I read 30 books this year; which actually surprised me since I feel like my reading has declined some in these pandemic times. I read some really great stuff and some really terrible, awful, waste of time stuff. Thirty feels like a good number to me in this year of a year; even though several of my chosen books were garbage. 2022 book related resolution - read only what I truly feel like reading, when I feel like reading it...and remember that it's perfectly okay to quit a book if you're not feeling it. I won't get in trouble with anyone if I put it down.
Anyway, here's my list for posterity:
2021 Reads:
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle - David Wroblewski
The Alice Network - Kate Quinn
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
In Five Years - Rebecca Serle
Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as told to me) Story - Bess Kalb
Wow, No Thank You - Samantha Irby
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy - Jenny Odell
Long Bright River - Liz Moore
What Kind of Woman: Poems - Kate Baer
10. The Midnight Library - Matt Haig
11. American Dirt - Jeanine Cummins
12. Rodham - Hilary Clinton
13. Hamnet - Maggie O’Farrell
14. The Book of Delights - Ross Gay
15. The Push - Ashley Audrain
16. In. The Graphic Novel - Will McPhail
17. When No One is Watching - Alyssa Cole
18. Malibu Rising - Taylor Jenkins Reid
19. News of the World - Paulette Jiles
20. My First New York: Early Adventures in the Big City - Misc authors (collection of essays from New York Magazine)
21. Finding Freedom: A Cook’s Story Remaking a Life from Scratch - Erin French
22. We Were Liars - E. Lockhart
23. The Family Fang - Kevin Wilson
24. Writers & Lovers - Lily King
25. The Smoke Week - Elis Avery
26. The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead
27. Silver Sparrow - Tayari Jones
28. Sounds Like Me - Sara Bareilles
29. Migrations - Charlotte McConaghy
30. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder & Memory in Northern Ireland - Patrick Radden Keefe
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