As we wrap up 2021, my first full year remote working, I managed to read a whopping 54 books, an increase of 31 books over last year and my first year completing the 52 books in 52 weeks challenge. I surpassed last year’s total in mid-June, passed my best years, 2015 and 2016, in late August, and completed book 52 with two weeks left in the year. I read (or listened) to 18,670 pages, by far my highest total of all time and only the second time I’ve passed 10,000.
Of those books, 16 were non-fiction and, of the 36 novels, 10 were tied to a TV show, either as the source material or as a tie-in. None of the books came out of my dwindling “to-read” drawer, with 43 e-books and 4 audiobooks. For the first time since I was a kid, I got myself a library card, which helped me procure 14 of the books.
Just less than half of the books I read this year were by authors I have read before. The 31 authors that I read for the first this year were:
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Erle Stanley Gardner, Mary Kubica, Jeffery Deaver, Andy Weir and Karin Slaughter were the only authors that I read multiple titles from during 2021.
6 of the books I read were released this year, while 5 of them were released last century, with the oldest first published in 1933.
Finally, the breakdown by month, which was fairly consistent across the entire year.
