Once again, I kept track of all the books I read in a year so that I could see if there were any interesting trends in my reading habits.

Last year I read 66 books. I didn’t manage to best that number in 2021, but I got pretty close:

I read a total of 57 books in 2021.

In last year’s reading retrospective post, I also predicted that I’d read more ebooks. Before we get to the good stuff (i.e. graphs), I want to point out again that if a book is listed under a particular month it doesn’t necessarily mean the book was both started and finished within that month. Most of the time, it just means that’s when I finished reading the book.

Okay, here we go:

Yeah, August wasn’t a good month for reading. I was still reading then, but not as much as usual, and as a result didn’t finish any books that month.

My prediction was correct! I read more ebooks than last year.

Okay, just one more graph for 2021:

Some final stats:

Fiction: 54

Non-Fiction: 3

Print: 13

Ebooks: 20

Audiobooks: 24

Most-read author: J R R Tolkien: 3

Month	Title	Author	Type
January	The House on the Lake	Nuala Ellwood	Audiobook
January	Unsouled	Will Wight	Audiobook
January	The Wind from Faerie	William Justus	Audiobook
January	The Fellowship of the Ring	J R R Tolkien	Print
January	The Cloud Roads	Martha Wells	Audiobook
January	How to Grow Your Own Poem	Kate Clanchy	Ebook
February	The Once and Future Witches	Alix E Harrow	Audiobook
February	The Mirror Empire	Kameron Hurley	Audiobook
February	The Two Towers	J R R Tolkien	Print
February	The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat	Oliver Sacks	Print
February	The Guest List	Lucy Foley	Audiobook
February	Cage of Souls	Adrian Tchaikovsky	Audiobook
March	Where the Dead Go	Sarah Bailey	Audiobook
March	Boneshaker	Cherie Priest	Audiobook
March	The Return of the King	J R R Tolkien	Print
March	A Memory Called Empire	Arkady Martine	Audiobook
March	Upright Women Wanted	Sarah Gailey	Audiobook
March	Black Leopard, Red Wolf	Marlon James	Print
March	In the Shadow of the Gods	Rachel Dunne	Audiobook
April	Black Sun	Rebecca Roanhorse	Audiobook
April	Paladin’s Grace	T Kingfisher	Audiobook
April	The Apple-Tree Throne	Premee Mohamed	Audiobook
April	Children of Earth and Sky	Guy Gavriel Kay	Print
May	Into the Drowning Deep	Mira Grant	Audiobook
May	The Bone Shard Daughter	Andrea Stewart	Audiobook
May	Beguilement	Lois McMaster Bujold	Audiobook
May	Kafka on the Shore	Haruki Murakami	Print
May	Piranesi	Susanna Clarke	Print
May	Ninefox Gambit	Yoon Ha Lee	Audiobook
May	Stone Cold Heart	Caz Frear	Audiobook
June	The Lights of Prague	Nicole Jarvis	Audiobook
June	The Witches: Salem, 1692 – A History	Stacy Schiff	Print
June	Shuggie Bain	Douglas Stuart	Print
June	The Empress of Salt and Fortune	Nghi Vo	Audiobook
June	Sufficiently Advanced Magic	Andrew Rowe	Ebook
June	Tooth and Claw	Jo Walton	Ebook
June	Truthwitch	Susan Dennard	Ebook
June	The Monster Baru Cormorant	Seth Dickinson	Ebook
July	Elric of Melnibone	Michael Moorcock	Print
July	Blackbird Rising	Keri Arthur	Audiobook
July	Rhythm of War	Brandon Sanderson	Ebook
July	The Dawnhounds	Sascha Stronach	Ebook
July	The Birthgrave	Tanith Lee	Print
September	All the Murmuring Bones	Angela Slatter	Ebook
September	Hummingbird Salamander	Jeff Vandermeer	Ebook
September	Harrow the Ninth	Tamsyn Muir	Ebook
September	The Unspoken Name	A K Larkwood	Ebook
October	The Tyrant Baru Cormorant	Seth Dickinson	Ebook
October	Gideon the Ninth	Tamsyn Muir	Ebook
October	Chasing Graves	Ben Galley	Ebook
October	The Calculating Stars	Mary Robinette Kowal	Ebook
November	Grim Solace	Ben Galley	Ebook
November	The Dragonbone Chair	Tad Williams	Print
December	Troupe of Shadows	Jennings Zabrinsky	Ebook
December	A History of What Comes Next	Sylvain Neuvel	Ebook
December	Station Eleven	Emily St John Mandel	Ebook
December	Gardens of the Moon	Steven Erikson	Ebook