bookbeforeuleap's
2021
Reading Wrap-Up

bookbeforeuleap finished reading 229 books, across 76,639 pages!

First book
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

The Midnight Library
Last book
The Arctic Curry Club by Dani Redd

The Arctic Curry Club

bookbeforeuleap traversed landscapes of the heart, engaged in introspective musings, and set off on thrilling quests.

The narratives flowed at a comfortable, engaging tempo.

Books and pages read per month in 2021

Line chart showing books and pages read each month in 2021. The data for books read per year are as follows: January - 24 books, February - 11 books, March - 14 books, April - 18 books, May - 21 books, June - 26 books, July - 27 books, August - 20 books, September - 15 books, October - 26 books, November - 26 books, December - 1 book. The data for pages read per year are as follows: January - 9042 pages, February - 5024 pages, March - 5278 pages, April - 6504 pages, May - 7020 pages, June - 10259 pages, July - 8343 pages, August - 6431 pages, September - 4531 pages, October - 8209 pages, November - 9267 pages, December - 400 pages.
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bookbeforeuleap met their reading goal!

152%

The genres bookbeforeuleap spent the most time with in 2021

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The Eighth Life (for Brilka) by Nino Haratischwili

The Eighth Life (for Brilka)

Nino Haratischwili

Longest book
1258 pages
Shortest book
21 pages
Clap Back by Nalo Hopkinson

Clap Back

Nalo Hopkinson

The average length of the books bookbeforeuleap read was 356 pages and it took them around 13 days to finish each book!

2021's average rating was...

4.37

Looks like they know how to pick them!

2021 5reads

Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman
The Road Trip by Beth O'Leary
Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing and Light by Nikita Gill
House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
Children of the Quicksands by Efua Traoré
The Cat and The City by Nick Bradley
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons
The Forevers by Chris Whitaker
The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang
The Library by Bella Osborne
It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
Julia and the Shark by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Defy the Night by Brigid Kemmerer
Fangs by Sarah Andersen
Stepping Up by Sarah Turner
Blood Moon by Lucy Cuthew
The Encyclopedia of Early Earth by Isabel Greenberg
Tilly and the Bookwanderers by Anna James
My Dear Friend Janet by Keke Palmer, Jasmine Guillory
The Simple Wild by K.A. Tucker
The Martian by Andy Weir

bookbeforeuleap's 2021 ratings

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Some months were better than others...

February

Highest average rating
5.0

Turns out April wasn't bookbeforeuleap's favorite month, with an average rating of 4.0.

June

Most pages read
9956 pages

Other StoryGraph users and bookbeforeuleap's 2021 reads

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller

Most shelved
225,729 users
bookbeforeuleap's rating: 4.0
The Darkest Vampire by Juliana Haygert

The Darkest Vampire

Juliana Haygert

Least shelved
2 users
bookbeforeuleap's rating: 3.0
When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed

When Stars Are Scattered

Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed

Highest rated
4.66

bookbeforeuleap explored the works of 165 new authors, including Katy Birchall, Yaba Badoe, and Audrey Niffenegger!

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas

63 of the books bookbeforeuleap read were part of a series.

bookbeforeuleap revisited a total of 11 books this year.

After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Plus

Compared to 2020...

Number of books

Increased by 20%

Number of pages

Increased by 27%

bookbeforeuleap's personal 2021 reading experience

Charts generated from bookbeforeuleap's reviews

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Components of bookbeforeuleap's highest-rated reads

Moods: challenging, relaxing, lighthearted

Pace: medium

Book type: nonfiction

Genres: Childrens, Feminism, Middle Grade

Story style: character-driven

Characters: loveable, flawed, diverse, well-developed

2021 at a glance

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman
The Keeper by Jessica Moor
A Crooked Tree by Una Mannion
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer by Joël Dicker
The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village by Joanna Nell
The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
The Road Trip by Beth O'Leary
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Lost Property by Helen Paris
Here the Whole Time by Vitor Martins
Outlawed by Anna North
Sh**ged. Married. Annoyed. by Rosie Ramsey, Chris Ramsey
The Dare by Lesley Kara
The Last Voyage of Mrs Henry Parker by Joanna Nell
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
The Great Escape from Woodlands Nursing Home by Joanna Nell
Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing and Light by Nikita Gill
The Great Escape from Woodlands Nursing Home by Joanna Nell
The Littlest Library by Poppy Alexander
Girl A by Abigail Dean
Uncoupling by Lorraine Brown
House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
You Deserve Each Other by Sarah Hogle
Last One at the Party by Bethany Clift
One by One by Ruth Ware
Sweet Sweet Revenge Ltd by Jonas Jonasson
Lie Beside Me by Gytha Lodge
House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
Written In The Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur
Last One at the Party by Bethany Clift
One by One by Ruth Ware
Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston
A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
The Eighth Life (for Brilka) by Nino Haratischwili
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Rumaysa: A Fairytale by Radiya Hafiza
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
Meet Me in Hawaii by Georgia Toffolo
When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide, #1) by Douglas Adams
The Favour by Laura Vaughan
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
A Place Called Perfect by Helena Duggan
A Heart So Fierce and Broken by Brigid Kemmerer
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Last Chance Books by Kelsey Rodkey
Pretty Things by Janelle Brown
Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
The Other Emily by Dean Koontz
Twisted Lies by Angela Marsons
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Crime and Punishment (abridged) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia
Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
You and Me on Vacation by Emily Henry
We Are All Birds of Uganda by Hafsa Zayyan
Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden
Simplexity by Kiley Reid
The Cousins by Karen M. McManus
The Odyssey by Homer
Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine by Emily Bernard
This is How We Are Human by Louise Beech
Tall Bones by Anna Bailey
Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder by T.A. Willberg
Real Men Knit by Kwana Jackson
Unbreak Your Heart by Katie Marsh
Talk Bookish to Me by Kate Bromley
The Son of the House by Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia
Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau
Forever, Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Moon, the Stars, and Madame Burova by Ruth Hogan
A Vow So Bold and Deadly by Brigid Kemmerer
Children of the Quicksands by Efua Traoré
The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle by Matt Cain
The Couple by Helly Acton
Mayflies by Andrew O'Hagan
The Cat and The City by Nick Bradley
How to Kidnap the Rich by Rahul Raina
All the Fun of the Fair: A hilarious, brilliantly original coming-of-age story that will capture your heart by Caroline Hulse
Love In Five Acts by Daniela Krien
Lore by Alexandra Bracken
Where We Go From Here by Lucas Rocha
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
Eight Perfect Hours by Lia Louis
Diving for Pearls by Jamie O’Connell
The Key to You and Me by Jaye Robin Brown
Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
Waiting to Begin by Amanda Prowse
The Outrage by William Hussey
The Fell by Sarah Moss
Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
PET by Akwaeke Emezi
Raising Hell by Bryony Pearce
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Lucky by Rachel Edwards
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons
The Island Home by Libby Page
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Two Metres From You by Heidi Stephens
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
Bleeding Hearts by Ry Herman
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
One Ordinary Day At A Time by Sarah J. Harris
Where We Go from Here by Lucas Rocha
The Stranding by Kate Sawyer
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Underbelly by Anna Whitehouse
Solitaire by Alice Oseman
Dinner with Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship by Isabel Vincent
The Sad Ghost Club by Lize Meddings
Glass Town: The Imaginary World of the Brontës by Isabel Greenberg
Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake by Alexis Hall
Happy Endings by Thien-Kim Lam
The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman
The Black Dress by Deborah Moggach
Cause of Death by Jeffery Deaver
The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren
The Blinds by Adam Sternbergh
Flake by Matthew Dooley
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
Is This It? by Hannah Tovey
Hope Nicely's Lessons for Life by Caroline Day
The Forevers by Chris Whitaker
The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang
The Bread the Devil Knead by Lisa Allen-Agostini
Meet Me in Another Life by Catriona Silvey
Isn't It Bromantic? by Lyssa Kay Adams
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Lady Doctor by Ian Williams
Songbirds by Christy Lefteri
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal
The Two-Week Wait by Kelly Jackson, Luke Jackson
The Last Chance Library by Freya Sampson
The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson
Lionheart Girl by Yaba Badoe
You Again? by Nick Spalding
Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol
1984 by George Orwell
Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
Every Line of You by Naomi Gibson
Redemptor by Jordan Ifueko
Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko
Lost at Sea by Bryan Lee O’Malley
Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Library by Bella Osborne
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
There's a Hole in my Bucket: A Journey of Two Brothers by Royd Tolkien
Fireborn by Aisling Fowler
China Room by Sunjeev Sahota
Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel by Jason Reynolds
It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey
The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni
The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
The Vampire Knitting Club by Nancy Warren
Clap Back by Nalo Hopkinson
Julia and the Shark by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren
Pew by Catherine Lacey
Defy the Night by Brigid Kemmerer
How To Be Happy by Eleanor Davis
The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley
Wranglestone by Darren Charlton
Desperate Measures by Katee Robert
Fangs by Sarah Andersen
First Blood by Angela Marsons
Family Happiness by Leo Tolstoy
After the Silence by Louise O'Neill
The Symmetry of Stars by Alex Myers
Stepping Up by Sarah Turner
Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag
I Am Not Okay With This by Charles Forsman
I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir by Malaka Gharib
The Crucifix Killer by Chris Carter
Blood Moon by Lucy Cuthew
Run, Rebel by Manjeet Mann
The Encyclopedia of Early Earth by Isabel Greenberg
Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir by Maggie Thrash
Circus of Wonders by Elizabeth Macneal
The Wizards of Once by Cressida Cowell
The Darkest Vampire by Juliana Haygert
The Darkest Vampire
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Juliana Haygert
Dracula by Bram Stoker
And Then There Were None and Selected Plays by Agatha Christie
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
Tilly and the Bookwanderers by Anna James
The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling
The Gilded Cage by Lynette Noni
Tilly and the Lost Fairytales by Anna James
Sex Education: The Road Trip by Katy Birchall
The Cat Who Saved Books by Sōsuke Natsukawa
My Dear Friend Janet by Keke Palmer, Jasmine Guillory
The Simple Wild by K.A. Tucker
The Martian by Andy Weir
Close to Home by Cara Hunter
Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo
Tilly and the Map of Stories by Anna James
After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Blinds by Adam Sternbergh
The Book Boyfriend by Jeanna Louise Skinner
The Book Smugglers by Anna James
A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
Killing and Dying by Adrian Tomine
The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart
Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult
The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
Tell Me Everything by Laura Kay
Fable by Adrienne Young
Second First Impressions by Sally Thorne
Sisters of the Lost Marsh by Lucy Strange
The Merry Christmas Project by Cathy Bramley
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Caraval by Stephanie Garber
The Arctic Curry Club by Dani Redd
Murder Book: A Graphic Memoir of a True Crime Obsession by Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell
Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
Space Hopper by Helen Fisher
The End of Men by Christina Sweeney-Baird

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