By popular demand (and also because I feel this digital record fits my blogging goals & style!) — here is my own personal list of books I am hoping to read in 2021, including those already read and those I plan to read in future quintiles.
I get my picks from a combination of sources but my favorite is Modern Mrs. Darcy! This year’s list also contains some backlist titles that I’ve been meaning to read for way too long.
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Here’s a link to my 2020 list of 50 books read if you’re in need of more ideas!
Symbols Key:
If I really enjoyed a book and can highly recommend it, there will be a ✅
If I obsessively tore through a book and loved it, there will be a ♥️
Don’t get me wrong; I still enjoyed many of the others! The icons are reserved for standouts. If I abandon a book, I will remove it from this list.
2021 TOTAL: 48, 22 nonfiction + memoir / 26 fiction
Q1: January to Spring Break
Becoming by Michelle Obama Finished 1.21 ♥️
The Authenticity Project: A Novel by Claire Pooley Finished 1.9.21 ✅
Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano Finished 1.18.21 ✅ (but – gut-wrenching)
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi Finished 1.27.21 ♥️
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman Finished 2.4.21 ✅
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert Finished 2.9.21 ♥️
Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore Finished 2.14.21 ♥️
Medical Apartheid by Harriett Washington Finished 3.3.21 ✅
All Adults Here by Emma Straub Finished 2.23.21
Power Moms by Joann Lublin Finished 2.28.21
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel Finished 3.14.21 ✅
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Finished 4.7.21 ♥️
A World Without Email by Cal Newport Finished 4.8.21 ♥️
Q2: Spring Break’s End to End of School Year (mid-June)
Greenwood by Michael Christie Finished 5.1.21 ♥️
Driven to Distraction by Edward Hallowell and John Ratey Finished 4.30.21
Win at Work and Succeed at Life by Megan Hyatt Miller + Michael Hyatt ♥️ Finished 5.26.21
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah Finished 4.22.21 ✅
The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano by Donna Freitas Finished 5.11.21 ✅
Effortless by Greg McKeown Finished 5.21.21 ✅
The Jetsetters by Amanda Eyre Ward Finished 5.23.21 ✅
Untamed by Glennon Doyle Finished 5.29.21 ♥️
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson Finished 6.18.21 ✅
Good Apple by Elizabeth Passarella ✅ Finished 6.15.21
Q3: Summer Reading!
The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen ✅ Finished 6.22.21
Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones ♥️ Finished 6.30.21
The Family Firm by Emily Oster ♥️ Finished 7.3.21
Manflu by Simone de Munoz ✅ Finished 7.6.21
Mindful Parenting for ADHD by Mark Bertin ✅ Finished 7.18.21
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris ♥️ Finished 7.18.21
Big Dreams Daily Joys by Elise Blaha Cripe ✅ Finished 7.28.1`
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner Finished 8.1.21
28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand ✅ Finished 8.4.21
What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear by Danielle Ofri ✅ Finished 8.16.21
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid ♥️ Finished 8.22.21
Q4: Fall & Back to School
Everything I have is Yours by Eleanor Henderson Finished 9.12.21
Miracle Creek by Angie Kim Finished 9.26.21 ♥️
All’s Well by Mona Awad Finished 9.24.21 ✅ (but weird!)
Normal People by Sally Rooney Finished 10.7.21 ✅
Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian Finished 10.25.21 ♥️
The Comfort Book by Matt Haig Finished 10.13.21 ✅
On Purpose by Tanya Dalton Finished 10.30.21
Q5: Reflection Season
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro ✅ Finished 11.10.21
4000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman ♥️ Finished 11.18.21
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout ✅ Finished 11.30.21
Restart: Designing a Healthy Post-Pandemic Life by Doreen Dodgen-Magee ✅ Finished 12.7.21
The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg ✅ Finished 12.18.21
Man’s Search For Meaning by Victor Frankl ❤️ Finished 12.8.21
Machiavelli for Women by Stacey Vanek Smith ✅ Finished 12.31.21