This year started out so strong for reading. I read 44 books in the first half of the year and I really thought I was going to make it to 100. Alas, it was, once again, not meant to be. I read 62 books in total this year. Between vision therapy, changing jobs, getting a kitten, and preparing for my Spanish exam, reading got cut for time and energy in the latter half of the year. Still, I can’t be upset. I read many good books and, thanks to vision therapy, reading is getting physically easier (who knew that was even an option?!).
- Page count: 21,266 pages, which is rather less than last year’s 33,000 but not far off from 2019’s count of 23,500.
- Library use: I read 17 books from the library (though I am sure I checked out more than I read) and 45 books that I owned.
- Female/male authors: I’m keeping my pro-woman-author bias strong. I read 54 books by women and just 6 by men.
- Digital and analog: It was a fairly even split between ebooks and paper books with 25 ebooks, 33 paper books.
- Fiction and non-fiction: 48 fiction, 14 non-fiction
- Books in other languages: I ready just two books in Spanish this year. Studying for a test, unfortunately, doesn’t always mean reading books.
- Favorites:
- A Discovery of Witches and the whole All Souls trilogy by Deborah Harkness
- A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers
- Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
- We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
- Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone by Sarah Jaffe
If you want to see what I read in previous years, you can click the books of the year tag to see all my past annual book posts.
If you would like to be book friends all year, you can join me on StoryGraph! My username is linzomatic.
And now: the list of books I read in 2021.
| Date Finished | Title | Author |
| 1/2 | Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World | Leslie Kern |
| 1/5 | Nophek Gloss | Essa Hansen |
| 1/11 | Composting: Bob’s Basics | Bob Flowerdew |
| 1/11 | Afterland | Lauren Beukes |
| 1/18 | When Tiger Came Down the Mountain | Nghi Vo |
| 1/19 | Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy | Talie Lavin |
| 1/21 | Composting for a New Generation: Latest Tcniques for the Bin and Beyond | Michelle Balz, Anna Stockton |
| 1/28 | Big Dirty Money: The Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White Collar Crime | Jennifer Taub |
| 1/29 | How the Multiverse Got Its Revenge | K. Eason |
| 2/1 | Psychology of Time Travel | Kate Mascarenhas |
| 2/6 | The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls | Anissa Gray |
| 2/10 | Mexican Gothic | Silvia Moreno-Garcia |
| 2/14 | Nickel Boys | Colson Whitehead |
| 2/19 | Winter’s Orbit | Evarina Maxwell |
| 2/20 | Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone | Sarah Jaffe |
| 2/23 | The Color of Air | Gail Tsukiyama |
| 2/25 | Witchmark | C. L. Polk |
| 2/27 | Stormsong | C. L. Polk |
| 3/2 | Soulstar | C. L. Polk |
| 3/12 | Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents | Isabel Wilkerson |
| 3/19 | The Poppy War | R. F. Kuang |
| 3/25 | Hollow Kingdom | Kira Jane Buxton |
| 3/30 | Mediocre: The dangerous legacy of white male America | Ijeoma Oluo |
| 4/2 | The Flamethowers | Rachel Kushner |
| 4/6 | Vagabundos | Hao Jingfang |
| 4/10 | We Ride Upon Sticks | Quan Barry |
| 4/16 | How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict | Nina Jankowicz |
| 4/19 | My Year Abroad | Chang-Rae Lee |
| 4/24 | Gonzlez and Daughter Trucking Co.: A Road Novel with Literary License | María Amparo Escandón |
| 4/30 | The Bright and Breaking Sea | Chloe Neill |
| 5/3 | Fugitive Telemetry | Martha Wells |
| 5/8 | Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age | Donna Zuckerberg |
| 5/13 | The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue | V. E. Schwab |
| 5/16 | Leave the World Behind | Rumaan Alam |
| 5/19 | The Galaxy, and the Ground Within | Becky Chambers |
| 5/26 | A Discovery of Witches | Deborah Harkness |
| 5/31 | Shadow of Night | Deborah Harkness |
| 6/4 | The Book of Life | Deborah Harkness |
| 6/10 | Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning | Cathy Park Hong |
| 6/10 | Los desesperados | Joselo Rangel |
| 6/12 | The Disaster Tourist | Yun Ko-Eun |
| 6/14 | Deathless | Catherynne Valente |
| 6/21 | The Unbroken | C. L. Clark |
| 6/29 | With Teeth: A Novel | Kristen Arnett |
| 7/16 | Master of Djinn | P. Djèlí Clark |
| 7/23 | The Actual Star | Monica Byrne |
| 7/24 | Finna | Nino Cipri |
| 8/16 | The Outside | Ada Hoffman |
| 8/21 | Crying in H Mart: A Memoir | Michelle Zauner |
| 8/30 | The World Gives Way | Marissa Levien |
| 9/8 | The Chosen and the Beautiful | Nghi Vo |
| 9/12 | The Season: A Social History of the Debutante | Kristen Richardson |
| 9/20 | Belabored: A Vindication of the Rights of Pregnant Women | Lyz Lenz |
| 9/22 | The Fallen | Ada Hoffman |
| 10/4 | Arcana, ciudad escalera | Tamara Romero |
| 10/6 | A Psalm for the Wild Built | Becky Chambers |
| 10/9 | A Spindle Splintered | Alix E. Harrow |
| 10/27 | The Jasmine Throne | Tasha Suri |
| 11/9 | Practical Magic | Alice Hoffman |
| 11/23 | Certain Dark Things | Silvia Moreno-Garcia |
| 12/1 | Black Sun | Rebecca Roanhorse |
| 12/22 | The Tiger’s Daughter | K Arsenault Rivera |
