random_shoes's
2021
Reading Wrap-Up

random_shoes finished reading 126 books, across 38,100 pages!

First book
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me about Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything by Chris Hadfield

An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me about Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything
Last book
Into the Wild by Erin Hunter

Into the Wild

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

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 - 15 books, February - 10 books, March - 12 books, April - 10 books, May - 10 books, June - 10 books, July - 13 books, August - 15 books, September - 8 books, October - 11 books, November - 5 books, December - 7 books. The data for pages read per year are as follows: January - 4850 pages, February - 3407 pages, March - 4108 pages, April - 2901 pages, May - 3516 pages, June - 3794 pages, July - 4107 pages, August - 4475 pages, September - 3294 pages, October - 3050 pages, November - 1961 pages, December - 1903 pages.
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random_shoes met their reading goal!

126%

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random_shoes met their pages goal!

108%

The genres random_shoes spent the most time with in 2021

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The Fireman by Joe Hill

The Fireman

Joe Hill

Longest book
768 pages
Shortest book
1 hour, 54 minutes
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander, J.K. Rowling

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Newt Scamander, J.K. Rowling

The average length of the books random_shoes read was 323 pages and it took them around 7 days to finish each book!

2021's average rating was...

4.38

Looks like they know how to pick them!

2021 5reads

Drowned Country by Emily Tesh
A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
Among the Beasts & Briars by Ashley Poston
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
Jackaby by William Ritter
The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Deadline by Mira Grant
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
We Free the Stars by Hafsah Faizal
The Deep by Rivers Solomon
Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
Changeling by William Ritter
Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
Squire by Tamora Pierce
Network Effect by Martha Wells
On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
Lady Knight by Tamora Pierce
Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
The Gentleman's Guide to Getting Lucky by Mackenzi Lee
The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
Loki: Where Mischief Lies by Mackenzi Lee
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green
For the Wolf by Hannah Whitten
Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey
Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell
Witchy by Ariel Slamet Ries
Swamp Thing: Twin Branches by Maggie Stiefvater
The Halloween Moon by Joseph Fink
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

random_shoes's 2021 ratings

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Some months were better than others...

July

Highest average rating
4.6

Turns out February wasn't random_shoes's favorite month, with an average rating of 4.11.

July

Most pages read
4107 pages

Other StoryGraph users and random_shoes's 2021 reads

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller

Most shelved
225,727 users
random_shoes's rating: 4.75
The Green House by Dan Lawton

The Green House

Dan Lawton

Least shelved
41 users
random_shoes's rating: 3.0
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson

Highest rated
4.62
random_shoes's rating: 4.25

random_shoes explored the works of 74 new authors, including Cheryl Strayed, Erin Hunter, and John Darnielle!

Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Emperor Mage by Tamora Pierce

53 of the books random_shoes read were part of a series.

random_shoes revisited a total of 9 books this year.

The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan

🎉random_shoes successfully completed 2 reading challenges!🎉

Plus

Compared to 2020...

Number of books

Decreased by 16%

Number of pages

Decreased by 21%

random_shoes's personal 2021 reading experience

Charts generated from random_shoes's reviews

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Components of random_shoes's highest-rated reads

Moods: relaxing, inspiring, adventurous

Pace: fast

Book type: fiction

Genres: Comics, Dystopian, Graphic Novel

Story style: plot-driven

Characters: flawed, diverse, well-developed

2021 at a glance

An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me about Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything by Chris Hadfield
Drowned Country by Emily Tesh
A Universe of Wishes by Natalie C. Parker, Mark Oshiro, Samira Ahmed, Dhonielle Clayton, Tara Sim, Jenni Balch, Zoraida Córdova, Kwame Mbalia, Rebecca Roanhorse, Nic Stone, V.E. Schwab, Anna-Marie McLemore, Libba Bray, Tochi Onyebuchi, Tessa Gratton
Doctor Who: Apollo 23 by Justin Richards
Emperor Mage by Tamora Pierce
The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket
The Realms of the Gods by Tamora Pierce
A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Among the Beasts & Briars by Ashley Poston
Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan
The Circus Rose by Betsy Cornwell
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton
First Test by Tamora Pierce
Pines by Blake Crouch
Jackaby by William Ritter
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
The Green House by Dan Lawton
Page by Tamora Pierce
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee
The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Deadline by Mira Grant
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
We Free the Stars by Hafsah Faizal
Tangerine by Edward Bloor
Black Boy Out of Time: A Memoir by Hari Ziyad
The Cat Who Sang for the Birds by Lilian Jackson Braun
You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
The Deep by Rivers Solomon
Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
The City & the City by China Miéville
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Changeling by William Ritter
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander, J.K. Rowling
Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
Squire by Tamora Pierce
Network Effect by Martha Wells
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
The Want-Ad Killer by Ann Rule
Home by Nnedi Okorafor
Thus Were Their Faces by Silvina Ocampo
An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
Lady Knight by Tamora Pierce
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Trickster's Choice by Tamora Pierce
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
The Gentleman's Guide to Getting Lucky by Mackenzi Lee
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film by Patton Oswalt
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
Trickster's Queen by Tamora Pierce
The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
Bloody Jack by L.A. Meyer
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
Loki: Where Mischief Lies by Mackenzi Lee
Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think by Jennifer Ackerman
Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
The Transmigration of Bodies by Yuri Herrera
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
Whose Names Are Unknown by Sanora Babb
The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
Apple: Skin to the Core by Eric Gansworth
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
I'm Not Dying with You Tonight by Gilly Segal, Kimberly Jones
Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race by Jesmyn Ward
The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker
Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
For the Wolf by Hannah Whitten
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite by Suki Kim
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison
Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey
Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia
Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell
Witchy by Ariel Slamet Ries
Swamp Thing: Twin Branches by Maggie Stiefvater
The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation by Kyo Maclear
Universal Harvester by John Darnielle
Tempests and Slaughter by Tamora Pierce
The Halloween Moon by Joseph Fink
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
We Are Lost and Found by Helene Dunbar
The Fireman by Joe Hill
Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller
Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
Into the Wild by Erin Hunter

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