Best book of 2021: Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Overall favorite fiction book of 2021: The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
Overall favorite nonfiction book of 2021: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Overall favorite romance of 2021: Dear Emmie Blue by Lia Louis
Quick stats:
- # of books read: 133
- format breakdown: 47% print, 32% e-book, 21% audiobook
- most-read genre: romance (36%)
- average star rating: 3.9
my favorite reads • reading stats
FIVE-STAR READS
- Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed
- Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh
- Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
- Dear Emmie Blue by Lia Louis
- Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert
- When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors
- The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez
- A Good Marriage by Kimberly McCreight
- Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon
- Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
- Know My Name by Chanel Miller
- Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
- A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny
- A Week to Be Wicked by Tessa Dare
- A Night Divided by Jennifer E. Neilsen
- Glass Houses by Louise Penny
- The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
- The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- One Two Three by Laurie Frankel
- Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
- This Is My America by Kim Johnson
- The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
- Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean
- A Better Man by Louise Penny
- Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century edited by Alice Wong
- Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
- The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite
- You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar
- The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren
- Writers & Lovers by Lily King
- The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
FOUR-STAR READS
- He’s So Fine by Jill Shalvis
- The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny
- Fallen Star by Susannah Nix
- We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- I Flipping Love You by Helena Hunting
- A Night to Surrender by Tessa Dare
- Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
- Running by Natalia Sylvester
- The Lying Game by Ruth Ware
- Marriage on Madison Avenue by Lauren Layne
- Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
- The Roommate by Rosie Danan
- Tweet Cute by Emma Lord
- Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
- Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal
- As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner
- The Hypnotist’s Love Story by Liane Moriarty
- Frisk Me by Lauren Layne
- Refugee by Alan Gratz
- The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
- I’ll Be There for You: The One about Friends by Kelsey Miller
- American Like Me: Reflections on a Life Between Cultures by America Ferrera
- Elementary Romantic Calculus by Susannah Nix
- White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
- The Intimacy Experience by Rosie Danan
- Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- A Lady by Midnight by Tessa Dare
- Untamed by Glennon Doyle
- Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
- The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
- Steal Me by Lauren Layne
- Foreplayer by Kate Meader
- A Very Punchable Face: A Memoir by Colin Jost
- Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
- I See You by Clare Mackintosh
- The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn
- The Guncle by Steven Rowley
- The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
- Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny
- Rising Star by Susannah Nix
- How to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
- The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang
- Bombshell by Sarah MacLean
- Any Duchess Will Do by Tessa Dare
- Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig
- Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes du Mez
- Rainy Day Friends by Jill Shalvis
- A Gentleman Never Keeps Score by Cat Sebastian
- Cuff Me by Lauren Layne
- Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
- Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born by Tina Cassidy
- Goodnight Beautiful by Aimee Molloy
- The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
THREE-STAR READS
- We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and Half a Century of Silence by Becky Cooper
- How to Catch a Queen by Alyssa Cole
- American Royals by Katharine McGee
- Only When It’s Us by Chloe Liese
- The Push by Ashley Audrain
- Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
- The Duke & I by Julia Quinn
- Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
- Playing with Fire by Kate Meader
- One in a Million by Jill Shalvis
- Love & Luck by Jenna Evans Welch
- Rebel by Beverly Jenkins
- When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole
- The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon
- Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
- Would Like to Meet by Rachel Winters
- Before She Knew Him by Peter Swanson
- Heavy by Kiese Laymon
- My Favorite Half-Night Stand by Christina Lauren
- The Breakdown Lane by Jacquelyn Mitchard
- How to Find a Princess by Alyssa Cole
- It Takes Two to Tumble by Cat Sebastian
- Handle With Care by Helena Hunting
- One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
- The One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood
- I’m Not Dying with You Tonight by Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal
- Hang the Moon by Alexandria Bellefleur
- A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
- Lost and Found Sisters by Jill Shalvis
- Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin
- Dear Roomie by Kate Meader
- The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradel
- An Offer from a Gentleman by Julia Quinn
- Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of ’80s and ’90s Teen Fiction by Gabrielle Moss
- The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
TWO-STAR READS
- The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert
- American Street by Ibi Zoboi
- Life’s Too Short by Abby Jimenez
- Making Up by Helena Hunting
- Internment by Samira Ahmed
- People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
- The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson