Jen's 2017 Year in Reading

Goodreads Reading Challenge: 125 books → COMPLETED

This goal was originally set to 100 books but I surpassed that so I increased it to 125 books and I’m happy to say that I beat that as well! According to GR, I ended 2017 having read 148 books! Of those, 139 were new to me and 9 were re-reads.

Decrease my TBR pile → COMPLETED!!!!!

It makes me so excited to see the word completed next to this goal because I aim to do this every year and I always fail rather spectacularly as I end up adding to my TBR pile rather than decreasing it. But this was the first year that I actually managed to achieve this goal and it just makes me so happy! According to my calculations, I started 2017 with 373 physical TBR books and I only added 48 new TBR books during the year. I’m actually quite pleased about that because I’ve never managed to keep the number that low before. What’s even better is that I managed to read 65 of my unread books in 2017! Which means I actually decreased my TBR pile by 17 and I’ll be going into 2018 with 356 physical TBR books. Still a ridiculous and stressful amount but it’s the first year that I actually managed to lower the number of TBR books so I’m counting this as a major win!

Read/complete 10 series → COMPLETED

Series completed in 2017 (16)  

1. Covenant series by Jennifer L. Armentrout
2. Deltora Quest by Emily Rodda
3. Deltora Quest 2: Shadowlands by Emily Rodda
4. Deltora Quest 3: Dragons of Deltora by Emily Rodda
5. Burying Water series by K.A. Tucker
6. The Taking trilogy by Melissa West
7. The Darkest Minds trilogy by Alexandra Bracken
8. The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer   
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses trilogy by Sarah J. Maas
10. Dark Heart trilogy by Lee Monroe
11. Across the Universe trilogy by Beth Revis
12. The Search for Wondla trilogy by Tony DiTerlizzi
13. The Dragon King Chronicles by Ellen Oh
14. Just One Day series by Gayle Forman

The next two series are ones where I only needed to read the final book to complete the trilogy:

15. Girl Online series by Zoe Sugg
16. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before trilogy by Jenny Han

These series are ones that aren’t actually complete yet but I did get caught up with all the books that have been released so far:

17. The Medoran Chronicles by Lynette Noni
18. The Dark Artifices by Cassandra Clare

Restricting re-reads → COMPLETED

I re-read 24 books in 2016 and only 9 in 2017! That’s quite a difference and feels like such a major accomplishment for me!

Read more manga → COMPLETED

I’m pretty satisfied with what I achieved with this goal, taking into account the fact that I moved to Hong Kong early in 2017 and English editions of manga are quite difficult to come by. I managed to complete two entire manga series and they were both pretty high up on my priority list!

1. Bakuman Volumes 1 - 20 by Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata
2. Fullmetal Alchemist Volumes 1 - 9 (3 in 1 editions) by Hiromu Arakawa

Overall I’m pretty happy with how my reading went in 2017 and I’m even more satisfied to have completed all the reading goals that I set for myself. Especially the goal to decrease my TBR pile! It just makes me excited to make 2018 an even better reading year!