I spent some time at the beginning of the month finalizing my reading tracker for 2021, adding last minute books and taking a look at the data. Here are the quick stats:

• 112 books

• 60 fiction, 37 poetry, 4 nonfiction

• 18 books in translation

• 31 audiobooks

• Just over 25,000 pages

Looking at the 2021 numbers gave me an opportunity to set some goals for 2022, which I always enjoy. I’ve dubbed this year “twenty-twenty-tome,” the year of long books (the name’s a stretch, but I don’t care). I usually prefer short novels (125-150 pages is the sweet spot for me), and struggle to get excited by long novels or nonfiction. So this year, I plan to read four novels that are 600 pages or more:

• Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany

• I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita (I’ve read the first two sections but not the whole book)

• Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

• They Were Counted by Miklós Bánffy, translated by Patrick Thursfield and Katalin Bánffy-Jelen (this is the first in a trilogy that appears difficult to find, so I’m linking to the Wikipedia page instead)