My January 2021 TBR may seem like a lot to read for the first month of 2021. However, all of these books are already started. I like to kick of the year with some quick, fast-paced reads.
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The Books
Big Magic is a book club book and a reread for me. I want to finish up Messing with the Enemy, a non-fiction that is a bit work related. It is all about how social media has been used by both terrorists and state sponsored hackers to hack computers and perception. I am only about 200 pages into the 1500 page Oathbringer. My copy of Rhythm of War has not been delivered yet, so Oathbringer has been on the back burner so I don’t have to wait. I am excited to finish up Ghosts of the Shadow Market so that I can start The Eldest Curses series. Can Cassandra Clare slow down so that I can get caught up?
I began the Daevabad Trilogy in December and am so excited to see how Chakraborty develops this world in Kingdom of Copper. I am trying to do a no spend January and don’t have a copy of Empire of Gold yet so I will likely push finishing this to the end of the month. Finally, I have had The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue in my hands for a while. I’m about 100 pages in and cannot believe how beautiful the writing is. Victoria Schwab continuously impresses me. I’m also reading The Dark Archive, book seven in The Invisible Library series. This series is criminally underrated. A magical library with librarians spies that keep worlds stable between fae and dragons by stealing books.
The StoryGraph
I will be tracking all of my book related activity over on The StoryGraph this year. I made the switch from Goodreads to The StoryGraph a couple of weeks ago and have been familiarizing myself with the platform. The StoryGraph was developed by Nadia Odunayo and is a direct competitor with Goodreads. There are a number of things that drew me to it, but primarily, that the platform is not nearly as clunky as Goodreads. The analysis that it provides is far deeper than Goodreads, including the moods of the books, books read vs. pages read, and genres. The icing on the cake is the recommendations that they are able to provide.
I have never used Goodreads for recommendations, just a way of tracking upcoming releases. The Storygraph intakes deep insight into the books you like, so the output is so much more robust. More than that, the filters in the recommendations can really hone in on what you are looking for. As someone who can get into some serious reading funks, I am so excited to take advantage of this tool.
My January 2021 TBR list is long, but I am very confident I’ll complete it. You can follow my progress at my StoryGraph profile here.
