Happy New Year! 🎆 It is time to say goodbye to another tough year and hello to a hopefully brighter 2022! So now it is time to reflect back on what we’ve been reading in 2021. First up a few statistics:
Books Read: 45 New Reads: 38 Re-Reads: 7
Fiction: 35 Non-Fiction: 10
Considering the year we’ve had I am pleasantly surprised by these numbers, especially as they have increased a little on 2020, helped I think by me purposely making more time for favourite authors and genres. Now for some fun meme categories to help me reflect further on my 2021 reading (links in titles and names will take you to my reviews):
- Best Fictions – The Phantom Tree by Nicola Cornick (2016) and Madam, Will You Talk? by Mary Stewart (1955)
- Best Non-Fiction – The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places by Neil Oliver (2018)
- Best Classic – Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery (1908)
- Best Re-Reads – Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (1819) and The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley (2011)
- Best Series I Discovered – The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
- Best Series I Continued – Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes Mysteries by Laurie R. King
- Favourite New-To-Me Authors – Nicola Cornick, Richard Osman and L.M. Montgomery
- Multiple Reads of an Author – Peter Bartram (2), M.C. Beaton (2), E.M. Forster (2), Laurie R. King (2), C.S. Lewis (2), Richard Osman (2), Terry Pratchett (2), Mary Stewart (2) and Alison Weir (2)
- Most Memorable Character – Anne Shirley: the orphan girl with long fiery-red plaits, freckles and a spirited nature, from L.M. Montgomery’s children’s classic.
- Most Read Genres – Historical-Fiction (11), Crime/Mystery/Suspense (11), Science-Fiction & Fantasy (8) and Classics (8)
- Ambitions for 2022 – To read even MORE! 😆
Well that’s it for now folks! What another rollercoaster year 2021 has been for us all?! Thank God we have still had great books to escape into! All I have left to say is I pray that 2022 will be an easier, happier and healthier year for all of us. 🙏
Have you read any of my choices? What did you read and love in 2021? Do you have any reading plans for 2022? Let me know in the comments below!
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Well done with all your reading last year. I hope this year is as good if not better.
Lynn 😀
Thank you, Lynn! 😊
Happy New Year to you! Seems like 2021 was a good reading year for you. I still need to read The phantom tree but I enjoyed The last daughter by the same author this year.
Thank you, Annelies 😃 I also hope you will have a chance to read The Phantom Tree this year – I think I have a copy of The Last Daughter on my Kindle to look forward to.
I love seeing wrap-up posts and you had a productive reading year! I had a successful one, as well. Here’s to another year of many good books!
Glad to hear you had a successful reading year too, Kelly 😃 and yes, here’s hoping for another year of great reading. 🤞
Looks such a wonderful Reading year! Definitely some similarities with mine! Anne is always a favourite character of mine and I’ve re read the first book this month ❤️ and also discovered and fell in love with the Thursday Murder Club this year! Happy new year xx
Great to hear you also loved discovering The Thursday Murder Club and that Anne is one of your favourite characters. 😊
Happy New Year! It sounds as though 2021 was a good year of reading for you!
Thank you, Helen! 😃
2021 was a good year for me as well. Cheers to a wonderful 2022!
I am pleased to heat 2021 wads a good reading year for you too, Nastassja and thank you! 😃