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). Independent bookstores are also wonderful to support – look up your local shop or explore on IndieBound.
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 4.8: 6 / 4 NF + 2 F
Read
Smart but Scattered by Peg Dawson and Richard Guare (Amazon / Bookshop) Finished 1.10.22
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty (Amazon / Bookshop) Finished 1.7.22 ♥️
A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers (Amazon / Bookshop) Finished 1.13.22 ♥️
Intuitive Eating for Every Day by Evelyn Tribole (Amazon / Bookshop) Finished 2.7.22
Wintering by Katherine May (Amazon / Bookshop) Finished 3.2.22 ♥️
Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach (Amazon / Bookshop) Finished 4.8.22
Currently Reading
Matrix by Lauren Groff (Amazon / Bookshop)
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William Irvine (Amazon / Bookshop)
Future Ideas
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai (Amazon / Bookshop)
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki (Amazon / Bookshop)
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez (Amazon / Bookshop)
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers – out in July (Amazon / Bookshop)
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel – out in April (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)
This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub – out in May (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)
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout (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
The Midnight Library by Matthew Haig
If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa (Amazon / Bookshop)
The Guncle by Steven Rowley (Amazon / Bookshop)
Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley (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
The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Southernmost by Silas House
The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
The F**k It Diet by Caroline Dooner
Beauty In the Breaking by Michele Harper
This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
The Invisible Life of Ada Larue by V. E. Schwab
A Burning by Megha Majumdar