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 immensely! So without further ado: the 9th annual End of Year Book Survey!
So feel to fill this out whenever you feel like it (please link back to this post/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’m still up in the air if I’m going to fill it out because I didn’t read A TON this year but I’ll look over my list of what I read closer to January because I feel like I will be repeating a lot this year but WE SHALL SEE.
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 2018!!
**2018 READING STATS**
Number Of Books You Read:
Number of Re-Reads:
Genre You Read The Most From:
1. Best Book You Read In 2018?
(If you have to cheat — you can break it down by genre if you want or 2018 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 2018? Best Sequel of 2018? Best Series Ender of 2018?
6. Favorite new author you discovered in 2018?
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 2018 That You Would Be MOST Likely To Re-Read Next Year?
10. Favorite cover of a book you read in 2018?
11. Most memorable character of 2018?
12. Most beautifully written book read in 2018?
13. Most Thought-Provoking/ Life-Changing Book of 2018?
14. Book you can’t believe you waited UNTIL 2018 to finally read?
15. Favorite Passage/Quote From A Book You Read In 2018?
16.Shortest & Longest Book You Read In 2018?
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 year 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 2018 From An Author You’ve Read Previously
21. Best Book You Read In 2018 That You Read Based SOLELY On A Recommendation From Somebody Else/Peer Pressure/Bookstagram, Etc.:
22. Newest fictional crush from a book you read in 2018?
23. Best 2018 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 2018?
27. Hidden Gem Of The Year?
28. Book That Crushed Your Soul?
29. Most Unique Book You Read In 2018?
30. Book That Made You The Most Mad (doesn’t necessarily mean you didn’t like it)?
1. New favorite book blog/Bookstagram/Youtube channel you discovered in 2018?
2. Favorite post you wrote in 2018?
3. Favorite bookish related photo you took in 2018:?
4. Best bookish event that you participated in (author signings, festivals, virtual events, etc.)?
5. Best moment of bookish/blogging life in 2018?
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 2018 But Will Be Your Number 1 Priority in 2019?
2. Book You Are Most Anticipating For 2019 (non-debut)?
3. 2019 Debut You Are Most Anticipating?
4. Series Ending/A Sequel You Are Most Anticipating in 2019?
5. One Thing You Hope To Accomplish Or Do In Your Reading/Blogging Life In 2019?
6. A 2019 Release You’ve Already Read & Recommend To Everyone (if applicable):
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!
Arvenig says
Love the survey questions! I’ll definitely do this at the end of the year!
Bea´s book blog says
I would LOVE to fill this out. I blog in Swedish so if you don’t mind I will translate your questions but of course link back to you. 🙂 I love these kind of surveys!
Jamie says
Awesome! I love that you are translating it!
Emily @ Mixed Margins says
Hi Jamie! Is it possible to extend the closing day for the linkup? Last year, it ended in the first week of January, which was perfect because then I could include all the books I read in December (I tend to read a lot over Christmas Break!).
Thank you for doing this every year! I always look forward to it.
Jamie says
So I don’t have the paid version of Inlinks so it doesn’t let me have it open that long so I have to trick it by changing the date so I have days in my calendar to go in and extend it! So I promise it will be open still 🙂
Confuzzled Bev says
I just found this… I have completed the survey before but I got it from somebody else and the categories are slightly different/there are less of them. I guess it was adapted from this one though, so I will be bookmarking this page so I can add my version to your link up this year. With apologies for not crediting you in previous years… I did credit the person I got it from but that probably doesn’t help 😉
Jamie says
AH I feel like that happens so often to me with this survey over the years :/ Thank you for coming on over and joining here though!!
Aimee says
Thanks for doing this, Jamie! I had so much fun participating in your survey, and I love the look of your blog. Following so I’ll be sure to enjoy your bookish goodness in the future 🙂
Jessica at Booked J says
Ooh, I love this! I’m definitely going to have to participate this year. I’m going to work on this tomorrow and flail around dramatically while I do it.
Jamie says
YAY!!