My taste pretty much stayed the same, lots of crime, chick lit, contemporary romance and YA with a handful of nonfiction and science fiction thrown in. Only once or twice did I venture into something a little different.
Science fiction actually let me down this year. Just about every Sci-Fi I tried (except YA ones) turned out disappointing in the end. And yet I love a good Sci-Fi. Maybe it was just the choices I made or that my expectations for some books were a little too high. Crime on the other hand saved the day in most cases as did YA.
Nonfiction wise my reading ran into lots of practical choices instead of my usual weird and quirky reads, so was mostly taken up with books on knitting, cooking, travel and decluttering. Which, other than the cooking, probably sums up my life for the year.
I read 120 books of which...
33 were YA
22 Chick Lit
16 Contemporary Romances
15 nonfiction
10 Science Fiction
8 Crime
6 Supernatural/Horror
6 Audio books
3 General
and 1 Fantasy.
I also seriously got back into magazines this year; Empire, Sci-Now, SFX, and The Knitter became part of my regular reading pile.
Favs of 2016
Sequels and follow up books were the failures for me this year. I really like The Girl With All The Gifts but couldn't get into M R Carey follow up book Fellside. Same with Chris Beckett's Daughter of Eden the third and final book in his Eden series.
Audio Books Rule... as always
I have a major weakness for audio books and those by Big Finish are my jam. This year most of listening was taken up with the latest 8th Doctor Who adventures Dark Eyes and the Doom Coalition starring Paul McGann. Also on my listening radar was Ghost Town by BBC4 which was an excellent but totally creepy Sci-Fi.
So all in all a good year I think.
I'm going to have to come back to this and request a bunch of things.... once I catch up with my own TBR pile ��
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