Yearly Wrap up: Year 2021 ~ Nighttime Reading Center

January 4, 2022

Yearly Wrap up: Year 2021

Well 2021 decided to leave quickly. Covid 19 has not left and it may not but lets hope for something better. Healthly and safe world for our yourselves and children. I hope and pray 2022 will be better and safer. So let's see what I did for the whole 2021 year. Did I do better with the gender gap with more female vs Male? Did I do more of my favorite or did Mix it up this year. You can take a look at my graphs for this year. Along with my monthly wrap-ups. I will be using those wrap up for some stats for some graphs. This year I plan to updated the blog with some new header and some freashen up a bit. The blog is going in to it 10th year. Will be working on my Recommendation page and some of other pages my get some freshen up and some love. Be on the look out for that this year.

I was able to completely read 79 books this year. My goal was 30 books. That is 49 books over my goal. The Total of Pages read for the year 5,722 Pages.

Book Title Read In Order

Mia and Nattie: One Great Team! by Marlene M. Bell
I Miss You Most by Cassie Hoyt
The Berenstain Bears and Lean about Heaven by Mike Berenstain
A Winter Walk in the City by Cathy Goldberg Fisherman
SnoozaPalooza by Kimberlee Gard
Great and Small Easter by BH Kids
Journey To A New Earth by Zeiny Sheir
Dear Brave Friend by Leigh Ann Gerk
Dragons Don't Dance Ballet by Jennifer Carson
I Can Handle It! by Laurie Wright
Mommy's Oven by Brandi Pearce
The Adventures of Forkman: What That Noise? by Tiffany Caldwell, W.R. MacKenzie
The Cuddle Book by Mifflin Lowe
A Night at the Farm: A Bedtime Party by Chelsea Cates, Quinn Metal Corbin
Mickey on the Move by Michelle Wagner
When Twilight Breaks by Sarah Sundin
The Moonlight School by Suzanne Woods Fisher
The Robin's Greeting by Wanda E. Brunsetter
Love on the Edge by Various Authors
'Twas the Morning of Easter by Glenys Nellist
The Berenstain Bears and the Easter Story by Jan and Mike Berenstain
Blood of the Dragonfly by Hawk MacKinney
Let's Talk! (A Story about Autism and Friendship) by Lisa Jacovsky
The Silver Shadow by Liz Tosma
Dear Mrs. President by Ana Maria Medici
Fred Gets Dressed by Peter Brown
The Toot Fairy by Mark Huffman
Cheesemaker Durdsden by Mark Huffman
The Adventures of Molly & Ollie: Moving Day by Sally Beale
Balloons for Tiger by Lori Orlinksy
I'm Not Weird, I Have Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD): Alexandra's Journey by Chynna T. Laird
Rambee Boo's Lake Vacation! by Reena Korde Pagnoni
Doe Grandma Remember Me? by Evita Sherman
A Celebration of Spring by Roger Carlson
The Sprightly Carrot's Dream by Jennifer Tremblay
The New Enchantress by Sunayna Prasad
Potty Training Day by Akilah Trinay
My Arms Will Hold You Tight by Crystal Bowman
I Love You Daddy! by Roger Carlson
Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
The Big Book of Beginner Books About Me by Dr. Seuss
The Scarlet Pen by Jennifer Uhlarik
Rambee Boo's Halloween by Reena Korde Pagnoni
The Red Fence by Ed Damiano
Smile and Say Hi by Mary Jo Hazard
Lost Locket by Wendy Ann Mattox
Possum Problems by Wendy Ann Mattox
Night of Nonsense by Wendy Ann Mattox
Bottle and Stick by Jenifer Stephens
Peggy Parsley and the Buzzy Bumbles of Honeycomb Cottage by W.J. Bixby
Jefferson, Adams and Franklin by Rebecca Massey
The Triumphant Tails of Rescue Dogs: Punk's Plight by Hope A. Walter
Our Moon Festival by Yobi Qiu
Dragon Land by Rebecca Massey
Rambee Boo & Christmas Sock by Reena Korde Pagnoni
Giving Hope by Toni Wengerd
A Celebration of Autumn by Roger Carlson
During a Pandemic by Ashley Perrotti
A World Famous ABC Book by Roger Carlson
Freedom Song by Kim Vogel Sawyer
Buckley the Highland Cow and Ralphy the Goat: A True Story about Kindness, Friendship, and Being Yourself by Renee M. Rutledge
Chipper Makes Merry by Kimber Fox Morgan
The Germ That Would Be King by Jennifer Tremblay
The Costume Contest by Roger Carlson
Halloween Yoga by Teresa Anne Power
Twin Tales: Alike and Different by Brielle Dupervil, Nadia Dupervil
Callie by Bill Tompson
The Berenstain Bears Thanksgiving Blessings by Mike Berenstain
The Berenstain Bears Give Thanks by Mike Berenstain
Robbie Robin by Theresa Perna
The Christmas Blanket by Ed Damiano
Bruce the Spruce: A New York City Fairytale About the True Meaning of Christmas Trees by A.A. Cristi
The Living Christmas Tree by Kristin Sponaugle
Digger Does it All (Not Really)! by Brooke Vitale
Can you Find it? Cars and Trucks on the Road by Alessia Girasole
The Berenstain Bears and Christmas Angel by Mike Berenstain
Ava and Aaron's Christmas Story by Roger Carlson
A Christmas in the Alps by Melody Carlson

The Shortest book of the year is "Great and Small Easter (A Flap Book)" by BH Kids. My Longest book of the year is "When Twilight Breaks" by Sarah Sundin. My average book length by Goodreads is 54.

This year Popular and least popular are some what strange by goodreads. My Most popular book is "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein which is a Children book or Classic book depending on on how you categories your books genres. My Least Popular book was "Magic Magnifying Glass: Lost Locket" by Wendy Ann Mattox. It a children book.

I have read a total of 79 books and some are to the same authors. Looks to be about 48 authors give or take for all 79 books. Here are some charts to show you how many for each author the total for each one.

There are some of the top authors I read this month by number of books read.

My Top 3 Books read by author.

Roger Carlson - 6 Books
Mike Berenstain - 5 Books
Reena Kode Pagnoni and Wendy Ann Mattox - 3 Books

For my Genre of book i enjoyed this year seem to be "Literary Fiction" 53 books (48.1%). The next one is "NonFiction" (19.5%), and then "Classic" with 2 (7.8%) and "Historical Fiction" with 6 (7.8%).

My genres as I categories them are listed below. This is across all of my books read this year. Children is my top genre with a total of 53 books read. If you look above chart that would be be Literary Fiction. The next one is Historical (Historical Fiction) with 6 books read. Mystery is next with 4 books read this year. Fantasy was read with 3 books this year. You can see where the numbers are 2 book are lower.

Those are my favorite to read by the way of fiction. Not in that order per say. I enjoy Children which falls in the Literary Fiction section in the above chart. Historical is the next best for me. Nonfiction 20 Books (30%) to 46 Books (70%).

The authors gender for me this year was clear. I read more female authors then male. Female authors read this year is a total of 53 (67.9%), Male authors read this year was 20 (25.6%), Both came to 4 books (5.1%) and NA came in at 1 books (1.3%). I did do this year though a pie chart to see what my percentage is more Female or Male? My key to this is using Female (F), Male (M), Combined (Both), I did not know (NA).

Almost but not quite there is my Series vs Standalone? How many books do you think you can read 32 Books in series and 47 Books that are considered Standalone. Standalone out wins Series this year. Those this year it seem almost even. How I did that is beyond me.
But how many of each for this year? I have not clue. How many did i start and not finish or got a book that put me to starting a new series. Well lets find out, By looking at the pie chart. Well it looks like I have

I wondered how many of my books came in what format? Were they E-books or Paperback or audio-book or another format. Well thanks me keeping track and Google Sheets for helping figure out the numbers to correct my spreadsheet for making the right format for each of my books for this year in 2021.

My preferred format I seem to be print books compared to digital in 2021. Though I did do a bit of each every year. This year it just something new that I can tack and see the graph for it. The other chart that new this is my pace in reading. You will be able to see both. My pace seems to be medium this year in 2021.

For This year of 2021, I have seem to have read more Paperbacks. I had a total of 5 different formats this year. E-Book, Paperback, Hardcover, Audio-Book and Board Book. My hardcover came next after Paperback. Which you can tell by the pie chart.

Do you want to see what my Age Range was this year. Well I finally was able to get that tracked and this year I was able to get graph for my Age range.

Looks like my Top age range for 2021 is Children with 64 Books with Adult coming next with maybe 10 books total. Though the number could be different as this chart is by category of audience.

Tell me how do you track age range?

Here is my favorite books for this year. Here a list of all 12 of them. I have will show you off my top list by showing you that. Some are new releases this year and some were new authors to me this year. I want to thank all the authors and publisher for these lovely top 12 Book that were my favorite for this year.

Now for my reviews for this year. I have read 79 books. Most of the reviews are up for this year. I will show you my first review for 2021 that got posted on Goodreads. That is "Mia and Nattie: One Great Team!" by Marlene M. Bell. I got this book as an hardcover and being on the book Tour. I enjoyed it.

My favorite book that really enjoyed reading and I just loved it was "The Moonlight School". It was one of my better reads. Do not get me wrong when I say that this is one of my favorites reads. It was on one of my top reads for 2021. If would suggest you read my review of "The Moonlight School". Magic Magnifying Glass: Possum Problems is second, The Living Christmas Tree come third to that.

My Top 5 Favorite Reviews: 2020 Year

The Moonlight School (Historical Fiction)
Magic Magnifying Glass: Possum Problems (Mystery)
The Living Christmas Tree (Children)
The Christmas Blanket (Nonfiction, Book Tour)
'Twas the Morning of Easter (Poetry, Children)

That book was my last review posted on Goodreads for 2021 even though it not stating that in my year of books. If you want to see the full review or get a copy of it though my blog please wait for the blog post to go live here in 2022. Here is the one they are saying is my last review of the year.

Here is my full list of blog post for the year of 2021. I hope you enjoy. Let Bring in 2022 with a blast. Happy New Year all. I hope You get more Book to enjoy in 2022.