2021 – Books Read

In 2021, I ended up reading about 80 books. I expanded beyond my usual preference for YA, checking out different fiction genres as well as a ton of nonfiction. My biggest secret? Reading two books at once–generally fiction on my kindle for about an hour before I fell asleep each night, and nonfiction throughout the day, while eating breakfast, brushing my teeth, during commercial breaks I couldn’t fast forward through…

Favorite Fiction: Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake – Alexis Hall
Favorite Nonfiction: A None’s Story – Corinna Nicalou
Honorable Mentions (because choosing is hard!):
Concrete Rose – Angie Thomas
The Guinevere Deception – Kiersten White
Boyfriend Material – Alexis Hall
An Emotion of Great Delight – Tahereh Mafi
I Hope You Get This Message – Farah Naz Rishi
The Cousins – Karen M McManus
You Can Go Your Own Way – Eric Smith
Hot Dog Girl – Jennifer Dugan
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel – Jessica Brody
Untamed – Glennon Doyle

1. Caravel – Stephanie Garber
2. Don’t Read the Comments – Eric Smith
3. You Had Me at Hola – Alexis Daria
4. A Promised Land – Barack Obama
5. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue – V.E. Schwabb
6. These Violent Delights – Chloe Gong
7. The Devil You Know – Jo Goodman
8. Concrete Rose – Angie Thomas
9. The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas
10. Meet Cute – various authors
11. Legendary – Stephanie Garber
12. Pure – Linda Kay Klien
13. Letter to a Christian Nation – Sam Harris
14. Finale – Stephanie Garber
15. You Are Your Own – Jamie Lee Finch
16. Not Quite Out Yet – Louise Willingham
17. Cinderella Is Dead – Kalynn Bayron
18. The Cousins – Karen M McManus
19. What Kind of Woman – Kate Baer
20. A Madness So Discreet – Mindy McGinnis
21. All Your Twisted Secrets – Diana Urban
22. They Wish They Were Us – Jessica Goodman
23. Five Total Strangers – Natalie D. Richards
24. Mating in Captivity – Esther Perel
25. Plain Bad Heroines – Emily M. Danforth
26. Firekeeper’s Daughter – Angeline Boulley
27. Daisy Jones and the Six – Taylor Jenkins Reid
28. Silver in the Wood – Emily Tesh
29. Malice – Heather Walter
30. The Ten Thousand Doors of January – Alix E. Harrow
31. Bad Theology Kills – Kevin Miguel Garcia
32. Boyfriend Material – Alexis Hall
33. Conventionally Yours – Annabeth Albert
34. Witches, Sluts, Feminists – Kristen J. Sollee
35. I Hope You Get This Message – Farah Naz Rishi
36. Damaged Goods – Dianna E. Anders
37. The Other Black Girl – Zakiya Dalila Harris
38. Malibu Rising – Taylor Jenkins Reid
39. Bad Feminist – Roxane Gay
40. An Emotion of Great Delight – Tahereh Mafi
41. Untamed – Glennon Doyle
42. Spellbreaker – Charlie N. Holmberg
43. Blackout – various authors
44. Unfair – John Shore
45. Leaving the Fold – Marlene Winnell
46. This Is Me Letting You Go – Heidi Priebe
47. Suicide Notes From Beautiful Girls – Lynn Weingarten
48. The Passing Playbook – Isaac Fitzsimmons
49. Camp – L.C. Rosen
50. Hot Dog Girl – Jennifer Dugan
51. Dear Martin – Nic Stone
52. Heartstopper – Alice Oseman
53. For Small Creatures Such as We – Sasha Sagan
54. The Vanishing Half – Brit Bennett
55. Some Girls Do – Jennifer Dugan
56. Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating – Adiba Jaigirdar
57. One Last Stop – Casey McQuiston
58. Two Can Keep a Secret – Karen M McManus
59. Worth It – Britt Barron
60. You’re a Miracle (and a Pain in the Ass) – Mike McHargue
61. Girl From Shadow Springs – Ellie Cypher
62. The Idolatry of God – Peter Rollins
63. The Purity Myth – Jessica Valenti
64. The Silent Patient – Alex Michaelides
65. The Box in the Woods – Maureen Johnson
66. Beautiful Revolutionary – Laura Elizabeth Woollett
67. Out of the Easy – Ruta Sepetys
68. Peter Darling – Austing Chant
69. Dear Rachel Maddow – Adrienne Kisner
70. Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake – Alexis Hall
71. Save the Cat! Writes a Novel – Jessica Brody
72. Cultish – Amanda Montell
73. I Think I Love You – Auriane Desombre
74. The Final Girl Support Group – Grady Hendrix
75. Manners and Monsters – Tilly Wallace
76. The Guinevere Deception – Kiersten White
77. A None’s Story – Corinna Nicalou
78. You Can Go Your Own Way – Eric Smith
79. Into the Gray – Michelle Collins
80. Beta Reads – though they aren’t published (yet) so don’t warrant their own spot on the list, this year I read two excellent books by Jessica Jo Hoover, start to finish, one of which was quite possibly my favorite nonfiction/memoir of all time. I can’t wait to be able to gush all about it someday!