2016: A Year for Books!

Last year I set myself a really difficult (for me) challenge, during 2014 I read a total of 2 books, I love reading but just wasn’t finding the time for it so I started the book a week challenge during 2015. I wasn’t surprised that I failed but I was pleased that I pushed myself to find the time to do more reading. I managed a total of 20 books during 2015 so I didn’t do too bad (for me). The first half of the year I was really good, I even read the whole of the Twilight series in just two weeks but then things (Netflix) got in the way and instead of picking up a book I was picking up my iPad for a fix of The Vampire Diaries or such like.

So these are the books that I did read during 2015…

1. Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
2. The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed out of the Window – Jonas Jonasson
3. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – J. K. Rowling
4. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J. K. Rowling
5. Her Fearful Symmetry – Audrey Niffenegger
6. Let’s pretend this never happened – Jenny Lawson
7. The wedding girl – Madeleine Wickham
8. The lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
9. A compromising position – Carole Matthews
10. A minor indiscretion – Carole Matthews
11. The unpredictable consequences of love – Jill Mansell
12. Twilight – Stephanie Meyer
13. New Moon – Stephanie Meyer
14. Eclipse – Stephanie Meyer
15. Breaking Dawn – Stephanie Meyer
16. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
17. Shopaholic to the Stars
18. Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma
19. Wish You Were Here – Catherine Alliot
20. The Sunrise – Victoria Hislop

I’m not setting myself the same goal for 2016 as I know I won’t read a book a week but I am challenging myself to read all the unread books that I own and try not to buy anymore until they are all read.

This is my reading list for 2016…

1. Eleanor & Park – Rainbow Rowell (Finished)
2. Shopaholic to the Rescue – Sophie Kinsella (Finished)
3. Finding Audrey – Sophie Kinsella (Finished)
4. The Girl in the Spider’s Web – David Lagercrantz (Finished)
5. The Island – Victoria Hislop (Finished)
6. Pride and Prejudice
7. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J. K. Rowling
8. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J. K. Rowling
9. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J. K. Rowling
10. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J. K. Rowling
11. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J. K. Rowling
12. The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
13. Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins
14. Mockingjay– Suzanne Collins
15. All for you – Sheila O’Flanagan
16. Leftovers – Stella Newman
17. The Hidden Child – Camilla Lackberg
18. Eat Pray Love – Elizabeth Gilbert
19. The Slap – Christos Tsiolkas
20. White Wedding – Millie Johnson
21. A Visit from the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan
22. The Christmas Cookie Club – Ann Pearlman
23. What the Nanny saw – Fiona Neill
24. The Help – Kathryn Stockett
25. Never Let me go – Kazoo Ishiguro (Finished)
26. How to be a woman – Caitlin Moran
27. The wedding day – Catherine  Alliott
28. A French affair – Susan Lewis
29. Atonement – Ian McEwan
30. The girls – Lori Lansens
31. Pieces of my heart – Sinead Moriarty (Finished)
32. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
33. The road – Cormac McCarthy
34. A clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
35. The outcast – Sadie Jones
36. The bad mother’s Handbook – Kate Long
37. 19 minutes – Jodi Picoult
38. Mercy – Jodi Picoult
39. The Cupid effect – Dorothy Koomson
40. The chocolate run – Dorothy Koomson
41. The Mill house – Susan Lewis
42. Purple Hibiscus – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
43. Running with scissors – Augusten Burroughs (Finished)
44. Christmas Ever After – Sarah Morgan

So yes that’s 44 books – 24 more than 2015, I know I can do it… I really want to do it so I can have a damn good clear out and treat myself to lots of new books next Christmas.

So here is to a year of books, what will be on top of your reading list this year?