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Looking Back Over 2021, Looking Forward to 2022

Happy New Year! It's now 2022 and time to look forward to this new year's reading, and the bookish goals for the year - or at least the things we hope to achieve.

But before I dive in to 2022, I'd like to take a very brief look at some of my favourite books read in 2021.

Favourite Books of 2021

I didn't have the best reading year in 2021. There were times when I just didn't read a huge amount, either due to not feeling it or not enjoying the book I was reading. And to be honest, there weren't a huge amount of books I really loved. So instead of my normal break down of my fave books in various genres/categories, I'm just listing the few that I really, really enjoyed last year. All images link to my reviews, except fot the last, as I've not reviewed it yet.

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Looking Back over 2019, Looking Forward to 2020

Titles marked with an asterisk (*) were gifted to me by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

It's New Year's Eve! Can you believe the year has flown by already? It's gone by so quickly! I swear, the older I get, the quicker the years go by!

But it's the time of year when I look back over my reading and blogging over the past year, and share what my plans are for the next. So without further ado, onwards!

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Looking Back Over 2018, Looking Forward to 2019

Can you believe another year has gone by? I swear, it feels like it should only be March, not the end of the year! But no matter who quick it's flown by, it's here, and it's time look over the past year, and make blogging and reading plans for 2019!

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Looking Back Over 2017, Looking Forward to 2018

Another year has been and gone! Can you believe it? As I do each year, I'm going to look back over the blog and my reading from 2017, and look forward to what I'm looking forward to next year!

Favourite Books of 2017:

Fave Book of 2017 Overall:



Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

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Looking Back on 2016, Looking Forward to 2017

So it's come to the end of the year, and again I want to look back over the year on Once Upon a Bookcase and my reading, and what I'm looking forward to in 2017.

Favourite Books of 2016:

Fave Book of 2015 Overall:



Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven

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Looking Over 2015, Looking Forward to 2016

I know most will take part in Jamie of The Perpetual Page-Turner's End of Year Survey, but I'm just not in the mood for it this year. However, I did want to write something that looked back over the past year on Once Upon a Bookcase, and looks forward to 2016.

In this post I'll talk about my favourite books of 2015, what I received from my Secret Santa, looking back over 2015's reading. I'll also talk about my plans for 2016, which include the kind of books I'll be aiming to read, the challenges I'm taking part in and why, and my plans regarding Twitter and my thoughts on leaving it.

Favourite Books of 2015:

This isn't an easy choice. I could choose just one, but it would be leaving out so many other wonderful novels. So instead of just choosing one, I'm going to choose one for different genres, or on different topics. Also, this is for books I read in 2015, not necessarily books published in 2015.

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