Wrap-up: December 2021

It’s finally 2022, which means this is my final wrap up for 2021 so. Time for some reading stats perhaps? I read 553 books in 2021, with an average rating of 3.3 (according to TheStorygraph and Goodreads, which is impressive, since Goodreads doesn’t allow half stars and I give a fair few of those). So, overall, a good reading year numbers wise: my TBR went down from 620 or so, to 370 (although a lot of this was simply deleting books I hadn’t interest in anymore). But less good in terms of enjoyment? I mean, on the whole, 3.3 means I liked a lot of what I read, just not much more.

But oh well. Maybe 2022 will bring better books!

The key:
🐝 = favourite
🕊️ = reread/rewatch/relisten
☀️ = 4 or 5 stars, highly recommend
☁️ = 3 or 4 stars, enjoyed/had fun reading
🌧️ = 2 or 3 stars, was alright/not for me but someone else might enjoy
🌩️ = 1 or 2 stars, bored out of my mind/it was awful

Books read

Sunreach by Brandon Sanderson & Janci Patterson ☀️
ReDawn by Brandon Sanderson & Janci Patterson ☀️
August Heat by Hildred Billings ☁️
The Tinder Box by Kate Elliott ☁️
Lost Without a Claus by Kaya LaSalle 🌧️

The Steel Remains by Richard Morgan ☁️
Things to Do Before the End of the World by Emily Barr 🌧️
Fortune Favors the Dead by Stephen Spotswood ☀️
Murder Under Her Skin by Stephen Spotswood ☀️
The Shadows of Men by Abir Mukherjee ☀️ [review]

🐝 Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney ☀️
Imagining Robin Hood by A. J. Pollard ☁️
🕊️ 🐝 Season’s Change by Cait Nary ☀️ [review]
The Boy from the Mish by Gary Lonesborough ☁️
Love and Other Disasters by Anita Kelly 🌧️ [review]

🐝 Four Aunties and a Wedding by Jesse Sutanto ☀️ [review]
🐝 The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison ☀️
🐝 A Holiday by Gaslight by Mimi Matthews ☀️
Spellcloaked by Stephanie Burgis ☁️
What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah ☁️

🐝 There is a Light by Ban Gilmartin ☀️
🐝 The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison ☀️
How to Find a Princess by Alyssa Cole ☁️
Cogheart by Peter Bunzl ☁️
🐝 The Gifts that Bind Us by Caroline O’Donoghue ☀️ [review]

🐝 I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston ☀️
Jade Legacy by Fonda Lee 🌧️
The Secret Sunshine Project by Benjamin Dean ☁️ [review]
Hope’s Last Refuge by Patrick Morgan 🌩️
Perpetual West by Mesha Maren 🌧️

Edie in Between by Laura Sibson ☁️
Brother Red by Adrian Selby ☁️
Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun by Jonny Garza Villa 🌧️
A Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan 🌧️
Lie to Me by Kaitlin Ward 🌩️

🐝 Evershore by Brandon Sanderson ☀️
🐝 A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by Emma Southon ☀️
Virtuoso by Yelena Moskovich 🌧️
Before We Disappear by Shaun David Hutchinson 🌧️
House of Scepters by Anne Zoelle ☁️