Book Lovers 2018 YE Tag

Marcia over at the blog Trendy Simple Life created a book tag that looks back over your year of reading and what your planning to read next year. I came across hers and enjoyed reading her answers, you can do the same here, and thought I'd give it a go myself. 

Here are the questions and my answers...

The three best books you read in 2018 (all 5 stars).

    

These are the only three 5 star books I've read this year so far, there's still the rest of December to hope for another. I have however, read quite a few 4 and 4.5 star reads that are high up on my list so please check back when I post my top books of the year where I will talk about these in more detail. 

Did you have any books that were DNF? If so which ones?

Nope. I tend not to DNF books as I feel like if I start I need to finish and this is something I need to get better at doing because life's too short to read books you don't enjoy. That being said I only read one book this year rated lower than 3 stars so maybe I'm getting better and refining my tastes. 

What are your 3 most anticipated books of 2019?

    

All three of these are squeals or continuations of series. As you can see The Cruel Prince was one of my 5 star reads so obviously I can't wait for The Wicked King. I loved The Grisha Trilogy and Nikolai was one of my favourite characters so a series following him is a must read. Caraval was one of my favourite reads of 2016 and, I have to admit, I still haven't read Legendary but that doesn't stop me being excited for Finale. 

Have you completed your personal reading challenge? If so what are you reading now until the end of the year?

No I haven't completed it yet and I don't think I will. Currently I'm reading my 38th book of the year and I was hoping to read 50, which I can normally do easily. However, this year I took a big reading break between January and May. This was the first 5 months of my pregnancy and I was getting really tired very quickly and struggling to find time to read. I don't mind not completing my reading challenge this year though. I'm back into my reading groove and enjoying what I read so I'm not going to put pressure on myself. 

What genre did you read this year that you hope to read more in 2019?

Out of my three 5 star reads two were genres I don't read much of and they were YA sci-fi and YA contemporary. So hopefully I'll branch out a bit more into these genres next year. 

How's your reading list for 2019?

My goal for December was to catch up on my review books and my NetGalley books so I will continue this into 2019 and hope that I can stay on top of these. I'd also like to work on getting through some of my backlist TBR books. Maybe I'll aim to read 2 a month or something depending on how many books I have for review. 

So that's it for the Book Lovers 2018 YE Tag. As for who I tag, I invite anyone who reads this to take part as I really enjoyed looking back on my reading year and making some plans for next year. 

If you do take part please let me know as I'd love to read your answers.