Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

My Goals
No 1 or 2 star reads.❌ Well, so much for that one.
10+ books cleared from my book basket. ✔️
No rereads used.
No doubling up between my ATY and Rejects list.
No doubling up between my ATY and Popsugar. (I didn't decide to do this until the end of April, so I went through and did some reassigning)

My Stats:

Books read in 2021: 270/250
✅ATY Prompts: 52/52 - Finished Oct. 19th
🟨Reject Challenge: 25/25 - Finished Nov. 7th
🔠NATO Alphabet Challenge: 26/26 - Finished Aug. 13th
🍧Popsugar Challenge: 50/50 - Finished Nov. 2nd
♻️Rereads: 83 (31%)
📚Library books: 182
💻Ebooks: 102
📝Non-fiction: 56 (21%)
🖍️Graphic Novels: 44
🧺Books cleared from my book basket: 14
🐞Under 200 pages: 69
🐘Over 600 pages: 4
🛑DNFs - 8
5⭐️ - 87
4⭐️ - 102
3⭐️ - 76
2⭐️ - 5
1⭐️ - 0
⭐️ (Unrated) - 0

NATO Challenge
Popsugar Challenge

January - 25 total.
February - 21 total.
March - 24 total.
April - 19 total.
May - 25 total.
June - 24 total.
July - 23 total.
August - 18 total.
September - 23 total.
October - 21 total.
November - 24 total.
December - 25 so far.

2021 Plan (74%✅)

The ATY Challenge: 52/52

1. A book related to “In the Beginning...”
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo - May 12th
2. A book by an author whose name doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y.
Deadly Class, Volume 7: Love Like Blood by Rick Remender - Feb. 18th
3. A book related to the lyrics for the song "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music.
Animal Attraction by Jill Shalvis - Mar. 13th
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach - Nov. 24th
4. A book with a monochromatic cover.
Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo - Sept. 12th
5. A book by an author on USA Today's list of 100 Black Novelists You Should Read.
Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert - July 20th
6. A love story.
My Kind of Wonderful by Jill Shalvis - Jan. 9th
7. A book that fits a prompt suggestion that didn't make the final list: A book related to something positive that happened in 2020.
Blood Heir by Ilona Andrews - Jan. 16th
8. A book set in a state, province, or country you have never visited.
Isabella: The Warrior Queen by Kirstin Downey - Apr. 13th
9. A book you associate with a specific season or time of year.
People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry - June 5th
10. A book with a female villain or criminal.
Lawbreaking Ladies: 50 Tales of Daring, Defiant, and Dangerous Women from History by Erika Owen - May 25th
11. A book to celebrate The Grand Egyptian Museum.
Cairo: A Graphic Novel by G. Willow Wilson - July 5th
12. A book eligible for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation.
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata - July 16th
13. A book written by an author of one of your best reads of 2020.
What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera - Feb. 19th
14. A book set in a made-up place.
Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo - June 27th
15. A book that features siblings as the main characters.
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker - June 3rd
16. A book with a building in the title.
Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley - July 10th
17. A book with a Muslim character or author.
The Bad Muslim Discount by Syed M. Masood - July 14th
18. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - PAST.
Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt by Steven Johnson - Jan. 22nd
19. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - PRESENT.
Blood in the Water: A True Story of Revenge in the Maritimes by Silver Donald Cameron - Mar. 15th
20. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - FUTURE.
Generations by Tim Lebbon - Apr. 28th
21. A book whose title and author both contain the letter "u".
Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo - July 5th
22. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads.
You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar - Feb. 6th
23. A cross genre novel.
Get a Clue by Jill Shalvis - Jan. 20th
24. A book about racism or race relations.
Burning In This Midnight Dream by Louise Bernice Halfe - Oct. 9th
25. A book set on an island.
How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island by Egill Bjarnason - June 29th
26. A short book (<210 pages) by a new-to-you author.
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone - Mar. 25th
27. A book with a character who can be found in a deck of cards.
Katherine of Aragón: The True Queen by Alison Weir - June 19th
28. A book connected to ice.
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo - Feb. 28th
29. A book that you consider comfort reading.
When Sorrows Come by Seanan McGuire - Oct. 5th
30. A long book.
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn - June 8th
31. A book by an author whose career spanned more than 21 years.
Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman - May 22nd
32. A book whose cover shows more than 2 people.
Force Multiplied by Greg Rucka - May 22nd
33. A collection of short stories, essays, or poetry.
Me Funny edited by Drew Hayden Taylor - Aug. 26th (essays)
The Deal of a Lifetime and Other Stories by Fredrik Backman - Oct. 2nd (short stories)
John Keats: Poetry by John Keats Oct. 6th (poetry)
34. A book with a travel theme.
The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun - Oct. 18th
35. A book set in a country on or below the Tropic of Cancer.
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty - May 6th
36. A book with six or more words in the title.
I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf by Grant Snider - Apr. 9th
37. A book from the Are You Well Read in World Literature list.
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor - Apr. 1st
38. A book related to a word given by a random word generator: FORTUNE.
The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes - Feb. 25th
39. A book involving an immigrant.
Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai - Feb. 13th
40. A book with flowers or greenery on the cover.
The Tulip Eaters by Antoinette van Heugten - May 19th
41. A book by a new-to-you BIPOC author.
Apple: Skin to the Core by Eric Gansworth - Aug. 11th
42. A mystery or thriller.
The Curse of Tenth Grave by Darynda Jones - July 15th
43. A book with elements of magic.
The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic by Leigh Bardugo - July 28th
44. A book whose title contains a negative.
Unqualified by Anna Faris - Sept. 14th
45. A book related to a codeword from the NATO Phonetic Alphabet.
Wild Sign by Patricia Briggs - Mar. 14th
46. A winner or nominee from the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards.
A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost - Apr. 23rd
47. A non-fiction book other than biography, autobiography or memoir.
Out of Old Saskatchewan Kitchens by Amy Ehman - Mar. 7th
48. A book that might cause someone to react “You read what?!?”
The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston - Apr. 18th
49. A book with an ensemble cast.
Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo - Apr. 11th
50. A book published in 2021.
Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune - Oct. 19th
51. A book whose title refers to person(s) without giving their name.
Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings by Linda Rodríguez McRobbie - Mar. 21st
52. A book related to "the end".
The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec - May 28th

Rejects Challenge: 25/25

1. Pre-poll - A book you meant to read in 2020.
American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI by Kate Winkler Dawson - Apr. 30th
2. Poll 1 - A book related to a book.
Austenland by Shannon Hale - Feb. 22nd
3. Poll 2 - A book you consider brain candy.
Animal Magnetism by Jill Shalvis - Mar. 5th
4. Poll 3 - A book with a multimedia element.
Dune: the Graphic Novel, Book 1 adapted by Brian Herbert - May 26th
5. Poll 4A - A book about confinement.
The Last Exiles by Ann Shin - Apr. 21st
6. Poll 4B - A book about freedom.
Eleventh Grave in Moonlight by Darynda Jones - Oct. 30th
7. Poll 5 - A book related to dreams.
Cursed Luck by Kelley Armstrong - May 23rd
8. Poll 6 - A book with a colour in the title.
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse - July 26th
9. Poll 7 - A book you once started but never finished.
Allegiant by Veronica Roth - July 17th
🃏 10. Poll 8 - A book from the LA Public Library Book Lists.
10. A book recommended by someone you trust.
Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening by Marjorie M. Liu - Sept. 15th
11. Poll 9 - A book related to second chances.
Nobody But You by Jill Shalvis - Feb. 19th
12. Poll 10 - A book featuring a ghost, vengeful spirit, or lost soul.
Angel of the Overpass by Seanan McGuire - June 22nd
13. Poll 11 - A book with a 2 word title, where the 1st word has 2 syllables, and the 2nd has 1 syllable.
Double Play by Kelley Armstrong - Oct. 22nd
14. Poll 12 - A book with a story trope you love.
Rescue My Heart by Jill Shalvis - Aug. 29th
15. Poll 13 - A book with at least 1 shoe on the cover.
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys - Mar. 12th
16. Poll 14 - A non-fiction book on a topic inspired by a fiction book you've read.
Death in the Baltic: The World War II Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff by Cathryn J. Prince - Apr. 5th
17. Poll 15 - A book with illustrations.
Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops by Jen Campbell - July 2nd
18. Poll 16 - A book with a found family.
The Forever Girl by Jill Shalvis - Jan. 23rd
19. Close Call poll - A book with alliteration in the title.
Sweet Little Lies by Jill Shalvis - Sept. 12th
20. Poll 17 - A book related to music.
The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang - Sept. 6th
21. Poll 18 - A book related to the Year of the Ox.
A Twist of Fate by Kelley Armstrong - Nov. 7th
22. Poll 19 - A book with a triangle.
The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes - Sept. 20th
23. Extra Prompt A - A book related to a Tony Award-winning musical.
Don't Lose Your Head: Life Lessons from the Six Ex-Wives of Henry VIII by Harriet Marsden - Sept. 14th
24. Extra Prompt B - A book with a theme of opposites.
Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society by Judy Christie & Lisa Wingate - Aug. 31st
25. Extra Prompt C - A book you had to wait for.
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still by John McWhorter - June 23rd

January


Total: 25

♻️Rereads: 7
📚Library books: 17
💻Ebooks: 11
📝Non-Fiction: 4
🖍️Graphic Novels: 5
🐞Under 200 pages: 7
🐘Over 600 pages: 0
🧺Book Basket: 1
DNFs: 2


Best (new) book of the month:
How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

Runners up:
Blood Heir
Wilf Perreault: In the Alley / Dans la ruelle
The Forever Girl
A Stitch in Time
Forsaken

My least favourite book of the month:
Get a Clue

Ratings:
🍧🔠📝Wilf Perreault: In the Alley / Dans la ruelle - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🍧🔠📚💻Get a Life, Chloe Brown - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🍧🐞How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🍧📚🖍️Sailor Moon Eternal Edition 2 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
♻️Where The Heart Is - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🔠📚🖍️🐞Shuri, Vol. 1: The Search For Black Panther - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
♻️🔠Cry Wolf - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🍧📚💻A Stitch in Time - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅📚💻My Kind of Wonderful - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
♻️📚🖍️🐞The Far Side Gallery 4 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🍧🔠📚💻🐞Across the Green Grass Fields - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🍧📚Forsaken - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅📚💻Blood Heir - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🔠📚🖍️🐞Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Short Stories, Vol. 1 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🍧📚The Night Masquerade - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅🔠📚💻Get a Clue - ⭐️⭐️
✅🔠📚💻📝Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🟨🔠📚💻The Forever Girl - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🍧🐞🧺Tales from King Arthur - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
♻️Night Broken - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🍧📚💻📝Elemental: How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
♻️📚💻Iron and Magic - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
📚💻📝Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
♻️Dead Heat - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
♻️🖍️🐞Hopcross Jilly #1-6 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

February


Total: 21

♻️Rereads: 2
📚Library books: 17
💻Ebooks: 11
📝Non-Fiction: 5
🖍️Graphic Novels: 5
🐞Under 200 pages: 3
🐘Over 600 pages: 0
🧺Book Basket: 2
DNFs: 0

Best (new) book of the month:
Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Runners up:
Six of Crows
Inside Out & Back Again
Calculated Risks

My least favourite book of the month:
Austenland

Ratings:
🍧📚💻📝Yes Please - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
📚🖍️Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Short Stories, Vol. 2 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
♻️🔠Fire Touched - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅📚💻📝You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🍧📚💻📝Uncrowned Queen: The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Matriarch - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
📚🖍️Sailor Moon Eternal Edition 3 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅🔠📚💻📝Inside Out & Back Again - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐
🍧🔠🧺The Dirty Streets of Heaven - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅🍧🔠📚💻A Stranger in Town - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
♻️🔠The Martian - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🍧🔠📚💻Before the Coffee Gets Cold - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐
✅📚🖍️🐞Deadly Class, Volume 7: Love Like Blood - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🟨📚💻Nobody But You - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
📚🖍️🐞Deadly Class, Volume 8: Never Go Back - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅📚💻What If It's Us - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
📚🖍️🐞Deadly Class, Volume 9: Bone Machine - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🍧📝🧺Philosophy: The Great Thinkers - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🟨📚💻Austenland - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅📚The Inheritance Games - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🍧📚💻Calculated Risks - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅📚💻Six of Crows - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

March



Total: 24

♻️Rereads: 13
📚Library books: 10
💻Ebooks: 8
📝Non-Fiction: 4
🖍️Graphic Novels: 1
🐞Under 200 pages: 3
🐘Over 600 pages: 0
🧺Book Basket: 0
DNFs: 0

Best (new) book of the month:
This Is How You Lose the Time War

Runners up:
Wild Sign
Salt to the Sea

My least favourite book of the month:
History Matters Stories from Saskatchewan

Ratings:
♻️Silence Fallen - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
♻️Burn Bright - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅📚💻Animal Magnetism - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
♻️Storm Cursed - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
📚🖍️Sailor Moon Eternal Edition 4 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅📝🐞Out of Old Saskatchewan Kitchens - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🍧🔠📚💻Hamnet and Judith - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
♻️Smoke Bitten - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟨📚💻Salt to the Sea - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
📚📝🐞History Matters Stories from Saskatchewan - ⭐⭐⭐
🟨📚💻Animal Attraction - ⭐⭐⭐
✅📚💻📝Blood in the Water: A True Story of Revenge in the Maritimes - ⭐⭐⭐
✅🔠📚💻Wild Sign - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Daughter of the Blood - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🔠Heir to the Shadows - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅📚💻📝Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️Queen of the Darkness - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅📚💻🐞This Is How You Lose the Time War - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️The Invisible Ring - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Dreams Made Flesh - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🔠Tangled Webs - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️The Shadow Queen - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Shalador's Lady - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Twilight's Dawn - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

April


Total: 19

♻️Rereads: 3
📚Library books: 15
💻Ebooks: 10
📝Non-Fiction: 8
🖍️Graphic Novels: 1
🐞Under 200 pages: 3
🐘Over 600 pages: 0
🧺Book Basket: 1
DNFs: 1


Best (new) book of the month:
Fugitive Telemetry

Runner up:
A Very Punchable Face
Crooked Kingdom
Generations

My least favourite book of the month:
The Last Exiles

Ratings:
✅📚Akata Witch - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️The Queen's Bargain - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚The Queen's Weapons - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟨📚📝Death in the Baltic: The World War II Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧🔠📚💻Life's Too Short - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅📚📝🖍️🐞I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅📚💻Crooked Kingdom - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅📚💻📝Isabella: The Warrior Queen - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻To Love and to Loathe - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅🔠📚💻📝The Demon in the Freezer - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️The House in the Cerulean Sea - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📝🧺Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟨📚💻The Last Exiles - ⭐⭐⭐
✅📚💻📝A Very Punchable Face - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Sense and Sensibility - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅📚💻Generations - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚📝🐞She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman - ⭐⭐⭐
🟨📚💻📝American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻🐞Fugitive Telemetry - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Short Story
💻🐞Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

May


Total: 25

♻️Rereads: 11
📚Library books: 16
💻Ebooks: 13
📝Non-Fiction: 2
🖍️Graphic Novels: 3
🐞Under 200 pages: 9
🐘Over 600 pages: 0
🧺Book Basket: 1
DNFs: 1


Best (new) book of the month:
The Witch's Heart

Runners up:
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever
Ayesha At Last
Cursed Luck

My least favourite book of the month:
Dracula

Ratings:
♻️🐞All Systems Red - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻📝Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅📚💻Big Little Lies - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🔠Discount Armageddon - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Midnight Blue-Light Special - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅📚💻Shadow and Bone - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻Ayesha At Last - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻Rumor Has It - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Sparrow Hill Road - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Half-Off Ragnarok - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻The Tulip Eaters - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️📚💻🐞Rogue Protocol - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Pocket Apocalypse - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅📚🖍️🐞Force Multiplied - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🖍️🐞Snow, Glass, Apples - ⭐⭐⭐
✅📚💻Cursed Luck - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟨📚💻📝🐞Lawbreaking Ladies: 50 Tales of Daring, Defiant, and Dangerous Women from History - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️Chaos Choreography - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟨📚🖍️🐞Dune: the Graphic Novel, Book 1 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️📚💻🐞Artificial Condition - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️📚💻🐞Exit Strategy - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅📚💻The Witch's Heart - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻🐞VI - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧🧺Dracula - ⭐⭐
♻️The Girl in the Green Silk Gown - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

June


Total: 24

♻️Rereads: 8
📚Library books: 15
💻Ebooks: 11
📝Non-Fiction: 6
🖍️Graphic Novels: 3
🐞Under 200 pages: 3
🐘Over 600 pages: 3
🧺Book Basket: 1
DNFs: 0

Best (new) book of the month:
A Man Called Ove

Runners up:
House of Earth and Blood
Nimona
People We Meet on Vacation
Angel of the Overpass
Love for Beginners
How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island
Just Last Night

My least favourite book of the month:
Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History &
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

Ratings:
♻️Magic for Nothing - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅📚💻📝Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family - ⭐⭐⭐
✅📚💻People We Meet on Vacation - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Tricks for Free - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚🖍️Nimona - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅📚💻🐘The Rose Code - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚A Man Called Ove - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻Love for Beginners - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️That Ain’t Witchcraft - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️📚💻🐞Fugitive Telemetry - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🔠📚💻📝We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans and Comedy - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️Network Effect - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🖍️📝🐞Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚🖍️📝🐞Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️Imaginary Numbers - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅📚💻🐘Katherine of Aragón: The True Queen - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️Calculated Risks - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟨Angel of the Overpass - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟨📚💻📝Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻Just Last Night - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅🔠📚💻Siege and Storm - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧🧺🐘House of Earth and Blood - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅📚💻📝How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Once Bitten, Twice Shy - ⭐⭐⭐⭐

July


Total: 23

♻️Rereads: 8
📚Library books: 15
💻Ebooks: 7
📝Non-Fiction: 4
🖍️Graphic Novels: 2
🐞Under 200 pages: 8
🐘Over 600 pages: 0
🧺Book Basket: 1
DNFs: 1


Best (new) book of the month:
The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

Runners up:
Cairo: A Graphic Novel
The Night Wanderer
Take a Hint, Dani Brown

My least favourite book of the month:
Convenience Store Woman

Ratings:
🟨📚📝🐞Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Another One Bites the Dust - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅📚💻Ruin and Rising - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅📚🖍️🐞Cairo: A Graphic Novel - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅📚📝Jane Austen at Home - ⭐⭐⭐
📚📝🖍️🐞Cook Korean!: A Comic Book with Recipes - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚The Night Wanderer - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅📚💻The Bad Muslim Discount - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅📚The Curse of Tenth Grave - ⭐⭐⭐
✅📚💻🐞Convenience Store Woman - ⭐⭐
🟨🧺Allegiant - ⭐⭐
♻️Biting the Bullet - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅📚💻Take a Hint, Dani Brown - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️📚💻🐞Across the Green Grass Fields - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️In an Absent Dream - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐞Down Among the Sticks and Bones - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟨📚Black Sun - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐞Every Heart a Doorway - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐞Beneath the Sugar Sky - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅📚The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Come Tumbling Down - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧🔠📚💻📝The Memory Thief : And the Secrets Behind How We Remember: A Medical Mystery - ⭐⭐⭐

August


Total: 18

♻️Rereads: 5
📚Library books: 16
💻Ebooks: 6
📝Non-Fiction: 4
🖍️Graphic Novels: 4
🐞Under 200 pages: 4
🐘Over 600 pages: 0
🧺Book Basket: 0
DNFs: 0

Best (new) book of the month:
Apple: Skin to the Core

Runner up:
Incense and Sensibility

My least favourite book of the month:
Ninth House

Ratings:
♻️📚Almost Just Friends - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🖍️Anya's Ghost - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻Incense and Sensibility - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Bitten to Death - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚Wrapped Up in You - ⭐⭐⭐
✅📚💻📝Apple: Skin to the Core - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔠♻️One More Bite - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻Ninth House - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻King of Scars - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️📚💻Wolf's Bane - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️📚💻Wolf's Curse - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🖍️🐞Firefly: The Unification War Vol. 1 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🖍️🐞Firefly: The Unification War Vol. 2 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅📚📝🐞Me Funny - ⭐⭐⭐
📚📝The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life - ⭐⭐⭐
📚🖍️🐞Firefly: The Unification War Vol. 3 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟨📚Rescue My Heart - ⭐⭐⭐
🟨📚📝Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society - ⭐⭐⭐

September


Total: 23

♻️Rereads: 2
📚Library books: 21
💻Ebooks: 5
📝Non-Fiction: 6
🖍️Graphic Novels: 7
🐞Under 200 pages: 9
🐘Over 600 pages: 0
🧺Book Basket: 1
DNFs: 2


Best (new) book of the month:
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Runners up:
The Magic Fish
Rule of Wolves
The Hawthorne Legacy
Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening et al.

My least favourite book of the month:
History Matters 2: More Stories from Saskatchewan

Ratings:
♻️Bite Marks -⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟨📚💻The Heart Principle - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🐞Cruel Fate - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅📚💻Rule of Wolves - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟨📚Sweet Little Lies - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚🖍️The Magic Fish - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅📚📝Unqualified - ⭐⭐⭐
🟨📚💻📝🐞Don't Lose Your Head: Life Lessons from the Six Ex-Wives of Henry VIII - ⭐⭐⭐
🟨📚🖍️Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🧺One for the Money - ⭐⭐⭐
📚📝Me Artsy - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚📝🐞History Matters 2: More Stories from Saskatchewan - ⭐⭐⭐
📚🖍️🐞Firefly Original Graphic Novel: The Sting - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝NeuroScience Fiction - ⭐⭐⭐
📚🖍️🐞Monstress, Vol. 2: The Blood - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟨📚💻The Hawthorne Legacy - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝🐞Royal Weddings: A Very Peculiar History - ⭐⭐⭐
📚🖍️🐞Monstress, Vol. 3: Haven - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚Accidentally on Purpose - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️📚The Starless Sea - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🖍️🐞Monstress, Vol. 4: The Chosen - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🖍️🐞Monstress, Vol. 5: Warchild - ⭐⭐⭐⭐

October


Total: 21

♻️Rereads: 3
📚Library books: 17
💻Ebooks: 10
📝Non-Fiction: 4
🖍️Graphic Novels: 4
🐞Under 200 pages: 7
🐘Over 600 pages: 0
🧺Book Basket: 2
DNFs: 0

Best (new) book of the month:
When Sorrows Come

Runners up:
Under the Whispering Door
The Charm Offensive
The Deal of a Lifetime and Other Stories
Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks

My least favourite book of the month:
John Keats: Poetry

Ratings:
📚🐞The Deal of a Lifetime and Other Stories - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻📝Printer's Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History - ⭐⭐⭐
✅📚💻When Sorrows Come - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📝🐞🧺John Keats: Poetry - ⭐⭐
✅📚📝🐞Burning In This Midnight Dream - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🧺Wuthering Heights - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️Bitten in Two - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻🐞Cerulean Blue - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅📚💻The Charm Offensive - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅📚💻Under the Whispering Door - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🖍️The Mortal Instruments: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 1 - ⭐⭐⭐
📚🖍️The Mortal Instruments: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 2 - ⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Well Matched - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟨📚💻🐞Double Play - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Anxious People - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️📚💻🐞Perfect Victim - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻A Cup of Silver Linings - ⭐⭐⭐
📚🖍️The Prince and the Dressmaker - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻📝Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟨📚Eleventh Grave in Moonlight - ⭐⭐⭐
📚🖍️🐞Monstress, Vol. 6: The Vow - ⭐⭐⭐⭐

November


Total: 24

♻️Rereads: 11
📚Library books: 11
💻Ebooks: 6
📝Non-Fiction: 5
🖍️Graphic Novels: 4
🐞Under 200 pages: 8
🐘Over 600 pages: 0
🧺Book Basket: 2
DNFs: 1


Best (new) book of the month:
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

Runners up:
The God of Lost Words
The Tangleroot Palace: Stories

My least favourite book of the month:
Ironskin

Ratings:
🍧🧺Ironskin - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧📝🧺The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England's Most Notorious Queen - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️📝🐞Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️📝Wreck the Halls: Cake Wrecks Gets "Festive" - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻📝🐞An American Sunrise - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟨📚💻A Twist of Fate - ⭐⭐⭐
📚🖍️🐞Firefly: New Sheriff in the 'Verse Vol. 1 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️The Deadliest Bite - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🖍️🐞Firefly: New Sheriff in the 'Verse Vol. 2 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Burn for Me - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Terciel and Elinor - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️White Hot - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🖍️🐞Firefly: Blue Sun Rising Vol. 1 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Wildfire - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐞Diamond Fire - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻The God of Lost Words - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻🐞Snowstorms & Sleigh Bells - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🖍️🐞In Real Life - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️Sapphire Flames - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Emerald Blaze - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Written in Red - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Murder of Crows - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻The Tangleroot Palace: Stories - ⭐⭐⭐⭐

December


Total: 24

♻️Rereads: 11
📚Library books: 13
💻Ebooks: 4
📝Non-Fiction: 5
🖍️Graphic Novels: 5
🐞Under 200 pages: 7
🐘Over 600 pages: 1
🧺Book Basket: 1
DNFs: 0

Best (new) book of the month:
The Love Hypothesis

Runner up:
The Last Halloween: Children

My least favourite book of the month:
A Number of Things: Stories of Canada Told Through Fifty Objects

Ratings:
♻️Vision in Silver - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Marked in Flesh - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Etched in Bone - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🖍️🐞The Mortal Instruments: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 3 - ⭐⭐⭐
📚🖍️🐞The Mortal Instruments: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 4 - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️Lake Silence - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻The Love Hypothesis - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Wild Country - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝🐞The Red Files - ⭐⭐⭐
📝🧺A Number of Things: Stories of Canada Told Through Fifty Objects - ⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Don't You Forget About Me - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝Cravings: All Together: Recipes to Love - ⭐⭐⭐
📚Chasing Christmas Eve - ⭐⭐⭐
📚💻🐞Dead White Writer on the Floor - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐘Sea of Silver Light - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🖍️The Last Halloween: Children - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️The Cruel Prince - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: The Story of Schitt's Creek - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️The Wicked King - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🖍️🐞Firefly: Blue Sun Rising Vol. 2 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻📝Me Tomorrow: Indigenous Views on the Future - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️The Queen of Nothing - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐞How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🖍️🐞Firefly: Return to Earth That Was Vol. 1 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️📝A Night to Remember - ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Books I plan to read in 2021:

⬜ Unread - 6
🟩 In progress - 0
✅ Read - 76
🛑 DNF - 3
🕑Pushed to next year. - 21

76/106103 - 74%

Published in 2021
✅The Forever Girl
✅Across the Green Grass Fields
✅Blood Heir (ATY: Something positive from 2020)
✅A Stranger in Town (ATY: A mystery) (Used for PS: A book set mostly outdoors)
✅Calculated Risks
✅The Queen's Weapons (ATY Rejects: A book with a triangle) (Used for PS: A book that starts with Q, X, or Z)
✅Wild Sign (ATY: A book related to the NATO alphabet)
✅Life's Too Short (PS: Author shares your zodiac sign)
✅To Love and to Loathe
✅Fugitive Telemetry
✅Just Last Night
✅Cursed Luck
✅Angel of the Overpass (ATY Rejects: A book with a ghost)
✅People We Meet on Vacation
✅Love for Beginners
✅Incense and Sensibility
🕑Firefly - Life Signs
🕑Firefly - Carnival
✅When Sorrows Come
✅Well Matched
✅The Heart Principle
✅The God of Lost Words
✅A Twist of Fate
✅Under the Whispering Door
✅Terciel and Elinor
✅A Cup of Silver Linings

Erica Recommends
✅House of Earth and Blood (ATY: Long book) (Used for PS: Long TBR)
✅Six of Crows (ATY: Female criminal) (ATY: A book connected to ice)
✅This Is How You Lose the Time War (ATY: A short book by a new to you author)
✅Black Sun (PS: Indigenous author) (Used for ATY Rejects: Colour in title)
✅Ninth House (ATY: Building in title) (Used for PS: Dark academia)
✅The Inheritance Games (ATY: Related to random word FORTUNE)
🕑Serpent & Dove
🕑A Deadly Education (PS: Dark academia)
✅The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (PS: A book about forgetting) (Used for PS: A book your best friend would love)

Read for challenges
✅Get a Life, Chloe Brown (ATY: 100 black authors) (Used for PS: Body positivity)
✅Hamnet and Judith (PS: Women's Fiction Prize winner)
✅Before the Coffee Gets Cold (PS: Set in a resturaunt)
✅Wilf Perreault: In the Alley / Dans la ruelle (PS: Book about an artist)
✅Sailor Moon Eternal Edition 2 (PS: Format you don't normally read)
⬜Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life (ATY: Goodreads choice award nominee)
✅Don't You Forget About Me (ATY: Negative title)
🕑The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (ATY: World books list)
🛑Mr. Kiss and Tell (PS: A book you're best friend would love)
🛑Detective Inspector Huss (ATY: Warwick Prize for Women in Translation)
⬜Flygirl (ATY Rejects: LAPL lists)

Book Basket Empty
✅Dracula (PS: Been your TBR a long time)
✅Wuthering Heights (PS: TBR ugly cover)
✅The Dirty Streets of Heaven (PS: DNF TBR)
🛑Happy Hour in Hell (PS: Favorite thing TBR)
🕑Longbourn (PS: Meant to read last year TBR)
✅Tales from King Arthur (PS: Short TBR)
✅The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England's Most Notorious Queen
✅One for the Money (ATY Rejects: DNF)
🕑The Witchwood Crown (PS: Long TBR)
✅Allegiant
⬜My Brilliant Friend
✅A Number of Things: Stories of Canada Told Through Fifty Objects
⬜"Have You Seen...?": A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films
⬜The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies
✅How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (PS: TBR gift)
✅Philosophy: The Great Thinkers

Other new reads
✅A Stitch in Time (PS: A genre hybrid)
✅Generations
🕑Firefly: The Ghost Machine
✅What If It's Us
✅Firefly: The Unification War Vol. 1
✅A Man Called Ove (PS: A book everyone else has read)
✅The Curse of Tenth Grave
✅Eleventh Grave in Moonlight
🕑The Trouble with Twelfth Grave
🕑Summoned to Thirteenth Grave
✅Deadly Class, Volume 7: Love Like Blood
✅Deadly Class, Volume 8: Never Go Back
✅Deadly Class, Volume 9: Bone Machine
✅Force Multiplied
✅My Kind of Wonderful
✅Nobody But You
✅Sweet Little Lies
✅Accidentally on Purpose
✅Chasing Christmas Eve
🕑Holiday Wishes
✅Wrapped Up in You
✅Animal Magnetism
✅Animal Attraction
✅Rescue My Heart
✅Rumor Has It
🕑Then Came You
🕑Still the One
🕑All I Want
✅Get a Clue
🕑Motorcycles & Sweetgrass
✅Dead White Writer on the Floor
✅Cerulean Blue
🕑A Christmas Carol
🕑Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir

Jane Austen reread
✅Sense and Sensibility

Other rereads
✅All Systems Red and series
🕑Moon Called and series
🕑Rosemary and Rue and series
🕑Bitten and series
✅Once Bitten, Twice Shy and series
✅Discount Armageddon and series
🕑The Eye of the World and series
✅Sea of Silver Light
⬜Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and rest of series

Jan. 1st


Wilf Perreault: In the Alley / Dans la ruelle - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I Read it: I've drooled over this in the store for a couple of years now, and it was a Christmas present this year. I held off reading it until 2021 so I could use it for challenges, but only just.

🟨 - A book with a multimedia element.
🍧 - A book about art or an artist.
🔠 - Quebec (Wilf Perreault is a French Canadian Artist, the book is in both French and English)

Jan. 2nd


Get a Life, Chloe Brown - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: I thought this was going to be the January group read for Popsugar so I put a library hold on it. It lost out in the voting, but I didn't cancel the hold because I realized it worked for the 100 Black Novelist challenge.

✅ - A book by an author on USA Today's list of 100 Black Novelists You Should Read.
🍧 - A book about do-overs or fresh starts.
🍧 - A book that discusses body positivity.
🔠 - November (It was published November 2019)


How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: I love this series! I had to force myself to wait until the new year so I could use it for challenges.

🟨 - A book with illustrations.
🍧 - A free book from your TBR list (gifted, borrowed, library).

Jan. 3rd


Sailor Moon Eternal Edition 2 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: I loved the show when I was a kid, and I finally read part 1 last year. I would have read 2 last year too, but then lockdown interfered with interlibrary holds and when it finally came in, I realized it worked for the popsugar challenge, so I waited another month.

🟨 - A book with a 2 word title, where the 1st word has 2 syllables, and the 2nd has 1 syllable.
🍧 - A book in a different format than what you normally read (audiobooks, ebooks, graphic novels). (Manga)

Jan. 4th


♻️Where The Heart Is - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: My sister borrowed it from me, then returned it and it looked at me, so I reread it.

Jan. 7th


Shuri, Vol. 1: The Search For Black Panther - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: My sister insisted I read this. It was fine. The artwork was good. It just wasn't amazing.

🟨 - A book with a colour in the title.
🔠 - Zulu - Set in Africa, Themes of African solidarity.


♻️Cry Wolf - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: I'm doing a reread of the Mercy Thompson series.

🔠 - Charlie - MC is named Charles.

Jan. 9th


A Stitch in Time - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: It was a new book by Kelley Armstrong.

✅ - A cross genre novel. (Time travel romance ghost story mystery)
🍧 - A genre hybrid. (Time travel romance ghost story mystery)


My Kind of Wonderful - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: I'm working my way through Jill Shalvis' back catalogue.

✅ - A love story.

Jan. 11th


♻️The Far Side Gallery 4 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: It was there and I needed a laugh.

Jan. 12th


Across the Green Grass Fields - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: It's the newest book in the Wayward children series. I couldn't even wait until I got my own physical copy.

✅ - A book set in a made-up place.
🍧 - A magical realism book.
🔠 - Lima - Doorways feature prominently in story.

Jan. 13th


Forsaken - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: It's a story from Kelley Armstrong's Otherworld series that I hadn't read before.

✅ - A book written by an author of one of your best reads of 2020. (Wolf's Bane & Wolf's Curse)
🍧 - A book that has fewer than 1,000 reviews on Amazon or Goodreads. (147 reviews)

Jan. 16th


Blood Heir - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: I had already read about 70% of this when it was released as a web serial on Ilona Andrews's blog, and have been waiting for the finished product since then.

✅ - A book that fits a prompt suggestion that didn't make the final list - A book related to something positive that happened in 2020. (This book happened because an ICU nurse, dealing with the stress from the first wave of Covid asked the authors to post something to take her mind off the pandemic. A short scene led to a second scene while the authors procrastinated about writing the book they were supposed to be writing which eventually led to an entire book)
🍧 - A book with something broken on the cover.

Jan. 18th


Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Short Stories, Vol. 1 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: I loved Sailor Moon when I was a kid. This one was a bit too heavy on the fat shaming and the last story cost it an entire star.

🔠 - Uniform - Sailor Suits

Jan. 19th


The Night Masquerade - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: I really liked Binti, and Home was pretty good and then I saved this for this years popsugar challenge. It was tough to get through the first half, but it ended well so it almost managed to get a four star rating out of me.

✅ - A book set in a country on or below the Tropic of Cancer.
🍧 - An Afrofuturist book.

Jan. 20th


Get a Clue - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: It was a Jill Shalvis and I hadn't read it yet. But it was a hard slog. Her humour was there, but the character work was lacking as was the mystery so it was just kinda a why bother. It was still okay enough to get 3 stars, but only just barely.

✅ - A cross genre novel.
🟨 - A book about confinement. (Set in a remote hotel were everyone has been snowed in.
🔠 - Sierra - Set in the Sierra Mountains.

EDIT I'm bumping this book down to a 2 star. I didn't like it, and I can't justify giving it a higher rating just because I didn't want to read any 2 star reads this year.

Jan. 22nd


Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: I needed a nonfiction book because I have been reading too much fiction lately. I went to overdrive and looked at my list to see what was available and this was the first that was. The author also wrote The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World which I enjoyed.

✅ - 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - PAST
🍧 - A book set in multiple countries.
🔠 - India - Gives a brief history of India.

Jan 23rd


The Forever Girl - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: It's the newest Wildstone book.

🟨 - A book with a found family.
🍧 - A book that published in 2021.
🔠 - Whisky - MCs buy a bar called "The Whisky River".

Jan. 24th


Tales from King Arthur - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: I've owned this book for at least 15 years and I'd never read it. I'm using the Popsugar advance challenges to clear out some of my owned book. I don't know that I'll keep this now I've read it, but it wasn't bad. I have read a lot of Arthurian inspired fantasy so it was nice to get a sense of the original myths.

✅ - A book with a character who can be found in a deck of cards. (King)
🍧 - A short book (by pages) from your TBR list.

Jan. 25th


♻️Night Broken - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: I'm still going through with my Mercy Thompson series reread.

Jan. 27th


Elemental: How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: I wanted a book for the letter E for the Winter challenge. I also felt like a non-fiction, so I looked through Overdrive's list of history books and this one was available. I'm glad because it was really funny.

✅ - A non-fiction book other than biography, autobiography or memoir.
🍧 - A book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover. (There is a real diamond on the cover)


♻️Iron and Magic - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: Reading Blood Heir made me want to reread this.

Jan. 30th


Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: I looked through the books on Overdrive and it caught my eye.

✅ - A book whose title contains a negative.
🍧 - A book where the main character works at your current or dream job. (Author)

Jan. 31st


♻️Dead Heat - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: Continuing my reread of the series.


♻️Hopcross Jilly #1-6 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: Continuing my reread of the series.

Feb. 2nd


Yes Please - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: I've been meaning to read this since it came out. I was on Overdrive, it was available and it looked at me.

🟨 - A book you meant to read in 2020.
🍧 - A book where the main character works at your current or dream job.

Feb. 4th


Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Short Stories, Vol. 2 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: Bit by bit, I'm getting around to reading the whole series.

Feb. 6th


♻️Fire Touched - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: Continuing my reread of the series.

🔠 - Mike - Character named Uncle Mike.


You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: Someone posted about this on the PS check in, and then when I went to Overdrive it was on the first page and it was available so I figured that meant it was fate, so I read it.

✅ - A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads.
✅ - A book about racism or race relations.
🍧 - A book on a Black Lives Matter reading list.

Feb. 11th


Uncrowned Queen: The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Matriarch - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: I have read so much Tudor related books, but they've always been about Henry the 8th and after, so when I found a book about his grandmother, I added it to my list right away.

✅ - A book set in a state, province, or country you have never visited.
🍧 - A book with a family tree.

Feb. 13th


Sailor Moon Eternal Edition 3 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: I'm going through reading these. I'm actually to parts that I don't remember from the TV series.


Inside Out & Back Again - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Reason I read it: My sister read this and loved it and told me I had to read it. She was right.

✅ - A book involving an immigrant.
🍧 - A book with an oxymoron in the title.
🔠 - Yankee - About Immigrating to the USA.

Feb. 14th


The Dirty Streets of Heaven - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: Tad Williams is one of my favourite authors, and I bought this when it was first published and since then, it's sat in my room unread. I've started and stopped it a couple of times. It's a little too noir for my tastes, but Williams is so good at world building I persevered.

✅ - A book by an author whose career spanned more than 21 years.
🍧 - A DNF book from your TBR list.
🔠 - Hotel - There's a conference at a hotel and things don't go well. 😉

Feb. 16th


A Stranger in Town - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: It's a new Kelley Armstrong book.

✅ - A mystery or thriller.
🍧 - A book set mostly or entirely outdoors.
🔠 - Victor - Character named Victor.


♻️The Martian - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: I've been meaning to reread this for a while, then I needed a book with a MC whose name starts with W for a monthly challenge. I'd forgotten how much I love this book.

🔠 - Oscar - Turned into an Oscar nominated movie.

Feb. 17th


Before the Coffee Gets Cold - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Reason I read it: I needed something for the PS prompt and I also needed a book with food in the title so I added this to my list on a whim. It was sooooooo much better then I expected.

✅ - A book with an ensemble cast.
🍧 - A book set in a restaurant.
🔠 - Echo - About going back to relive a short moment in time.

Feb. 18th


Deadly Class, Volume 7: Love Like Blood - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: I'm slowly making my way through this series.

✅ - A book by an author whose name doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y.

Feb. 19th


Nobody But You - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (This didn't end the series as well as it could and ended up being a let down)
Reason I read it: I'm trying to make my way through Jill Shalvis's back catalogue.

🟨 - A book related to second chances.


Deadly Class, Volume 8: Never Go Back - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: I'm almost finished getting through this series.

✅ - A book with a monochromatic cover.

Feb. 20th


What If It's Us - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: I loved Love Simon: Simon Vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda and have been reading everything Becky Albertalli has written bit by bit. Plus, I needed a book that started with W for a scattegories challenge.


🟨 - A book related to a Tony Award-winning musical. (Hamilton)
✅ - A book written by an author of one of your best reads of 2020. (Love Simon: Simon Vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda)


Deadly Class, Volume 9: Bone Machine - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: I am now caught up in the story and need to wait for the next issues to be published. The story is kinda depressing, the artwork is occasionally grotesque and yet I'm hooked. I really wish the TV series hadn't been canceled.

Feb. 21st


Philosophy: The Great Thinkers - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: I bought this a couple of years ago and have been meaning to read it ever since. With the read-a-thon on, my team needed a book that had a P in the title and I thought of this. It wasn't the best plan given it's a tough read, even though it's not that long.

✅ - A book whose cover shows more than 2 people.
🍧 - A book on your TBR list with a pretty cover.
🍧 - A book from your TBR list chosen at random.

Feb. 22nd


Austenland - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: I love the movie and I wanted to be able to compare (The movie is so much better). Plus I needed a book with the title in cursive writing.

🟨 - A book related to a book.
🍧 - A book set somewhere you’d like to visit in 2021.

Feb. 25th


The Inheritance Games - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reason I read it: My sister told me to, plus it counted as an I for the winter challenge here at ATY.

✅ - A book related to a word given by a random word generator - FORTUNE.
🍧 - A book featuring three generations (grandparent, parent, child).