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2021 in books
Dec. 31st, 2021 05:26 pmBooks I read 2021: 40, exactly my goal. I set a lower goal after I started playing Hades last December and that was a good decision. More than a quarter (13) I read in July, July was a good month for reading (no classes, for once.)
Of course that is published fiction only - I'm pretty sure I read at least ten times as much in fic. Different mental category though.
Stats: 1 non-fiction book, about Josephine Baker. ~26 fantasy (about ~20 of which in other worlds), ~8 SF. 5 in German, which is more than in recent years.
I also used to count how many books were written by men/women/other, but there's quite a few authors where I don't know and I'm too lazy to look it up. A little over half women, I think.
Favorite book: Hm. Maybe "She Who Became the Sun" by Shelley Parker-Chan.
Runner-ups: "Piranesi" by Susanna Clarke, though that might be recency bias.
Other books I enjoyed a lot: "The Doors of Eden" by Adrian Tchaikovsky, "The Bone Maker" by Sarah Beth Durst, "A Master of Djinn" by P. Djèlí Clark, and "Vespertine" by Margaret Rogerson.
Goal for next year: Finally read some books from the, uh, four piles on my floor right now… Ever since the open bookshelf nearby appeared the piles grow even faster ^^
Of course that is published fiction only - I'm pretty sure I read at least ten times as much in fic. Different mental category though.
Stats: 1 non-fiction book, about Josephine Baker. ~26 fantasy (about ~20 of which in other worlds), ~8 SF. 5 in German, which is more than in recent years.
I also used to count how many books were written by men/women/other, but there's quite a few authors where I don't know and I'm too lazy to look it up. A little over half women, I think.
Favorite book: Hm. Maybe "She Who Became the Sun" by Shelley Parker-Chan.
Runner-ups: "Piranesi" by Susanna Clarke, though that might be recency bias.
Other books I enjoyed a lot: "The Doors of Eden" by Adrian Tchaikovsky, "The Bone Maker" by Sarah Beth Durst, "A Master of Djinn" by P. Djèlí Clark, and "Vespertine" by Margaret Rogerson.
Goal for next year: Finally read some books from the, uh, four piles on my floor right now… Ever since the open bookshelf nearby appeared the piles grow even faster ^^
