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*****