my year in books

a recap (mandatory):
2010: i read 15 books.
2011: i started my book challenge with the goal of reading 25 books; i read 38.
2012: 34 books
2013: i read 34 books again
2014: 32 books.
2015: 35 books
2016: in year six i read 58 books because...i'm not sure.  less tv?  (maybe)  pop sugar book challenge motivated me?  (probably - the social experience of talking about the challenge definitely did something for me)  my social life sucks?  (i don't think so...but now i'm questioning that)

2016 broken down:
33 books written by women
25 by men
(a little more of a gender balance than last year)

41 fiction books
17 nonfiction
(a pretty consistent ratio for me)

13 diverse books (as in, the main character or the author is not white) - this is almost double the number from last year.  i'm proud of that.

my favorite books of 2016?  between the world and me, by ta-nehisi coates (nonfiction) and a man called ove, by fredrik backman (fiction).  read this books immediately.

i'm going to do another reading challenge in 2017 - comment or email/text/facebook me if you want to play along with me this year and i'll make sure you're clued in to the details!  i'm not trying to beat 58 books because that is absurd, but i am trying to find books i'll love, read them, and talk with others about them.  and that sounds like a good intention with which to enter 2017.