if you are familiar with this blog, you might know I started reading books (I won’t say exclusively, but a good 90% of them) in digital format back in 2016, with great results in terms of speed, satisfaction, user experience, availability of titles.

because I am an engineer at heart, I wanted to understand better what was the impact of digital on my book reading. here’s the result for last year, 2021, with number of books and pages read per month. I’ll be also posting stats for years 2016-2020 so we can reasonably start making some connections between the books I read and what was happening in my life and in the world.

here’s my book list for 2021, I read 27 books, a total of 9897 pages, with an average of 824,75 pages/month.

2021    title | author | pages

1 Such a Fun Age | Kiley Reid | 321
2 The Cousins | Karen M. McManus | 261
3 One of Us Is Lying | Karen M. McManus | 359
4 Pretty Little Wife: A Novel | Darby Kane | 407
5 The Glass Hotel: A novel | Emily St. John Mandel | 321
6 Leave the World Behind: ‘The book of an era’ Independent | Rumaan Alam | 232
7 The Vanishing Half: A Novel | Brit Bennett | 350
8 Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About The World – And Why Things Are Better Than You Think | Hans Rosling | 353
9 The Wrong Family: A Thriller | Tarryn Fisher | 305
10 I Can Be A Better You: A shocking psychological thriller | Tarryn Fisher | 300
11 In other rooms, Other Wonders | Daniyal Mueenuddin | 260
12 Two Wrongs | Rebecca Reid | 301
13 No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention | Reed Hastings | 310
14 The Night Watchman: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction 2021 | Louise Erdrich | 467
15 The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win | Gene Kim | 437
16 The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data | Gene Kim | 335
17 The Soul of A New Machine | Tracy Kidder | 297
18 Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture | David Kushner | 368
19 Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace | 1092
20 The Mars Room: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize | Rachel Kushner | 354
21 The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music | Dave Grohl | 384
22 A Man Called Ove: The life-affirming bestseller that will brighten your day | Fredrik Backman | 305
23 My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises | Fredrik Backman | 353
24 Le api non vedono il rosso (I coralli) | Giorgio Scianna | 253
25 Klara and the Sun: The Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year | Kazuo Ishiguro | 418
26 The Buried Giant | Kazuo Ishiguro | 354
27 Anxious People: The No. 1 New York Times bestseller from the author of A Man Called Ove | Fredrik Backman | 400