Month in Review: December 2019

It was an excellent reading month…really, an excellent year. There were so many great books published this year, and I managed to balance all the review books with reading some books from my own shelves, which I’m quite happy about. I think #theunreadshelfproject is the only reading challenge I am going to be participating in going forward as I am really trying to get that situation under control. I also plan on working on getting some of my backlist review books read as well.

Do you have any reading goals/challenges you will be working on in 2002?

 

 
Reading Stats: 

• Read this month: 23
• Year to date: 222
  

Books Read: 

1. The Great Pretender — Susannah Cahalan
2. A Wedding in December — Sarah Morgan (e-book)
3. Would Like to Meet — Rachel Winters (e-book)
4. Cross Justice — James Patterson
5. Meg & Jo — Virginia Kantra (e-book)
6. Christmas in Paris — Anita Hughes
7. Trace of Evil — Alice Blanchard
8. Shatter the Night –Emily Littlejohn
9. Cross the Line — James Patterson
10. The Wicked City — Beatriz Williams (reread)
11. Her Dark Heart — Carla Kovach (e-book)
12. Reputation — Sara Sheppard
13. Vanishing Girls – Lisa Regan
14. The Wicked Redhead — Beatriz Williams
15. The Eating Instinct — Virginia Sole-Smith (print/audio)
16. Good Girls Lie — J.T. Ellison
17. Christmas at Rosie Hopkins’ Sweetshop — Jenny Colgan (audio)
18. Recipe for a Perfect Wife — Karma Brown
19. Smokescreen — Iris Johansen
20. Seven Days — Alex Lake
21. The Best of Us — Robyn Carr (audio)
22. The Tenant — Katrine Engberg
23. The Forgotten Girl — David Bell (audio)

  
Favorite Books of December:  

• The Wicked Redhead by Beatriz Williams
• Good Girls Lie by J.T. Ellison
• Seven Days by Alex Lake

Challenges:

I am participating in 2 challenges/projects this year and I will be keeping be giving updates in these posts.

#UnReadShelfProject2019:

*These
numbers only refer to books that have been sitting on my shelf for a
while or that I have recently purchased. It does not include any review
books.

• Total # unread books on shelf at beginning of December: 178
• Books read in December (that count): 4
• Books bought/received as gift in December: 2
• Books cleaned off shelf/donated: 18
• Total unread books on shelf at end of December: 158

 

 YTD Stats: 

• Total # unread books on shelf at beginning of January: 186
• Total Books read from shelves (that count): 35
• Total Books bought/received as gift: 44
• Total Books cleaned off shelf/donated: 37
• Total unread books on shelf at end of December: 158

 

#ThrillerThursdayChallenge:

• January’s challenge: a thriller from a debut author
•  Book read: The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
• February’s challenge: a thriller with a one word title
• Book read: Unwanted by Kristina Ohlsson
• March’s challenge: a thriller with the word “Woman” in the title
• Book read: The Woman in the Dark by Vanessa Savage
• April’s challenge: a thriller written in a language other than English
• Book read: The Darkness by Ragnar Jonasson (Icelandic)
• May’s challenge: a historical thriller
• Book read: The Way of All Flesh by Ambrose Parry 
• June’s challenge: a thriller that’s been made into a movie
• Book read: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• July’s challenge: a new-release thriller/released in 2019
• Book read: The Chain by Adrian McKinty
• August’s challenge: a thriller with the word “Girl” in the title
• Book read: The Birthday Girl by Melissa de la Cruz
• September’s challenge: a thriller published before the year you were born
• Book read: The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie
• October’s challenge: a thriller from a series that’s new to you
• Book read: It Takes One by Kate Kessler (series: Audrey Hart, book 1)
  
• November’s challenge: a thriller with more than 10k reviews on Goodreads
• Book read: Dark Matter by Blake Crouch (did not finish)
• December’s challenge: a thriller with “Murder” “Kill” “Killing” or “Death” in the title 
• Book read: (did not read one for this month)