Previously: 2016 year-end reading wrap-up | 2015 year-end reading wrap-up | 2014 year-end reading wrap-up | 2013 year-end reading wrap-up
Number of books read in 2017: 240
Audiobooks: 15, mostly children’s and YA, and including three of the partially-read books (though one of those was a Neil Gaiman short story that I realized I’d already read in another collection)
Nonfiction: 34, including a couple of nonfiction picture books and a few of the partially-read books. Also, one entire book about compost.
YA/children’s (middle grade) books read: 31
Picture books: 104, including an unspeakable amount of Maisy
Partially read books: 16, including a few cookbooks and gardening books (i.e. not necessarily designed to be read cover-to-cover)
Books read in 2017, excluding picture books and partially read books: 120
Average number of books read per month (excluding picture books and partially read books): 10
Five-star ratings: 13
Total page count: Too damn annoying to calculate from LibraryThing exports. A lot.
Looking ahead (well, further into) 2018, I haven’t set any specific goals and am not participating in any challenges.* Some of my favorite authors are publishing new books this year, and I’m looking forward to those, of course – Gayle Forman, Maggie O’Farrell, Jo Walton, Curtis Sittenfeld. Like last year, I’m aiming to read even more in the #WeNeedDiverseBooks area, for myself and for the little one. (Lately, she’s really liked Jabari Jumps, Thunder Boy Jr., and A Different Pond.)
Books that have been recommended to me by more than one person (triangulation: not just for fact-checking anymore!) usually move up on my to-read list. I’ve already made a dent in the to-read list I made in November: I’ve read Fun Home, The Hate U Give, Rebecca; I have Far From the Tree checked out from the library, and my book club just chose The Bear and the Nightingale for February. (I have the cape, I make the whoosh noises! Note: that’s a link to a Cyanide & Happiness cartoon panel.)
*Okay, not entirely true: I do plan to read all of the “Reading Rocks” books [PDF] for the 4th- and 5th-graders in Winchester, where I am now working. Proper blog post about this change to come! So far I’ve really liked Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier and am listening to the excellent audiobook of Stella By Starlight.
I do occasionally read things other than books, though I don’t get credit for it in LibraryThing: most days I read at least one article from The New York Times, and most weeks I read a few pieces from the LitHub (“the best of the literary internet”) email newsletter. I read most of the Library Link of the Day links, and occasionally will find a good piece in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, or somewhere else (Teen Vogue!) via Twitter or Publishers Lunch.
So that’s the 2017 wrap-up. How was your year in books?
Jenny Arch 
Fun Home!!!! Just saw a local theater production of the musical – very good but… not a book. I’m a traditionalist, what can I say.
Your accomplishments blow mine out of the water, I need to put more board books on my to-be-read list. Also am now very curious about my woman:man author ratio, too, Goodreads doesn’t provide that info (anywhere where I can find it).
Steph!! I’d be interested in seeing how a graphic novel adapts to the stage, but I’ll keep your review in mind.
You certainly can boost your number of books read in a year if you include a lot of board books and picture books.
I do miss a few things about Goodreads – seeing friends’ reviews, and straightforward (if bland) statistics.
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