My silly little survey I created for myself to highlight what I read in 2010 suddenly grew when a bunch of others jumped in and has turned into such a fun end of year event that I have LOVED hosting and has made my TBR list grow crazily! Seriously, 369 people linked up last year and I know even more participated on their blogs and on Youtube!! So without further ado: the 5th annual End of Year Book Survey!
I know the year isn’t over yet but, as I said in year’s past, this is the time I start reflecting on what I’ve read and start looking ahead because I NEVER get much reading done during December with the holidays and what not! I’ll be filling mine out within the next day or so but I’ll be revising if I happen to read something absolutely earth shattering that would need to be on here!
So feel to fill this out whenever you feel like it…whether that’s today or in January — I know everybody will want to reflect at different points! Feel free to link up and share your End of Year Book Survey and visit others on the list!
Note: The survey is for books you read throughout the year, no matter when they were published, and is not limited to just books that came out in 2014!!
Number Of Books You Read:
Number of Re-Reads:
Genre You Read The Most From:
1. Best Book You Read In 2014?
(If you have to cheat — you can break it down by genre if you want or 2013 release vs. backlist)
2. Book You Were Excited About & Thought You Were Going To Love More But Didn’t?
3. Most surprising (in a good way or bad way) book you read in 2014?
4. Book You “Pushed” The Most People To Read (And They Did) In 2014?
5. Best series you started in 2014? Best Sequel of 2014? Best Series Ender of 2014?
6. Favorite new author you discovered in 2014?
7. Best book from a genre you don’t typically read/was out of your comfort zone?
8. Most action-packed/thrilling/unputdownable book of the year?
9. Book You Read In 2014 That You Are Most Likely To Re-Read Next Year?
10. Favorite cover of a book you read in 2014?
11. Most memorable character of 2014?
12. Most beautifully written book read in 2014?
13. Most Thought-Provoking/ Life-Changing Book of 2014?
14. Book you can’t believe you waited UNTIL 2014 to finally read?
15. Favorite Passage/Quote From A Book You Read In 2014?
16.Shortest & Longest Book You Read In 2013?
How I did this: Went to my read books on Goodreads and sorted by page number and just looked for what I knew I read this yeaer that was the shortest and longest.
17. Book That Shocked You The Most
(Because of a plot twist, character death, left you hanging with your mouth wide open, etc.)
18. OTP OF THE YEAR (you will go down with this ship!)
(OTP = one true pairing if you aren’t familiar)
19. Favorite Non-Romantic Relationship Of The Year
20. Favorite Book You Read in 2014 From An Author You’ve Read Previously
21. Best Book You Read In 2014 That You Read Based SOLELY On A Recommendation From Somebody Else/Peer Pressure:
22. Newest fictional crush from a book you read in 2014?
23. Best 2014 debut you read?
24. Best Worldbuilding/Most Vivid Setting You Read This Year?
25. Book That Put A Smile On Your Face/Was The Most FUN To Read?
26. Book That Made You Cry Or Nearly Cry in 2014?
27. Hidden Gem Of The Year?
28. Book That Crushed Your Soul?
29. Most Unique Book You Read In 2014?
30. Book That Made You The Most Mad (doesn’t necessarily mean you didn’t like it)?
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1. New favorite book blog you discovered in 2014?
2. Favorite review that you wrote in 2014?
3. Best discussion/non-review post you had on your blog?
4. Best event that you participated in (author signings, festivals, virtual events, memes, etc.)?
5. Best moment of bookish/blogging life in 2014?
7. Most Popular Post This Year On Your Blog (whether it be by comments or views)?
8. Post You Wished Got A Little More Love?
9. Best bookish discover (book related sites, book stores, etc.)?
10. Did you complete any reading challenges or goals that you had set for yourself at the beginning of this year?
1. One Book You Didn’t Get To In 2014 But Will Be Your Number 1 Priority in 2015?
2. Book You Are Most Anticipating For 2015 (non-debut)?
3. 2015 Debut You Are Most Anticipating?
4. Series Ending/A Sequel You Are Most Anticipating in 2015?
5. One Thing You Hope To Accomplish Or Do In Your Reading/Blogging Life In 2015?
6. A 2015 Release You’ve Already Read & Recommend To Everyone:
If you could, I’d love you to leave some feedback for any questions you’d LIKE to see on this survey in the future that perhaps I don’t have on here!
GIVEAWAY:
Anyone who links up on the linky below by January 10th will be entered to win their choice of ONE book that appears somewhere here on my list! *anywhere The Book Depository ships to (sorry, I can’t afford international if not).
Tell me if you loved any of the books I loved this year! Give me a recommendation for something I NEED to get to!
Link up!!
Mel@thedailyprophecy says
Yeaaaaay! I already started and I can’t wait to post it & read all the posts from everyone else 🙂 Thanks for hosting it again!
Kyra @ Blog of a Bookaholic says
Ooh, I love these end of year surveys! Will definitely be doing this! 🙂
Stephanie Verhaegen says
I always look forward to this survey and I can’t wait to fill it out soon! This is my 3rd year participating! =)
Rachel @ A Perfection Called Books says
Ooh I love this survey!! This will be my first one since it’s my first year of blogging, can’t wait to do it! Great questions, Jamie 🙂 Can’t wait to see your responses!
Critica says
Your yearly survey is always a ton of fun to fill out! 🙂 I’m so happy you do this every year! I’ll definitely be participating again this year, but I don’t think I’ll put mine on my blog until the beginning of January (I’m hoping to read quite a bit in December).
Chrissi Reads says
I’m so happy you’re bringing this back, Jamie! 🙂 Thank you!
Trina says
I love your surveys because that’s how I found your blog last year. 🙂 I would love a Least Favorite book of the year question, lol. I love talking about books I didn’t like because they help you define what you do like and find better reads. I still have a stack of 2014 big releases I didn’t get to that I hope to read in December so I will be doing this survey probably in January as well. Can’t wait to see yours!
Jamie says
YAY! I’m glad that’s what brought us together!! 🙂
I actually USED to have a least favorite book question the first year I did this and then got a lot of crap/feedback about it that people didn’t want to pick so I just worded it a little nicer with the “book that disappointed you” question.
Kayla @ The Thousand Lives says
I can’t wait to fill this out again this year! I’ll have to make sure I go back and compare 2013’s answers with this year’s answers 😀
Kitty says
Thank you so much for creating this:) So excited to fill out!!!
Alysia says
Ooh I’m new enough this year that I didn’t know of this little feature but it’s such a good one! I can’t wait to participate myself, and to see the answers you and everyone else posts as well!
Brandyn says
This was a fun distraction today! It means my Christmas tree is only partially up, but my post is mostly written. I’ll wait to post for a couple weeks since I’m hoping to read a few more books in December.
Jess @ Gone with the Words says
YAYYYY!! I love this survey!! This year I’m hoping all the reviewers on my blog complete it so I can post four days in a row of this survey. 😀 Thanks for hosting and coming up with excellent questions Jamie!
Hannah @ Broc's Bookcase says
Can’t wait to get started on my list! Love taking part in your surveys!
How about a ‘Favourite Book to Film Adaptation of the year?’ question? There are tons of books being made into films at the moment and I love hearing peoples thoughts on them! Thanks again for hosting this! 🙂
Johannah says
I LOVE doing this survey! It is SOO much fun! Thank you Jamie! I’m bookmarking it on my laptop!
Anne says
Fun! I want to try this. Is it okay if I translate these questions into Finnish for my blog?
Iris says
Yay! I always find this survey so much fun. It does take me a couple of days to answer all the questions though, because it is LONG! Haha.
Thanks for hosting the survey again, and I look forward to reading yours!
Erin @ Paperbackstash says
I LOVE and look forward to your end of the year survey! Just finished mine 😉
http://thepaperbackstash.blogspot.com/2014/12/2014-end-of-year-book-survey.html
Diamond Dee@ Dee's Reads says
I love this survey!! I am going to slowly fill in my responses over the next few weeks…it’s so hard for me to try to do a unique book for each. I love to kinda stew on it though. Helps me re,e,ber and recap so well! 🙂
Cynthia says
Great post. Going to try to do this myself by the end of the year.
benish khan says
Thank you for hosting this! It sounds like a great idea of an overview of all the books we’ve read 🙂
Lianne @ caffeinatedlife.net says
Thanks for hosting this end of the year book survey again Jamie, I really enjoy filling it out each year! 🙂 Hope you had a lovely Christmas, and all the best in the new year!
jen7waters says
It’s the first time I’m participating, this is a really cool survey 😀
Happy New Year y’all!
Giova @ Corazones Literarios says
It’s the first time I’m doing this but I had such a blast answer this bunch of quiestions!!
Diamond Dee@ Dee's Reads says
Finally got my survey filled out! It’s a long post, but I love doing it.. It was hard bc there were so many more I wanted to include haha 🙂
Amir says
This is the first time I participated and it was so much fun! No wonder it’s now 5 years old. Thank you for creating this! ^.^
Cynthia says
I just did my survey. It was so much fun!
Olivia (Bookcomet) says
You’ve done such an amazing job! Thank you so much for hosting this!
Miriam Joy says
I don’t think I count as an entry, because I didn’t answer the questions directly: just used them as a springboard for my own post. But I thought I’d let you know that I did that anyway, in case you were interested. 🙂 http://www.miriamjoywrites.com/2014/12/30/books-of-the-year/
Thanks for the questions! I would’ve answered them directly, except I’ve (a) done a lot of Q&A posts on my blog recently and (b) some of them didn’t entirely apply to me so would’ve been really hard to answer.
Hannah Givens says
First year participating, and it was a lot of fun! Thank you! 🙂
As far as suggestions, the only thing I could think of was earliest published/most recently published, kind of going along with the shortest/longest question.
Alma says
I finally did it! Thanks for a great post idea 😀
Rayna says
I enjoyed this survey, but since I only read 20 books I didn’t have much to choose from… But it was still fun! xD
Alexandra says
This was such an awesome survey, it was my first time doing it and I had SO much fun! 🙂
Beth W says
Thanks for this- it was fun to look back on the books!
Candice says
DAMN this survey got popular! Haha. Way to go! Here’s my wrap-up: http://www.candicedoestheworld.com/2015/01/2014-reading-challenge/
Rachael @ Rachael Turns Pages says
I always look forward to this survey. It helps me look back at the year and forward to the next.
Chris says
I love this survey. So glad you put this together again this year. I am working on mine right now and will post the link when I’m finished.
Molly says
Are you going to be coming out with a 2015 edition?