2021 Year-In-Review: Books I Read
If I thought last year’s book list was disappointingly short, it has nothing on this year: 15 prose books, one of which was an RPG rulebook that I skimmed big chunks of. Some of that was getting a ReMarkable and reading scads of comic book pdfs. Some of that was my up-and-down moods as the year’s covid headlines played themselves out. And some of that was not having the time or energy to read much during the Dance of the Seven Contractors.
By type: 3 Kindle books, 3 other ebooks, 9 physical books.
The most common genre was sci-fi, then a smattering of fantasy and two memoirs. Seanan McGuire was the only repeat author, as I read two Wayward Children books.
Recommended standouts of the year included: The Martian by Andy Weir, How to Invent Everything by Ryan North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North and Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke.
Special recognition goes to Leah's Perfect Christmas by Catherine Beck, for both being a book I really enjoyed and also my wife’s first published novel.
On that comics front, I read the BOOM Studios Best of 2020 Bundle (18 volumes), a stack of physical trade paperbacks I bought (12 volumes), Moebius & More Presented by Humanoids Bundle (17 volumes), Back to the 80s with IDW Bundle (13 volumes), Hasbro Crossovers Bundle (10 volumes), Millarworld Bundle (12 volumes), and a full run of JSA from the late 90s that I pulled from my comics collection (10 volumes). So roughly 92 trade paperbacks or around 450 pamphlets.
I have no idea how 2022 is going to go, reading-wise. I’ve got a batch of new books I’m excited about and then a pile on my backlog that will hopefully catch my interest again.
By type: 3 Kindle books, 3 other ebooks, 9 physical books.
The most common genre was sci-fi, then a smattering of fantasy and two memoirs. Seanan McGuire was the only repeat author, as I read two Wayward Children books.
Recommended standouts of the year included: The Martian by Andy Weir, How to Invent Everything by Ryan North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North and Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke.
Special recognition goes to Leah's Perfect Christmas by Catherine Beck, for both being a book I really enjoyed and also my wife’s first published novel.
On that comics front, I read the BOOM Studios Best of 2020 Bundle (18 volumes), a stack of physical trade paperbacks I bought (12 volumes), Moebius & More Presented by Humanoids Bundle (17 volumes), Back to the 80s with IDW Bundle (13 volumes), Hasbro Crossovers Bundle (10 volumes), Millarworld Bundle (12 volumes), and a full run of JSA from the late 90s that I pulled from my comics collection (10 volumes). So roughly 92 trade paperbacks or around 450 pamphlets.
I have no idea how 2022 is going to go, reading-wise. I’ve got a batch of new books I’m excited about and then a pile on my backlog that will hopefully catch my interest again.