Books read in 2021.... finally got to make a list and publish it! But I may have forgotten some in December.
Canadian authors in RED
British authors in BLUE
American authors in GREEN
January 2021
The Lola Quartet - Emily St.John Mandel (unputdownable story)
The Murder of Cleopatra, History's Greatest Cold Case - Pat Brown
Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng (another unputdownable)
Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng (I enjoyed this author a lot)
The Glass Hotel - Emily St.John Mandel (loved this book)
February 2021
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman (good book)
All Adults Here - Emma Straub
The Girls - Emma Cline
Akin - Emma Donoghue (loved this book) (just noticed, 3 Emma authors in a row)
More Than a Woman - Caitlin Moran
March 2021
Remarkable Creatures - Tracy Chevalier
The Tobacconist - Robert Seethaler
The Widow - Fiona Barton
Lawn Boy - Jonathan Evison (loved this book)
A Whole Life - Robert Seethaler
At the Edge of the Orchard - Tracy Chevalier
13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl - Mona Awad (DNF)
Weather - Jenny Offill (DNF)
April 2021
Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
Olive, Again - Elizabeth Strout
Real Life - Brandon Taylor (DNF, got as far as page 27, not my style)
The Green Road - Anne Enright
The Long Call - Anne Cleeves
This is Your Life, Harriet Chance - Jonathan Evison
May 2021
Astray - Emma Donoghue
Utopia Avenue - David Mitchell (all books by David Mitchell are worth reading, especially this one)
Slade House - David Mitchell (2nd time reading)
The Lager Queen of Minnesota - J. Ryan Stradal
This One Wild Life - Angie Abdou (DNF but may try again)
The Dutch House - Ann Patchett (good book)
Big Sky - Kate Atkinson
Shotgun Lovesongs - Nickolas Butler
The Wangs vs. the World - Jade Chang (DNF)
The Revolution of Marina M - Janet Fitch (DNF, 805 pages, too big too heavy too complicated)
June 2021
Adults - Emma Jane Unsworth (DNF, nope)
The Child - Fiona Barton
The Lady and the Unicorn - Tracy Chevalier
Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke (good book, I read it twice, clever)
Modern Lovers - Emma Straub
Gifted - Nikita Lalwani
July 2021
This is Happiness - Niall Williams (lovely book!)
Legends of the North Cascades - Jonathan Evison
Rainbow Milk - Paul Mendez (loved this book, surprised myself!)
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - Robin Sloan
Mayflies - Andrew O'Hagan (good book)
August 2021
Instructions for a Heatwave - Maggie O'Farrell
Bad Dreams - Tessa Hadley (short stories)
The Hand that First Held Mine - Maggie O'Farrell
Late in the Day - Tessa Hadley
The Village - Nikita Lalwani
Dual Citizens - Alix Ohlin
September 2021
The Glass House - Beatrice Colin (DNF)
The Paris Dressmaker - Kristy Cambron (DNF, pathetic)
The Wonder - Emma Donoghue
The Secret of the Great Pyramid - Bob Brier and Jean-Pierre Houdin
October 2021
The Return - Joseph Helmreich
A Passage North - Anuk Arudpragasam
The Woman on the Stairs - Bernhard Schlink
The Motion of the Body Through Space - Lionel Shriver
A Boring Wife Settles the Score - Marie Renee Lavoie
November 2021
All I Ask - Eva Crocker
Swimming With Horses - Ross Oakland
One for the Rock - Kevin Major
The Opposite of Fate - Alison McGhee
December 2021
Bone and Bread - Saleema Nawaz
Transcription - Kate Atkinson
Click on "books" at the bottom of this post for my reading list for previous years.
