Well, I am a little late for the review...blame it on the holidays, traveling, workers in the condo, getting home in January. You can pick what excuse you like for me! But I am back home and feeling settled and, better late than never, here's my review of my 2021 reading!
I read 72 books last year. (I am challenging myself to 80 for 2022). I have 17 books from my reading in 2021 that I rated from very good to excellent:
Magic Lessons-Alice Hoffman
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue-VE Schwab
Wintering-Kathleen May
Outliers-Malcolm Gladwell
We Begin at the End-Chris Whitaker
Hidden Valley Road-Robert Kolker
The Dry-Jane Harper
Killers of the Moon Flower-David Grann
Mrs. Lincoln’s Sisters-Jennifer Chiaverini
Beneath a Scarlett Sky-Mark Sullivan
The Heart’s Invisible Furies-John Boyne
The Lost Book of Names-Kristin Harmel
The TieThat Binds-Kent Haruf
The Exiles-Christina Baker Kline
Oh William-Elizabeth Strout
All the Children Are Home
The Book of Magic-Ann Hoffman
It's very surprising to me that 5 of the 17 were non-fiction! You may notice that 2 of the books are by the same author (one was read in January, and one was read in December).
Now to whittle down the list. This is fairly easy this year as some books really stood out to me. Here's my top 6:
Magic Lessons-Alice Hoffman
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue-VE Schwab
The Heart’s Invisible Furies-John Boyne
The Exiles-Christina Baker Kline
Oh William-Elizabeth Strout
The Book of Magic-Ann Hoffman
I really loved these 6 books. But as soon as I read one of them, I was quite certain that it would be my 2021 favorite, and I was right:
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne gets my vote for the number one favorite book read in 2021. If you haven't read it, I highly encourage you to read it. It's a beautiful story with wonderful writing.
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