Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Book List 2016

The simple thing would be to link you to My Year in Books on Goodreads, BUT I started putting together a list of all the books I read starting back in 2008, so it just seems the thing to do. Because of Goodreads, I know that I read fewer books this year, but it will still be fun to go through them, and see how many pages and how many hours of reading I had in 2016.


Also, once again I'll link to any reviews I did. I started out with good intentions to review more of the books I read, but I'm not sure how I did. I guess we'll find out.

January
  1. Orphan Train - Christina Baker Kline - 278 pages
  2. Barefoot Summer (Chapel Springs #1) - Denise Hunter (audio) - 7 hrs 27 min
  3. The Darke Toad (Septimus Heap #1.5) - Angie Sage - 96 pages
  4. Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel - David Limbaugh - 406 pages
  5. March - Geraldine Brooks (audio) - 10 hrs 22 min
780 pages | 17 hours and 49 minutes

February
  1. Family (Firstborn #4) - Karen Kingsbury - 345 pages
  2. American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History - by Chris Kyle (audio) - 10 hrs 22 min
  3. Caretaker (Caretaker Chronicles #1) - Josi Russell - 325 pages
  4. Forever (Firstborn #5) - Karen Kingsbury - 346 pages
1016 pages | 10 hours 22 minutes

March
  1. Guardians (Caretaker Chronicles #2) - by Josi Russell - 394 pages
  2. The Fixer - by Joseph Finder (audio) - 9 hrs 38 min
  3. The Best Yes: Making Wise Decisions in the Midst of Endless Demands - Lysa TerKeurst (audio) - 6 hrs 31 min
  4. Forever (Firstborn #5) - Karen Kingsbury - 346 pages
740 pages | 16 hours 9 minutes

April
  1. The Good Girl - Mary Kubica (audio) - 10 hrs 38 min 
10 hours 38 minutes

May
  1. Choose Joy: Finding Hope and Purpose When Life Hurts - Sara Frankl, Mary Carver - 208 pages
  2. I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist - by Norman L. Geisler, Frank Turek (audio) - 14 hrs 47 min
  3. The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline (Enola Holmes #5) - Nancy Springer (audio) - 3 hrs 9 min
208 pages | 17 hours 56 minutes

June
  1. The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins (audio) - 10 hrs 59 min
  2. Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story - Andrea Warren (audio) - 1 hr 26 min
12 hours 25 minutes


July
  1. The Elijah Calling: The Hidden & Revealed Messiah! (Restoring Truth #1) - Ken Mentell - 487 pages
  2. Magyk (Septimus Heap #1) - Angie Sage (audio) - 12 hrs 10 min
  3. Landon Snow and the Auctor's Riddle (Landon Snow #1) - R.K. Mortenson (audio) - 6 hrs 30 min
487 pages | 18 hours 40 minutes

August
  1. The Passage (The Passage #1) - Justin Cronin - 897 pages
  2. An Invisible Client - Victor Methos - 240 pages
  3. The Queen of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling #1) - Erika Johansen (audio) - 14 hrs 30 min
1137 pages | 14 hours 30 minutes

September
  1. The Invasion of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling #2) - Erika Johansen (audio) - 18 hrs 4 min
  2. How It Went Down - Kekla Magoon (audio) - 7 hrs 10 min
25 hours 14 minutes

October
  1. The Twelve (The Passage #2) - Justin Cronin 626 pages
  2. Fractured - Catherine McKenzie 492 pages
  3. Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad - M.T. Anderson (audio) 10 hrs 20 min
1118 pages | 10 hours 20 minutes

November
  1. You Can't Do it Naked: From Exposed to Fully Clothed in the Armor of God - Kim M. Snyder 116 pages
  2. All the Bright Places - Jennifer Niven (audio) 11 hrs 4 min
116 pages | 11 hours 4 minutes

December
  1. Illuminae (The Illuminae Files #1) - Amie Kaufman (audio) 11 hrs 41 min
  2. Beginning at Moses: A Guide to Finding Christ in the Old Testament - Michael P.V. Barrett 328 pages
  3. Torn from Troy (Odyssey of a Slave #1) - Patrick Bowman (audio) 5 hrs 28 min
  4. The Murder Game - Julie Apple 300 pages
  5. David and the Psalms - Michael J. Ruszala 184 pages
  6. Our Presidents & Their Prayers: Proclamations of Faith by America's Leaders - Rand Paul 160 pages
972 pages | 17 hours 9 minutes

  • Total books - 38 (compare to 43 in 2015)
  • Total pages - 6574 (compare to 6533 pages in 2015)
  • Total time - 182 hours 16 minutes  (compare to 200 hours in 2015)
Page counts courtesy of Goodreads; audio lengths courtesy of Audible.

I even wrote a review for 20 of the books, so that's a little better than last year. Scrolling through the list, I see several books that I really meant to write a review for, but somehow I just didn't do it. I think that maybe I think too hard about it and write these great reviews in my head, and then I just never get around to actually posting a review. Because when I sit down to type it, all those things I was going to say just don't seem to be there anymore. I just noticed that there's a new feature on Goodreads that lets me see, and share if i want, my highlights and notes from the Kindle books I read. Perhaps having that to easily look at will help for future reviews? I guess we'll see.

How many books did you read in 2016?  I'd love to hear some suggestions for my 2017 reading list.

*if you happen to click any of the book covers and buy  from Amazon, they say they'll pay me a small percentage.  Every little bit helps, and I thank you for your support!