Below are the results of my 2021 reading goals. I filled more than half of my bingo slots, with a decent variety of books. As always, I did not include books I read in Japanese.

The Night Diary	Mystery or thriller	Heart and Soul	Essay collection	Memoir or biography
Trail of Lightning	Nikkei history	NewsPrints	Lukao	The Poet X
Voice of Freedom	Non-US based author	A Death-Struck Year	History or sociology	Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
YA fantasy	Displacement	Ayesha At Last	The Empress of Salt and Fortune	Short story collection
Village Scene, Village Herd	Night Sky with Exit Wounds	The Moon Within	Bilingual book	Translated work

I am happy to announce I got bingo, in the central vertical column. The bingo books are listed below:

• Heart and Soul – Kadir Nelson
• NewsPrints – Ru Xu
• A Death-Struck Year – Makiia Lucier
• Ayesha At Last – Uzma Jalaluddin
• The Moon Within – Aida Salazar

Other books I read this year that qualified for a bingo category are listed below:

• The Night Diary – Veera Hiranandani
• Trail of Lightning – Rebecca Roanhorse
• Voice of Freedom – Carole Boston Weatherford, Ekua Holmes
• Village Scene, Village Herd – Yasuo Sasaki
• Displacement – Kiku Hughes
• Night Sky with Exit Wounds – Ocean Vuong
• Lukao – Craig Santos Perez
• The Empress of Salt and Fortune – Nghi Vo
• The Poet X – Elizabeth Acevedo
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry* – Mildred D. Taylor

*Re-read