I feel good about the amount of reading I did in 2021. It has still been a strange year, with a pandemic still raging, but we did head back to working on site in June, and that meant commuting again. I managed to squeeze one last Book in by finishing it today, so my total is 33 books for the year. That doesn’t match my golden days of reading, but it’s a great improvement over the last several years. I will certainly try to keep up that pace.
For today’s post, I’m just going to list all the books I read in 2021 in alphabetical order. Then starting tomorrow, I will list my favorites. And just in case you’re wondering, the book pictured is one that I liked, but that didn’t make the final list.
Architects of Memory (2020) by Karen Osborne
Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to Be a Rock Star (2013) by Tracey Thorn
The Bird King (2019) by G. Willow Wilson
The Blade Between (2020) by Sam J. Miller
The Guncle (2021) by Steven Rowley
Harlem Shuffle (2021) by Colson Whitehead
The Healing Power of Singing (2021) by Emm Gryner
Hidden Palace (2021) by Helene Wecker
Honor (2022) by Thrity Umrigar
How to Be an Antiracist (2019) by Ibram X. Kendi
Hummingbird Salamander (2021) by Jeff VanDerMeer
If I Knew Then: Finding Wisdom in Aging and Power in Failure (2020) by Jann Arden
Invisible Kingdom, Vol. 2: Edge of Everything (2020) by G. Willow Wilson
Invisible Kingdom, Vol. 3: In Other Worlds (2021) by G. Willow Wilson
Kill Me Now (2018) by Timmy Reed
Kindred (1979) by Octavia Butler
Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album (2012) by Ken Caillat with Steven Steifel
Master of the Revels (2021) by Nicole Galland
Memorial (2020) by Bryan Washington
The Next Queen of Heaven (2009) by Gregory Maguire
Night Came With Many Stars (2021) by Simon Van Booy
The Odd Sea (1998) by Frederick Reiken
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (2021) by Becky Chambers
Rachel to the Rescue (2021) by Elinor Lipman
Real Life (2020) by Brandon Taylor
Scardown (2005) by Elisabeth Bear
The Seventh Perfection (2020) by Daniel Polansky
Sex with Strangers (2021) by Michael Lowenthal
A Star is Bored (2020) by Byron Lane
The Stone Sky (2017) by N.K. Jemisen
Storms: My Life with Lindsey Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac (2007) by Carol Ann Harris
Stumptown: The Case of the King of Clubs (2015) by Greg Rucka
Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike (2013) by Christopher Durang
