I am that person who loves data, charts, and lists. So every month, I will be recapping what I read and what books I acquire along with anything else I think is of value or interest. Let me know if you have any ideas!

I was in a *mood* this month that led to me not reading much initially. While my reading picked up in the second half of the month, I definitely did not read as may books as I wanted. But February is a new month!

Breakdown

• Books read: 9

• Pages read: 2,825

• Percent female authors: 44%

• Percent BIPOC authors: 11%

These charts are primarily from the Storygraph app, which is an alternative to the Amazon-owned Goodreads.

Books read

• No Second Chance by Harlan Coben | ⭐⭐⭐💫
• All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham | ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall | ⭐⭐⭐
• Treacle Walker by Alan Garner | ⭐⭐💫
• Please Report Your Bug Here by Josh Riedel | ⭐⭐⭐💫
• Locust Lane by Amidon Stephen | ⭐⭐💫
• Pines (Wayward Pines, #1) by Blake Crouch | ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun by Elle Cosimano | ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion by Bushra Rehman | ⭐⭐⭐

Books in progress

I started three books in January that I will continue (and hopefully finish) in February. Unless I have read a majority of a book, I will not count it towards that month’s total read books.

• Spare by Prince Harry
• Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America by Eyal Press
• Blaze Me a Sun by Christoffer Carlsson

Books acquired

In January, I acquired 17 physical books and four e-books. I selected five Book of the Month books and one Aardvark Book Club book. I had previously pre-ordered two books that arrived this month. The remainder of books I received as gifts from publishers or for my birthday.

Book of the Month

• Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor
• What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall
• Lunar Love by Lauren Kung Jessen
• Independence by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
• Queen of Thieves by Beezy Marsh

Aardvark Book Club

• Desert Creatures by Kay Chronister

Previous Pre-Orders

• How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
• “You Just Need to Lose Weight” and 19 Other Myths about Fat People by Aubrey Gordon

NetGalley Approvals

• On the Savage Side by Tiffany McDaniel
• Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
• Our Best Intentions by Vibhuti Jain
• I Will Find You by Harlan Coben

Gifted Physical Copies

• What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jimenez (ARC)
• The Drift by C.J. Tudor
• Central Places by Delia Cai
• Spare by Prince Harry
• The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
• A History of Burning by Janika Oza (ARC)
• Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion by Bushra Rehman
• Who’s Your Founding Father: One Man’s Epic Quest to Uncover the First, True Declaration of Independence by David Fleming (ARC)
• Into the Heartless Wood by Joanna Ruth Meyer

Please note that I am not listing them here as any kind of brag. I want to keep track for my goal of reducing the number of books I have.