Hey folks! I’m sorry I haven’t been around for a while. I’ve been in some terrible reading slump where I wasn’t enjoying what I was reading and boycotting writing blog posts about it. Also, there was that big holiday that happened that kept me away from the computer.
No, honestly I’ve been reading a great book and any time outside of reading that book is wasted time. I’m just a reading machine.
Anyway, it’s been another amazing year of reads. I’m obviously going to list all the books I’ve read this year, but I do want to highlight some of my favorites. I’m not a huge fan of saying a book was good or bad because liking something is entirely subjective. Instead, I’m going to just point them out. Perhaps you’ll like them, but perhaps you won’t. Either way, reading will always get you #woke.
Also because I’m a data nerd, I’ve decided to put down some stats I’ve gathered from my reads:
- # of books read this year: 37 (not as impressive as last year, but I’m OK with that)
- # of books about POC: 5/37 or 14% (not bad, but I can do better)
- # of books written by women: 35/36 or 97% of the books I’ve read this year (holy cow!)
- Most read author of the year: Leigh Bardugo
- Favorite books of the year:
- Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
- A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
- It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
- Author I fell in love with: R.S. Grey!
Here’s my book list. For some reason I feel like I haven’t read a lot of books this year, but in hindsight I’ve read a ton of books:
- The Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll
- Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
- Confess by Colleen Hoover
- The BFG by Roald Dahl
- Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins
- The Group by Mary McCarthy
- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
- A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab
- Emmy and Oliver by Robin Benway
- Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
- Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
- Summer Days and Summer Nights ed by Stephanie Perkins
- Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
- Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo
- The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson
- Modern Lovers by Emma Straub
- Bearllionaire by Terry Bolryder
- Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
- November 9 by Colleen Hoover
- A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
- A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
- It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
- Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella
- Settling the Score by R.S. Grey
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling
- One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- PS I Like You by Kasie West
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
- Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
- The Lovely Reckless by Kami Garcia
- The Girls by Emma Cline
- A Place in the Sun by R.S. Grey
- Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven
- The Wangs vs. The World by Jade Chang
Simone and Her Books 