Interesting and important topics I covered in my reading:
- Gangs
- Police brutality
- Sexuality
- Gender identity
- Attention
- Habits
- Slavery and colonisation (if it were white people that it happened to)
- Original fairy tales
- Forced marriage
- Facts about the world / stats that prove we’re doing better than we think
- Shame and perfectionism
Total number of books read = 41
Number of physical books read = 17
Number of audiobooks listened to = 10
Number of ebooks read = 14
Total number of pages read = 11,947
Average book length = 296 (I read some shorter ones the last week of December!)
Total number of audiobook hours = 108 hours
Longest physical book read = 636, Goblet of Fire
Shortest physical book read = 67, Notting Hill Carnival
Longest audiobook read = 26hrs, Priory of the Orange Tree
Shortest audiobook read = 3hrs 11, Can We All Calm Down
Number of authors of colour/non-white authors read = 11
– of which weren’t black = 3
Number of LGBTQ authors or stories read = 8
Number of books featuring POC/non-white main character read = 12
Number of books NOT set in a westernised country = 2
Number of non-fiction books read = 9
Favourite non-fiction read = Untamed or This Book Is Gay
Favourite fiction read = A Very Large Expanse of Sea or Hello Mum
Least favourite read = And the Ocean Was Our Sky or I Thought It Was Just Me (both authors I enjoy, but these are these worst books, IMO!)
How did you do? Happy reading in 2022!
Sincerely,
S. xx
S. R. Crawford 