Your 2021 Year in Books!

[Colleen]

Post your link so we can see all of your proud work! Then let us know the one(s) you most highly recommend so we can read/discuss some more about them and they won't fade so much into memory. :)

[Colleen]

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So out of all 82 books read, I would say these can't be beat. If they are on your TBR go for it! Life's too short to waste time on books you shouldn't have. One of my new goals is to quit books if they aren't up to standard. ;)

The House in the Cerulean Sea
The Heart's Invisible Furies
Lincoln in the Bardo
The Golem and the Jinni
Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
The Signature of All Things

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration then read Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

[Linda]

Let me see if I can do this on the phone w/out app.

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[Linda]

Of the above, I found Stephen King's "Later" held my attention. I did had trouble putting it down. Shirley Jackson's "Dark Tales" was also really enjoyable. I got caught up with Harry Hole, though the tragedy was getting to be a bit much. Finally. I really liked Cerca's "Terra Alta", and hope my book club opts to read the next installment.

[John]

https://www.goodreads.com/user_challe...

My best reads for the year were:
The Missing This was my second read of this book
The Secrets We Kept I would have liked more espionage; however, I thought it was a good character study, especially of the post WW2 era.
Darktown Noir fiction which may be a television series next year. It provides good examples of Jim Crow laws.
Project Hail Mary If you have a chance, listen to this as audiobook. The narrator does it an excellent job.
The Song of Achilles I love this renewal and retelling of Greek mythology.
Shadows in Time Thus far, the best of the Kendra Donovan series - time travel crime drama with a touch of Regency England romance.
Before the Coffee Gets Cold Japanese author with the simplest concept of time travel I have read.
A Gracious Plenty An excellent bit of Southern fiction which, alas, spent too long on my bookshelves unread.

[Sameeksha]

I read 35 books this year.
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Some of my best reads were:
1. The Devil and the dark water
2. A Monster calls
3. Long Bright River
4. Keeper of the lost cities series
5. A league of extraordinary women series

[Jennifer]

John, a couple of yours just made it onto my TBR...

NF, I can easily pick my best read of the year: The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America 1932-72. It was magnificent. (Coincidentally, earlier this week I read another book that covers from 1920-1931 from a different author that reads a lot like "Glory and the Dream" in terms of immersing you in the time period: Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's. The latter also has the feeling of being written today looking back, although it was originally published in 1931.)

Fiction I'm going to have to think about.