I read 91 books in 2021. An asterisk means I was rereading something.
January
1. Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
2. Thomas Rid, Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
3. James Swallow, Star Trek: Picard: The Dark Veil
4. Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
5. Jonathan Metzl, Dying of Whiteness
6. John Gaskin, The New Inn Hall Deception
7. Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
8. Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies
February
1. Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire, Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn
2. Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room
3. Erin Monroe et al, Gorey’s Worlds
4. Matthew Lane, Power-up: Unlocking the Hidden Mathematics in Video Games
5. Julia Quinn, Romancing Mister Bridgerton
6. Leslie S. Klinger (editor), The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
7. James O’Brien, How to Be Right
8. Ayad Akhtar, American Dervish
9. Ayad Akhtar, The Invisible Hand
10. Ayad Akhtar, Disgraced
11. Ayad Akhtar, The Who and the What
12. Ayad Akhtar, Junk
13. S. A. Chakraborty, The City of Brass
14. Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
15. Valeria Luiselli, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions
March
1. Jonathan Aycliffe, A Shadow on the Wall
2. Una McCormack, Enigma Tales
3. Justin Torres, We the Animals
4. Jenny Offill, Weather
5. Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation
6. Sue Black, All That Remains: A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes
7 Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
8. Angela Slatter, Sourdough and Other Stories
9. Melissa Albert, The Hazel Wood
10. Anne Boyer, The Undying
11. Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones
12. Andrew Caldecott, Not Exactly Ghosts
13. Kage Baker, The Hotel Under the Sand
14. Andrew Caldecott, Fires Burn Blue
April
1. Danez Smith, Homie
2. Jericho Brown, The Tradition
3. TaraShea Nesbit, Beheld
4. Lou Cannon, Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power
5. Michael Cooperson, Impostures by al-Hariri
6. Miriam Toews, Women Talking
7. Kevin Barry, That Old Country Music
8. Zadie Smith, Intimations
9. Mohsin Hamid, Exit West
10. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone*
May
1. Anne Carson, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
2. Anne Carson, Antigonick
3. Oksana Zabuzhko, Your Ad Could Go Here
4. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets*
5. Rebecca Solnit, Whose Story is This?
6. Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life
7. Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies
8. Barbara Pym, Excellent Women
9. Nicole Chung, All You Can Ever Know
10. Becky Cooper, We Keep the Dead Close
11. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban*
June
1. Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley
2. Margaret Rhodes, The Final Curtsey
3. Donna Zuckerberg, Not All Dead White Men
4. Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
5. Leah Remini, Troublemaker
July
1. Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
2. Anne Glenconner, Lady in Waiting
3. Rainbow Rowell, Carry On
4. Jason Schreier, Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry
August
1. Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again
2. David Baddiel, Jews Don’t Count
3. Anna Fields, The Girl in the Show
September
1. Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
2. Carrie Fisher, Shockaholic
3. Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six
4. The Secret Barrister, Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies
5. Edouard Louis, History of Violence
6. Una McCormack, The Baba Yaga
October
1. Dayton Ward, Star Trek: Coda: Moments Asunder
2. Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West*
3. Lacy Crawford, Notes on a Silencing
November
1. John Boyne, A Ladder to the Sky
2. James Swallow, Star Trek: Coda: The Ashes of Tomorrow
3. Una McCormack, Star of the Sea
4. E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime
5. Loretta Lynn, Coal Miner’s Daughter (expanded edition)
6. Philip Purser-Hallard, Sherlock Holmes: The Vanishing Man
December
1. David Mack, Star Trek: Coda: Oblivion’s Gate
2. Reggie Oliver, A Maze for the Minotaur and Other Strange Stories
3. John Jackson Miller, Star Trek: Picard: Rogue Elements
4. Tommy Orange, There There
5. Laurie R. King, The Murder of Mary Russell
6. Deborah Eisenberg, Transactions in a Foreign Currency
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