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message 1: by Chrissy (last edited Jan 01, 2023 11:17AM) (new)
Dec 19, 2021 09:47PM

Chrissy | 262 comments Year-long stats:
120/101 books
27242 pages
425.8 hours of audio

Yearly challenge:
Around the Year: 52/52
Genre Bingo: 19/25, 1 bingo
PopSugar: 49/50

Genres:
Biography/memoir: 4
Classic: 3
Contemporary fiction: 27
Drama:
Fantasy & Magical realism: 9
Historical fiction: 12.5
Humor:
Literary fiction: 6
Mystery: 7
Non-fiction: 13
Poetry: 1
Romance: 10
Sci-fi & speculative fiction: 14
Suspense/thriller/horror: 1
Western:

Type:
Audiobooks: 29
Graphic format: 4
YA or children’s: 16
Anthologies & collections: 4
Short stories:

Author diversity:
Cis Female: 59
Cis Male: 31
Trans & Non-binary: 4

White N. American or Anglo: 61
Other European: 2
N. American POC, including immigrants and indigenous: 30
Global POC (non-European or N. American): 11


message 2: by Chrissy (last edited Feb 23, 2022 11:03AM) (new)
Dec 19, 2021 09:49PM

Chrissy | 262 comments January: 11 books, 3944 pages, 29.0 hours

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston The Trees by Percival Everett The Disordered Cosmos A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1) by Shelley Parker-Chan A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1) by Alix E. Harrow The Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin All's Well by Mona Awad The Maid by Nita Prose
A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger


message 3: by Chrissy (last edited Mar 01, 2022 08:53PM) (new)
Jan 01, 2022 09:14AM

Chrissy | 262 comments February: 8 books, 1932 pages and 17.0 hours

Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1) by Elle Cosimano Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead (Finlay Donovan, #2) by Elle Cosimano The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3) by Helen Hoang Subdivision A Novel by J. Robert Lennon The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Inventing Ourselves The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis


message 4: by Chrissy (last edited Apr 01, 2022 09:20PM) (new)
Jan 01, 2022 09:14AM

Chrissy | 262 comments March: 13 books, 2097 pages and 51.3 hours

Slipping by Mohamed Kheir Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams Born Into This by Adam Thompson The Guncle by Steven Rowley
Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World by Benjamin Alire Sáenz The Confession of Copeland Cane by Keenan Norris The Inland Sea by Madeleine Watts The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman The Past Is Red by Catherynne M. Valente
Joan Is Okay by Weike Wang Darius the Great Deserves Better (Darius The Great, #2) by Adib Khorram The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1) by Mary Doria Russell


message 5: by Chrissy (last edited May 01, 2022 09:17PM) (new)
Jan 01, 2022 09:15AM

Chrissy | 262 comments April: 7 books, 48.6 hours and 910 pages

The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman Mr Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo Ten Steps to Nanette A Memoir Situation by Hannah Gadsby How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui


message 6: by Chrissy (last edited Jun 02, 2022 09:54PM) (new)
Jan 01, 2022 09:15AM

Chrissy | 262 comments May: 14 books, 3060 pages and 36.2 hours

Four Treasures of the Sky A Novel by Jenny Tinghui Zhang All the Horses of Iceland by Sarah Tolmie Infinite City A San Francisco Atlas by Rebecca Solnit Tell Me an Ending by Jo Harkin Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (Montague Siblings, #2) by Mackenzi Lee Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead The Fire Never Goes Out A Memoir in Pictures by Noelle Stevenson Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal
The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd Beowulf A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon The Other Man by Farhad J. Dadyburjor


message 7: by Chrissy (last edited Jul 11, 2022 05:57PM) (new)
Jan 01, 2022 09:16AM

Chrissy | 262 comments June: 8 books, 1765 pages, 35.8 hours

Homicide and Halo-Halo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #2) by Mia P. Manansala Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys #1) by Aiden Thomas Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel Hell of a Book by Jason Mott The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2) by Alix E. Harrow The Caine Mutiny A Novel of World War II by Herman Wouk Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason


message 8: by Chrissy (last edited Aug 01, 2022 10:54AM) (new)
Jan 01, 2022 09:16AM

Chrissy | 262 comments July: 12 books, 2429 pages, 52.3 hours

In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1) by Tana French Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle, #1) by Diana Wynne Jones The Fall of Babel (The Books of Babel, #4) by Josiah Bancroft A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2) by Becky Chambers Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley Embassytown by China Miéville The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
The Best American Travel Writing 2021 by Jason Wilson Captains of the Sands by Jorge Amado


message 9: by Chrissy (last edited Sep 02, 2022 04:32PM) (new)
Jan 01, 2022 09:16AM

Chrissy | 262 comments August: 13 books, 3029 pages, 35.5 hours

What You Want To See (Roxane Weary, #2) by Kristen Lepionka The Stories You Tell (Roxane Weary, #3) by Kristen Lepionka The Dog Stars by Peter Heller Man Tiger by Eka Kurniawan The Triumph of Seeds How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History by Thor Hanson
If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio Trust by Hernan Diaz Mata Oti Eyes of Death by Lani Wendt Young Can't Slow Down How 1984 Became Pop's Blockbuster Year by Michaelangelo Matos You're the Only One I've Told The Stories Behind Abortion by Meera Shah
Loveless by Alice Oseman Why Fish Don't Exist A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller Who Is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht


message 10: by Chrissy (last edited Sep 30, 2022 06:11PM) (new)
Jan 01, 2022 09:17AM

Chrissy | 262 comments September: 10 books, 28.7 hours and 2548 pages

MEM by Bethany C. Morrow The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1) by Becky Chambers Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal Babel, or the Necessity of Violence an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F. Kuang A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi
Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova Ducks Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton Fight Night by Miriam Toews The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver


message 11: by Chrissy (last edited Nov 01, 2022 10:06PM) (new)
Jan 01, 2022 09:18AM

Chrissy | 262 comments October: 5 books, 1093 pages, 23.8 hours

The Book of Gothel by Mary McMyne True Biz by Sara Nović Olga Dies Dreaming by Xóchitl González The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal One Two Three by Laurie Frankel


message 12: by Chrissy (last edited Dec 02, 2022 04:10PM) (new)
Jan 01, 2022 09:18AM

Chrissy | 262 comments November: 9 books, 25.1 hours, 2605 pages

October The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt Across the Sand (The Sand Chronicles, #2) by Hugh Howey Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Darkly Blackness and America’s Gothic Soul by Leila Taylor
I Was Born for This by Alice Oseman The Book of Difficult Fruit Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with Recipes) by Kate Lebo Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson


message 13: by Chrissy (last edited Jan 01, 2023 11:18AM) (new)
Jan 01, 2022 09:19AM

Chrissy | 262 comments December:

Elektra by Jennifer Saint September by Rosamunde Pilcher House of Dreams The Life of L. M. Montgomery by Liz Rosenberg A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18) by Louise Penny Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky
The Winners (Beartown, #3) by Fredrik Backman Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen The World We Make (Great Cities #2) by N.K. Jemisin How to Read Now Essays by Elaine Castillo 13 hours, 566 +672+326 pages, 20.3 hours


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