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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All of that said, you certainly do not have to use Amazon to check these titles out! I personally mostly use the library (grateful for this resource on a daily basis). I will include both Amazon + Bookshop links for your browsing convenience on either platform.
Here’s a link to my 2020 list of 50 books and 2021 list of 48 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.
TOTALS as of 12.30.22 / 19 NF + 28F = 47
Read So Far in 2022:
Smart but Scattered by Peg Dawson and Richard Guare (Amazon / Bookshop) Finished 1.10.22
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty (Amazon / Bookshop) 1.7.22 ♥️
A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers (Amazon / Bookshop) 1.13.22 ♥️
Intuitive Eating for Every Day by Evelyn Tribole (Amazon / Bookshop) 2.7.22
Wintering by Katherine May (Amazon / Bookshop) 3.2.22 ♥️
Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach (Amazon / Bookshop) 4.8.22
Matrix by Lauren Groff (Amazon / Bookshop) 4.22.22 ✅
The Power of Ritual by Casper ter Kuile (Amazon / Bookshop) ✅ 5.1.22
In a New York Minute by Kate Spencer ♥️ (Amazon / Bookshop) 5.6.22
The Anxiety Sisters’ Survival Guide by Abbe Greenberg & Maggie Sarachek (Amazon / Bookshop) 5.17.22
People We Meet On Vacation by Emily Henry ♥️ (Amazon / Bookshop) 5.16.22
Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Sutanto ✅ (Amazon / Bookshop) 5.25.22
Tranquility by Tuesday by Laura Vanderkam ♥️ (Amazon / Bookshop) 5.31.22
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai ♥️ (Amazon / Bookshop) 6.11.22
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel ♥️♥️ (Amazon / Bookshop) 6.15.22
French Braid by Anne Tyler ✅ (Amazon / Bookshop) 6.19.22
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William Irvine ♥️ (Amazon / Bookshop) 6.20.22
I Miss You When I Blink by Mary Laura Philpottt ✅ (Amazon / Bookshop) 6.23.22
The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday ✅ (Amazon / Bookshop) 6.30.22
American Royals #1 by Katherine McGee ♥️ (Amazon / Bookshop) 7.3.22
American Royals #2: Majesty by Katherine McGee ✅ 7.7.22
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (Amazon / Bookshop) ❤️ 7.12.22
Book Lovers by Emily Henry (Amazon / Bookshop) ✅ 7.22.22
Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday (Amazon / Bookshop) ✅ 7.14.22
This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub (Amazon / Bookshop) ✅ 7.28.22
Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday ✅ 7.29.22
The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand ❤️ (Amazon / Bookshop) 8.3.22
I Guess I Haven’t Learned That Yet by Shauna Niequist (Amazon / Bookshop) 8.18.22
The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller ✅ 8.27.22
The Cartographers by Peng Shepard (Amazon / Bookshop) 9.10.22
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (Amazon / Bookshop) ❤️ 9.25.22
Making it All Work by David Allen (Amazon) ❤️ 9.26.22
You Are Not a Shitty Parent by Carla Naumberg (Amazon) ❤️ 10.5.22
American Royals #3: Rivals by Katherine McGee (Amazon) ✅ 10.15.22
Anti-Time Management by Richie Norton (Amazon / Bookshop) 10.21.22
Life’s Too Short by Abby Jimenez (Amazon / Bookshop) 10.20.22 ❤️
On Rotation by Shirlene Obubi (Amazon / Bookshop) ✅ 10.27.22
Upgrade by Blake Crouch (Amazon / Bookshop) ✅ 10.30.22
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers (Monk & Robot #2) (Amazon / Bookshop) ❤️ 11.3.22
Hunt Gather Parent by Michaeleen Doucleff (Amazon / Bookshop) ✅ 11.13.22
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy (Amazon / Bookshop) ❤️ 11.29.22
We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker 12.1.22
Work Parent Thrive by Yael Schonbrun ❤️ 12.3.22
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout (Amazon / Bookshop) ✅ 12.21.22
Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid ✅ 12.23.22
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki ❤️ 12.26.22
The Swimmers by Julia Otsuka ❤️ 12.30.22
Currently Reading
Free Time by Jenny Blake
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Future Ideas
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman (Amazon / Bookshop)
Big Girl by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan (Amazon / Bookshop)
Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile (Amazon / Bookshop)
Thank You for Listening by Julia Whelan (Amazon / Bookshop)
The Happily Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez (Amazon / Bookshop)
Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez (Amazon / Bookshop)
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (Amazon / Bookshop)
Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark (Amazon / Bookshop)
Bomb Shelter by Mary Laura Philpott (Amazon / Bookshop)
Peace is a Practice by Morgan Harper Nichols (Amazon / Bookshop)
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki (Amazon / Bookshop)
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez (Amazon / Bookshop)
Who is Maud Dixon by Alexandra Andrews (Amazon / Bookshop)
White Teeth by Zadie Smith (Amazon / Bookshop)
Good Neighbors by Sarah Langan (Amazon / Bookshop)
Frederica by Georgette Heyer (Amazon / Bookshop)
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (Amazon / Bookshop)
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (Amazon / Bookshop)
A Town Like Alice by Neil Shute (Amazon / Bookshop)
A Bright Ray of Darkness by Ethan Hawke (Amazon / Bookshop)
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles (Amazon / Bookshop)
Fiona and Jane by Jean Chen Ho (Amazon / Bookshop)
The Position by Meg Wolitzer (Amazon / Bookshop)
The Idea of You by Robinne Lee (Amazon / Bookshop)
Doing Good Better by Williams MacAskill (Amazon / Bookshop)
Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Nedra Glover Tawwab (Amazon / Bookshop)
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Amazon / Bookshop)
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Amazon / Bookshop)
Winter Solstice by Rosamund Pilcher (Amazon / Bookshop)
These Precious Days by Ann Patchett (Amazon / Bookshop)
Kindred by Octavia Butler (Amazon / Bookshop)
The Midnight Library by Matthew Haig (Amazon / Bookshop)
If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha (Amazon / Bookshop)
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa (Amazon / Bookshop)
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (Amazon / Bookshop)
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood (Amazon / Bookshop)
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead (Amazon / Bookshop)
How to do Nothing by Jenny Odell (Amazon / Bookshop)
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (Amazon / Bookshop)
The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz (Amazon / Bookshop)
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott (Amazon / Bookshop)
Southernmost by Silas House (Amazon / Bookshop)
The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali (Amazon / Bookshop)
Beauty In the Breaking by Michele Harper (Amazon / Bookshop)
This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith (Amazon / Bookshop)
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi (Amazon / Bookshop)
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell (Amazon / Bookshop)
A Burning by Megha Majumdar (Amazon / Bookshop)