Year-End Wrap Up (For Books)

This year I read 61 books! That is an all-time record for me. I reviewed all but a handful of them. The reviews for the ones I've finished in the last couple of weeks will come out soon. My previous record was 40 books in 2009.

My five-star reads were:

Adult

Ape House by Sara Gruen
Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know by Heather Sellers
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Kiss of Midnight by Lara Adrian

Young Adult

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Children's

Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary
Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary

Almost 20 percent of my reads were five-star. Not bad!

My one-star reads were:

City Boy by Edmund White
The Last Supper: A Summer In Italy by Rachel Cusk

Only two – thank goodness! And both of these I won from either LibraryThing or Goodreads so I had to finish them – otherwise I would have abandoned them.