Target: 100+
Running total: (fiction: , non-fiction: , ebooks: )
Week:
Several years ago I decided that I would do my utmost to read a book a week, because I felt like I was getting out of the habit of reading new things and I thought that having a goal to aim for would help. The effort paid off, and it's something I've kept up (off and on) ever since -- it encourages me to read more widely, and it helps me to justify to myself the vast quantities of books that I buy.
Last year was my highest reading total of the last decade -- possibly something to do with the GLOBAL PANDEMIC i.e. spending half the year being basically unable to go out, but possibly also to do with the kids getting better at entertaining themselves. This year promises even more pandemic and even older kids, so here goes.
| Week | Book(s) read |
|---|---|
| Jan 1 - Jan 7 | Robin Stevens, Death Sets Sail |
| Jan 8 - Jan 14 | Philip Reeve & Sarah McIntyre, The Legend of Kevin |
| Jan 15 - Jan 21 | Matt Haig, The Midnight Library |
| Jan 22 - Jan 28 | Tamora Pierce, Mastiff |
| Philip Reeve, Railhead | |
| Jan 29 - Feb 4 | |
| Feb 5 - Feb 11 | Emily St John Mandel, Station Eleven |
| Feb 12 - Feb 18 | Christopher St John Sprigg, Death of an Airman |
| Feb 19 - Feb 25 | Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle |
| Feb 26 - Mar 4 | |
| Mar 5 - Mar 11 | |
| Mar 12 - Mar 18 | |
| Mar 19 - Mar 25 | Diana Wynne Jones, The Dark Lord of Derkholm |
| Mar 26 - Apr 1 | Peadar O'Guilin, The Call |
| Lorraine Gregory, The Maker of Monsters | |
| Apr 2 - Apr 8 | |
| Apr 9 - Apr 15 | |
| Apr 16 - Apr 22 | |
| Apr 23 - Apr 29 | |
| Apr 30 - May 6 | Tom Cox, Ring The Hill |
| May 7 - May 13 | Benjamin Dean, Me, My Dad and the end of the Rainbow |
| Ian Rankin, A Song for the Dark Times | |
| May 14 - May 20 | Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue |
| C. N. Lester, Trans Like Me | |
| May 21 - May 27 | Diana Wynne Jones, The Merlin Conspiracy |
| Christian McKay Heidicker, Scary Stories for Young Foxes | |
| May 28 - Jun 3 | |
| Jun 4 - Jun 10 | |
| Jun 11 - Jun 17 | |
| Jun 18 - Jun 24 | Silas K. Hocking, Real Grit |
| Jun 18 - Jun 24 | M. G. Leonard, Beetle Boy |
| Jun 25 - Jul 1 | Philip Reeve, Black Light Express |
| Jul 2 - Jul 8 | Zanna Davidson, Fairy Unicorns (books 1-6) |
| Jul 9 - Jul 15 | Leigh Hobbs, The Big Book of Mr Badger |
| Jul 16 - Jul 22 | Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees |
| Michael Chabon, Werewolves in Their Youth | |
| David Almond, Skellig | |
| Jul 23 - Jul 29 | Malorie Blackman, Pig-Heart Boy |
| Malorie Blackman, A.N.T.I.D.O.T.E. | |
| Jul 30 - Aug 5 | |
| Aug 6 - Aug 12 | Ross Montgomery, The Midnight Guardians |
| Aug 13 - Aug 19 | Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education |
| Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver | |
| T. Kingfisher, A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking | |
| Diana Wynne Jones, Year of the Griffin | |
| Zilpha Keatley Snynder, Below the Root | |
| Aug 20 - Aug 26 | Hannah Whitten, For the Wolf |
| Aug 27 - Sep 2 | Geraldine McCaughrean, Forever X |
| Sep 3 - Sep 9 | Gillian Cross, Tightrope |
| Sep 10 - Sep 16 | Noel Langley, The Land of Green Ginger |
| Sep 17 - Sep 23 | Malala Yousafzai, Malala: my story of standing up for girls' rights |
| Patience Agbabi, The Infinite | |
| Sep 24 - Sep 30 | Anthony Horowitz, Point Blanc |
| Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl | |
| Oct 1 - Oct 7 | |
| Oct 8 - Oct 14 | |
| Oct 15 - Oct 21 | Holly Goldberg Sloan & Meg Wolitzer, To Night Owl from Dogfish |
| Oct 22 - Oct 28 | |
| Oct 29 - Nov 4 | Elinor M. Brent-Dyer, A Future Chalet School Girl |
| Rainbow Rowell & Faith Erin Hicks, Pumpkinheads | |
| Nov 5 - Nov 11 | Tamsin Winter, Girl (In Real Life) |
| Nov 12 - Nov 18 | |
| Nov 19 - Nov 25 | Ashley Sterne, Knotted Yarns |
| Nov 26 - Dec 2 | Fleur Hitchcock, Murder in Midwinter |
| Dec 3 - Dec 9 | Tanya Byrne, Afterlove |
| Dec 10 - Dec 16 | |
| Dec 17 - Dec 23 | |
| Dec 24 - Dec 31 | Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club |
| Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built | |
| Darren Charlton, Wranglestone | |
| Margery Allingham, More Work for the Undertaker | |
| Margery Allingham, Look to the Lady | |
| Margery Allingham, Police at the Funeral | |
| Margery Allingham, The Beckoning Lady | |
| Jordan Ifueko, Raybearer |