Lili's 2020 Reading Challenge

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

Finished which marks book 50/75! It's also another book off the tbr list.

[Elena]

Congrats! Good job ticking off books and proceeding into the series :)

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

Thanks! 😊

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

Finished . It was great but I unfortunately can't count it for my tbr challenge cause it was an ARC and it just came out this month 🤷‍♀️

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

In October I read 3 books... which seems to be the average nowadays. But I did read about 250 pages more than last month.

All 3 were part of a series. No series were started or finished this month.

All 3 were by authors I've read previously.

1 was an ARC and the other 2 were finished copies.

One was a 2-star read, another a 4-star, and the last was 5 stars.

2 were YA for sure and the 3rd could be either YA or NA... I'm not sure 😅

2 were mystery/thrillers, and the the 3rd was historical fiction also with a bit of mystery.

[Elena]

Great stats for October. Really great that you continued reading the series and didn't start the new one.

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

Thanks! Yeah, although looking at my stats for the year, I started 11 series so far this year and only finished 8. But that's no surprise... I am notoriously bad at finishing series 😂

[Brittany]

Yay for a month with no new series started!

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

Read . No stats for November cause I read nothing 😭

[Brittany]

You'll get through this slump soon

[Kayleigh {K-Books}, YA Fantasy Fan]

It's been a crazy year Lili. Understandable that you haven't read much. It's happened to a lot of us.

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

Yeah, hopefully! Last month was particularly awful. But yesterday I read one book and today I started another, so we'll see! 🤞

[Kayleigh {K-Books}, YA Fantasy Fan]

See, it's already looking up.

[Elena]

Yay! What a great start for December :)

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

Finished which makes it book 37/60 in my tbr mountain challenge. I probably wont make it, but I'd be okay with reading 40 this year.

[Brittany]

40 would still be impressive!! And so much better than I did lol

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

😅 Last year I read 50 books off my tbr, so that's why I thought this year I'd read more, but nope! Lol. But at least it's something. How many have you gotten off your tbr?

[Brittany]

I only count books I have owned since prior to start of the year, and only hardcopy ones as those are what I had wanted to try and clean up. Yeah, I'm only at 11 this year!
Hoping to go back and make this a priority next year. But I read so much from the library on ebook and I listen to a lot as well so haven't been doing so great on my physical books lately.

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

Oh I see. That's not bad though! My tbr challenge is very similar, except I included both hardcopies and ebooks. Checking my stats, I've read 32 hardcover/paperback and only 5 ebooks, so I'm quite the opposite! Lol.

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

Finished ! It wasn't great but at least I finished a series! 🙃 Yay! 😂

[Elena]

@Lili congratulations! It's always so satisfying to finish the series :)

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

Thank you! Yes it is! Especially when I still have *checks list* 75 series to finish 😭

[Laura ☾]

Liliana wrote: "Finished ! It wasn't great but at least I finished a series! 🙃 Yay! 😂"

I'm halfway through the series and so far not getting the hype!

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

Omg right?? There are so many people who absolutely love this series and I just don't get it!

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

In December I ended up reading 4 books. I started 0 series and finished 1!

No ARCs this month. 1 hardcover and 3 paperback.

1 was a library book and the other 3 I bought myself.

All 4 books were 3-star reads *sigh* And all 4 were YA.

2 were mystery/thrillers, and 2 were historical fiction (because I refuse to call the SJTR series mystery/thriller!)

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

As for my yearly stats, my blog post just went up and it has graphs and everything! https://lili-lost-in-a-book.blogspot....

Here are a couple of those stats though:

I read 52 books, 1 novella, 1 graphic novel, and 1 omnibus. And this year I only re-read 1 book.

I read 36 physical copies, 19 ebooks, and 1 audbiobook/ebook combo.

Most books (36) I bought myself, and in second place were library books (6), and books I got as a gift (6).

43 of the books I read were part of a series, and 12 were standalones. This one was surprising because last year I didn't read nearly as many standalones!

I started 11 series and only finished 9 🙈😂

5-star reads: 14
4-star reads: 18
3-star reads: 18
2-star reads: 5

Decade published:
1990s: 17
2000s: 2
2010s: 31
2020s: 5

Traditionally published: 44
Indie: 11

Authors was pretty much 50/50 between male and female.

New-to-me authors: 12
Previously read: 43

7 adult
2 new adult
43 YA
1 middle grade
2 general fiction

16 mystery/thrillers
3 sci-fi
16 horror
1 paranormal romance
12 UF
1 fantasy
1 non-fiction
4 historical fiction
1 magical realism

[Brittany]

Awesome stats Lili!