2021 Booklist

Here are all the books I completed in 2021. Most of them I am rating as four stars because most of them were very good! But I saved the five star ratings for books that were exceptionally well-written, thought-provoking, or compelling (to me).

The Foundling, Stacey Halls ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Family Trust, Kathy Wang ⭐⭐⭐
Bravey, Alexi Pappas ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Life After Life, Kate Atkinson ⭐⭐⭐⭐
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Jenny Odell ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Humankind: A Hopeful History, Rutger Bregman ⭐⭐⭐
The Mandibles: A Family 2029-2047, Lionel Shriver ⭐⭐⭐
Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism, Mariana Mazzucato ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Luster, Raven Leilani ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic, Leigh Bardugo ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Writers & Lovers, Lily King ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Men Who Hate Women, Laura Bates ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Braised Pork, An Yu ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir of Adoption, Nicole Chung ⭐⭐⭐⭐
All Systems Red, Martha Wells ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Earthlings, Sayaka Murata ⭐⭐⭐
Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Red, White & Royal Blue, Casey McQuiston ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, Cho Nam-Joo ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia ⭐⭐⭐⭐
World of Wonders, Aimee Nezhukumatathil ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Days of Distraction, Alexandra Chang ⭐⭐⭐
你沒有更好的命運, 任明信 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
If I Had Your Face, Frances Cha ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Ghosts, Dolly Alderton ⭐⭐⭐
Piranesi, Susanna Clarke ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Circus of Wonders, Elizabeth MacNeal ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Clap When You Land, Elizabeth Acevedo ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, Mariana Enriquez ⭐⭐⭐
Craft in the Real World, Matthew Salesses ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Lamplighters, Emma Stonex ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, Samin Nosrat ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Ones We’re Meant To Find, Joan He ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House, Cherie Jones ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Heaven, Mieko Kawakami ⭐⭐⭐
Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Sex and Vanity, Kevin Kwan ⭐⭐
Thanks for the Feedback, Douglas Stone & Sheila Heen ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Other Black Girl, Zakiya Dalila Harris ⭐⭐⭐
Vaxxers: The Inside Story of the Oxford Astrazeneca Vaccine and the Race Against the Virus, Sarah Gilbert & Catherine Green ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination, Sheera Frenkel & Cecilia Kang ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Tsarina: Lover, Mother, Murderer, Ellen Alpsten ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Summerwater, Sarah Moss ⭐⭐⭐
How Do Worms Work?, Guy Barter ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Malibu Rising, Taylor Jenkins Reid ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Handshake: A Gripping History, Ella Al-Shamahi ⭐⭐⭐
Daisy Jones & The Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Lying Life of Adults, Elena Ferrante ⭐⭐⭐
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Confessions of Fannie Langton, Sara Collins ⭐⭐⭐
Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Beautiful World, Where Are You, Sally Rooney ⭐⭐⭐⭐
System Error, Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami & Jeremy Weinstein ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Velvet Was the Night, Silvia Moreno Garcia ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Sovietistan: A Journey Through Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, Erika Fatland ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Cult of We: WeWork and the Great Startup Delusion, Eliot Brown & Maureen Farrell ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Betty, Tiffany McDaniel ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
One Life, Megan Rapinoe ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Whereabouts, Jhumpa Lahiri ⭐⭐⭐⭐
No One Is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Promise, Damon Galgut ⭐⭐⭐⭐
A Passage North, Anuk Arudpragasam ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Garden By the Sea, Mercè Rodoreda ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Girls, Emma Cline ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Court of Lions, Jane Johnson ⭐⭐⭐
Ariadne, Jennifer Saint ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China’s Countryside, Xiaowei Wang ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Great Circle, Maggie Shipstead ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem, Amanda Gorman ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Madame Curie: A Biography, Eve Curie ⭐⭐⭐⭐
My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult ⭐⭐
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Curse of Bigness, Tim Wu ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
H Is for Hawk, Helen McDonald ⭐⭐⭐
Intimacies: A Novel, Katie Kitamura ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐