End of Year Book Survey

I originally saw this over at Living a Joyful Life and thought it looked fun :) 

How would your answers compare?

Currently reading?

• Well, I'm sort of cheating, since it's already past the middle of January, but since you asked, 
• I'm finishing up The Missing Treasures of Amy Ashton (by Eleanor Ray), 
• making my way slowly through We Wrote in Symbols: Love and Lust by Arab Women Writers (edited by Selma Dabbagh), 
• and just starting Ship of Blood: Mutiny and Slaughter Aboard the Harry A. Berwind, and the Quest for Justice (by Charles Oldham).

 
Your book goal of 2021?

• 100

 
How many books read in 2021?

• 97

 
Fiction/Non-fiction ratio?

• 89/8

 
Male/Female authors?

• 22/74 and one non-binary author

 
Favorite book(s) read?

• Golly! My five-star reads in 2021 were (in no particular order):
• The Age of Witches by Louisa Morgan
• Magic Lessons: The Prequel to Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
• The Violence by Delilah S. Dawson
• What Could Be Saved by Liese O'Halloran Schwarz
• The Memory Collectors by Kim Neville
• The World Played Chess by Robert Dugoni
• Eight Perfect Hours by Lia Louis
• The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman

 
Least favorite(s)?

• Writing a book is hard, and I just don't have it in my heart to call a book out as my least favorite.

 
Longest title? (apparently non-fiction books have very wordy titles - who knew?)

• Totally just guessing on this one:
• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larsen
• Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man, and the Gospel of Jesus' Wife by Ariel Sabar
• It's Not About the Gun: Lessons from My Global Career as a Female FBI Agent by Kathy Stearman
• Here She Is: The Complicated Reign of the Beauty Pageant in America by Hilary Levey Friedman
• Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton by Gail Crowther

 
Shortest title?

• Unchosen by Katharyn Blair
• Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge
• Litani by Jess Lourey
• Constance by Matthew FitzSimmons
• Unthinkable by Brad Parks
• Swindle by Gordon Korman (audio book)

 
How many re-reads?

• None

 
How many audio books?

• I think two?

 
How many of this year’s books were from the library?

• A handful, but mostly ARCs

 
Favorite cover of a book you read?

• I'm sad to say, I do probably more than half of my reading on my kindle, so I don't see book covers often enough to pick a favorite.

 
Most disappointing book?

• See above - writing is hard and I don't want to call someone's book 'disappointing.'

 
Book that had the greatest impact on you?

• Hard to say. I still think about The Violence by Delilah S. Dawson because of the pandemic stuff. I also think about the witch books I read from time to time.

 
2021 read you recommend the most?

• I suppose it depends on what you like. My five-star books are all worth recommending, I think. I've also added a few favorite authors. I'd never say no to books from Alice Hoffman, John Bishop, Robert McCaw, and Lia Louis, for example.