1.15.2022

A Year In The Books, 2021


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I ended up reading 60 books in 2021. 
I read 37 novels and listened to 23 audiobooks. 

I'm going to share a few lists here with you: 

Great on Audio:
Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Hieroglyphics by Jill McCorkl
How To Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind by Dana White
Good Morning Monster by Catherine Gildiner

Church Books:
Shameless by Nadia Bolz-Weber
Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
Burnout by Emily Nagoski 
Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski
Cultish by Amanda Montell
You Are Your Own by Jamie Lee Finch

Five Star Reads of 2021:
*The Simple Wild by K.A. Tucker*
The Push by Ashley Audrain
The Best Kept Secret by Amy Hatvany
The Woman In The Window by AJ Finn
Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult
*How To Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind by Dana White*
Discovering Dahlias by Erin Benzakein
*Alone by Megan Freeman*
*Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed*
*Gift From The Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh*
*The Good House by Ann Leary*
*Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin*
*Pax by Sara Pennypacker*
What Kind of Woman by Kate Baer
*Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy*
Beautiful Boy by David Sheff
*Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski*
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
*You Are Your Own by Jamie Lee Finch*


(* those with asterisks are the top ten 
5-star reads that I would recommend reading)


Best Book:
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy 
(fiction)
You Are Your Own by Jamie Lee Finch 
(nonfiction)

Honorable Mentions:
Coming Clean & Burnout
both by Emily Nagoski



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You know how I love to talk books, so let me know:

What was your best book of 2021?
What was the audiobook that you enjoyed most?
How many five star reads did you have this year?


1 comment:

Tabitha Studer said...

I read Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy and really loved it - probably in my top 3 of the year. It's still with me actually and I think of it pretty regularly. Looks like her other one is worth a read too since it's your best book of the year and girrrrrl, you read some books - so that's a worthy recommendation!