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Jan 05, 2021 08:53AM
Aiming for 75 this year. Had tried to slow down and enjoy my books more (having reached 90 in 2019 and 87 in 2020) but given the extra time with pandemic, that didn't work out so well. I'm addicted to reading, clearly.
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Jan 2021: Two required book club books, The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite and The Blind Assassin. Planning to read more authors who are new to me this year, and more non-fiction as always.
1. Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler
2. News of the World by Paulette Jiles
3. Deeper Than the Dead by Tami Hoag
4. The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite by Ann Finkbeiner (nf)
5. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
6.Secrets to the Grave by Tami Hoag
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Good luck with your 2021 reads!
Feb 2021Two Book Club books: The Naturalist by Andrew Mayne and The 10,000 Doors of January by Alix Harrow
7. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
8. Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
9. Devil's Fjord by David Hewson
10. The Naturalist by Andrew Mayne (re-read)
11. The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
Two book club books: The Underland by Robert MacFarlane and The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami.12. The Butterfly House by Katrine Engberg
13. The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesmyn Ward
14. Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane.
15. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara.
16. How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson.
17. The Man Who Died by Antti Tuomainen.
18. The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami.
19. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell.
April 2021Two book club books: Behind Closed Doors and Girl, Woman, Other.
20. Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai
21. Smoke Screen by Thomas Enger
22. The Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet
23. Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris
24. The Cold Millions by Jess Walter
25. Bobby March Will Live Forever, by Alan Parks
26. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (reread from June 2020)
May 2021Two book club books: Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World and A Visit from the Goon Squad
27: The Eighth Detective by Alex Pavesi
28. Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World by Aja Raden
29. The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal (5 star)
30. A Burning by Megha Majumdar (five star)
31. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (reread for book club)
32. Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
June 2021Two book club books: Blue Monday and The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
33. The Survivors by Jane Harper
34. Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
35. Blue Monday by Nicci French (reread)
36. Little Siberia by Antti Tuomainen
37. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
38. All the Hidden Truths by Claire Askew
39. Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
July 2021Only one book club book, The Library Book
40. At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop
41. Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
42. The Library Book by Susan Orlean
43. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
44. Every Man a Menace by Patrick Hoffman
45 To Cook a Bear by Mikael Niemi
46. Slough House by Mick Herron
Aug 2021Book club selections= Pachinko by Min Jin Lee by and How the Word is Passed Clint Smith
47. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
48. The Old DriftThe Old Drift by Namwali Serpell.
49. Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith
50. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
51. The Killing Kind by Jane Casey
52. Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Sept 2021Book club: All that She Carried, At the Wolf's Table, and Humankind
53. Palace of the Drowned by Christine Mangan
54. The April Dead by Alan Parks
55. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles
56. The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
57. Humankind: A Hopeful History y Rutger Bregman
58. Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
59. The Creak on the Stairs by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir
60. The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse
61. At the Wolf's Table by Rosella Postorino
Oct 2021Book Club: The Guest List and Affinity
62. Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian
63. The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin
64. The Guest List by Lucy Foley
65. Affinity by Sarah Waters
66. Treacherous Strand by Andrea Carter
67. The Well of Ice by Andrea Carter
68. The Bombay Prince by Sujata Massey
Nov 2021Book Club The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf
69. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf
70. Big Sky by Kate Atkinson
71. The Witch Elm by Tana French
72. The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
73. Palm Beach Finland by Antti Tuomainen
Dec 202174. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
75. Betrayal by Lilja Sigurðardóttir
76. Murder at Greysbridge by Andrea Carter
77. The Promise by Damon Galgut
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