Every year, I have a goal of how many books I want to read. This year, my goal was 50, but I didn’t quite meet that goal. Life got busy and I wrote over 75,000 words instead of reading as much. I successfully finished 39 books in the year, here is the list! These are in the order I read them, not in the order I enjoyed them.

1. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
2. A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
3. A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
4. A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
5. A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Mass
6. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
7. Ledge by Stacey McEwan
8. The Vanishing Throne by Elizabeth May
9. The Fallen Kingdom by Elizabeth May
10. Cynthia and Dan: Cyber War by Dorothy May Mercer
11. Twisted Hate by Ana Huang
12. Faelorehn by Jenna Elizabeth Johnson
13. War is Just a Word by I.J. Gysen
14. Dune by Frank Herbert
15. Unspeakable Acts by Janet Leigh Green
16. River Woman River Demon by Jennifer Gihvan
17. Fiasco of Adventures by Victor James
18. The Night and Its Moon by Piper C.J.
19. Once We Were Family by Nancy Saling Graham
20. Ophelia After All by Racquel Marie
21. Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan
22. Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld
23. You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
24. Parallel by Claudia Lefeve
25. The Shadow and the Rose by Amanda DeWees
26. Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
27. It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover
28. It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
29. American Nuclear Deception by Daisy B Herndon
30. The Assassin’s Blade by Sarah J. Maas
31. Cajun Crow and the Mockingbird by Jimmie Martinez
32. Nimue: Freeing Merlin by Ayn Cates Sullivan
33. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
34. Sora’s Quest by T. L. Shreffler
35. Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas
36. Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas
37. Kiss the Girl by Zoraida Cordova
38. Killer’s of the Flower Moon by David Grann
39. Runes by Ednah Walters

All in all, I read a lot of fantasy books and some historical fiction books. Some of these reads were absolutely fantastic and I couldn’t put them down. Others… were hard to finish. I look forward to hopefully completing my goal of 50 books next year! The book review for Runes will be coming soon. Here’s to the end of one year and welcome to the next. Let me know if you’ve read any of the books on this list or what your favorite book of the year was so I can add it to my TBR list!