Books read in 2021
Homeland Elegies, by Ayad Akhtar*****
A Children's Bible, by Lydia Millet*****
Fight No More: Stories, by Lydia Millet*****
Sweet Lamb of Heaven, by Lydia Millet*****
The Color of Water, by James McBride*****
The Silence of the Girls, by Pat Barker****1/2
Mermaids in Paradise, by Lydia Millet****1/2
Everything I Never Told Her, by Celeste Ng****1/2
Becoming, by Michelle Obama****
Deacon King Kong, by James McBride****1/2
Just Like You, by Nick Hornby****
American Dervish, by Ayad Akhtar*****
Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens****
Find Me, by Andre Aciman***1/3
The Testaments, by Margaret Atwood****1/2
The Best of Me, by David Sedaris****
Olive Again, by Elizabeth Strout*****
Hidden Valley Road, by Robert Kalker****
We Run the Tides, by Vendela Vida*****
Red at the Bone, by Jaqueline Woodson****
What Are You Going Through, by Sigrid Nunez****1/2
The Cold Millions, by Jess Walter*****
At the Edge of the Haight by Katherine Seligman*****
Of Women and Salt, by Gabriela Garcia****
The Committed, by Viet Than Nguyen****1/2
In the Dream House, by Carmen Maria Machado*****
My Year Abroad, by Chang-Rae Lee****1/2
The Ministry for the Future, by Kim Stanley Robinson*****
Someone, by Alice McDermitt****1/2
Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro*****
Weather, by Jennifer Offill*****
Where the Line Bleeds, by Jesmyn Ward****1/2
Ignorance, by Milan Kundera****1/4
Last Chance Texaco, by Ricki Lee Jones****
My Life in Middlemarch, by Rebecca Mead****1/2
The Tiger's Wife, by Tea Obreht*****
The Promised Land, by Nicholas Lemann*****
Caramelo, by Sandra Cisneros****1/2
Fiebre Tropical, by Juliana Delgado Lopera****
My Education, by Susan Choi****
A Big Storm Knocked It Over, by Laurie Colwin***1/2
Middlemarch, by George Eliot*****
Embassy Wife, by Katie Crouch****
The Emerald Mile, by Kevin Fedarko****1/2
The Broker, by John Grisham****
In the Event of Contact, by Ethel Rohan****1/2
The Great Believers, by Rebecca Makkai****1/2
Frankkissstein, by Jeanette Winterson*****
My Antonia, by Willa Cather*****
City of Thieves, by David Benioff*****
Wayward, by Dana Spiotta*****
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong*****
We Live in Water, by Jess Walter***1/2
Emerald City, by Jennifer Egan****
Our Country Friends, by Gary Shteyngart***1/2
Ten Minutes and 38 Seconds in This Strange World, by Elif Shafak*****
Electrify, by Saul Griffith***** (and me)
A Promised Land, by Barack Obama****
Beautiful World, Where Are You, by Sally Rooney*****
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Dubois, by Honoree Fannone Jeffers*****
Orwell's Roses, by Rebecca Solnit*****
Crossroads, by Jonathan Franzen*****
Harlem Shuffle, by Colson Whitehead ****1/2
His Only Wife, by Peace Adzo Medie, ***1/2
Did I Say You Could Go, by Melanie Gideon (friend)
Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro*****
Fuzz, by Mary Roach (friend)
When We Were Orphans, by Kazuo Ishiguro*****
Real Estate, by Deborah Levy ****1/2
The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro*****
An Artist of the Floating World, by Kazuo Ishiguro****1/2
Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of the World, by Daniel Sherell*****
We Need New Names, by NoViolet Bulawayo*****
La Biblioteca de Saint-Malo, by Mario Escobar***1/2
How Beautiful We Were, by Imbolo Mbue*****
Mislaid, by Nell Zink****1/2
The Lincoln Highway, by Amor Towles*****
The School for Good Mothers, by Jessamine Chan****
Matrix, by Lauren Groff*****
Luster, by Raven Leilani****1/2
Five Tuesdays in Winter, by Lily King****1/2
A Girl is a Body of Water, by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi*****
Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel****1/2
The Feral Detective, by Jonathan letham***1/2
Ninth Street Women, by Mary Gabriel*****
Booth, by Karen Joy Fowler*****
The Candy House, by Jennifer Egan****1/2
Take My Hand, by Dolen Perkins-Valdez****1/2
The High Sierra: A Love Story, by Kim Stanley Robinson****1/2
The Pleasing Hour, by Lily King****
Afterlife, by Julia Alvarez****
Bewilderment, by Richard Powers*****
Trust Exercise, Susan Choi*****
Glory, by NoViolet Bulawayo****1/2
Personal Librarian, by Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray***1/2
Savage the Bones, by Jesmyn Ward*****
Vagabonds! by Eloghosa Osunde****
The Parade, by Dave Eggers****
The Good Left Undone, by Adriana Trigliani***1/2
The Maid, Nita Prose****
Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr*****
The Death of Vishnu, by Manil Suri*****
Night Boat to Tangier, by Kevin Barry*****
Every Day is for the Thief, by Teju Cole*****
The Fugitives, by Jamal Mahjoub****
The Hand that First Held Mine, by Maggie O'Farrell****1/2
May We Be Forgiven, by Ann Homes****
Instructions for a Heat Wave, by Maggie O'Farrell****
Peggy Guggenheim, Francine Prose***
Seta, by Alexandro Barrico***** (Italian)
Less is Lost, by Andrew Sean Greer****1/2
Black Is the Body, by Emily Bernard*****
Beasts of a Little Land, by Juhea Kim*****
My Autobiography, by Charlie Chaplin*****
Mating in Captivity, by Esther Perel****1/2
Love Marriage, by Monica Ali****1/2
Great Circle, by Maggie Shipstead*****
Cuba, by Ada Ferrer*****
Signal Fires, by Dani Shapiro****1/2
King of Cuba, by Cristina Garcia****
King of Cuba, by Cristina Garcia****
Dinosaurs, by Lydia Millett****1/2
Astonish Me, by Maggie Shipstead****1/2
Our Missing Hearts, Celeste Ng****1/2
The Marriage Portrait, by Maggie O'Farrell*****
If An Egyptian Cannot Speak English, by Noor Naga****