books read in 2021

My favorites from 2021
AuthorTitle
Mitch AlbomTuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson
Alex BanayanThe Third Door*
Leigh BardugoNinth House*
Brit BennettThe Mothers
Brit BennettThe Vanishing Half*
Melissa BroderMilk Fed
Max BrooksWorld War Z
Frances ChaIf I Had Your Face
Victoria ChangObit
Robertson DaviesFifth Business
Robertson DaviesThe Manticore
Sonali DeraniyagalaWave
Joan DidionThe Year of Magical Thinking
David DiopAt Night All Blood is Black
Anthony DoerrFour Seasons in Rome
Will Ellsworth-JonesBanksy: The Man Behind the Wall
Yasmine El-RashidiChronicle of a Last Summer
Beth Ann FennellyHeating & Cooling: 52 Micro-memoirs
Erica FerenickThe River at Night
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Great Gatsby
Avery FlynnButterface
Lucy FoleyThe Guest List
Gabriela GarciaOf Women and Salt
Estella GonzalezChola Salvation
Amanda GormanThe Hill We Climb
Philippa GregoryThe Other Queen
Eliza GriswoldIf Men, Then
Yaa GyasiHomegoing
Matt HaigThe Midnight Library*
Matt HaigThe Radleys
Matt HaigReasons to Stay Alive
Thomas HarrisThe Silence of the Lambs*
Thomas HarrisHannibal*
Thomas HarrisHannibal Rising
Hermann HesseSiddartha
Elin HilderbrandWinter Street
James HiltonGoodbye, Mr. Chips
S.E. HintonRumblefish
Alice HoffmanPractical Magic
Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns
Aldous HuxleyBrave New World
Jedidiah JenkinsTo Shake the Sleeping Self*
Jasmin KaurWhen Your Ask Me Where I’m Going
Rupi KaurMilk and Honey
Toshikazu KawaguchiBefore the Coffee Gets Cold*
Stephen KingDesperation
Stephen KingFour Past Midnight
Stephen KingLisey’s Story
Stephen KingSalem’s Lot
Stephen KingThe Stand
Stephen KingThinner
Jon Krakauer Into Thin Air
Jon Krakauer Into The Wild
Mary KubicaThe Other Mrs.
Christina LaurenLove and Other Words
John LennonIn His Own Write
Lisa LutzThe Passenger
Emily St. John MandelStation Eleven
Cyrille MartinezThe Dark Library
Olga MeckingNiksen: Embracing the Dutch Art of Doing Nothing
Amy MeyersonThe Bookshop of Yesterdays*
Amy MeyersonThe Imperfects
Delphine MinouiThe Book Collectors
Jeannie MooneThen Came You
Haruki MurakamiKafka On the Shore*
Haruki MurakamiNorwegian Wood
Haruki MurakamiThe Strange Library
Celeste NgEverything I Never Told You
Celeste NgLittle Fires Everywhere
Joyce Carol OatesBlack Dahlia & White Rose
Alessandra OlanowI Used to Have a Plan
George OrwellAnimal Farm
Ruth OzekiA Tale for the Time Being*
Ceylan ScottOn a Scale from 1 to 10
Lizzie ShaneAn Unplanned Christmas
Lionel ShriverThe Post-Birthday World
Josie SilverOne Day in December
Antonio SkarmetaA Distant Father
Robin SloanSourdough*
Lara Stache & Rachel DavidsonGilmore Girls: A Cultural History
Timothy SnyderOur Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary
John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men
Jessi Jezewska StevensThe Exhibition of Persephone Q
Brandon TaylorReal Life
Angie ThomasConcrete Rose
Lexy TimmsBanking on Him
Lexy TimmsPrice of Passion
Lexy TimmsInvesting in Love
Pamela TimmsKorma, Kheer, & Kismet: Five Seasons in Old Delhi
J.D. VanceHillbilly Elegy
Carolyn Vaughn (editor)Michelangelo’s Notebooks: The Poetry, Letters, and Art of the Great Master
VoltaireCandide
Ruth WareThe Woman in Cabin 10
Catherine Adel WestSaving Ruby King*
*favorites in 2021