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 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Impressive!