This has been another good year for reading. As usual, more books were read or listened to on tape than I reviewed, but the ones below made the cut. I decided a while ago that I was not going to disparage another author’s work. If I don’t like it, I won’t review it. Although I didn’t love The Book of Two Ways, it had many qualities I found fascinating. I mostly enjoyed everything on the list. I always love Olive and her unique perspective. I loved the questions we were forced to consider in The Midnight Library and Peace Like a River.
January 2021: The
Book of Lost Friends-Lisa Wingate
February 2021: Troubled
Blood- Robert
Galbraith
March 2021: The
Sentence is Death- Anthony Horowitz
A Rule Against
Murder- Louise Penny
The Ruin-
Dervla McTiernan
April 2021: Olive,
Again- Elizabeth
Strout
May 2021: The
Forgotten Garden- Kate Morton
June 2021: The
Vanishing Half- Brit Marling
July 2021: The
Midnight Library- Matt Haig
August 2021: Peace
Like a River- Leif Enger
Anxious People- Fredrik
Backman
September 2021: The Book of Two Ways- Jodi
Picoult
Hamnet- Maggie O’Farrell
October 2021: The
Story of Arthur Truluv-Elizabeth Berg
The Searcher- Tana French
November 2021: The Lincoln Highway- Amor Towles
December 2021: The Gift of Time- Jerry Merritt
The mystery genre is
typically a favorite and I found a new author to follow with Dervla McTiernan.
I also really enjoyed The Midnight Library by Matt Haig.
Some may feel the outcome was predictable but I loved the premise and the
existential question. Still, if I could only pick one to recommend to a friend,
it would have to be Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell. Exquisitely written, it captured
and created an imaginary world that may or may not have been Shakespeare’s
reality.
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