2021 WRAP UP

 And just like that, another year is over!

2021 wasn't quite what we were expecting. Covid is still hanging around and it's a tad hazy what we can/can't do (and what we should/shouldn't be doing!). I managed to get all my jabs and started going back into the office. But now I'm not sure when I'll next be leaving the house - who knows what 2022 will bring!

This year I decided that for every book I bought, I'd donate £1 to charity. In total, I bought 77 books. So, I've donated £26 to each of the following charities:

• Mind - providing support for people struggling with their mental health, as well raising awareness and breaking down stigma (https://www.mind.org.uk/about-us/what-we-do/)
• freedom4girls - fighting period poverty by providing education, campaigning for menstrual equality and providing period products to those in need (https://www.freedom4girls.co.uk/about-us/)
• pkd charity - supporting people with polycystic kidneys disease (PKD) and funding research into treatments and a cure (https://pkdcharity.org.uk/about-us/what-we-do)

These charities are all amazing so please spend a few minutes checking out the work they do and donate if you can.

I didn't set myself a numerical challenge this year but I created a 12 reading prompts similar to I had last year. I also had a 6-month subscription to Rare Birds Book Club (go check them out!) so read some books I wouldn't have otherwise picked up.
Below are the books I read this year. Next year, I'm hoping to cut down my book buying addiction habit and cut down that tbr pile!

Thank you to my followers, both new and existing. I hope you had a good year of reading and I wish you all the best for 2022 😊

My Highlights:

Books read: 75

Pages read: 28,232

Shorted read: Circles of Hell by Dante

Longest read: Sepulchre by Kate Mosse

Best books: The Girl with the Louding Voice (Abi Daré), Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf), The Color Purple (Alice Walker), Hamnet (Maggie O'Farrell), The Comfort Book (Matt Haig), Mexican Gothic (Silvia Moreno-Garcia), The Haunting of Hill House (Shirley Jackson)

My 2021 Reads:

1. The Book of M (Peng Shepherd)
2. Sepulchre (Kate Mosse)
3. The Girl with the Louding Voice (Abi Daré)
4. Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
5. A Court of Wings and Ruin (Sarah J. Maas)
6. The Minaturist (Jessie Burton)
7. My Dark Vanessa (Kate Elizabeth Russell)
8. Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 (Cho Nam-Joo)
9. Beloved (Toni Morrison)
10. Six of Crows (Leigh Bardugo)
11. Shadow and Bone (Leigh Bardugo)
12. The Lake House (Kare Morton)
13. Siege and Storm (Leigh Bardugo)
14. Ruin and Rising (Leigh Bardugo)
15. The Pursuit of Love (Nancy Mitford)
16. My Lovely Wife (Samantha Downing)
17. Twilight (Stephenie Meyer)
18. Chain of Iron (Cassandra Clare)
19. Lady Midnight (Cassandra Clare)
20. Red at the Bone (Jacqueline Woodson)
21. The Queen's Choice (Anne O'Brien)
22. Crooked Kingdom (Leigh Bardugo)
23. The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
24. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
25. Throne of Glass (Sarah J. Maas)
26. Q (Christina Dalcher)
27. The Vanishing Half (Brit Bennett)
28. Bitten (Kelley Armstrong)
29. Hamnet (Maggie O'Farrell)
30. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
31. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Ocean Vuong)
32. Eragon (Christopher Paolini)
33. Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin)
34. The Body in the Library (Agatha Christie)
35. Aria (Nazanine Hozar)
36. Love in Colour (Bolu Babalola)
37. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (J.K. Rowling)
38. The Comfort Book (Matt Haig)
39. Three Sisters, Three Queens (Philippa Gregory)
40. Mexican Gothic (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)
41. Rodham (Curtis Sittenfeld)
42. The Last Family in England (Matt Haig)
43. The Thursday Murder Club (Richard Osman)
44. Death on the Nile (Agatha Christie)
45. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
46. The Secret Adversary (Agatha Christie)
47. Lord of Shadows (Cassandra Clare)
48. Crown of Midnight (Sarah J. Maas)
49. The Power (Naomi Alderman)
50. Heir of Fire (Sarah J. Maas)
51. Love After Love (Ingrid Persaud)
52. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
53. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Jean-Dominique Bauby)
54. Our Lady of the Nile (Scholastique Mukasonga)
55. A History of the World in 21 Women (Jenni Murray)
56. No Shame (Tom Allen)
57. Fingersmith (Sarah Waters)
58. Piranesi (Susanna Clarke)
59. Circles of Hell (Dante)
60. Ninth House (Leigh Bardugo)
61. A Stitch in Time (Kelley Armstrong)
62. The Haunting of Hill House (Shirley Jackson)
63. Queen of Shadows (Sarah J. Maas)
64. The Humans (Matt Haig)
65. Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
66. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie)
67. An Ember in the Ashes (Sabaa Tahir)
68. Between Worlds: Folktales of Britain & Ireland (Kevin Crossley-Holland)
69. The Night Circus (Erin Morgenstern)
70. Midnight in Everwood (M. A. Kuzniar)
71. Stepsister (Jennifer Donnelly)
72. I Capture the Castle (Dodie Smith)
73. Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie)
74. Legendary (Stephenie Garber)
75. Kingdom of the Wicked (Kerri Maniscalco)