Compared to the previous years, 2021 had not been a good year for reading. It is possible that I overdid it in the previous year but for a few months I didn’t read all that much. Surely the pandemic must have had something to do with that.
Half-way through the year though I managed to re-establish the habit and from there on things went upwards and I read on a daily basis, both in audio and paper/digital formats.
My tastes are all over the place, generally though tend to read either horror, sci-fi, fantasy and of course anything by Neil Gaiman.
One of my favourite “discoveries” this year was Haruki Murakami, who’s work, at least what I have read so far, is unlike anyone else’s. Weird, funny, strange, surreal, then again not… hard to explain. I have a couple of books of whim that I would like to read next. And yes, I will have to take a break of the “Wheel of Time” series at one point 🤣. Probably.
But here now the books I read:
- V.E. Schwab: A Darker Shade of Magic
- Neil Gaiman: The Dream Hunters (both editions)
- Martha Wells: Network Effect (Murderbot Diaries)
- Martha Wells: Condition Red (re-read)
- James Harriot: All Creatures Great and Small (re-read)
- James Harriot: All Things Bright and Beautiful
- Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett: Good Omens (re-read)
- Terry Pratchett: Mort
- Seanan McGuire: Middlegame
- Cixin Liu: To Hold Up the Sky
- Neil Gaiman: 1602
- Martha Wells: Fugitive Telemetry (Murderbot Diaries)
- Ira Levin: Rosemary’s Baby
- Ira Levin: Son of Rosemary
- V.E. Schwab: A Gathering of Shadows
- V.E. Schwab: A Conjuring of Light
- Hector Garcia, F.Miralles: Ikigai – the japanese secret to a long and happy life
- Neil Gaiman: The Books of Magic
- Haruki Marukami: The Strange Library
- T. Kingfisher: The Twisted Ones
- Haruki Marukami: Wind/Pinball
- T. Kingfisher: The Hollow Places
- Paul Tremblay: A Head Full of Ghosts
- Ken Mogi: Awakening your Ikigai
- Haruki Murakami: Men without Women
- Hector Hugh Monroe: Short Stories by Saki
- Martha Wells: Murderbot series (re-read)
- V.E. Schwab: The Invisible of Life Addie LaRue
- Beth Kompton: Wabi Sabi
- Haruki Murakami: Dance, Dance, Dance
- Neil Gaiman: Norse Mythology Vol.1 (Graphic Novel)
- Aina Ahlborn: Within These Walls
- Clive Barker: Mister B. Gone
- Robert Jordan: The Eye of the World (Wheel of Time Book 1)
- James S.A. Corey: Leviathan Falls (Expanse #9)
- Robert Jordan: The Great Hunt (Wheel of Time Book 2)
Let’s see what this year will bring up.