2016 End of the Year Survey

Hosted by The Perpetual Page-Turner

Number Of Books You Read: 61 (including novellas etc)
Number of Re-Reads: 1
Genre You Read The Most From: Historicals

1. Best Book You Read In 2016?
I really can’t choose just one so here’s top 4 in no particular order:
A Song of War: A Novel of Troy by various
Karolina’s Twins by Ronald H. Balson
A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab
Days of Sun and Glory by Anna Belfrage

2. Book You Were Excited About & Thought You Were Going To Love More But Didn’t?
The Girl With No Name by Diney Costeloe. It’s set in WWII and sounded so interesting but it was so boring that I didn’t finish it.

3. Most surprising (in a good way or bad way) book you read?
Who Is to Blame? A Russian Riddle by Jane Marlow. I was pleasantly surprised how good this was.

4. Book You “Pushed” The Most People To Read (And They Did)?
I didn’t do that.

5. Best series you started in 2016? Best Sequel of 2016? Best Series Ender of 2016?
Best new series: Da Vinci’s Disciples by Donna Russo Morin. Best sequel: Can’t choose between A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab and Days of Sun and Glory by Anna Belfrage. Best Series Ender: I didn’t end any series this year.

6. Favorite new author you discovered in 2016?
Ronald H. Balson. I loved Karolina’s Twins!

7. Best book from a genre you don’t typically read/was out of your comfort zone?
Didn’t read anything out of my comfort zone this year.

8. Most action-packed/thrilling/unputdownable book of the year?
Karolina’s Twins and Time and Regret by M.K. Tod

9. Book You Read In 2016 That You Are Most Likely To Re-Read Next Year?
I don’t think I’m doing any re-reading.

10. Favorite cover of a book you read in 2016?
The Secret Language of Stones by M.J. Rose. I chose her book cover the best last year too :)

11. Most memorable character of 2016?
Hmm… This is a tough one… I’d say Hector from A Song of War: A Novel of Troy. Still recovering from his death…

12. Most beautifully written book read in 2016?
Not sure…

13. Most Thought-Provoking/ Life-Changing Book of 2016?
Born Survivors by Wendy Holden

14. Book you can’t believe you waited UNTIL 2016 to finally read?
A Day of Fire: A Novel of Pompeii by various.

15. Favorite Passage/Quote From A Book You Read In 2016?
I can never remember those…

16.Shortest & Longest Book You Read In 2016?
Shortest: The Assassin and the Princess by Sarah J. Maas (Throne of Glass extra)
Longest: Affliction by Laurell K. Hamilton

17. Book That Shocked You The Most
(Because of a plot twist, character death, left you hanging with your mouth wide open, etc.)
A Song of War: A Novel of Troy. So many deaths!

18. OTP OF THE YEAR (you will go down with this ship!)
(OTP = one true pairing if you aren’t familiar)
Curran and Kate from Kate Daniels.

19. Favorite Non-Romantic Relationship Of The Year
hmmm, I’ll say Kate and Andrea (Magic Shifts)

20. Favorite Book You Read in 2016 From An Author You’ve Read Previously
Portrait of Conspiracy by Donna Russo Morin

21. Best Book You Read In 2016 That You Read Based SOLELY On A Recommendation From Somebody Else/Peer Pressure:
I don’t think I read any

22. Newest fictional crush from a book you read in 2016?
Hector from A Song of War: A Novel of Troy

23. Best 2016 debut you read?
Who Is to Blame? A Russian Riddle by Jane Marlow and Promised to the Crown by Aimie K. Runyan

24. Best Worldbuilding/Most Vivid Setting You Read This Year?
A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab

25. Book That Put A Smile On Your Face/Was The Most FUN To Read?
Unknown Soldiers by Väinö Linna. Even though it’s a story about a war it’s fun to read because of the characters.

26. Book That Made You Cry Or Nearly Cry in 2016?
A Song of War: A Novel of Troy. That was such an emotional book and sometimes it sucks to know the history…

27. Hidden Gem Of The Year?
Unknown Soldiers.

28. Book That Crushed Your Soul?
A Song of War again…

29. Most Unique Book You Read In 2016?
I don’t know

30. Book That Made You The Most Mad (doesn’t necessarily mean you didn’t like it)?
Born Survivors by Wendy Holden. It tells about three women ho gave birth in a concentration camp.

1. One Book You Didn’t Get To In 2015 But Will Be Your Number 1 Priority in 2017?
For The Most Beautiful by Emily Hauser

2. Book You Are Most Anticipating For 2017 (non-debut)?
A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab

3. 2017 Debut You Are Most Anticipating?
I’m not sure what’s coming out yet…

4. Series Ending/A Sequel You Are Most Anticipating in 2017?
A Conjuring of Light

One thought on “2016 End of the Year Survey

Leave a Comment

*

CommentLuv badge
http://bookramblings.net/2016-end-year-survey/
bookramblings.net
crawl=CC-MAIN-2017-26
43877
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:PJDT7CEO2FKUQ6YD2FWZCSAMDVYPEGNI
<urn:uuid:f2898352-4a3f-49fb-91fa-3e7898dd1ca6>
2017-06-25T05:16:16Z
107.6.169.59
text/html
sha1:ESPL5R2X3AI7XNGHYCQ5HM6DOW3AAZ7N
<urn:uuid:b566e53b-c532-4f61-8719-38b489056ca3>
http://bookramblings.net/2016-end-year-survey/
length
response
<urn:uuid:5e013fd7-cb53-4792-9713-db2b6e0a7c31>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-145-158-100.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-26
operator: Common Crawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for June 2017
publisher: Common Crawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf