Way back in 2019 I looked at the books I hauled and if I had read them/kept the books over the previous years by taking a few months here and there. Last year I looked back at the birthday hauls I had in previous years to see how well I did with those. But I haven’t done much with that since then. Liesbet from Zwartraafje recently posted a similar kind of post and it reminded me that it was good to look back like that again.
I think it is good to look back because I still have a large collection of books I still need to read. And it is kind of like going through your bookshelves and having them in your hands. ‘Oh I have this still too. I wanted to read it so badly when I bought it.’ It might also help me prioritize some books because this year it has been a struggle to read my own books. Reading less and having a ton of arcs is not always a picnick. But without further ado, lets just look at the hauling from 2019. I’ll be skipping the birthday haul here because I already did that in last years post.
February 2019
| Book | Read | Still Owned |
| Poems and Stories by J.R.R. Tolkien | No | Yes |
| Rune Duology bind-up by Adrian Stone | No | Yes |
| Voluit Leven (therapy book) | Yes | Yes |
| And the Ocean Was Our Sky by Patrick Ness | Yes | Yes |
| All Systems Red by Martha Wells | Yes | Yes |
| King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo | Yes | Yes |
| Do Androids Dream Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick | No | Yes |
| Body Positive Power by Megan Jayne Crabbe | No | Yes |
| Renegades by Marissa Myer | No | No |
| Crown of Feathers by Nicki Pau Preto | No | Yes |
| Firestarter by Tara Sim | Yes | Yes |
| Shadow of the Fox by Julie Kagawa | Yes | Yes |
So from the 12 books I’ve read 6 books which makes that 50%. Which is decent but not awesome considering it has been 2,5 years. But I still want to read most of the others with the exception of Renegades. After many reviews I’ve decided that one is just not for me. Some I’ve gotten like Poems and Stories, Body Positive Power and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep because I feel I might not pick them up now but I will in the future. An older Annemieke you know. Do you ever look at books that way?
April 2019
| Book | Read | Still Owned |
| Beyond a Darkened Sky by Jessica Leake | No | Yes |
| Slayer by Kiersten White | Yes | No |
| The True Queen by Zen Cho | Yes | Yes |
| Wundersmith by Jessica Townsend | Yes | Yes |
| Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees | No | Yes |
| Golden Hand by Garth Nix | No | Yes |
| Clariel by Garth Nix | No | Yes |
| Lethal White by Robert Gailbraith | No | No |
| Artificial Condition by Martha Wells | Yes | Yes |
| Ship of Smoke and Steel by Django Wexler | Yes | Yes |
| Night Shift by Debbi Gliori | Yes | Yes |
| Grey Sister by Mark Lawrence | Yes | Yes |
| Soulbinder by Sebastien de Castell | No | No |
From the 13 books I’ve read 7 which is about 54% which is okay but should be better after 2 years one would hope. On the other hand there are 3 books here that I no longer own. One of which I have read and 2 I had not read. Which means I do not have to read 46% but 38%. Which does sound a lot better doesn’t it.
June 2019
| Book | Read | Still Owned |
| Soulless by Gail Carragher | Yes | Yes |
| Echo by Thomas Olde Heuvelt | No | Yes |
| A Pinch of Magic by Michelle Harrison | Yes | Yes |
| Monstress volume 1 by Marjorie M. Liu and Sana Takeda | Yes | Yes |
| Defy the Fates by Claudia Gray | No | Yes |
| Thud! by Terry Pratchett | No | Yes |
| Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon | Yes | Yes |
| Finale by Stephanie Garber | Yes | Yes |
| Zwendelprins by Rima Orie | No | Yes |
| The Sword of Kaigan by M.L. Wang | Yes | Yes |
| Trails of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse | Yes | Ebook |
So out of these 11 books I’ve read 7 which is about 64% which is a lot better. The other 4 or 36% are still books I want to read. Some are just part of series like Thud!
July 2019 Part 1
| Book | Read | Still Owned |
| Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames | No | Yes |
| Tongues of Serpent by Naomi Novik | No | Yes |
| Crubicle of Gold by Naomi Novik | No | Yes |
| Half a War by Joe Abercrombie | No | Yes |
| Of Blood and Bone by Nora Roberts | No | Yes |
| Darksoul by Anna Stephens | No | Yes |
| Dolores Dolly Poppedijn by Thomas Olde Heuvelt | DNF | Yes |
| Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson | Yes | Yes |
| Duftapotheke by Anna Ruhe | Yes | Yes |
| Gumiho by Kat Cho | No | Yes |
| Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim | Yes | Yes |
| Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan | Yes | Yes |
Out of these 12 books I’ve read only 4 (33%) and dnfed one. However I do still want to read the other 7 (58%).
July 2019 Part 2
| Book | Read | Still Owned |
| The Gauntlet by Karuna Riazi | Yes | No |
| Igraine the Brave by Cornelia Funke | No | Yes |
| De Legende van de Vuurvogel by Femke Dekker | No | Yes |
| Empress by S.J. Kincaid | No | Yes |
| Jade War by Fonda Lee | Yes | Yes |
| Twice Magic by Cressida Cowell | Yes | Yes |
| Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhoarse | Yes | Ebook |
| Spirits Abroad by Zen Cho | No | Ebook |
| The Barrow Will Send What It May by Margaret Killjoy | Yes | Ebook |
| The Poison Song by Jen Williams | Yes | Ebook |
Here I have read 60%. The other 40% I also want to read but I just haven’t gotten around to yet.
September 2019
| Book | Read | Still Owned |
| The Modern Faerietales by Holly Black | No | Yes |
| Keeper of the Lost Cities by Shannon Messenger | No | Yes |
| Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells | Yes | Yes |
| To Be Taught If Fortunate by Becky Chambers | Yes | Yes |
| The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang | Yes | Yes |
| The Unfinished Tales by J.R.R. Tolkien | No | Yes |
| The Wicked Deep by Shea Earnshaw | Yes | Yes |
| A Promise of Fire by Amanda Bouchet | No | Yes |
| Breath of Fire by Amanda Bouchet | No | Yes |
| Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey | No | Yes |
| Dragonquest by Anne McCaffrey | No | Yes |
| The White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey | No | Yes |
| Moreta by Anne McCaffrey | No | Yes |
| The Renegades of Pern by Anne McCaffrey | No | Yes |
| All the Weyrs of Pern by Anne McCaffrey | No | Yes |
| Johnny and the Bomb by Terry Pratchett | No | Yes |
| The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett | Yes | Yes |
| Blood Song by Anthony Ryan | No | Yes |
| The Last Wish by Andrezj Zapkowski | No | Yes |
| Mistress of Dragons by Margaret Weiss | No | Yes |
| The Diamond Age by Neal Stephendson | No | Yes |
| Perido Street Station by China Mievelle | DNF | Yes |
| The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin | Yes | Yes |
| The Heart of What Was Lost by Tad Williams | No | Yes |
| The Expanse by James S.A. Corey | Yes | Yes |
| Ancillary Sword by Anne Leckie | No | Yes |
| Ancillary Mercy by Anne Leckie | No | Yes |
| Binti by Nnedi Okorafor | Yes | Ebook |
| Running with Lions by Julian Winters | Yes | Ebook |
Well this was one big oops. To be fair there were a few book markets and the like I visited during that Summer. I’ve only read 32% of these. There is a bunch of older fantasy here that I still want to try like the McCaffrey books (because dragons).
October 2019
| Book | Read | Still Owned |
| Galloglas by Scarlett Thomas | No | Yes |
| Nocturna by Maya Motayne | No | Yes |
| The Lost Fairytales by Anna James | Yes | Yes |
| The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden | Yes | Yes |
| Burned | Yes | Ebook |
So that was 60% but that only looks good because my birthday haul is not in here. I know.
November 2019
| Book | Read | Still Owned |
| Jingo by Terry Pratchett | No | Yes |
| Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett | No | Yes |
| Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin | No | Yes |
| Then Thousand Doors by Alix E. Harrow | Yes | Yes |
| Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater | No | Yes |
| Monstress vol 4 by Marjorie M. Liu and Sana Takeda | Yes | Yes |
Not a big haul and still I’ve only read 33%. How sad is that. To be fair to have read Jingo and Feet of Clay I had to read 2 other books before and I am on route for that.
Amazon DE Sale
| Book | Read | Still Owned |
| Singer of Apollo by Rick Riordan | Yes | Yes |
| Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh | Yes | Yes |
| Acquirn Cove by Kay O’Neill | Yes | Yes |
| Candle and the Flame by Nafiza Azad | No | Yes |
| These Witches Don’t Burn by Isabel Sterling | No | Yes |
| The Wise and the Wicked by Rebecca Podos | No | Yes |
| Space Opera by Katherine Valente | No | Yes |
| Tunnel of Bones by V.E. Schwab | Yes | Yes |
| Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore | No | Yes |
| Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia | Yes | Yes |
| The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie | No | Yes |
| Hunted by Meagan Spooner | No | Yes |
| Not Even Bones by Rebecca Schaeffer | Yes | Yes |
| The Serpent’s Secret by Sayantani DasGupta | Yes | Yes |
| When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore | Yes | Yes |
| Blanca & Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore | No | Yes |
Well that is about 50% of that haul. There are a lot so overal not a bad one. A lot better than when I had it as a goal. I also have some on my tbr for later on in the year so hopefully I’ll get to them.
December 2019
| Books | Read | Still Owned |
| Criers War by Nina Varela | No | Yes |
| Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden | Yes | Yes |
And 50% here too which is just lets impressive with two books and yet still a good result.
Do you haul a lot of books? Do you ever look back at them and see what you have actually read?
A Dance With Books 
I think I need to do something like this, start making myself accountable for the books I’ve hauled and not read.
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At the very least it is interesting to see.
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I’m almost afraid to do this myself – I will see just how many books I haven’t read!! Argh! 😀
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Haha but it is fun!
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It’s so cool that you’ve actually been able to keep track of the books you bought! I tend to just buy them and pile them up, I hardly ever post about them 🤦😂
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Haha that is when the book hauls on the blog come in handy 😉
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I admire your courage in doing that. Also, dear gods that’s a lot of books.
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So many books. I will say I think I have been buying less in recent years but we’ll see when I jump in to 2020 later this year 😀
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Like Peat I admire your courage and I’m never doing this. I feel like I do well enough with physical books, only 6 books on my TBR shelf have been there longer than … a year and a half, but my ebooks are murder.
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Oh that is awesome on your physical books. The ebooks just are so much easier to hide away!
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This is very impressive! I’m going to have to borrow this idea, partly because I’m curious about what my read rate is (not great I’m sure) and also because I agree with your comment that sometimes we just need to be reminded of books in order to prioritize them.
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Yes it can be good to be reminded 🙂
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Though in starting to compile a list, I also reminded myself HOW MANY ebooks I bought last year. Yikes. I went a little overboard.
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It happens to the best of us 😉
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😀
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I don’t haul many books myself–I rely mostly on the library. Of the Anns on your TBR (Leckie and McCaffrey), while I have enjoyed both I think Leckie does more sophisticated things with her world building and narrating characters.
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I haven’t yet read McCaffrey but Leckie is very good with her characters yes!
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I understand the feeling of not reading what you already own. I’ve hauled so many books in the past year and only read a few of them. It’s gotten to the point that I’ve only asked for 1 book by name for Christmas. Though I did ask for books by a couple of authors without naming titles, I did share the titles of the books I already own.
It surprised my husband, but I did also ask for an e-reader for Christmas. Which feels strange because it is something I swore I would never do. I guess that’s what I get for swearing.
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Haha. Long ago I didn’t think I’d get an ereader either but as the books piled up more and there were more books i wanted to read but not nessecarily own physically. I just got my second e reader yesterday (my other is a good 8 years old).
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Wauw, jouw blogpost is echt super overzichtelijk uitgewerkt. Wat zijn ze confronterend hé. Tot nu toe viel het doorgaans vrij goed mee bij mij maar ik moet dus binnenkort ook aan 2019 beginnen en ik vrees dat het aantal ongelezen boeken zal stijgen naarmate ze minder lang in mijn boekenkast staan. Ik ben dus benieuwd naar de procentuele verhouding voor 2019 en heel blij dat er geen vervaldatum op ongelezen boeken staat. 🙂
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Haha thanks. Anders kwam ik er zelf ook niet meer uit. Ik ben ook heel benieuwd naar jouw cijfers! Ik ga binnenkort kijken naar 2020. Ik denk dat ik minder boeken heb gekocht vorig jaar dan in voorgaande jaren maar misschien is dat gewoon wishful thinking haha.
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Ik heb vorig jaar echt opmerkelijk minder boeken gekocht. Dat viel me enorm op toen ik mijn terugblik post over de Aanwinsten had samengesteld. Dus wie weet valt dat jaar nog wel mee. 🙂
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Okay this is such a great idea! Because it kind of forces you to like, be accountable. I am torn between wanting to do this myself, and like… being terrified. Because you did WAY better than I did, I am sure of it! I’d be willing to bet I am hovering around 10% overall, which is BAD bad. Actually, I think I want to do this one of these days, because now I am curious! LOVE this! And good job with yours!
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Haha it is kind of terrifying to put yourself out there but then so many of us deal with the same thing anyway 😀
I”d love to see yours 😀
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