I had a goal of reading 20 books in 2014.

Unfortunately, that was a goal I expressed in the recap of my 2013 year of reading and promptly forgot.  I did make it to 17 books this year, and along the way crushed my record for both number of pages read and average pages per book (all since record keeping began in 2008).

So basically I could have hit 20 books, but I’m an overachiever and tackled longer ones instead.  Yeah, let’s go with that.

For yet another year the stack of books in picture form is a little sparse thanks to doing most of my reading on the Nook:

Here’s all of them, with links to their respective posts:

–Lush Life by Richard Price
–The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
–Divergent by Veronica Roth
–The Circle by Dave Eggers
–Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
–Insurgent by Veronica Roth
–Slam by Nick Hornby
–Oracle Night by Paul Auster
–Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck
–Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
–The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
–The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
–Red Rising by Pierce Brown
–The Signal And The Noise by Nate Silver
–Allegiant by Veronica Roth
–Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki And His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
–The Thousand Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham

If you read five of them: Fault In Our Stars, The Circle, Gone Girl, Oracle Night, Red Rising.  I really enjoyed just about every one on the list this year so picking just five took far longer than I will admit.

Lush Life, Ready Player One, The Marriage Plot, Red Rising and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki were all excellent recommendations from friends (thank you Felecia, Brooke, Alex, Brooke again, and Anastasia).  Send me your picks for my 2015 list!

Mildly interesting thing: three of the books — Insurgent, Signal and the Noise, Allegiant — have the same number of pages (544).

Other thing: of the 17 books, three took me 24 days to read, three others took 18.  Average days for the whole list: 23.

I tied last year’s record by seeing the movie version of three of them in the theater — Fault In Our Stars, Divergent, Gone Girl.  I would most definitely go see a Red Rising movie and another Veronica Mars movie, which would likely be based on The Thousand Dollar Tan Line.

I can’t believe this was the seventh year of tracking my reading in an Excel spreadsheet.  More exciting though, since posting a picture of the spreadsheet on Instagram at the start of writing this post, two of my friends have commented they want to start their own.  If you’re not one of them, I highly recommend you jump on the bandwagon too.  It’s a pretty neat way to look back and compare years and see what you were reading at a particular time.

And if you want to check out recaps from previous years, you can find them all here.

Happy reading.