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 7th annual End of Year Book Survey!
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!
I’ll be filling mine out at some point soon in another post! 🙂
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 2016!!
Number Of Books You Read:
Number of Re-Reads:
Genre You Read The Most From:
1. Best Book You Read In 2016?
(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 2016? Best Sequel of 2016? Best Series Ender of 2016?
6. Favorite new author you discovered in 2016?
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 2016 That You Are Most Likely To Re-Read Next Year?
10. Favorite cover of a book you read in 2016?
11. Most memorable character of 2016?
12. Most beautifully written book read in 2016?
13. Most Thought-Provoking/ Life-Changing Book of 2016?
14. Book you can’t believe you waited UNTIL 2016 to finally read?
15. Favorite Passage/Quote From A Book You Read In 2016?
16.Shortest & Longest Book You Read In 2016?
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 2016 From An Author You’ve Read Previously
21. Best Book You Read In 2016 That You Read Based SOLELY On A Recommendation From Somebody Else/Peer Pressure:
22. Newest fictional crush from a book you read in 2016?
23. Best 2016 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 2016?
27. Hidden Gem Of The Year?
28. Book That Crushed Your Soul?
29. Most Unique Book You Read In 2016?
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 2016?
2. Favorite review that you wrote in 2016?
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 2016?
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 2017?
2. Book You Are Most Anticipating For 2017 (non-debut)?
3. 2017 Debut You Are Most Anticipating?
4. Series Ending/A Sequel You Are Most Anticipating in 2017?
5. One Thing You Hope To Accomplish Or Do In Your Reading/Blogging Life In 2017?
6. A 2017 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!
Lizzy says
Oh, I’m so excited to do this! It’ll be a few days before I get to it but it’s awesome and thank you so much for hosting!
Bee @ Quite the Novel Idea says
AHAHAHA I’m so happy to see this. Now I’m going to do this one instead of making a top 16. YOU SAVED ME FROM TORTURING MYSELF MAKING THAT LIST. Thanks. XD
Evelynne says
Ooooh thanks for this Jamie! I was going to to a boring best books of 2016 post (will probably still do one) but this looks much more interesting and thought provoking!
irena_bookdustmagic says
Wow, this is amazing! Thank you so much for creating this. I’ll definitely write everythig down and post it by the end of this year.
Of course, I’ll credit you. 🙂
Miranda @ Miranda's Book Blog says
I’m looking forward to participating this year! This will be my first year actually partaking, last year I loved reading everyone’s responses! Thanks for creating this fun survey Jamie!
Hannah @ Broc's Bookcase says
I have done this survey for the last 3 years and can’t wait to do it again! I always forget about all the great books I’ve read in the past year and then I do your survey and it reminds me how great a bookish year I have had!
Mel@thedailyprophecy says
I am drafting my post right now and hope to post it at the end of this week. Exciting 😀
Kourtni @ Kourtni Reads says
This is such a great idea! I was trying to think of a way to recap 2016 without writing a ridiculously long post and this seems like the perfect solution. I’ll definitely have to squeeze this into my schedule within the next couple of weeks 🙂
Ashleigh says
YAY I can’t wait to do this! Mine won’t be going up until the start of January (gotta get ALL those December books in!) but I’m already so ready 😀
Kate @ Midnight Book Girl says
Thank you for creating this! I definitely had fun re-capping my year in books!
Marie says
Took me three days to finish this. *whew* and I haven’t yet read all the books I plan to read this year.
Anne@Headfullofbooks says
Thanks for organizing this for us. Be sure to let us know when you have your answers up, too!
Runwright says
I’m still reading to chase my goal of 100 books in 2016 so I’ll save this post and come back to the survey later. Great questions though.
Utopia State of Mind says
I am going to do this, because it is fantastic! But I need some time…I will link when I have it done though! Love your profiles <3
Jenni Elyse says
I’m really excited you posted this! I was worried you weren’t going to this year since you’ve had so much going on. Happy Holidays!!!
Charley says
I am so excited to complete this for my blog! I will be doing it in addition to my own “Year In Review” post, but I love all your questions!
Marissa Writes says
Love this! hmm… do I have the energy and time to put my own post together… maybe I’ll just stalk all the others 😉
Carly Jacobs says
Yeah! This was so much fun to do! I just posted mine on my new blog!
Bella says
This looks fun! So excited to post mine! Thanks for making this!
Candice Walsh says
Huzzah! Here’s mine: http://www.freecandie.com/2016/12/2016-reading-challenge-wrap-up/
Laura says
Thanks for posting this! I picked it up from a friend’s blog and added my own link. 🙂 Happy New Year!
Angela says
Thank you for putting this together, Jamie! It’s way better than anything I could have come up with on my own!
AngelErin says
This is such a great survey!! I just had to do it. 😀 😀
Erin @ Paperbackstash says
Always love doing these!!
Kitty says
This is such an awesome idea! Thank you so much for sharing 🙂 It was so much fun to do!
Jenna @ Falling Letters says
Yay, I really enjoy this survey! This is my fourth time filling it out. It’s a great way to compare my year of reading with fellow bloggers.
Kayla @ Bookish Whispers says
Thanks for this survey! It’s my first year filling it out, and it took most of the day, but it was cool to go back through my year in books! Been really fun to look at everyone else’s year as well. HAPPY READING!
Elizabeth says
Perhaps you could add a question or two about the books you didn’t finish this year? I put down two that I just couldn’t get into.
Akilah says
I would probably add “books with the best/most memorable endings” and someone out in there in the blogosphere added “books with the best titles” to theirs. Thanks again for hosting this! It’s so fun.
Dominique @ Pirates and Pixie Dust says
Thank you so much for making this! I just posted and linked mine. As for feedback, what about a “worst” section? I don’t know about every body else, but I love knowing what books people *don’t* like.
Stefanie says
What a creative, end-of-the-year survey you composed here. I follow a few book bloggers who answered your detailed, thinking cap questions. I’ll try to join in next year. Quinn’s Book Nook gave you credit which was nice because I had thought one other blogger did it herself (may have missed the referral to you though w/my speedreading eyeballs). Happy new year and happy reading to you.
Elizabeth says
Thanks for hosting, Jamie! And sorry about #212 link, I accidentally linked to my about page and then corrected with #213 link, which links to the blog post. 🙂