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Certified Hits: Readers' Most Popular 4-Star Reads of 2021
This collection is short, sweet and to-the-point. Below we have collected the most popular 2021 books as sorted by your fellow readers' reviews, across all genres. Then we just shaved off the very top–each title has an average reader rating of 4 stars or more. It’s better reading through data! (And if you’re skeptical of trusting the ratings of others, remember–your ratings are in there, too.)
Scroll over the covers below to learn more about each book, and be sure to add the titles that pique your interest to your Want to Read shelf!
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Have a 4-star read to recommend to your fellow readers? Share it with us in the comments below!
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Anyone taking bets on how many comments before someone tallies up the genders of the authors?
Seán Coireall M. wrote: "Anyone taking bets on how many comments before someone tallies up the genders of the authors?"LOL i scrolled down to see if we were gonna have angry gender comments again
Seán Coireall M. wrote: "Anyone taking bets on how many comments before someone tallies up the genders of the authors?"Not soon enough.
Warren wrote: "The other popular hitsKarin Slaughter...False Witness
Vince Flynn...Enemy at the Gates
John Sanford...Ocean Prey
Victor Davis Hanson...The Dying Citizen"
I agree with this list!! ❤
millie wrote: "Seán Coireall M. wrote: "Anyone taking bets on how many comments before someone tallies up the genders of the authors?"LOL i scrolled down to see if we were gonna have angry gender comments again"
Sean and Millie, get out of my brain!! LOL
I even had a scathing reply already taking shape, about how the *readers* generated this list, not Goodreads. Dang.
why are there so many books with blue on the covers and not more with green?blue bias!!
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We won't stop fighting for feminism until every one of these lists is 100% women. 85%+ women just isn't enough, it reeks of misogyny and male privilege.
The likely cause of the so-called gender bias in the poll is the fact that there are more women than men on the site and women tend to read more. But I for one will never trade my rivet gun for a soy latte and a comfy chair!
Jim wrote: "why are there so many books with blue on the covers and not more with green?blue bias!!
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Thanks, I needed that laugh!
Graceling by Kristin Cashore is quite good...
I finally got on the Murderbot Express this year .... Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells was great!I'll read anything by Jodi Taylor ... love her St Mary's series. British humor mixed with time travel, these are generally a cannot miss. Another Time, Another Place is the latest installment.
RR Haywood is another cannot miss for me. The Elfor Drop was the second in that series, but the one that blew me away was The Four Worlds of Bertie Cavendish -- great crossover of all his series!
Prodigal Son by Gregg Hurwitz -- latest installment of the Orphan X series
Why does EVERYTHING in this world have to be carved up into anti men-pro women-antiwomen -pro-men etc. ?I don't care who wrote the book , just that they tell a story well. With fiction , I want to be taken away from the crappy stuff that's in my reality now.Whether it be MSM or political or whatever , I just want to read a good book. I don't want to be preached to about how I should think or feel. I have never been against any of the sexualities , but I have begun to steer away from LGBTQ in the genre list , because it seems as though books about coming of age deals with kids not knowing their sexuality. It may be true ,but not to the extent that it is all being made out to be. I think BLM but if I see a book proclaiming it , I turn away, ALL lives matter. I don't want to be told I am racist, I don't want to be taught what to think . We are drowned with media telling us this is important , and this isn't important. Even though you and I may not think the same things are important , we still have the right to think them. So when people talk about the gender thing or the sex thing or whatever , let it go . There are creepy men, women, bi's, trans, black, white and yellow .There are times I and even you can be creepy But even all these lives matter. Lets quit picking at each other , you can like what you like and allow me to do the same.
We are a human race all colors and sexes and faiths, we are stronger in unity then we are divided.
100% agree with Arlette. The twisted-twins CRT and intersectionality are here to divide us, not bring about unity. The literary world is just awash with woke bullshit that far too many readers review, just so they can virtue signal their righteousness in front of everyone else. Screw that, there are far more interesting, important books out there with far greater impact than the current slew of box-ticking write-by-numbers, tokenism-on-stilts. Miss me with that lame assed shit.
Arlette wrote: "Why does EVERYTHING in this world have to be carved up into anti men-pro women-antiwomen -pro-men etc. ?I don't care who wrote the book , just that they tell a story well. With fiction , I want to ..."Amen!
Karin Slaughter...False Witness
Vince Flynn...Enemy at the Gates
John Sanford...Ocean Prey
Victor Davis Hanson...The Dying Citizen