Thursday, January 6, 2022

Books of 2021

Another year, another set of amazing books enjoyed!  Thank god for the library kindle app as this would have quite expensive otherwise! 

Homeland Elegies, Ayad Akhtar

The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

War, Margaret Macmillan

The Midnight Library, Matt Haig

Beach Read, Emily Henry

All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque

Normal People, Sally Rooney

The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson

Mediocre, Ijeoma Oluo

The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz

Beloved, Toni Morrison

Burnout, Emily Nagoski, Amelia Nagoski

Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri

New Yorkers, Craig Taylor

The Quiet Boy, Ben H Winters

The Others, Sarah Blau

The Babysitter, Liza Rodman, Jennifer Jordan

Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner

The Premonition, Michael Lewis

Circe, Madeline Miller

The Maidens, Alex Michaelides

How the Word is Passed, Clint Smith

The Disappearing Act, Catherine Steadman

Battle Cry of Freedom, James M. McPherson

The Subtle Art of Not giving a Fuck, Mark Manson

Stupid Shit I Won’t Do When I Get Older, Steven Petrow

House of Gucci, Sara Gay Forden

Long Bright River, Liz Moore

Trick Mirror, Jia Tolentino

The Picture of Dorian Grey, Oscar Wilde

The Right to Sex, Amia Srinivasan

A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself, Peter Ho Davies

Burnt Sugar, Avni Doshi

How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, Kiese Laymon*

Wayward, Dana Spiotta*

The Copenhagen Trilogy, Tove Dittlevsen*

Intimacies, Katie Kitamura*

Afterparties, Anthony Veasna So*

Velvet Was the Night, Silvia Moreno Garcia*

*I somehow read all of these the last two weeks of December when the in laws were in town.  It is amazing the focus I can have when not vegging on the couch watching TV every night.

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