2018 Reading Wrap Up

This year I’ve formatted the questions I generally try to answer about my end year in books in a more meme-ish format. I think it will be handy for me next year. Feel free to take these questions and answer them yourself (or modify them) if you want.

Books Read:123 (according to goodreads -- but I didn’t record some of the shorter comics I read this year because they were so quick to read.)
nonfiction: 16
oldest book: Citizen 13660 by Mine Okubo
Most recent book: Swordheart by T. Kingfisher
Books by non-white authors: 37 (30% !!!)
Graphic stories: 30
Novellas: 11
Highlights: Wells & Wong Mysteries by Robin Stevens, The Hidden Witch by Molly Ostertag, The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard, The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang, In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Provenance by Ann Leckie
So how about those reading goals?: So for 2018 I had bunch of reading goals and I only completed one of them. My goals where:
1)Read 24 books by new to me non-white authors
2)read 10 scholarly books
3)reread 20 books -- because I need to remember not to always rush after the new shinny things
4)read one book more than 100 years old

The 1st one is the one that I finished! But it was so hard because I’ve been avoiding reading dark things and POC have hard time publishing cheerful books. But it's probably why I did so well on my percentage of books by non-white authors. For 2017 I read 21% POC so 30% is big jump! As for the other goals I read 6.5 scholarly books, reread 12 books, and didn’t read anything more than 100 years old.

What are your goals for 2019? Given that I didn’t do great at my 2018 goals I’m going to scale down a bit. I think that if I don’t push myself I won’t read as many books by non-white authors as I’d like so I’m going set a goal of 30 books by non white authors with 40 as stretch goal. And I’m sad that I’m not reading all the interesting non-fiction that I want to get to so I’m going to set a goal of reading 15 non-fiction books (with 20 as a stretch goal) and try to worry less about how scholarly they are.

I’ve got started working on a couple of other 2018 in review posts about media I consumed so expect to see those in the next couple days. I might also do a favorite short SFF of 2018 post but seeing as I haven’t read much short SFF in the second half of 2018 I have so caughting up to do so if that happens it will be in a month or two.