Monday, January 3, 2022

New Books Read in 2021

This is the breakdown of all the new books that I read in 2021 by genre.  This list does not include anything that I reread during 2021.

Mystery/Thriller:
1. The Survivors by Jane Harper
2. The Girls I've Been by Tess Sharpe (YA)
3. We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker
4. Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala
5. When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain
6. The Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley (YA)
7. The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
8. Impostor Syndrome by Kathy Wang
9. The Damage by Caitlin Wahrer
10. Survive the Night by Riley Sager
11. That Weekend by Kara Thomas (YA)
12. Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
13. The Hunting Wives by May Cobb
14. Dear Child by Romy Hausmann (tr. by Jamie Bulloch)
15. The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell
16. A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
17. They'll Never Catch Us by Jessica Goodman (YA)

Contemporary Fiction: 
1. The Push by Ashley Audrain
2. Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
3. Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers
4. The Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson
5. Girl A by Abigail Dean
6. In a Book Club Far Away by Tif Marcelo
7. You Have a Match by Emma Lord (YA)
8. What Comes After by Joanne Tompkins
9. Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi (YA)
10. How Lucky by Will Leitch
11. Skye Falling by Mia McKenzie
12. The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
13. Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (tr. by Ginny Tapley Takemori)
14. Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
15. The People We Keep by Allison Larkin
16. Us Against You by Fredrik Backman (tr. by Neil Smith)
17. The Guncle by Steven Rowley
18. A Girl Returned by Donatella Di Petrantonio (tr. by Ann Goldstein)
19. Cool for the Summer by Dahlia Adler (YA)
20. Parachutes by Kelly Yang (YA)
21. Kate in Waiting by Becky Albertalli (YA)
22. She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen (YA)
23. The Bad Muslim Discount by Syed M. Masood
24. Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo (tr. by Jamie Chang)
25. Colorful by Eto Mori (tr. by Jocelyne Allen)
26. The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa (tr. by Philip Gabriel)
27. The Sweetest Remedy by Jane Igharo
28. The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura (tr. by Lucy North)
29. Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha
30. Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
31. We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza
32. My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
33. Lemon by Kwon Yeo-Sun (tr. by Janet Hong)
34. Win Me Something by Kyle Lucia Wu
35. Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park (tr. by Anton Hur)
36. The Arsonists' City by Hala Alyan

Romance:
1. The Dating Plan by Sara Desai
2. People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
3. Shipped by Angie Hockman
4. Hang the Moon by Alexandria Bellefleur
5. The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren
6. Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
7. Meet Me in Paradise by Libby Hubscher
8. The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang
9. The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
10. Well Matched by Jen DeLuca
11. The Holiday Swap by Maggie Knox
12. The Donut Trap by Julie Tieu

Historical Fiction:
1. The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
2. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
3. The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
4. Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
5. Sisters in Arms by Kaia Alderson
6. Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

Literary Fiction:
1. The Mothers by Brit Bennett
2. Infinite Country by Patricia Engel
3. Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour
4. What's Mine and Yours by Naima Coster
5. Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
6. Under the Rainbow by Celia Laskey
7. Kept Animals by Kate Milliken
8. Caul Baby by Morgan Jerkins
9. Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
10. Things We Lost to the Water by Eric Nguyen
11. God Spare the Girls by Kelsey McKinney
12. Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
13. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
14. Bewilderness by Karen Tucker
15. Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
16. Swimming Back to Trout River by Linda Rui Feng
17. Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
18. The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
19. Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin (tr. by Aneesa Abbas Higgins)
20. The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade
21. The Promise by Damon Galgut

Fantasy:
1. Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang
2. Half Sick of Shadows by Laura Sebastian
3. Payback's a Witch by Lana Harper

Sci-Fi:

Memoir:
1. The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton
2. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
3. Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
4. Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu
5. Stolen by Elizabeth Gilpin
6. Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden
7. House of Sticks by Ly Tran
8. Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
9. Shoutin' in the Fire by Dante Stewart
10. Black Box by Shiori Ito (tr. by Allison Markin Powell)

Other Nonfiction: 
1. How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith

Short Story Collections:
1. Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans
2. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
3. Shoko's Smile by Choi Eunyoung (tr. by Sung Ryu)
4. Humiliation by Paulina Flores (tr. by Megan McDowell)
5. Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta
6. Sabrina & Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
7. The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
8. Hao by Ye Chun
9. How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa
10. Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So
11. Night at the Fiestas by Kirstin Valdez Quade
12. Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor

Poetry Collections:
1. Counting Descent by Clint Smith
2. If They Come For Us by Fatimah Asghar