A Long December...Maybe This Year Will Be Better Than the Last

I have clearly not been much of a pandemic era blogger, but I can't resist the annual urge to pick my favorite reads of the year and look at my statistics overall.

Here are the books I gave five stars to this year, loosely organized by genre. 

 HISTORICAL FICTION

• We Are Not Free
• Just Like That

MYSTERY

• The Box in the Woods
• Harry Bosch series 1-5

CONTEMPORARY

• Furia
• Firekeeper's Daughter
• Dear Justyce
• Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town
• Crying Laughing
• The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle
• The Boys in the Back Row
• Disappearing Earth

SPECULATIVE FICTION

• Legendborn
• Children of Blood and Bone
• Long Way to a Small Angry Planet
• A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

NONFICTION

• Writing, Redefined
• Solutions and Other Problems

CLASSICS AND RE-READS

• Graceling
• The Scorpio Races
• Six of Crows
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle

NOTICEABLE TRENDS IN MY READING LIFE

• Poe retellings
• Really long titles
• OBOB and CYBILS "required" reading always finds me some new favorites
• Comfort re-reads of favorite fantasy novels
• TV inspired reads (Bosch, Shadow & Bone)
• Interconnected short stories
• Dry spells with much less reading than usual

BOOK OF THE YEAR

Firekeeper's Daughter

On Jan 1st, I'll post my annual collection of charts and graphs.