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2015 on Goodreads

2015 on Goodreads 2015 on Goodreads by Various
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018

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Yaaay! I had been thinking about doing some sort of “Elizabeth Book Choice Awards” post, so this is perfect! On with the formalities:

I read a total of 77 books and 19 243 pages.
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(I know it says 78, but it counted The Walled City which I DNFed.)

Novels: 37
Sequential Art: 30
Short Stories / Anthologies / Plays: 6
Audiobooks: 4

I fell short on my goal of reading 20 020 pages and 50 novels. The last couple of months I barely did any reading which sucks. I tracked my reading on a reading calendar I made, so here’s a visual of my reading for this year.

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My average rating was 3.8. This was a pretty good reading year, I only gave out one one-star rating.

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Click here to see my full Goodreads year in books.

Now to the awards!

Best Young Adult Novel: Definitely The Catcher in the Rye. I loved this book so much! It’s one of the few books that have really stuck with me in 2015.

Best Adult Novel: I didn’t read as much adult novels as I wanted to this year, but I’ll give this award to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Hilariously entertaining read. A runner up would be Ready Player One and So Big by the Ferb ;).

Most Disappointing Novel: Amy and Roger’s Epic Detour by Morgan Matson. This was the last of Matson’s books I had to read and it was definitely my least favorite. Lord of the Flies was also disappointingly slow.

Best Series: I completed seven series this year, and a lot of them were really good so this is a hard one to pick… In the end I’m picking the one that’s had the biggest impact on my life, which is by far The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer. I participated in The Lunar Chronicles Mini ship week and made a bunch of fanart for it. What I consider to be my best painting I’ve ever made is Lunar Chronicle fanart. Runner ups include the Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy, and The Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy. Other series I enjoyed are the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, the Unfortunate Fairytale series, and the Brody’s Ghost series.

Most Disappointing Series: The Legend series by Marie Lu immediately comes to mind. It was just so extremely mediocre, I don’t know how it can have the fan base it does.

Best Graphic Novel: My Hero Academia (manga) and American Born Chinese (gn). I love both of these so much, and ABC has really stuck with me. A runner up would be The Fox.

Most Surprising: Manga Classics: Pride & Prejudice. I thought this was going to be super cheesy and cringe-worthy looking art-wise, but it really surprised me by how much I ended up loving it! A runner up would Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy because I really didn’t think it would be as great as it ended up being.

Best Debut: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. This is one of those books you either love, or you hate. I’m obviously the former. A runner up would be Oddly Normal by Otis Frampton.

Favorite Cover: Why pick one when I can pick 8?
The Fade OutHingesPercy Jackson and the Lightning TheifSo BigKing: Issue #1Let's Eat RamenThe FoxJared's Quest

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