I Picked Up 59 Books in 2021 — Finished 50

All time record for me 😊 finished 50 book in a year. yippee!

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Top 5:

Inside Out and Back Again (link): (5.0/5)

Number the Stars (link): (4.5/5)

When You Reach Me (link): (4.5/5)

Flora and Ulysses (link): (4.0/5)

When You Trap a Tiger (link): 4.0/5

1. Inside Out and Back Again (link) : this is the first book I read this year. And I must say it was a great beginning. An awesome book. (5/5)
2. Number the Stars (link): The second book was as good as as the first one I read this year. Loved it fully. (4.5/5)
3. The Ickabog: (listened to the audio book) a nice story (3/5)
4. Flora and Ulysses: lovely book (4/5)
5. My Weird School #1: Miss Daisy Is Crazy! (My Weird School series) (link): I have only read the first book in this series and it was fun. My daughter loved the whole series, so now I got her the second series by the same author, my weird school daze (link).
6. Story of a forth grade nothing by Judy Blum — the book started of nicely, but then got a bit boring on the way. since I was a so-called know-it-all bossy girl during my childhood (and still am) I did not like when peter called Sheila that.
7. The Gopi Diaries: Coming Home — nice book
8. The Little Prince : Antoine de Saint-Exupéry — loved as much I did when I read first time in my childhood
9. Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories — not awesome, and definitely not spooky. one of the worst book in the series.
10. When You Reach Me — Awesome story
11. When You Trap a Tiger — beautiful
12. The Star Outside my Window — pretty good
13. The House with Chicken Legs — nice
14. The Castle of Tangled Magic — good
15. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon — very good
16. The Mysterious Benedict Society — good
17. Margaret the First — lovely book (link)
18. Ready Player Two: (audiobook) — ok (2.5/5) too much pop-culture.
19. The Dark forest: (three body problem book 2) — good (3/5)
20. Death’s End (The Three-Body Problem Book 3) (link) — felt more like a non-fiction than fiction. the science part was awesome, but the story was lacking a proper protagonist.
21. The poppy war book 1: Awesome
22. The Dragon Empire (poppy war book 2) — good, a bit boring
23. Spellbound: The Books of Elsewhere: Volume 2 (link) — not as scary as the first book
24. A Slow Fire Burning (link) — not as good as the girl on the train, but better than Into the water. I will give this book 3.8/5.
25. Firekeeper’s Daughter: ok, predictable and a bit filmy plot.
26. The Crossing (Harry Bosch book 18)(link) : pretty good (3/5)
27. The Wrong Side of Goodbye (Harry Bosch book)— Good
28. Two Kinds of Truth (Harry Bosch book)— Good
29. The Late Show — not as good as Bosch but OK
30. Dark Sacred Night: (Harry Bosch Series Book 21) (link) — Okish
31. The Night Fire: (Ballard & Bosch 2) (link) — I am not liking these small plots stitched together to make a novel. Can’t really able to invest into a story or one character. 2.5/5
32. Fair Warning — good
33. The Law of Innocence: (Mickey Haller Series Book 6) — good
34. The Case of the Missing Marquess: An Enola Holmes Mystery 1(link) — lovely story, loved the movie as well.
35. The Case of the Left-Handed Lady: An Enola Holmes Mystery 2 (link) — good, but the first book was better. 3/5
36. The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets: An Enola Holmes Mystery 3 (link) — good
37. The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan: An Enola Holmes Mystery 4 — ok
38. The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline: An Enola Holmes Mystery 5— ok
39. The Case of the Gypsy Goodbye: An Enola Holmes Mystery 6— ok
40. Anne of Green Gables — sweet
41. A Wrinkle in Time: good
42. A Wind in the Door (A Wrinkle in Time book 2): ok
43. The Jamie Drake Equation — Audio book, not bad
44. The Eye Of The World: Book 1 of the Wheel of Time — good
45. The Great Hunt: Book 2 of the Wheel of Time — good
46. The Dragon Reborn: Book 3 of the Wheel of Time-good
47. Beach Read — very nice
48. You and Me on Vacation — okish, not as good as the first book by the author.
49. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Austin Kleon) (link) — good book, non-fiction
50. Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Austin Kleon) (link) — good one, non-fiction

Still Reading

1. Where the Red Fern Grows (link): Still reading, it is an old book and the references felt dated. It is a slow read. However, when I understood that it was kind of reminiscence by an old man then the story started to have a context. Till now it is a 3/5. Will update the final verdict when I finish it.
2. Anne of Avonlea (Anne of green gables series book 2) — still reading, slow
3. The Shadow Rising: Book 4 of the Wheel of Time- still reading, very slow
4. Sophie’s World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy — Still reading, I like it, non-fiction.
5. Flow: The Psychology of Happiness — still reading, non-fiction
6. Wrinkles in Time: Witness to the Birth of the Universe — still reading, non-fiction

Not going to read further

1. Kings of Crypto: One Startup’s Quest to Take Cryptocurrency Out of Silicon Valley and Onto Wall Street (link) : My first non-fiction of the year. Finished half of the book till now. Not bad, fills like reading a thriller. However, sometime it is a bit hard to keep track of all the characters. Got really bored halfway to the book. could not finish :(
2. We dream of space — very depressing book, could not finish the story, returned the book after reading 25%.
3. Only Time Will Tell — could not finish after 60 % extremely boring and melodramatic.

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