The new year started off with a bang for me, so it's taken me a few days to get around to this, but finally (yes, finally) I am doing my yearly recap!
2022 was a fairly chill year for me reading-wise. I only set two challenges for myself: the ever-popular GoodReads challenge and my annual "Complete the Series" challenge. I always do the GoodReads bit since it feeds into everything else that I do, and my list of series to complete is so long, it's getting a bit ridiculous. Let's see how things went . . .
My GoodReads goal this year was to read 60 books. I've had years where I've read more than that, but I've also been struggling over the past few. I thought 60 would be a challenge that would still be doable. And doable it was, because I read 65 books! Here are the books in question:
- Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare
- Changeling by Yasmine Galenorn
- The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson
- Darkling by Yasmine Galenorn
- The Crown of Embers by Rae Carson
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
- The Bitter Kingdom by Rae Carson
- Dragon Wytch by Yasmine Galenorn
- Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis
- Night Huntress by Yasmine Galenorn
- Demon Mistress by Yasmine Galenorn
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
- The Bitter Kingdom by Rae Carson
- Wolves and Roses by Christina Bauer
- Blood and Fire by Kim Mullican
- Truth of the Divine by Lindsay Ellis
- Moonlight and Midtown by Christina Bauer
- Shifters and Glyphs by Christina Bauer
- Slippers and Thieves by Christina Bauer
- Bandits and Ball Gowns by Christina Bauer
- Fire and Cinder by Christina Bauer
- Fairies and Frosting by Christina Bauer
- Towers and Tithes by Christina Bauer
- Mirrors and Mysteries by Christina Bauer
- Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs
- A Map of Days by Ransom Riggs
- The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah
- Caraval by Stephanie Garber
- The Conference of the Birds by Ransom Riggs
- The Desolations of Devil's Acre by Ransom Riggs
- Legendary by Stephanie Garber
- Bone Magic by Yasmine Galenorn
- Finale by Stephanie Garber
- Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir by Wil Wheaton
- Harvest Hunting by Yasmine Galenorn
- The Demon King by Cinda Williams Chima
- Blood Wyne by Yasmine Galenorn
- The Exiled Queen by Cinda Williams Chima
- Courting Darkness by Yasmine Galenorn
- The Gray Wolf Throne by Cinda Williams Chima
- Shaded Vision by Yasmine Galenorn
- The Crimson Crown by Cinda Williams Chima
- Splintered by A.G. Howard
- The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
- Shadow Rising by Yasmine Galenorn
- Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
- Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
- Haunted Moon by Yasmine Galenorn
- Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare
- Autumn Whispers by Yasmine Galenorn
- Pachinko by Lee Min-Jin
- Crimson Veil by Yasmine Galenorn
- Queen of Air and Darkness by Cassandra Clare
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- Priestess Dreaming by Yasmine Galenorn
- Panther Prowling by Yasmine Galenorn
- Darkness Raging by Yasmine Galenorn
- An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
- Moon Shimmers by Yasmine Galenorn
- Harvest Song by Yasmine Galenorn
- Blood Bonds by Yasmine Galenorn
- Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan
- A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green
Some of these books were on the shorter side, but that's fine. It still kept me reading and that's what's important to me. 
I started working on this challenge years ago when I realized that I had started a bunch of series, usually reading only the first book or two, but never finishing them. Sometimes this was because future books hadn't been published yet and I never went back to the series after they came out. Other times, it was just because something shiny distracted me and I simply forgot.
I also kept going back through my GoodReads and finding more and more series where this happened. I really need to stop doing that.
As of the beginning of 2022, I had a list of 44 series that I had started but never finished. My goal was to complete six of them, while also finishing any new series that I start (no sense in making the problem even worse). I had set similar goals in the past and always fallen short, but I felt good this time around. For good reason, as I actually did it this year!
Here are the six series I finished:
- Fire and Thorns series by Rae Carson (4 books) – FINISHED 1/31/22
- The Seven Realms series by Cinda Williams Chima (4 books) – FINISHED 8/30/22
- Dark Artifices series by Cassandra Clare (3 books) – FINISHED 10/15/22
- Otherworld series by Yasmine Galenorn (21 books) – FINISHED 12/26/22
- The Carls by Hank Green (2 books) – FINISHED 12/30/22
- Miss Peregrine's series by Ransom Riggs (6 books) – FINISHED 6/19/22
I may have been able to do more if it hadn't been for the Otherworld series. It's so long and was definitely a time commitment. I am so glad I was able to finish it! If you want to see the other series that are on my list, you can check out my book challenges tab on the main page of my blog. It will be updated once I post my 2023 challenges, which should be tomorrow.
Anyway, that was my 2022 reading year. I'm really proud of my progress and looking forward to seeing what 2023 will bring!
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