I am that person who loves data, charts, and lists. So every month, I recap 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!

This month, I did not read quite as many books as I would have liked. However, I did attend a lot of book and social events. I am trying to find that perfect balance of reading enough and socializing enough. My total number of books read was also down this month because I had difficulty concentrating on audiobooks.

Breakdown

• Books read: 8

• Pages read: 2,772

• Percent female authors: 100%

• Percent BIPOC authors: 62.5%

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

Books read

• A Living Remedy: A Memoir by Nicole Chung | 🎧 ⭐⭐
• Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1621 by T.J. Newman | ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫
• Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman & the Violence Against the Many by Mona Gable | 🎧 ⭐⭐⭐
• Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez | ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley | ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫
• Paper Names by Susie Luo | ⭐⭐⭐
• Stone Cold Fox by Rachel Koller Croft | ⭐⭐⭐💫
• Happy Place by Emily Henry | ⭐⭐⭐💫

Books in progress

I started four books in May that I plan to finish in June.

• The Long Way Back by Nicole Baart
• Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
• Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” by Héctor Tobar
• Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming by Ava Chin

Books acquired

In addition to my little Memorial Day Weekend haul, I acquired the following books in May.

Aardvark Book Club

• This Bird Has Flown by Susanna Hoffs
• Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
• Swamp Story by Dave Barry

Book of the Month

• Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
• The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami
• Paper Names by Susie Luo
• The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren
• Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez
• Hello Girls by Brittany Cavallaro and Emily Henry

Gifted Physical Copies

• The Ferryman by Justin Cronin
• Late Bloomers by Deepa Varadarajan
• Lucky Girl by Irene Muchemi-Ndiritu
• A Renaissance of Our Own by Rachel E. Cargle
• Drowning by T.J. Newman
• Once More with Feeling by Elissa Sussman
• Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See
• The Talk by Darrin Bell
• Cutting Teeth by Chandler Baker
• What Never Happened by Rachel Howzell Hall
• Small Town Sins by Ken Janorowski
• Trail of the Lost by Andrea Lankford

NetGalley Approvals

• Spirit of a Hummingbird: Memories from a Childhood on the Run by Felicia Thai Heath

Bookstore Buys

• The East Indian by Brinda Charry
• Forbidden City by Vanessa Hua
• Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
• Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir by Rachel Louise Snyder