer than last year. Maybe next year I’ll do better on that. (Maybe.)

But I read a lot of good things! It always makes me happy to look back on these lists and see so many more four- and five-star books than one- and two-star ones. 

Stats:

Total books: 251
Total pages: 79,206
Average length: 315 pages
Shortest book: Hannah-Beast by Jennifer McMahon (49 pgs)
Longest book: Rogues edited by George R.R. Martin (806 pgs) 

Three favorite books I read this year:

1. Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky 
2. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore
3. The Master of All Desires by Judith Merkle Riley

Three least favorite books I read this year:

1. Loving My Lady by Penelope Friday 
2. The Thin Woman by Dorothy Cannell 
3. Disclaimer by Renee Knight

Full list (with ratings!) below the cut.

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TRACK LIST

01. Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, Pathétique: IV. Adagio lamentoso; Andante / Herbert von Karajan & Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer
02. “Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde” from Das Lied von der Erde / Fritz Wunderlich; Gustav Mahler, composer
03. “Affanni del pensier” from Ottone / Lisa Saffer; George Frideric Handel, composer
04. “Rast” from Winterreise / Henk Neven; Franz Schubert, composer
05. Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47: III. Largo / Rudolf Barshai & WDR Sinfonieorchester; Dmitri Shostakovich, composer
06. Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47: III. Allegro, ma non tanto / Joshua Bell; Jean Sibelius, composer
07. “Di quella pira” from Il Trovatore / Jonas Kaufmann; Giuseppe Verdi, composer
08. “Nemico della patria” from Andrea Chénier / Sherrill Milnes; Umberto Giordano, composer
09. “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen” from Rückert-Lieder / Janet Baker; Gustav Mahler, composer
10. “Pietà, rispetto, amore” from Macbeth / Renato Bruson; Giuseppe Verdi, composer
11. “When I am laid in Earth” from Dido and Aeneas / Jessye Norman; Henry Purcell, composer
12. Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85: I. Adagio; Moderato (Excerpt) / Jacqueline du Pré; Edward Elgar, composer

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