March felt like it went by so quickly, but it still doesn’t quite feel like springtime here. We even got some snow squalls towards the end of the month. I read less books this month, but got a lot of ARCs read, even though I also got approved for a ton of new ones. And I have to admit, there have been some really great books that I read this month! Here’s progress on my goals:

• I gained another 21 followers, for a total of 548.
• I completely failed at reading any of the books I own and haven’t read yet, and hope to get to a few this month.
• I read 3 nonfiction books this month, all focusing on Ukraine. But they were so interesting!
• I’m still trying to increase diversity in my reading, reading books by Black, Latinx, Asian, Native American, and LGBTQ authors.

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

March Totals:

• Books read: 39
• Books DNF’d: 0
• Pages read: 7,359
• Hours listened: 10 days, 1 hour, 31 minutes
• Average pages: 387.3
• Average hours listened: 12 hours, 4 minutes

Cumulative Averages:

• Days per book: 2.57
• Pages read per day: 237.39
• Books read per month: 40
• DNF’d books per month: 0

Genres Read in March:

• Fantasy: 13
• Folklore/Fairytales: 1
• General Fiction: 5
• Historical Fiction: 6
• History/War: 3
• Horror: 2
• Mystery/Suspense: 3
• Romance/Erotica: 5
• Science-Fiction: 1

Backlist vs. New Releases:

• Backlist books: 22
• 2022 releases: 17

Fiction Vs. Nonfiction:

• Fiction: 36
• Nonfiction: 3

Format Read:

• Print: 10
• Digital: 10
• Audio: 19

Age Range:

• Adult: 31
• YA: 8

My favorite book of the month was This Rebel Heart by Katherine Locke.

Here’s what I read in March:

• Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
• This Rebel Heart by Katherine Locke (ARC)
• The Jade Setter of Janloon by Fonda Lee (ARC)
• Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman (ARC)
• Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon
• Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang (ALC)
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fineby Gail Honeyman
• Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
• Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

• Time’s Convert by Deborah Harkness 
• Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse (Between Earth and Sky #2) (ARC)
• Tear Down the Throne by Jennifer Estep (Gargoyle Queen #2) (ARC)
• Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments by T.L. Huchu (Edinburgh Nights #2) (ARC)

• A Column of Fire by Ken Follett (Kingsbridge #3)
• Wild and Wicked Things by Francesca May (ARC)
• Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy
• Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
• The Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth (ARC)
• All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir (ALC)
• The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (Beloved Trilogy #1)
• Bad Luck Bridesmaid by Alison Rose Greenberg
• Gilded by Marissa Meyer (Gilded #1)
• How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue
• Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour (ALC)
• Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
• Madam: A Novel of New Orleans by Cari Lynn and Kellie Martin
• Vita Nostra by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko (Metamorphosis #1)

• It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover (It Ends With Us #1)
• To Sir Phillip, With Love by Julia Quinn (Bridgertons #5)

• Chorus by Rebecca Kauffman (ALC)
• The Wild Girls by Phoebe Morgan (ARC)
• Cherish Farrah by Bethany C. Morrow
• Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune

• A Tiny Upward Shove by Melissa Chadburn (ARC)

• Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko (Raybearer #1) — reread
• Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (Between Earth and Sky #1) — reread
• Capture the Crown by Jennifer Estep (Gargoyle Queen #1) — reread
• The Library of the Dead by T.L. Huchu (Edinburgh Nights #1) — reread

How did your March go?