I read 68 books this year, ten of which were art and cookbooks, 13 were other non-fiction, and the rest were novels. I listened 22 on audio. I only read one book over 500 pages, and I read some lighter stuff this year, although my favorites were not those.

I gave 19 books five stars this year. Above you can see my three favorite novels (book reviews on this blog are here, here, and here) and my two favorite nonfiction (book reviews here and here).  I recommend these and also they would make great gifts.

If you read along on our book challenge of one per week, let me know if you’d like anything different than the form we used this year below.

And please tell us in the comments, what were your favorite reads of the year?