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, 360 people linked up last year and I know even more participated on their blogs and on Youtube!! So without further ado: the 6th 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 soon (I know I said that last year and never did but I have motivation this year…last year I was just DONE with all the things) 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 (please credit me!)…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 2015?
(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?
4. Book You “Pushed” The Most People To Read (And They Did)?
5. Best series you started in 2015? Best Sequel of 2015? Best Series Ender of 2015?
6. Favorite new author you discovered in 2015?
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 2015 That You Are Most Likely To Re-Read Next Year?
10. Favorite cover of a book you read in 2015?
11. Most memorable character of 2015?
12. Most beautifully written book read in 2015?
13. Most Thought-Provoking/ Life-Changing Book of 2015?
14. Book you can’t believe you waited UNTIL 2015 to finally read?
15. Favorite Passage/Quote From A Book You Read In 2015?
16.Shortest & Longest Book You Read In 2015?
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 2015 From An Author You’ve Read Previously
21. Best Book You Read In 2015That You Read Based SOLELY On A Recommendation From Somebody Else/Peer Pressure:
22. Newest fictional crush from a book you read in 2015?
23. Best 2015 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 2015?
27. Hidden Gem Of The Year?
28. Book That Crushed Your Soul?
29. Most Unique Book You Read In 2015?
30. Book That Made You The Most Mad (doesn’t necessarily mean you didn’t like it)?
1. New favorite book blog you discovered in 2015?
2. Favorite review that you wrote in 2015?
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 2015?
6. Most challenging thing about blogging or your reading life this year?
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 2015 But Will Be Your Number 1 Priority in 2016?
2. Book You Are Most Anticipating For 2016 (non-debut)?
3. 2016 Debut You Are Most Anticipating?
4. Series Ending/A Sequel You Are Most Anticipating in 2016?
5. One Thing You Hope To Accomplish Or Do In Your Reading/Blogging Life In 2016?
6. A 2016 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!
Steph, The Old Mother Hen says
I love this ides! I will definitely do up a post a little later in the month.
Bette says
Yay! It’s that time of year again to take a step back and reflect on the books read this year. I’ll probably fill mine out in January. Have a very happy holiday, Jamie! See you in 2016!
Trina (Between Chapters) says
Can’t wait to fill this out!
Mel@thedailyprophecy says
*saves link*
I’m definitely going to fill this out. I loved doing it last year 😀
Anne @ booksbakingandblogging says
Aaaah I’m so excited about this! Probably going to fill it out in the last week of December, so I it’s completely up-to-date 🙂
Crini says
Yay, I’m excited! This will be my first time participating. Don’t even know why I never did before.
(pssst, “Blogging Life” is missing #6! ;D)
Milka@ReadReadRead says
Just a little note: on the my blogging/bookish life section you are missing number 6 – maybe your numbering went wrong and you meant to have only 9 questions, or maybe you missed one? Just wanted to give you a shout if there actually is a missing 6th question 🙂
Thanks for this – I already started to think about my answers and I cannot wait to read through what other bloggers come up with!
Stephanie Kaye says
I cannot wait to fill this out! I will be saving this and posting my answers later on this month! I’m going to at least try and read some more this month! 🙂
Thanks for bringing this back!! <3
xo Steph
Hayley @ Bookblogher says
Yay!! I’m so excited!!! Your end of the year survey is my favorite. I forget how many amazing books I read each year until I fill this out. And then I’m reminded to me grateful about all the wonderful stories I read each year. Can’t wait to see your results (and my own!)!!
Cait @ Paper Fury says
I cannot WAIT to do this!! Thanks so much for hosting it, Jamie!! 😀
Gab says
The ladies of Girl Plus Book’s will DEFINITELY be filling this out.
Ashley @ Book Nerd Paradise says
I just stumbled across this randomly and I’m so excited to do it! In fact, I’m going to go fill it out right now.
Meagan says
I love this!! I can’t wait to do it. Are you creating a linkup? Also would you mind if I used your headers? they’re super cute! If not I totally understand.
Erin @ Paperbackstash says
As I’ve probably said before, for some reason this end of the year survey is one of my FAVORITE posts to take part in for the year. It’s so nice looking back over the year ; something I look forward to for months
I have already started mine, but won’t be publishing it till closer to January 1st since I still have quite a few books ahead of me. Will be sure to link up here when done.
Whitney @ Imaginary Book Club says
Really looking forward to filling this out! This will be a fun way to reflect on the year.
Ellen B. says
Just filled mine out and posted! Thanks so much for hosting each year, Jamie!
Casey says
This is fantastic!! Will definitely be doing this come January. Thank you!!!
Anne @HeadFullofBooks says
So I finally got my list created…it took me FOREVER. But I am looking around for your answers and can’t find them. Send me the specific link!
Here is my End of the Year Survey
Anne @HeadFullofBooks says
A thought I had for specific feedback is to add some questions about nonfiction selections and to reduce the number of questions by consolidating some of the questions in the blogging and looking ahead sections. Otherwise, I really enjoyed the whole process of looking back, thank you.
Verena says
I hope it’s okay that I translated the questions into German to put them on my blog. The article isn’t online yet – I have to answer all these questions first. 😉
many greetings from Germany and merry Christmas!
Verena
Megz says
In terms of questions to add – how about something to do with audiobooks? Best audiobook perhaps?
Paige @ Page by Paige says
Thanks for hosting this, Jamie! I’ve been looking forward to filing it out for so long!
Shannon @ Adventures Of A Teenage Bookworm says
Great idea Jamie, I loved doing this survey it was so fun!
here’s a link to my post: http://bit.ly/1JfFnd1
Shannon @ Adventures of A Teenage Bookworm
Britt @ Please Feed The Bookworm says
This is so much fun! Thank you lovely lady for taking the time to do this every year!
<3 Britt
Lindsay says
Thanks for hosting this again, Jamie! I always have fun reflecting back on my reading year while filling it out. I added an extra question to my survey this year — favorite book-based movie or show! 🙂
Francesca says
I love this survey, thank you and Happy New Year!
Rebekah @ Wordsmithing and Worldbuilding says
This was so much fun! Thanks for hosting 🙂 I just got my first one ever up today, and I loved it. You ask some great questions.
Becky Paulk says
This is my first time participating and it was so much fun! Long, but fun! lol I think it would be fun to also ask biggest disappointment book. One you really thought you were gonna love, but ended up hating or not liking. The other question is what book you just couldn’t finish, no matter what. I’m a debbie downer so, I think these questions are fun lol.
Giulia says
I love this Jamie!! I borrowed it and it was so fun to do. I can’t wait to read your answers.
Thank you!:)
Daniella Maria says
This is the first time I’ve come across this survey and I love it! Filled my out here: http://daniellamariaart.blogspot.com/2016/01/end-of-year-book-survey.html
jen7waters says
I’m late for the linky but I still did it 😉
https://cuidadocomodalmata.wordpress.com/2016/01/18/2015-end-of-the-year-book-survey/
Jorie says
Hallo, hallo!!
At long last I was able to ADD my own *End of the Year Survey, 2015* to my lovely bookish blog! 🙂 I’ve decided to make it a yearly tradition now to observe my blogoversary by releasing my journalled retrospective of the year’s reads! Therefore, I’ll continue to come back each March/early April to add my link in your comments! I cannot thank you enough for creating this lovely survey & for helping me organise my thoughts on behalf of the stories which truly touched my mind, heart and soul! Your wicked brilliant!
Read my *End of the Year, 2015 Survey!*