It is finally that time of year where we have read an impressive amount of books and now we need to rank them. I know I had a handful of books that drove me nuts and then I also had a decent sized stack that I really enjoyed. Now is the time to reveal all the good, bad and ugly from my 2021 reading pile.
Top Ten Books
In no particular order here are my top ten favorite reads of 2021
Awards
Book of the year
“Verity” by Colleen Hoover
Least favorite book
“Get a Life Chloe Brown” by Talia Hibbert
I don’t have a link to this review but honestly this book was by far my least favorite thing I read this year by a long shot.
Best Dressed (Prettiest Cover)
“The Lost Apothecary” by Sarah Penner
Most Likely to Make you Swoon
“The Love Hypothesis” by Ali Hazelwood
Most Likely to be reread
“One Last Stop” by Casey Mcquiston
Best Graphic Novel
“Black Lantern” by Chris Bodily
I don’t read a lot of graphic novels but I really love how this one came together! The cat was so cute too!
A book that walked the line of morality the best
“RazorBlade Tears” by S.A. Cosby
A book that was over hyped
“Where The Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens
A book that surprised me
“Crave” by Tracy Wolff
Character Awards
Favorite character
Olive from “The Love Hypothesis” by Ali Hazelwood
I felt like I could really relate to Olive in a lot of different ways. I thought she was very stubborn, she knew what she likes and she is very smart and independent. I love an independent lead woman character.
Least favorite character
Jasmine from “Desperate Measures” by Katee Robert
This book was a steamy spin off tale of Jasmine and Jaffar from Aladdin and the whole book was pretty cringe worthy. However, Jasmine just drove me nuts the whole book. If you hate a main character there is something really wrong.
Favorite couple
Jane and August from “One Last Stop” by Casey Mcquiston
These two were just so adorable! I couldn’t get enough of their relationship. Casey McQuiston for Christmas released an update for the characters written from Janes perspective and it was everything that I didn’t know I needed.
Personal Achievements
This year I accomplished more things than I could have ever imagined! I am so proud of how far this blog has came since starting in June of 2021. I have also made so many amazing friends on Bookstagram. Let’s look at some of my greatest accomplishments from this year.
Started my blog in June 2021 and have over 60 followers six months later
Reached my reading goal for the year of 35/35 books
Reached over 2,000 followers on my bookstagram
Celebrated my one year bookstaversary in October
Made friends with authors
Made friends with people all across the world
Found several books that I literally fell in love with
Proved to myself that I can achieve my goals when I work hard and dream big
I am beyond proud of myself for accomplishing all that I did this past year and I really can’t wait to see what 2022 has to bring. I have changed my reading goal for next year to 40 books and I have even created my own reading challenge so I am very excited to start this coming year.
QOTD: What is your reading goal for next year?
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