Hey y’all!Last year, I decided to list out all the books I read for the year and I decided to do round two! I have finished my Reading Challenge on Goodreads pretty early actually. I finished it in October (my goal was to read 30 books) which meant I had two more months left in the year. I didn’t push my goal number up like I did last year but just continued reading and each book I read made my percentage go up way higher! Any who, below you will find the list of books that I’ve read (or listened to thanks to audiobooks) this year. If there is a link on the title, it means that I wrote a review of that book so if you want to read the review for that particular book, go right ahead!
I will say that I read more books by black authors this year than I did in recent years which is shocking! This list is not in any particular order I just wrote them as I saw them on my list.
Young Adult (YA) & Middle Grade
- The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta 3/5 stars
- The Keeper of Night by Kylie Lee Baker 3/5 stars
- Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds 3/5 stars
- Color Outside the Lines: Stories About Love edited by Sangu Madanna 3/5 stars
- Beasts of Prey by Ayana Gray 3.5/5 stars
- White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson 4/5 stars
- Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo 5/5 stars
- Ace of Spades by Faridah Abike-Iyimide 5/5 stars
- Dear Haiti, Love Alaine by Maika & Maritza Moulite 2/5 stars
- The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo 5/5 stars
- Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon 3.5/5 stars
- Fat Chance, Charlie Vega by Crystal Maldonado 4/5 stars
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 3.5/5 stars
- Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo
- Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia 4.5/5 stars
- Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean 4/5 stars
- Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston 4/5 stars
- Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo 4/5 stars
- Be Not Far from Me by Mindy McGinnis
- Shadow and Bones by Leigh Bardugo 3/5 stars
- The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton 2.5/5 stars
- X by Ilyasah Shabazz 4/5 stars
Adult
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett 4/5 stars
- The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood 4.5/5 stars
- Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse 4/5 stars
- Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert 3.5/5 stars
- An American Marriage by Tayari Jones 2.5/5 stars
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens 4/5 stars
- The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin 3/5 stars
- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig 4/5 stars
- People We Meet On Vacation by Emily Henry 4.5/5 stars
Non-Fiction
- Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other About Dead Bodies by Caitlin Doughty 4/5 stars
- Leap of Faith: Finding Love the Modern Way by Cameron Hamilton & Lauren Speed-Hamilton 5/5 stars
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty 4/5 stars
- Believe It: How to Go from Underestimated to Unstoppable by Jamie Kern Lima
- Frontier Follies: Adventures in Marriage and Motherhood in the Middle of Nowhere by Ree Drummond 4/5 stars
Audiobooks
- They Never Learn by Layne Fargo 3/5 stars
- Seven Days in June by Tia Williams 2.5/5 stars
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki 2.5/5 stars
- The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris 2.5/5 stars
- Know My Name by Chanel Miller 5/5 stars
- The Secret by Rhonda Byrne 2.5/5 stars
If you want to check out any of these books and help an independent bookstore, check out bookshop.org. If you’d like to checkout my book that I wrote (yes I’m a self-published author), you can get it here!
What were your favorite book(s) this year? How did your reading goals go this year?
XOXO,
Nessa D.
Nessa D 