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15 Favorite Books of 2021

Last year I enjoyed so many books that I had to split up this post into three — speculative, non-speculative, and non-fiction. This year, The Year of the Reading Slump, I have 15 books in total that have made it onto the list, which is an indicator of how much my reading year kind of sucked, sadly. So, the fact that these books managed to stand out in the middle of one of my worst reading years ever should tell you how good they are!

They are absolutely in no particular order except maybe kind of chronological, going in order from December to January, but honestly, even that’s not accurate. Oh well. Doesn’t matter.

Onto the books!

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Favorite Speculative Books of 2020

Okay, so it’s time for my final favorite books post for 2020, my favorite speculative/fantasy reads! I read more fantasy than anything else, so there was a lot to choose from, and I finished a bunch of series this year, so that made this even more difficult. This is my favorite post of the three to make!

Also, we have a tie for the #1 spot because I just…could not decide. Interestingly, the books that tied have some themes in common; they are both tied up in my ethnic heritage, so that’s really interesting!

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Best Books of 2020 (So Far!)

Now that we’re officially halfway through the year, and I have read 62 books, it’s time to talk about my ten faves of the year so far! These are arranged in the order in which I read them. It’ll be interesting to see which books make it to the best books of the year in December! These are in the order that I read them, because ranking them is too stressful. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(Note: I am choosing not to include nonfiction, as I’ve been reading more nonfiction this year and will probably just talk about all of them in a separate post at the end of the year.) Continue reading “Best Books of 2020 (So Far!)”