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end of year book recap!
- I finished reading 66 books, across 18,348 pages! That's 16 books more than my goal of 50.
- 44 fiction; 21 non-fiction.
- Formats: 58 ebooks, 8 physical books and 1 audiobook.
- Languages: 50 in English; 16 in Spanish.
- Average rating: 4.05 on Storygraph.
- Average page number: 272
- Shortest book:
Decolonization is not a metaphor(40 pages) (on second thought this is an article so it doesn't count)We Should All Be Feminists - Longest book: Our share of night (672 pages)
- Oldest book: Lois the witch (1859)
- Newest book + fav new release: The mask of fear (2025 - so new it's not even out!)
- Top 5 genres: Horror, Literary, LGBTQIA+, Science fiction & Feminism.
- Diversity: 42 female authors; 17 male authors; 2 nonbinary authors; 5 books with mixed authorship. At least 13 authors were queer, and at least 27 were either BIPOC or not from North America or the UK.
Top 5 fiction books:
- Our share of night - Mariana Enriquez
- Reign of the Empire: The Mask of Fear - Alexander Freed
- Yellowface - R.F. Kuang
- The Eyes Are the Best Part - Monika Kim
- Animal Farm - George Orwell
Top 5 non-fiction books:
- Appetites - Caroline Knapp
- The End of Bias - Jessica Nordell
- The Vagina Business - Marina Gerner
- Wordslut - Amanda Montell
- Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic - Richard A. McKay
4 rereads:
- The two towers - J.R.R. Tolkien
- The return of the king - J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Princess diarist - Carrie Fisher
- 1984 - George Orwell
3 DNFs
- Womb City - Tlotlo Tsamaase
- This is how you lose the time war - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
- Below the Grand Hotel - Cat Scully
