100 Books in 2021:
I managed to do it again! Here’s the list of books I ploughed through this year– must say, setting a ridiculously high reading goal during the second year of a pandemic makes it all seem a bit more manageable! 🙂
- Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann*
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith*
- Yes Please by Amy Poehler*
- Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon*
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr*
- Letters to a Young Artist by Anna Deveare Smith *
- Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman*
- The History of Love by Nicole Krauss*
- The Book of Other People edited by Zadie Smith*
- Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhoarse
- Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse
- Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo^
- Disability Visibility edited by Alice Wong
- The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon^
- Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northrup
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee^
- Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay
- Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
- Eloquent Rage by Brittany Cooper^
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalinithi
- Maya’s Notebook by Isabelle Allende^
- Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead^
- Tar Baby by Toni Morrison ^
- Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones
- Wintering by Katherine May
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout^
- A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum
- Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates
- Beloved by Toni Morrison ^
- China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty
- Luster by Raven Leilani ^
- Klara and the Sun by Kashuo Ishiguro^
- The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
- When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole
- Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson^
- Black Girl Call Home by Jasmine Mans^
- The Wych Elm by Tana French
- Cilka’s Journey by Heather Morris
- Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley^
- Songteller by Dolly Parton^
- Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo^
- The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
- A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth (BBC Full cast adaptation by John Scott Dryden)^
- The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney by Okechukwu Nzelu
- Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker ^
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
- Little Fish by Casey Plett
- The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante^
- Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile^
- The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson ?^
- Quichotte by Salman Rushdie
- Nobody Will Tell You This But Me by Bess Kalb
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez^*
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler^
- The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson^
- Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
- The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by VE Schwab ^
- Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie
- How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee^
- Stay With Me by Ayòbamámi Adébáyò
- Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid^
- How the One Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones
- When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro^
- The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi^
- The Giant, O’Brien by Hilary Mantel
- Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones^
- Pandora’s Jar by Natalie Haynes^
- Islands of Decolonial Love by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson^
- An Everlasting Meal by Tamar Adler
- On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong^
- The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi^
- The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey^
- In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado^
- House of Glass by Hadley Freeman
- The Barren Grounds by David A. Robertson
- Would I Lie to You? by Alia Ali-Afzal^
- The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
- A Promised Land by Barack Obama^
- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia^
- The Final Revival of Opal and Nev by Dawnie Walton
- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
- Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead^
- Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
- Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury^*
- Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor^
- Beautiful World Where Are You by Sally Rooney^
- His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie^
- Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin^
- Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr^
- Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
- La Belle Sauvage by Phillip Pullman^
- The Secret Commonwealth by Phillip Pullman^
- The First Woman by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
- Untamed by Glennon Doyle^
- The Farm by Joanne Ramos
- Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
- The Mountains Sing by Nguyen Phan Que Mai
*denotes re-read
^denotes audiobook
Total audiobooks: 49
Books by women/non binary: 71
Books by BIPOC authors: 60
Countries of Origin:
- Ireland
- England
- USA
- Martinique
- Jamaica
- South Korea
- Ghana
- Chile
- Canada (Peguis First Nation)
- Japan
- Sugar Island Ojibwe tribe
- Haiti
- India
- Scotland
- Canada
- Italy
- Colombia
- South Africa
- Nigeria
- Singapore
- Barbados
- Nishnaabeg Nation
- Vietnam
- Trinidad
- Liberia
- Uganda
- The Philippines