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2021: A Year in Reading

12/31/2021

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I set a goal of reading 75 books and I read 91, plus some ARCs not listed here and a million student responses. So!  A lot of reading. It was a good year, by that metric alone. 

Here's the list, in December-January order:
91. Stay Awake by Megan Goldin
90. Saving Ruby King by Catherine Adel West
89. Find Me by Anne Frasier
88. The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
87. The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavincencio
86. What’s Done in Darkness by Laura McHugh
85. Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
84. Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
83. The Glass Hotel by Emily  St. John Mandel
82. The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf
81. House of Correction by Nicci French
80. What You Wish For by Katherine Center
79. The Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth
78. Bone Canyon by Lee Goldberg
77. Lost Hills by Lee Goldberg
76. What’s Mine and Yours by Naima Coster
75. A Nearly Normal Family by M. T. Edvardsson
74. Who is Maud Dixon? By Alexandra Andrews
73. Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
72. The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee
71. Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan
70. Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurlan
69. We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence by Becky Cooper
68. The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline
67. America Pacifica by Anna North
66. All the Beautiful Strangers by Elizabeth Klehfoth
65. Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
64. No Hiding in Boise by Kim Hooper
63. Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau
62. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
61. The Talented Miss Farwell by Emily Gray Tedrowe
60. Call Me Elizabeth Lark by Melissa Colasanti
59. The Last by Hanna Jameson
58. Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
57. We Run the Tides by Vendela Vida
56. The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
55. The Last Story of Mira Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim
54. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
53. You Will Remember Me by Hannah Mary McKinnon
52. The Animals by Christian Kiefer
51. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
50. All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage
49. Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore
48. Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
47. Before and After by Rosellen Brown
46. Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salasses
45. When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain
44. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
43. Broken People by Sam Lansky
42. The Monsters We Make by Kali White
41. A Dark and Secret Place by Jen Williams
40. The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2020 by Lawrence Harbison
39. Contemporary Monologues for Twentysomethings by Jessica Bashline
38. Know My Name by Chanel Miller
37. His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie
37. The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
36. The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
35. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone by Heather McGhee
34. Saving Beck by Courtney Cole
33. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
32. Blindness by Jose Saramago
31. Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica
30. Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
29. We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
28. Lakewood by Megan Giddings
27. Utopia by Thomas More
26. The End of Policing by Alex Vitale
25. The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
24. The Truth About Melody Browne by Lisa Jewell
23. Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman
22. In Her Bones by Kate Moretti
21. Hunger by Roxane Gay
20. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
19. The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
18. The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
17. The Absolutist by John Boyne
16. Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
15. The Gone Dead by Chanelle Benz
14. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes DuMez
13. Severance by Ling Ma
12. The Line that Held Us by David Joy
11. Good Company by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
10. Hollywood Park by Mikel Jollett
9. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson
8. Americanah by Chimimandi Ngozi Adichie
7. City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
6. Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
5. A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler
4. Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby
3. Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep
2. Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn
1. All That Remains by Sue Black

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