2021 Reading Challenge

My goal is to read at least 50 books in 2021. Since I'm getting pretty close to that goal, I might update it to 60 or 75 once I hit 50.

 January

1. The Beast Player by Nahoko Uehashi ★★★★★

Total: 1

 February

1. King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo ★★★★★

 Total: 2

March

1. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins ★★★★★
2. The Hunger Games
3. Catching Fire
4. The Merciful Crow by Margaret Owen ★★★★☆
5. Elantris by Brandon Sanderson ★★★☆☆

Total: 7

April

1. The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu ★★★★★
2. The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon ★★★★★
3.  Legendborn by Tracy Deonn ★★★★★
4. The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu ★★★★☆
5. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke ★★★★☆ 
6. Death’s End by Cixin Liu ★★★★☆
7.  Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson ★★★☆☆
8. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin ★★★★★

Total: 15

May

1.  The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty ★★★☆☆
2.  Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennet ★★★☆☆
3.  Shadow of the Fox by Julie Kagawa ★★☆☆☆
4. The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin  ★★★★★
5. Witches Steeped in Gold by Ciannon Smart ★★☆☆☆
6. An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir ★★★☆☆

Total: 21

June

1.  Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo ★★★★★
2.  The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin ★★★★★
3.  The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers ★★★★☆
4.  Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman ★★★☆☆
5.  The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco ★★★☆☆
6.  A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers ★★★★☆

Total: 27

July

1.  The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman ★★★★☆
2.  The Masked City by Genevieve Cogman ★★★★☆
3.  Fledgling by Octavia Butler ★★★★☆
4. Jane Unlimited by Kristin Cashore  ★★★★☆
5. The Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke ★★★☆☆  
6. The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin ★★★★ ☆  
7. The Shadowed Sun by N.K. Jemisin ★★★★☆

Total: 34

August 

1. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin ★★★★☆
2. The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin ★★★★★
3. The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison ★★★★☆
4. The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. LeGuin ★★★★☆
5. Tehanu by Ursula K. LeGuin ★★★★☆
6. The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson ★★★★☆
7. Woven in Moonlight by Isabel Ibanez ★★★☆☆
8. Message Not Found by Dante Medema  ★★★★★
9. Swan Lake and the Quest for the Three Kingdoms by Rey Terciero ★★★★☆
10. The Mystwick School of Musicraft by Jessica Khoury ★★★★☆
11. The Infinity Courts by Akemi Bowman ★★☆☆☆

  Total: 45

September 

1. Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin ★★★★☆
2. The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin ★★★★☆
3. A Winter's Promise by Christelle Dabos ★★★★★
4. Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson ★★★★☆
5. Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao ★★★★☆
6. The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson ★★★☆☆
7. Winterkeep by Kristin Cashore ★★★★☆
8. Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao ★★★★★
9. The Other Side of Perfect by Mariko Turk ★★★★☆
10. How to Become a Planet by Nicole Melleby ★★★★☆
11. Fireborn by Aisling Fowler ★★★★☆
12. Not Here to be Liked by Michelle Quach ★★★★★
13. The Accursed Vampire by Madeline McGrane ★★★★★
14. The Missing of Clairdelune by Christelle Dabos ★★★★★
15. The Memory of Babel by Christelle Dabos ★★★★★
16. Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim ★★★☆☆
17. Star Daughter by Shveta Thakrar ★★★☆☆

Total: 62

October 

1. Garlic and the Vampire by Bree Paulsen ★★★★☆
2. The Burning Page by Genevieve Cogman ★★★★☆
3. A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik ★★★★★
4. Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix by Julie C. Dao ★★★☆☆
5. The Toll by Neal Shusterman ★★★☆☆
6. The Sprite and the Gardener by Rii Abrego ★★★★☆

Total: 68

November

1. Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson ★★★★★
2.  The Storm of Echoes by Christelle Dabos ★★★★★
3. The Lost Plot by Genevieve Cogman ★★★★☆
4. The Flight of Swans by Sarah McGuire ★★★★★
5. Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger ★★★★☆

Total: 73

December

1. My Diary From the Edge of the World by Jodi Lynn Anderson ★★★★☆
2. The Last Mapmaker by Christina Soontornvat ★★★★☆
3. Girls Save the World in This One by Ash Parsons ★★★☆☆
4. The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang ★★★★☆
5. A Wolf Called Wander by Roseanne Parry ★★★★☆
6. The Mortal Word by Genevieve Cogman ★★★★☆
7. Wildwood by Colin Meloy ★★☆☆☆
8. Little Thieves by Margaret Owen ★★★★★

Final total: 81 books read in 2021!