Book read and reviewed (or soon-to-be reviewed) in 2021:
Life In Pieces – Dawn O’Porter
How to Be an Antiracist – Ibram X. Kendi
Interior Chinatown – Charles Yu
Transcendent Kingdom – Yaa Gyasi
Wintering – Katherine May
Monogamy – Sue Miller
Twelve Years A Slave – Solomon Northup
She Came to Slay – Erica Armstrong Dunbar
The Night Watchman – Louise Erdrich
Let Me Tell You What I Mean – Joan Didion
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man – Emmanuel Acho
Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell
Weather – Jenny Offill
Redhead by the Side of the Road – Anne Tyler
There There – Tommy Orange
The Pull of the Stars – Emma Donoghue (BookTube Prize)
Homeland Elegies – Ayad Akhtar
A Children’s Bible – Lydia Millet
Real Life – Brandon Taylor (BookTube Prize)
Writers & Lovers – Lily King (BookTube Prize)
Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart (BookTube Prize)
The Glass Hotel – Emily St. John Mandel (BookTube Prize)
Broken – Jenny Lawson
Piranesi – Susanna Clarke (BookTube Prize)
I’m Still Here – Austin Channing Brown
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race – Reni Eddo-Lodge
Spinning Silver – Naomi Novik
Consent – Annabel Lyon
Catalogue Baby – Myriam Steinberg
Diary of a Somebody – Brian Bilston
Born a Crime – Trevor Noah
Call the Midwife (Call the Midwife #1) – Jennifer Worth
Shadows of the Workhouse (Call the Midwife #2) – Jennifer Worth
Farewell to the East End (Call the Midwife #3) – Jennifer Worth
Furiously Happy – Jenny Lawson (Re-Read)
Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
Concrete Rose – Angie Thomas
We Are Not Free – Traci Chee
You Are Your Best Thing – Tarana Burke and Brené Brown
The House on the Cerulean Sea – T.J. Klune
Alone Together – Jennifer Haupt
Whereabouts – Jhumpa Lahiri
South and West – Joan Didion (Not Reviewed, 3 stars)
This Book Is Anti-Racist – Tiffany Jewell
When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi
The Martian – Andy Weir (Re-Read)
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry #1) – Rachel Joyce
The Window Seat – Aminatta Forna
Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir
Seven Days In June – Tia Williams
Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops – Shaun Bythell
Men Explain Things to Me – Rebecca Solnitt (Not Reviewed, 3 stars)
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies – Deesha Philyaw
The Argonauts – Maggie Nelson
Leave the World Behind – Rumaan Alam
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante #1) – Benjamin Alire Sáenz
The Fire This Time – Jesmyn Ward (Not Reviewed as need to re-read, 4-4.5 stars)
Jonny Appleseed – Joshua Whitehead
How Not to Get Shot – D.L. Hughley (Not Reviewed, 3.5 stars)
The Best Most Awful Job – Katherine May
Care Of – Ivan E. Coyote
Tomboy Survival Guide – Ivan E. Coyote
Maid – Stephanie Land
The Anthropocene Reviewed – John Green