Welcome to December! We’re in the home stretch of this dumpster fire of a year. 

I still want to keep up with the trend of highlighting positive things each month, so here’s my positives for November:

• I made major progress in reading my ARCs.
• I got the 50 reviews badge from NetGalley!
• I completed reading all of my books for the BBNYA.
• I read more adult books, and a little less YA books during the month.
• I got approved to start a new medication, so hopefully it’ll help manage my autoimmune condition and allow me to feel better. 🤞🏻
• I had my very first vegan Thanksgiving, and it was really delicious. I got to make foods that I wouldn’t have normally been able to make at a regular Thanksgiving and the best part was that I got all of the leftovers!

Here’s my breakdown of monthly/cumulative totals for November:

November Totals

• Books read: 26
• Books DNF’d: NONE!
• Pages read: 7,776
• Average pages: 259.20
• Average minutes listened: 19.67

Cumulative Averages

• Days per book: 1.97
• Pages read per day: 278.57
• Books read per month: 22.91
• DNF’d books per month: 0.6

Genres Read in November

• Fantasy: 11
• General Fiction: 2
• Graphic Novel: 1
• Historical Fiction: 3
• Horror: 1
• Mystery/Suspense: 2
• Romance/Erotica: 6

Genres Read in 2020

• Biography/Memoir: 2
• Books About Books: 1
• Fantasy: 112
• Folklore/Fairy Tales: 8
• General Fiction: 26
• Graphic Novels: 3
• Historical Fiction: 37
• History/War: 1
• Horror: 3
• Mystery/Suspense: 8
• Paranormal/New Age: 1
• Play/Theater: 1
• Poetry: 1
• Romance/Erotica: 15
• Science/Nature: 1
• Sci-Fi: 30
• Self-Help/Inspiration: 1
• Social Science/Current Affairs: 1

Backlist vs. 2020 Releases

• Backlist books: 174
• 2020 releases: 78
• 2021 releases: 1

Fiction Vs. Non-Fiction

• Fiction: 244
• Nonfiction: 8

Format Read:

• Print: 134
• Digital: 105
• Audio: 13

Age Range

• Adult: 104
• YA: 144
• Middle Grade: 3
• Children: 1

My favorite books of the month were The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow and One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London.

Here’s what I read in November:

3 BBNYA Books (which I can’t name or review just yet).

• Perverted Princess by Patience Parks (Perverted Royals #1)
• Perverted Duchess by Patience Parks (Perverted Royals #2)  
• Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera ARC
• Perverted Pr*ck by Patience Parks (Perverted As*holes #1)
• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
• The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
• The Lives of Saints by Leigh Bardugo
• These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong (These Violent Delights #1) ARC
• Warmaidens by Kelly Coon (Gravemaidens #2) ARC
• One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London

• A Reaper at the Gates by Sabaa Tahir (An Ember in the Ashes #3)
• Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare (The Infernal Devices #3)
• Our Dark Duet by Victoria Schwab (Monsters of Verity #2)

• Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks
• Perverted Prince by Patience Parks (Perverted Royals #4)
• Perverted Viscount by Patience Parks (Perverted Royals #3)
• Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare (The Infernal Devices #2)
• Forever by Maggie Stiefvater (Wolves of Mercy Falls #3)
• Game of Cones by Cynthia Baxter (Lickety Splits Ice Cream Shoppe Mystery #4) ARC
• Beneath Cruel Fathoms by Anela Deen (The Bitter Sea Trilogy #1)

• The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Camelot Betrayal by Kiersten White (Camelot Rising #2) ARC

• The Push by Claire McGowan ARC

How did your November reading go? What were your positives for the month?