(in red: I really enjoy it!)
January 2021
1. Bring Jade Home – Michelle Caffrey
2. What If? – Randall Munroe
3. My Two Moms – Zach Wahls
4. Gullible’s Travels – Cash Peters
5. Armageddon Summer – Jane Yolen & Bruce Coville
6. Benny and Omar – Eoin Colfer
7. The Woman Who Died a Lot – Jasper Fforde
8. The Book of Lost Names – Kristin Harmel
9. The Boy from Baby House 10 – Alan Philps
February 2021
10. The Sacrifice – Beverly Lewis
11. Girls Made of Snow and Glass – Melissa Bashardoust
12. The Reluctant Assassin (WARP #1) – Eoin Colfer
13. The Bear and the Nightingale – Katherine Arden
14. The Prodigal – Beverly Lewis
15. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer
16. The Last Nude – Ellis Avery
17. The Olive Season – Carol Drinkwater
18. The Paris Architect – Charles Belfoure
March 2021
19. Gone Bamboo – Anthony Bourdain
20. Keeper of the Female Medicine Bundle – Allen Ross
21. The Light in Hidden Places – Sharon Cameron
22. The Lust Lizard Of Melancholy Cove – Christopher Moore
23. The House in the Cerulean Sea – TJ Klune
24. Claire of the Sea Light – Edwidge Danticat
25. Jennifer Government – Max Barry
26. The Olive Tree – Carol Drinkwater
27. Eat a Peach – David Chang
28. Headlong – Michael Frayn
April 2021
29. Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro
30. This Is What America Looks Like – Ilhan Omar
31. Leaving Mother Lake – Yang Erche Namu
32. Aleph – Paulo Coelho
33. The Immortal Boy – Francisco Montaña Ibáñez
34. Row for Freedom – Julia Immonen
35. The Book of Salt – Monique Truong
36. The Buddha in the Attic – Julie Otsuka
37. The Jaguar Smile – Salman Rushdie
38. My Maasai Life – Robin Wiszowaty
39. Tunkashila – Gerald Hausman
40. The Master Butchers Singing Club – Louise Erdrich
41. Medicine Walk – Richard Wagamese
42. The Apprentice – Jacques Pepin
43. The Lesson – Cadwell Turnbull
44. Antarctic Antics – Judy Sierra
45. Secret Daughter – Shilpi Somaya Gowda
46. Lost City in the Clouds – Elizabeth Gemming
47. The Foreign Student – Susan Choi
May 2021
48. The Midnight Library – Matt Haig
49. A Van of One’s Own – Biddy Wells
50. We of the Never-Never and The Little Black Princess – Jeannie Gunn
51. The Puffin of Death – Betty Webb
52. Doppler – Erlend Loe
53. My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me – Jennifer Teege
54. Japanese Fairy Tales – Yei Theodora Ozaki
55. Love and Rutabaga – Claire Hsu Accomando
56. Together Tea – Marjan Kamali
June 2021
57. Clockwork Princess – Cassandra Clare
58. Salt – Mark Kurlansky
59. If I Was Your Girl – Meredith Russo
60. Things A Little Bird Told Me – Biz Stone
61. Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors – Sonali Dev
62. Before the Fall – Noah Hawley
63. Crying in H Mart – Michelle Zauner
64. Napoleon’s Buttons – Penny Le Couteur, Jay Burreson
65. The Umbrella Country – Bino A. Realuyo
July 2021
66. Moby-Duck – Donovan Hohn
67. Waking – Matthew Sanford
68. The Bourbon Thief – Tiffany Reisz
69. Martin Misunderstood – Karin Slaughter
70. Things We Lost in the Fire – Mariana Enriquez
71. Greek to Me – Mary Norris
72. Goodbye, Things – Fumio Sasaki
73. The Archer – Paulo Coelho
August 2021
74. Brightstorm – Vashti Hardy
75. Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia – Christina Thompson
76. Before the Coffee Gets Cold – Toshikazu Kawaguchi
77. Goong vol 1 – So Hee Park
78. Castle in the Air – Diana Wynne Jones
79. Asterix in Corsica – René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo
80. Elsewhere, Home – Leila Aboulela
81. The Power – Naomi Alderman
82. Sideways 3: Chile – Rex Pickett
83. The Silent Boy – Lois Lowry
84. Gentleman Jack – Anne Choma
85. The Autumn Castle – Kim Wilkins
86. We Are the Weather – Jonathan Safran Foer
87. Mexican Gothic – Silvia Moreno-Garcia
88. See’s Famous Old Time Candies – Margaret Moos Pick
September 2021
89. The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and of His Fortunes and Adversities – Anonymous
90. My Penguin Year: Life Among the Emperors – Lindsay McCrae
91. The Sanatorium – Sarah Pearse
92. Hello Kitty – Ken Belson, Brian Bremner
93. Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer
94. Rabid – Bill Wasik , Monica Murphy
95. The Moorchild – Eloise McGraw
October 2021
96. Brown Girl Dreaming – Jacqueline Woodson
97. Mauve – Simon Garfield
98. In the Dream House – Carmen Maria Machado
99. Fat Chance, Charlie Vega – Crystal Maldonado
100. Chewing Gum in Holy Water – Mario Valentini
101. Jazz – Toni Morrison
102. Pushout – Monique Morris
103. The Tale of Hill Top Farm – Susan Wittig Albert
104. In Trouble Again – Redmond O’Hanlon
105. Spanking Shakespeare – Jake Wizner
106. Lady Margaret’s Ghost – Elizabeth McDavid Jones
107. The Tale of Holly How – Susan Wittig Albert
November 2021
108. Lincoln in the Bardo – George Saunders
109. A Reading Diary – Alberto Manguel
110. The End of Everything – Megan Abbott
111. Peace Is Every Breath – Thich Nhat Hanh
112. A River of Royal Blood – Amanda Joy
113. A Vision in Velvet – Juliet Blackwell
114. Abel’s Island – William Steig
115. The Sisters of the Winter Wood – Rena Rossner
December 2021
116. The Almond Picker – Simonetta Agnello Hornby
117. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes – Suzanne Collins
118. Poems for a Small Park – E.D. Blodgett
119. Losing My Mind – Thomas DeBaggio
120. Quiet – Susan Cain
121. Why Italians Love to Talk About Food – Elena Kostioukovitch
122. Sorrow and Bliss – Meg Mason
123. Love After the End – Joshua Whitehead
124. The Persian Pickle Club – Sandra Dallas
125. The Giant’s House – Elizabeth McCracken
126. The History of the Snowman – Bob Eckstein
My Best 10 of 2021 (not in strict order):
Braiding Sweetgrass
Klara and the Sun
The Book of Lost Names
The Paris Architect
Lincoln in the Bardo
My Penguin Year
Brightstorm
Quiet
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
The Bourbon Thief
A little stats, as usual:
BookCrossing Books: 74 (58.7%), Non BookCrossing Books: 52
Fiction: 78, Non Fiction: 48 (38%)
Looking through the years’ stats, it seems like I have been incredibly consistent with my fic:nonfic ratio. Though this year the BC books ratio is way lower, due to the fact that I am participating in so many challenges that required me to borrow titles from the library to fulfill the quests.
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