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Books I own/pre-orders I might want to read - Fiction:The Poet X
Children of Virtue and Vengeance
Americanah
Half of a Yellow Sun
Purple Hibiscus
Internment
The Testaments
Over the Woodward Wall
If Beale Street Could Talk
Going to Meet the Man
The Sellout
Jane Eyre
Parable of the Talents
Wild Seed
Bloodchild and Other Stories
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
A Closed and Common Orbit
The Water Dancer
Summer Frost
Vox
Washington Black
Winter Tide
Girl, Woman, Other
Ardulum: First Don
Mythos
Magic for Liars
The Sleeper and the Spindle
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
An Untamed State
The Reanimation of Edward Schuett
Symbiont
Chimera
Feedback
Rise - The Complete Newsflesh Collection
Final Girls
In the Shadow of Spindrift House
Kingdom of Needle and Bone
Homegoing
When the Moon is Low
The Girl on the Train
The Fireman
Deathless Divide
Last Night in Twisted River
The Inheritance Trilogy:
The Dreamblood Duology: The Killing Moon, The Shadowed Sun
The Thirty Names of Night
The Hollow Places
Ophelia
The Poppy War
The Dragon Republic
The Heart of the Circle
A Wizard of Earthsea
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ancillary Justice
Weave The Lightning
Jade City
Pachinko
The Three-Body Problem
Reflections
The Serpent of Venice
Shakespeare for Squirrels
Gideon the Ninth
Harrow the Ninth
Nexus
Like a Love Story
The Last Graduate (pre-order)
The Refugees
Under the Udala Trees
The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror
The Astonishing Color of After
Ark
Skinny Legs and All
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
The Priory of the Orange Tree
Seveneves
On the Come Up
The Last Conversation
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Artemis
Randomize
Rogue Protocol
The Underground Railroad
The Small Backs of Children
Books I own/pre-orders I might want to read - Non-Fiction:Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change
Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living
Notes of a Native Son
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
My Life as a Goddess: A Memoir through (Un) Popular Culture
Solutions and Other Problems
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
An Unlikely Journey: Waking Up from My American Dream
Grant
Washington: A Life
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
Women, Race & Class
White Fragility: Why Itโs So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Save Yourself
War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
Naturally Tan
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
Bad Feminist
Surviving Autocracy
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
In the Country We Love: My Family Divided
Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing: Essays (pre-order)
Obviously: Stories from My Timeline
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
Wow, No Thank You.
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work
When Breath Becomes Air
How to Be an Antiracist
The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
Heavy: An American Memoir
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope
Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate
The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
Citizen: An American Lyric
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead
Everything's Trash, But It's Okay
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Cosmos
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Calypso
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America (pre-order)
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love
The End of Policing
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
2021 Wrap Up:I fell a little short on the ATY challenge this year - 49/52. Normally, I would power read the last week of the year to finish up, but we were on vacation. And I greatly overestimated how much reading I would do while we were traveling. ๐คทโโ๏ธ�
Overall, I read 90 books, novellas, and short stories in 2021, so I feel pretty good about that.
Favorites of the year:
Fiction:
Such a Fun Age
Interior Chinatown
The House in the Cerulean Sea
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
The Chosen and the Beautiful
When Sorrows Come
Black Sun
A Master of Djinn
Non-Fiction:
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
I was also a Hugo voter for the first time in 2021, and I look forward to doing it again this year. It prompted me to read some books I might otherwise have missed. In particular, I really enjoyed each and every one of the Lodestar nominees (Best YA): A Wizardโs Guide to Defensive Baking, Cemetery Boys, A Deadly Education (read in 2020), Elatsoe, Legendborn, and Raybearer.
On to 2022! Happy Reading!
Around the Year in 52 Books
Books mentioned in this topic
The Chosen and the Beautiful (other topics)Such a Fun Age (other topics)
Interior Chinatown (other topics)
The Ten Thousand Doors of January (other topics)
When Sorrows Come (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Tochi Onyebuchi (other topics)Kiley Reid (other topics)
Nino Cipri (other topics)
Martha Wells (other topics)
Toni Morrison (other topics)
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This year as a side challenge, I plan to re-read the October Daye series before the new book comes out in September. Additionally, I'm in a couple of book clubs, but I will slot in reads from there once in a while.
Here we go!!
Legend
Ownership - Owned before 2021: ๐, Purchased: $, Received Free: ๐, Borrowed: ๐
Format - Paper: ๐, Kindle/Electronic: ๐ป, Audio: ๐
Re-Read: ๐
49/52
[โ] 1. A book related to โIn the Beginning...โ�
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Debut novel + first in a series) ๐ท฿๐ป$๐
[โ] 2. A book by an author whose name doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y
Finna - Nino Cipri ๐๐ป
[โ] 3. A book related to the lyrics for the song "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music
Across the Green Grass Fields ("Cream colored ponies") ๐ท฿๐ป
[โ] 4. A book with a monochromatic cover
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents ๐ท฿๐ป๐
[โ] 5. A book by an author on USA Today's list of 100 Black Novelists You Should Read
Such a Fun Age - Kiley Reid ๐ท฿๐ป
[โ] 6. A love story
Untamed $๐ป๐
[โ] 7. A book that fits a prompt suggestion that didn't make the final list
The Chosen and the Beautiful (A retelling of a โclassicโ� by a BIPOC author) ๐ท฿๐ป$๐
[โ] 8. A book set in a state, province, or country you have never visited
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (New York) $๐ป๐
[โ] 9. A book you associate with a specific season or time of year
When Sorrows Come (October) ๐ท฿๐ป$๐
[โ] 10. A book with a female villain or criminal
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup ๐ท฿๐ป๐๐
[โ] 11. A book to celebrate The Grand Egyptian Museum
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 ๐ท฿๐ป
[โ] 12. A book eligible for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
Convenience Store Woman ๐๐ป๐
[โ] 13. A book written by an author of one of your best reads of 2020
Artificial Condition - Martha Wells ๐ท฿๐ป$๐
[โ] 14. A book set in a made-up place
A Dream So Dark ๐ท฿๐ป$๐
[โ] 15. A book that features siblings as the main characters
You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism $๐
[โ] 16. A book with a building in the title
The House in the Cerulean Sea ๐ท฿๐ป๐
[โ] 17. A book with a Muslim character or author
Exit West - Mohsin Hamid ๐ท฿๐ป๐
[ ] 18. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 1
Theme - Nigeria
[ ] 19. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 2
[โ] 20. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 3
Raybearer ๐๐ป$๐
[โ] 21. A book whose title and author both contain the letter "u"
Calculated Risks - Seanan McGuire ๐ท฿๐ป
[โ] 22. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads
Legendborn ๐๐ป๐๐
[โ] 23. A cross genre novel
Mexican Gothic ๐ท฿๐ป
[โ] 24. A book about racism or race relations
Ring Shout $๐ป
[โ] 25. A book set on an island
The Ones We're Meant to Find $๐ป๐
[โ] 26. A short book (<210 pages) by a new-to-you author
Riot Baby - Tochi Onyebuchi ๐๐ป$๐
[โ] 27. A book with a character who can be found in a deck of cards
King Leopold's Ghost ๐ท฿๐ป$๐
[โ] 28. A book connected to ice
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage ๐๐ป๐ท฿๐๐
[โ] 29. A book that you consider comfort reading
A Wizardโs Guide to Defensive Baking ๐ท฿๐ป
[โ] 30. A long book
A Promised Land (768 pages) ๐ท฿๐ป๐
[โ] 31. A book by an author whose career spanned more than 21 years
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison $๐ป๐
[โ] 32. A book whose cover shows more than 2 people
Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy ๐ท฿๐ป๐๐
[โ] 33. A collection of short stories, essays, or poetry
Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose $๐ป
[โ] 34. A book with a travel theme
The Fated Sky ๐ท฿๐ป๐
[โ] 35. A book set in a country on or below the Tropic of Cancer
A Master of Djinn $๐ป๐
[โ] 36. A book with six or more words in the title
Dying with Her Cheer Pants On ๐ท฿๐
[ ] 37. A book from the Are You Well Read in World Literature list
[โ] 38. A book related to a word given by a random word generator
Chronicle of a Death Foretold ๐๐ป
(random word: offender - the story is about a murder)
[โ] 39. A book involving an immigrant
Clap When You Land ๐๐ป๐ท฿๐
[โ] 40. A book with flowers or greenery on the cover
A Blade So Black ๐ท฿๐ป$๐
[โ] 41. A book by a new-to-you BIPOC author
Interior Chinatown - Charles Yu $๐ป๐
[โ] 42. A mystery or thriller
While Justice Sleeps $๐ป๐
[โ] 43. A book with elements of magic
Cemetery Boys ๐๐ป๐๐
[โ] 44. A book whose title contains a negative
I'm Not Dying with You Tonight ๐ท฿๐
[โ] 45. A book related to a codeword from the NATO Phonetic Alphabet
The Ten Thousand Doors of January (Kilo - Thousand) ๐ท฿๐ป$๐
[โ] 46. A winner or nominee from the 2020 ลทฑฆำ้ภึ Choice Awards
Piranesi ๐๐ป$๐
[โ] 47. A non-fiction book other than biography, autobiography or memoir
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America ๐ท฿๐ป๐
[โ] 48. A book that might cause someone to react โYou read what?!?โ�
The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter $๐ป
[โ] 49. A book with an ensemble cast
Black Sun ๐ท฿๐ป๐
[โ] 50. A book published in 2021
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 ๐ท฿๐ป
[โ] 51. A book whose title refers to person(s) without giving their name
Angel of the Overpass ๐ท฿๐ป
[โ] 52. A book related to "the end"
Elatsoe (death, ghosts, etc.) ๐๐ป$๐