Hello everyone! It’s been a long time since my last post. What can I say, 2020 was a doozy. My hope this year is to be more active here but at the same time still keep things low key and as stress free as possible. This is supposed to be fun ๐
My first post for 2021 is a reading challenge that I have been seeing around both in the blogging world and on Instagram. It seems like the perfect way to knock off some books that have been sitting on my TBR list for far too long as well as books I acquired last year that I had fully intended on reading in 2020. My full reading goal for the year is 75 books so this will be only a fraction of what I hope to read this year. This challenge is pretty self-explanatory… to choose 21 books that you want to read in 2021.
- The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
- Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
- Aurora Rising by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman
- Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Winterwood by Shea Ernshaw
- Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
- The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
- A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown
- Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati
- The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson
- Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
- With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
- Ross Poldark by Winston Graham
- Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff
- Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- Regretting You by Colleen Hoover
- The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
- Recursion by Blake Crouch
I feel like this is a pretty good mix of genres so I should be able to fit all of my moods whenever they strike. What books are you hoping to read this year that you haven’t gotten around to in years past?
So many good ones! I loved Recursion, Regretting You, With The Fire On High, Mexican Gothic and The Vanishing Half of these and I’m hoping to read at least Queenie and The Starless Sea as well this year. I hope you will enjoy all of these!
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I’m glad to hear you enjoyed all of those! I’m so looking forward to reading them all. I don’t even know which one to start with haha. I hope you enjoy Queenie and The Starless Sea when you get a chance to read them! I loved Erin Morgenstern’s first novel, The Night Circus, so much so I think I’ve been putting off The Starless Sea because I have such high hopes for it.
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I’m exactly the same with The Starless Sea! I’ve seen mixed reviews so I’m a bit worried it wouldn’t live up to expectations… But I also don’t know how much longer I can resist it. ๐
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Good luck with this challenge! ๐ Looks like you have so many great options to choose from. I have a few of these on my TBR too. I hope you like Recursion more than I did. I was pretty disappointed with that one.
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Iโm kind of nervous about Recursion since I loved Dark Matter so much. Iโm worried my expectations will be too high lol.
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mine were high too and i was definitely let down ๐ฆ felt like it went on forever and forever and so repetitive. but i wonโt say anything else because i donโt want to spoil it.
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