2021 Year-End Wrap-Up

Books Finished: 135
Fiction: 87 (64%)
Non Fiction: 48 (36%), including 19 memoirs

Debut Authors: 49 (36%)
Authors of Color: 51 (38%)
Male/Female Authors: 102 female (76%), 37 male (27%), 1 other (1%)

Diverse Topics: 57 (42%)
Audiobooks:  7 (5%) (audiobooks are just so hard for me…I prefer listening to podcasts!)

Repeat Authors: 31 (23%) – Akwaeke Emezi, Susan Meissner, Kristin Hannah, Walter Isaacson, Maggie O’Farrell, Patricia Engel, Ibrham X. Kendi, Kate Hope Day, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Jo Piazza, Chanel Cleeton, Laurie Frankel, Riley Sager, Emily Henry, Kate Quinn, Kazuo Ishiguro, Mary Kubica, Patrick Radden Keefe, Becky Dorey-Stein, Mesha Maren, Casey McQuiston, Min Jin Lee, Jojo Moyes, Elin Hilderbrand, Anthony Doerr, Chuck Wendig, Jodi Picoult, Helen Hoang, Sally Rooney, Yara Zgheib, Diane Chamberlain

By the Numbers:

Favorite Books:

Overall, I felt really satisfied with my reading this year. Some standout books include:

Best Fiction:

• Honor by Thrity Umrigar
• The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay
• Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
• Infinite Country by Patricia Engel

Best Non-Fiction:

• The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
• How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith

Books I Couldn’t Put Down:

• The Family by Naomi Krupitsky
• The Boys’ Club by Erica Katz
• People We Meet On Vacation by Emily Henry
• God Spare the Girls by Kelsey McKinney
• Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi
• We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange

Best Memoirs:

• No Cure For Being Human by Kate Bowler
• Good Morning, Monster by Catherine Gildiner
• All the Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks
• Punch Me Up To the Gods by Brian Broome

Best Historical Fiction:

• The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
• The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
• Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

2022 Resolutions:

• Reading goal: 125
• Read more BIPOC authors
• Read what I own!

Challenges:

Goodreads Challenge:

My Halfway Top Ten and my Top 10 of 2021:

Book of the Year:

The Unread Shelf Challenge: Complete and finished the year with 47 books cleared off my shelves!

Nonfiction Reader Challenge: 8/12 (Incomplete)

Top 12 Backlist of 2021: 7/12 (Incomplete)

My Modern Classics Challenge: 4/12 (Incomplete)

A to Z Challenge: Complete

Anti-Racist Reading:

Celebrity Book Clubs:

Read With Jenna: 6/12 (50%)

Good Morning America: 6/12 (50%)

Reese’s Book Club: 5/12 (42%)

Sarah’s Book Shelves Summer Reading Guide: 7/18 (39%)

Modern Mrs. Darcy’s Summer Reading Guide: 6/44 (14%)