I read 73 books.
Total pages 13,568. Hours 240
Female/Male: 40/33 
Fiction/Non: 59/14 
New to Me Authors: 59 / Repeat Authors: 14
This year, I read my 7th Ann Patchett. Two authors, I read for the 3rd time: Thomas Hardy and Matt Haig. I read 11 authors for the second time. The only reread was Milkman, by Anna Burns, both this year – one by eBook and one by audio. I also read Say Nothing, a nonfiction view into the times and setting of Milkman. A themed combination that created a great reading experience.
Classics: 14; oldest book Candide 1759. Only 3 books published before 1900. Books published in 2019 = 20, in 2018 = 23.
Shortest book: No Small Gift, 110 pages. Poetry
Longest book: The Golden Notebook, 640 pages
Longest Audiobook: Wolf Hall (and the only series book?) 24+ hours
I took advantage of Audible’s monthly freebies quite often.
Highlights:
I completed the Classics Club 50 in 5 years!!!!!
I also completed – for the VERY FIRST TIME – the Back to the Classics Challenge at the 9 book level.
I already mentioned my Milkman twice + Say Nothing “Reading Experience”. Wonderful.
A renewed focus to blog and write reviews. Lots of Business/Leadership books = 5. Three books with the word GOLDEN in it. Another year of no readalongs. And no Stephen King. Anyone up for The Green Mile in 2020?
I did a fair job of reading books for the March Tournament of Books – always a wonderful time of year.
My top favorites to share are:
Finally, PIE.
and, drumroll please for the 2019 Pie in Literature Award, the WINNER of my best book with pie is The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J.Ryan Stradal!
Edith would just as soon take another woman’s husband as another woman’s pie recipe, and she had the best husband in the world, so there you go.
Honorable Mentions: Where the Crawdads Sing for a boat named The Cherry Pie, and The Psychology of Time Travel for frozen butter pies on a stick.
Which reminds me, I read a few time travel books this year, too.
One more thing:
I read 8 books in 2018 that were on the 1001 Books To Read Before You Die: The Accidental, Candide, A Clockwork Orange, The Woodlanders, Naked Lunch, The House of the Seven Gables, A Handful Dust, Love in a Cold Climate
Happy New Year! Read and enjoy a slice of pie – in real life or in a book.
Diana frowned. “We told you, we don’t want cake, we want pie.”
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Care's Books and Pie 
Great job with the Classics Club! It looks like you had a great year in books.
I love reading everyone’s end of year stats. The Lager Queen was my favorite book this year. You had a terrific year, Care!
An excellent year!! I’m hoping to get back to the classics in 2020… listening to The Woodlanders is part of my plan.
Of all the series books to choose, you sure picked a chunky one! I’m looking forward to the second in this series, although I might not get it read before the third is published. I enjoyed looking at your PIE charts! Good reading to you in the coming year.
Nice ratio of pie to no pie!
Congratulations on completing the Classics challenge! That is awesome, Care. I won’t even come close, but I am okay with that. It sounds like you had a great reading year all around. I hope you have another great one this year!
Woo-hoo! Congrats on finishing your classics challenge. And, we read the same amount of books 🙂
I really enjoyed Lager Queen, too, especially the one Stradal tied it all up in the end.