My Goodreads Reading Challenge 2021

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At the beginning of 2021 I set myself the challenge of reading 105 books for the year. I read 103 books in 2020 and my goal was 100. In 2019 I set a goal of 55 books and I managed to read 105 books – so I know I can do it!

This year I’m in two bookclubs – a local group where we meet each month in person and a small online group which meets over Zoom every few weeks. We’ve been reading the Bronte sisters , slowly in pre-arranged chunks, and incorporating a cooking session after we finish each book. It’s such a great way of reading and dissecting a book, we all love it. We’ve also started a monthly blogging challenge, What’s on your Bookshelf, and encourage others to join in. All my WOYBS posts can be found here

End of 2021

By the end of 2021 I have read 133 books! That sounds amazing, even to me 🙂

Here’s a link to my Goodreads Challenge if you’d like to see the books I’ve managed to get through.

January 2021 (10 books)

February 2021 (11 books)

1. Charlotte Pass – Christine Lee 4*
2. Bleed for me – Michael Robotham (#4 in Joseph O’Loughlin series) 4*
3. Crackenback – Christine Lee 4*
4. The Wreckage – Michael Robotham (#5 in Joseph O’Loughlin series) 4*
5. Brody Cody and the Haunted Vacation House – Toni Pike 5*
6. Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell 5*
7. Myrren’s Gift – Fiona McIntosh 4*
8. Sam Bloom: Heartache and Birdsong – Bradley Trevor Greive 5*
9. The Secrets we Kept – Lara Prescott (bookclub) 4*
10. The Natural Way of Things – Charlotte Wood 3*
11. The Blue Day Book – Bradley Trevor Greive 5*

March 2021 (9 books)

1. Penguin Bloom – Cameron Bloom 5*
2. Agnes Grey – Anne Bronte (online book club) 4*
3. The Quickening Trilogy – Fiona McIntosh 4*
4. Escape to Curlew Cottage – Joanne Tracey 5*
5. In an Instant – Suzanne Redfearn 5*
6. The Girl who Saved the King of Sweden – Jonas Jonasson 4*
7. Women of a Certain Rage – Liz Byrski 3*
8. The Spill – Imbi Neeme 3*
9. Tapestry – Fiona McIntosh 5*

April 2021 (9 books)

1. Hadley & Grace – Suzanne Redfearn 4*
2. Trio – William Boyd (book club) 1*
3. Kokomo – Victoria Hannan 3*
4. The Four Winds – Kristin Hannah 5*
5. Royal Exile – Fiona McIntosh 4*
6. Life is so Good – George Dawson (book club) 3*
7. Say you’re sorry (Audible) – Michael Robotham (#6 in Joseph O’Loughlin series) 4*
8. The Library of Lost and Found – Phaedra Patrick 4*
9. The Chocolate Maker’s Wife – Karen Brooks 5*

May 2021 (12 books)

1. H.A.G.S with Attitude: A Philosophy for Ageing – Angelique Du Toit 4*
2. The Diamond Hunter – Fiona Mcintosh 4*
3. The Darkest Shore – Karen Brooks 5*
4. The Dressmakers of Yarrandarrah Prison – Meredith Jaffe 5*
5. The Midnight Library – Matt Haig 5*
6. Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray (River of Dreams) – Anita Heiss 5*
7. The Good Sister – Sally Hepworth 5*
8. The Sisters (Audible)- Dervla McTiernan 4*
9. The Family Doctor – Debra Oswald 5*
10. Still House (Audible) – Christian White 3*
11. An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good (Bookclub) – Helene Tursten 4*
12. Wild – Kristin Hannah 5*

June 2021 (13 books)

1. Spring Clean for the Peach Queen – Sasha Wasley 5*
2. The Chocolate Tin – Fiona McIntosh 4*
3. Best Seller – Terry Tyler 4*
4. Bruno Chief of Police #1 (on Audible) – Martin Walker 4*
5. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte – (online book club) 5*
6. Dear Banjo – (Daughters of the Outback #1) Sasha Wasley 4*
7. Love Song – (Daughters of the Outback #3) Sasha Wasley 4*
8. The Kindness Revolution: How we can restore hope, rebuild trust and inspire optimism – Hugh Mackay 5*
9. Silent Valley – Malla Nunn 4*
10. Megacity (Operation Galton #3) – Terry Tyler 5*
11. True Blue – Sasha Wasley 4*
12. Still Life – (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #1) – Louise Penny 4*
13. The Cuckoo’s Cry (on Audible) -Caroline Overington 3*

July 2021 (11 books)

1. Anatomy of a Scandal – Sarah Vaughan (Bookclub) 3*
2. The Bluffs – Kyle Perry 3*
3. The Silent Wife – (Will Trent #10) Karin Slaughter 4*
4. The Honey Queen – (via Audible) – Cathy Kelly 4*
5. The Perfumer’s Secret (via Audible) – Fiona McIntosh 4*
6. The Good Wife of Bath – Karen Brooks 5*
7. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – (online bookclub) Anne Bronte 4*
8. Good Girl, Bad Girl – (Cyrus Haven #1) Michael Robotham 4*
9. The Rose Code – Kate Quinn 5*
10. The Little Paris Bookshop – Nina George 3*
11. A Room Made of Leaves – Kate Grenville 4*

August 2021 (12 books)

1. Bye Bye Baby – Fiona McIntosh (DCI Jack Hawksworth #1) 4*
2. When She was Good – Michael Robotham (Cyrus Haven #2) 4*
3. Second Skin – Christian White Audible 3*
4. Dead Cold – Louise Penny (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #2) 4*
5. Watching You – (Joseph O’Loughlin series #7) Michael Robotham 4*
6. Danger Music – Eddie Ayres (Bookclub) 4*
7. What She Wants – Cathy Kelly 4*
8. Our Italian Summer – Jennifer Probst 4*
9. Just Between Us – Cathy Kelly 4*
10. The Nancys – R W R McDonald 5*
11. The Last Garden in England – (via audible) Julia Kelly 5*
12. The Huntress – Kate Quinn 5*

Total books so far: 87

September 2021 (13 books)

1. The Chase – Candice Fox (Audible) 5*
2. The Comfort Book – Matt Haig (Audible) 5*
3. Before I Leave – Jenney Egertson 4*
4. The Cornish Midwife – Jo Bartlett 4*
5. The Little Cafe by the Lake – Joanne Tracey 5*
6. A Summer Wedding for the Cornish Midwife – Jo Bartlett 4*
7. Beautiful Death – Fiona McIntosh (DCI Jack Hawksworth #2) 3*
8. Villette – Charlotte Bronte (online bookclub) 4*
9. One Hundred Years of Dirt – Rick Morton (local bookclub) 4*
10. Mirror Man – Fiona McIntosh (DCI Jack Hawksworth #3) 4*
11. Nancy Business – RWR McDonald 5*
12. Crimson Lake – Candice Fox (Crimson Lake #1 series) 5*
13. Hades – Candice Fox 4*

October 2021 (9 books)

1. Apples Never Fall – Liane Moriarty 3*
2. Redemption Point – Candice Fox (Crimson Lake #2) 4*
3. Gone by Midnight – Candice Fox (Crimson Lake #3) 5*
4. The Great Alone – Kristin Hannah 5*
5. Treasure & Dirt – Chris Hammer 4*
6. False Witness – Karin Slaughter 4*
7. Well Hello – Annabel Crabb and Leigh Sales 5*
8. Close your Eyes – Michael Robotham (Joseph O’Loughlin series #8) 4*
9. Flesh Wounds – Richard Glover (Bookclub) 5*

Goodreads 2021 Challenge of 105 books read completed 25/10/21

November 2021 (13 books)

1. Beauty in the Ruins – J’Nell Ciesielski 4*
2. Cuthberts Way – (DCI Ryan #17) LJ Ross 4*
3. The Rock – (DCI Ryan #18) 4 *
4. The Man Who Died Twice – Richard Osman 5*
5. Notes from an Exhibition – Patrick Gale 3*
6. Bluey Sleepy time – Bluey 5*
7. Case Histories – Kate Atkinson (Brodie Jackson #1) 4*
8. Bluey Christmas Swim – 5*
9. Somebody’s Land – Adam Goodes 5*
10. One Good Turn – Kate Atkinson (Jackson Brodie #2) 3*
11. When will there be Good News – Kate Atkinson (Jackson Brodie #3) 4*
12. A Winter’s Wish for the Cornish Midwife – Jo Bartlett 4*
13. Second Chance at Cherry Tree Cottage – Jo Bartlett 4*

Total books so far: 122

December 2021

1. Started Early, Took My Dog – Kate Atkinson (Jackson Brodie #3) 4*
2. The Deep – Kyle Perry 3*
3. Never Never – James Patterson and Candice Fox (Detective Harriet Blue #1) 4*
4. The Professor – Charlotte Bronte 3*
5. A Fiery Heart – Claire Harmon 4*
6. Daring to Fly – Lisa Millar 5*
7. The Others – Mark Brandi 4*
8. Vanished – James Delargy 4*
9. Second Chances at Channel View Farm – Jo Bartlett 3*
10. A Cornish Summer’s Kiss – Jo Bartlett 3*
11. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 5*

Total books for 2021 = 133 📚🎉

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I have included links to Goodreads on each of these titles, so if you want more information on what the book is about, click the title and away you go! I read a wide range….just saying!

Please note I will bold all of my 5* star ratings – I’m fairly strict with what I give 5 stars to, so you can be assured that these are my favourites.

My rating code: 1* did not finish/terrible; 2* OK; 3* enjoyable; 4* really good ; 5* excellent

Let’s see how many I get up to this year! I don’t set any rules or follow any plans, I just read what I feel like, what friends have recommended and what takes my eye. I rarely start a book and not finish it, but it does happen sometimes!

Are you on Goodreads? – you can join me 🙂

My wrap-up post for my 2020 challenge is here:

Reading my way through 2020 – Reading Challenge and Top Reads

You can find my lists for 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 and my 2014/2015 books by clicking on the links.

Every now and again I do a Friday Fiction post just to keep updating my reading collections!

This year I’ve joined with blogging friends Sue, Donna and Jo to do a monthly What’s on Your Bookshelf Challenge and you’re very welcome to join us!

I’d love to hear what you’re reading too. And any recommendations are always welcome 🙂

Deb xx

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