I had an exceptional year of books read. According to my Goodreads challenge, I read 90 and this doesn’t include the beta reading I did for author friends. I typically read across three genres: Middle Grade (MG), Young Adult (YA), and adult.
By the Numbers
Pages read: 28,001
Average pages per book: 311
Longest book read: HUNGER by Michael Grant (590 pages)
MG books read: 26
YA books read: 44
Full series read: 7
For me, I find that when writing MG (which I was for most of this year), I gravitate more toward YA books for my leisure reads. However, 2021 was a FANTASTIC year for Middle Grade books! So many good ones! A few of my favorites include:
- Fright Watch (The Collectors & The Stitchers) by Lorien Lawrence
- Amari & the Night Brothers by B. B. Alston
- Midnight at the Barclay Hotel by Fleur Bradley
- Sol Invictus by Ben Gartner
- A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T Kingfisher
- Ghost Girl by Ally Malinenko
- Much Ado About Baseball by Rajani LaRocca
- What Lives in the Woods by Lindsey Currie
- The Verdigris Pawn by Alysa Wishingrad
If you’d like to see the full list of the books I read this year, it’s HERE.