Canadian authors in RED
British authors in BLUE
American authors in GREEN
January 2021
The Lola Quartet - Emily St.John Mandel (unputdownable story)
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.
Well done - and how nice that you found lots of good books in the mix. That Lionel Shriver is one I don't know. She is not (for me) and easy read but usually well worth the effort.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful way to look back the books you read and the happy moments in 2021!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year! Shammic.
Wish you and your family a peaceful, joyful ad healthy year! These books would be part of yourself now.
ReplyDeleteYoko
Good to see you again. Interesting list!
ReplyDeleteAwesome list. None in my genre and with my inability to concentrate on anything difficult, I have read mostly news articles and columns. Glad to see you back on line.
ReplyDeleteYou had quite a lot to read.
ReplyDeleteGreat list! I put my list on Facebook, email me if you'd like it. We have some of the same favourite authors. I'm going to add your favourites to my list, thanks!
ReplyDeleteNice to see you back again. I have missed you.
ReplyDeleteGreat list of reading materials.
I somehow have gotten out of the habit of reading..Bad!!
I must get back and may look up your favorites.
Sue