Books I've read in 2021


I'm using a 5-star rating system this year. (I used a 10-star system in 2020.)


Title
Author
Date
Rating
Minor Feelings
Cathy Park Hong
December
3
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin
December
5
Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid
December
4
Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata
December
5
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anne Bronte
December
5
Artificial Condition
Martha Wells
December
5
Agnes Grey
Anne Bronte
November
5
Bringing up Bebe
Pamela Druckerman
November
3
The Tree of Heaven
May Sinclair
November
5
The Left Hand of Darkness (reread)
Ursula K. Le Guin
November
5
Mary Olivier
May Sinclair
October
5
This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind
Ivan Doig
October
5
Eugene Onegin
Alexander Pushkin
October
4
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
October
5
Frederica
Georgette Heyer
September
5
The Man of Property
John Galsworthy
September
4
Sally Rooney
September
1
Lavinia
Ursula K. Le Guin
September
4
Scenes of Clerical Life
George Eliot
September
4
Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner
September
5
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Susanna Clarke
August
4
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
August
2
Daisy Jones and The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid
August
2
All Systems Red
Martha Wells
August
5
Arnold Waterlow, a Life
May Sinclair
August
3
Min Jin Lee
July
5
Laboring to Play: Home Entertainment and the Spectacle of Middle-Class Cultural Life, 1850-1920
Melanie Dawson
July
5
The Life and Death of Harriet Frean
May Sinclair
July
5
Searoad
Ursula K. Le Guin
July
2
Daniel Everett
July
3
White Teeth
Zadie Smith
June
3
A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway
June
4
Parable of the Talents
Octavia Butler
June
2
There, There
Tommy Orange
June
4
Parable of the Sower
Octavia Butler
June
2
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
May
5
A Society without Fathers or Husbands: The Na of China
Cai Hua
May
4
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides
May
2
Severance
Ling Ma
May
4
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
April
5
The Antelope Wife
Louise Erdrich
April
4
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
April
2
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles Mann
April
5
Lot
Bryan Washington
April
5
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
April
2
Dancing at the Rascal Fair
Ivan Doig
March
3
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller
March
5
Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest
Andrew Needham
March
5
Circe
Madeline Miller
March
5
Silas Marner
George Eliot
February
4
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
February
3
Kate Chopin
February
4
A Person of Interest
Susan Choi
January
3
Edith Wharton
January
4
Octavia Butler
January
5
LaRose
Louise Erdrich
January
5