I’ve seen other bloggers rank a year’s worth of books, and I thought it would be an interesting challenge! This post is an introduction to what I’ll be doing for the rest of the year, and as I finish each book, I plan on adding it to the spreadsheet below. I’ll do a check-in maybe half way through the year, and of course, I’ll present my final rankings at the end of 2024.
This isn’t as easy as it looks, and I think as the year progresses it will get harder to remember the details that made me enjoy a book I read early in the year, and so harder to rank it. But hopefully this will make it easier to choose my favorite books at the end of the year! Here is how my rankings look so far (book title followed by my star rating):
As you can see, The Heiress sits in the top spot for the moment, closely followed by A Haunting in the Arctic. It will be interesting to see if anything can beat those two books, although it’s certainly a possibility.
I should do that too Tammy! That’s handy especially by the end of the year!
It’s fun, I just have to remember to add each book as I finish it.
Cool idea!
Thanks!
Given that it’s easier to remember details about what we just read versus what we read at the beginning of the year it would be interesting to see if you notice any patterns, like often putting more recent 5 star books above those you read earlier in the year. I don’t believe I’ve ever tried something like this. The closest I’ve gotten is just trying to find my favorite 5 or 10 of the year. But anything below 5 stars I don’t tend to rank. I hope you enjoy this process and I’m curious to see what you thought of it when the years out.
It’s definitely an experiment:-) I figure I can always move the order around if I change my mind.
This is actually a really great idea and I might do it for myself too. I always struggle at the end of the year to look through the books I’ve read and decide on my favorites.
It’s fun because I can pit 5 star against 5 star and try to figure out which I loved more, ha ha.
I enjoy seeing your rankings. It’s easy enough for me to sort them in Goodreads by star rating although it doesn’t have the half stars. But then are you moving them manually within the rating?
Yes, I can move them around, that’s why I’m using a spreadsheet. I can also change my mind with the order if I feel like it:-)
Ooh this looks tricky, I’d probably spend forever trying to get the order just right. It’ll definitely make an interesting list to look at though. And it’s lovely to see Warm Hands Of Ghosts so high up too, hopefully I’ll get a chance to read it soon.
I reserve the right to change my order at any time;-)
Keeping score of what we read – and how we reacted – is indeed a very useful tool, particularly when you want to draw up some year-end statistics… And given the sheer number of books you read every year, that tool will prove more than useful when the time comes 🙂
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Yes, I hope so! It’s challenging with the 5 star reads to figure out what order to put them in, though.
This is auch a cool idea! I agree it will probably get harder later in the year, but this seems the smartest way to go about it.
It will get harder, but as long as I remember to do it after I finish the book, I think it will work:-)
I rate the books I’ve read on GoodReads. Ranking them is a great idea!
It seemed fun, and I’ve never tried it before, so we’ll see how it goes:-)
I can just imagine how much more difficult this will get to do as the year end gets closer.
Exactly! I’m a little scared…
This is a great idea. It’s definitely harder to remember details as the year goes on and we read more, so perhaps this will help. I don’t tend to end up with a massive total for the year but something like this might still be worth attempting.
It’s mostly for fun, just to see how hard it is. And it’s pretty hard! lol
I haven’t tried this but well done to you. I would probably keep changing my mind.
Lynn 😀
Ha ha I think I will too.
If you use CAWPILE, for each book you list, you have tips to help you rank them. see for instance the result so far for my 2024 reads:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19ZyT-gWj4eWMgHWd_pc0wb0-Xb7q9bTDCPjs8qUnLro/edit?usp=sharing
To download the free Google Sheet, check Book Roast’s YouTube: https://youtu.be/Q0CyuH_oNL0?si=nkO2O-fhmfvJ0_vX
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Good to know, this is a very detailed spreadsheet. I knew about CAWPILE but I’ve never used it. Right now I’m doing a more emotional approach to my rankings.
I tend to use an extended list using Word – which I used to sort out at the end of the year. However that hasn’t happened for a while. I hope to be able to return to highlighting my best reads of the year at the end of 2024:). Congratulations on ranking everything in such an orderly fashion, Tammy:).
I hope this is the year you can get back to it:-)
This is a really helpful exercise! It would be especially helpful for me since I have a crap ton of books in the 4 star range, lol.
This is a REALLY good idea! Because when i am trying to decide which books make the cut for EOY posts, I am so overwhelmed! This would take out all the guesswork, wouldn’t it? I have got to try this next year!
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Love this idea! I started a Google sheet like this for my reviews too. I’m going to use my StoryGraph ratings because they have .25 choices, so I can really divide it up. It’s interesting as I did it I found even that I would rate some of my 5 stars higher than the other 5 stars. Thanks for this idea!
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