#AMonthofFaves: This is How I Read…

I’ve decided to join hosts Girlxoxo, Traveling with T and Estella’s Revenge for their 4th annual #AMonthofFaves blog event – “a fun way to recap the year that was” – during the month of December. Today’s topic is “This is How We Read”.

How I Read

One word: Slowly.

So far, this year I have read 41 books and will be lucky if I make 42. The good news is that 42 is the answer to the universe.

In reverse order, here is what I read:

1. Two Kinds of Truth by Michael Connelly
2. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
3. Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
4. We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
5. Hold Me Closer, Necromancer by Lish McBride
6. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
7. Some Buried Caesar by Rex Stout
8. Too Many Cooks by Rex Stout
9. The Lost Book of the Grail by Charlie Lovett
10. The Western Star by Craig Johnson
11. Gallows View by Peter Robinson
12. The Red Box by Rex Stout
13. The Rubber Band by Rex Stout
14. The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Dalai Lama XIV
15. Absolutely Truly by Heather Vogel Frederick
16. Murder is Binding by Lorna Barrett
17. Dark Water by Parker Bilal
18. Since We Fell by Dennis Lehane
19. Midnight Sun by Jo Nesbø
20. Blood on Snow by Jo Nesbø
21. Double Whammy by Carl Hiaasen
22. Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction by Eric Foner
23. Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin
24. Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout
25. Leaves of Grass: The Deathbed Edition by Walt Whitman
26. The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett
27. Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane
28. Prayers for Rain by Dennis Lehane
29. Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane
30. Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church by Rachel Held Evans
31. Robert B. Parker’s Cheap Shot by Ace Atkins
32. The Rain in Portugal: New Poems by Billy Collins
33. Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
34. Sacred by Dennis Lehane
35. Darkness, Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane
36. Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania, edited by Marjorie Maddox
37. The Widow by Fiona Barton
38. Dearest Creature by Amy Gerstler
39. The Dry by Jane Harper
40. Broken Promise by Linwood Barclay
41. The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brene Brown

As I start the month of December, I’m at the beginning of a reread of The Lord of the Rings.

I mostly read fiction, crime fiction, with my most read author this year being Dennis Lehane, mostly because I read through his Kenzie and Gennaro series.

I get most of my books via Overdrive from the Free Library of Philadelphia, which I read on an older Kindle. I read seven books in both January and September and only one in November, but it was a good one, the latest Bosch novel, Two Kinds of Truth by Michael Connelly.

So how was your year in reading? How many books have you read so far? Favorite genre? Favorite authors?