Read in 2021

Check out what I read in 2021! These are broken down by genre then author for easy navigating.


Fiction

A.J. Hackwith
– The Library of the Unwritten
The Archive of the Forgotten

Agatha Christie
– A Pocket Full of Rye
The Secret Adversary

Aminah Mae Safi
– Tell Me How You Really Feel

Arthur Phillips
– The King at the Edge of the World

Casey McQuiston
– Red, White and Royal Blue

Chris Hammer
Scrublands

Christina Lauren
– The Unhoneymooners

Colleen Oakley
– The Invisible Husband of Frick Island

Donna Tartt
The Goldfinch

Elisabeth Thomas
– Catherine House

Ellen Raskin
– The Westing Game

Emily Henry
– People We Meet On Vacation

Emma Campion
– A Triple Knot

Ernest Hemingway
– The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Esi Edugyan
– Washington Black

Grady Hendrix
My Best Friend’s Exorcism
– The Final Girl Support Group

Greer MacAllister
– The Arctic Fury

Holly Jackson
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder

Jennifer Saint
Ariadne

Jenny Colgan
500 Miles From You
The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris

Julie Clark
The Last Flight

Julie Schumacher
Dear Committee Members

Lani Forbes
– The Seventh Sun

Leigh Bardugo
– Shadow and Bone

Liane Moriarty
Nine Perfect Strangers

Lori Foster
– The Summer of No Attachments

Mary Gentle
1610: A Sundial in a Grave

Matt Haig
– The Midnight Library

Matthew Norman
– Last Couple Standing

Natalie D. Richards
– Five Total Strangers

Neil Gaiman
– Stardust

Oyinkan Braithwaite
– My Sister, the Serial Killer

Peter Benchley
Jaws

Peter Heller
The Guide

Peter Swanson
– Every Vow You Break

Rebecca Raisin
The Little Bookshop on the Seine

Richard Osman
The Thursday Murder Club
The Man Who Died Twice

Richard Wagamese
Indian Horse

Robin Oliveira
My Name is Mary Sutter

Ruth Downie
Medicus

Ruth Hogan
The Keeper of Lost Things

Sarah Gailey
The Echo Wife
– Upright Women Wanted

Sarah J. Maas
– A Court of Thorns and Roses
A Court of Mist and Fury
– A Court of Wings and Ruin
– A Court of Frost and Starlight
– A Court of Silver Flames

The Assassin’s Blade
– Throne of Glass
– Crown of Midnight
– Heir of Fire
– Queen of Shadows
– Empire of Storms
– Tower of Dawn
– Kingdom of Ash

Sarah Penner
The Lost Apothecary

Simone St. James
The Sun Down Motel

Sophie Kinsella
– Love Your Life

Stuart Turton
The Devil and the Dark Water

Susanna Clark
Piranesi

T.H. White
– The Once and Future King

Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising

Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Before the Coffee Gets Cold

W.C. Ryan
A House of Ghosts


Nonfiction

Aaron Mahnke
– LORE: Wicked Mortals

Alexis Coe
– You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington

Alfred Buellesbach & Marcus Cowper
– Battlescapes: A Photographic Testament to 2000 Years of Conflict

Amber Share
– Subpar Parks: America’s Most Extraordinary National Parks and Their Least Impressed Visitors

Andrew Carroll
– Here is Where: Discovering America’s Great Forgotten History

Ann Shen
– Nevertheless, She Wore It

Antonia Fraser
– The Warrior Queens: The Legends and the Lives of the Women Who Have Led Their Nations in War

Barry Strauss
– The Trojan War: A New History

Bea Koch
– Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency

Beck Weathers
– Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest

Bill Fawcett
– 100 Mistakes That Changed History

Bill Schutt
– Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures

Caroline Alexander
– The War that Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer’s Iliad and the Trojan War

Charles A. Gardner
– Dannemora: Two Escaped Killers, Three Weeks of Terror, and the Largest Manhunt Ever in New York State

Christopher Goffard
– Dirty John and Other True Stories of Outlaws and Outsiders

Christopher Hibbert
– The Borgias and Their Enemies

Cokie Roberts
– Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation

Dan Jones
– The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England

Daniel James Brown
– The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party

David Hilliam
– Kings, Queens, Bones & Bastards: Who’s Who in the English Monarchy from Egbert to Elizabeth II

David Roberts
– Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer

Don Voorhees
– The Extraordinary Book of Useless Information

Eleanor Herman
– Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge
Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics

Eric Chaline
– Lost Treasures: A History of Hidden Hoards and Vanished Riches

Erik Larson
– Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
– The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
– Thunderstruck

Gail Collins
– America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines

Harold Schechter
– Hell’s Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
– Man-Eater: The Life and Legend of an American Cannibal
– Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer

Harvey Rachlin
– Jumbo’s Hide, Elvis’s Ride, and the Tooth of Buddha: More Marvelous Tales of Historical Artifacts

Howard Watson
– Atlas of History’s Greatest Heroes and Villains

Hugh Brewster
– Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic‘s First-Class Passengers and Their World

J. Maarten Troost
Headhunters On My Doorstep: A True Treasure Island Ghost Story

Jenni Davis
– Lost Bodies: A Chronicle of Death, Disappearances, and Discovery
Poison: A History

John Ashdown-Hill
– The Last Days of Richard III and the Fate of His DNA

Julian Sancton
– Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica‘s Journey Into the Dark Antarctic Night

Kate Summerscale
– The Wicked Boy: An Infamous Murder in Victorian London

Kelsey Oseid
– What We See in the Stars: An Illustrated Tour of the Night Sky

Kermit Pattison
– Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind

Laura Sook Duncombe
– Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas

Lee Sandlin
– Storm Kings: The Untold History of America’s First Tornado Chasers

Lucy Jones
– The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them)

Marek McKenna
– Killer History: Why Do They Leave All the Fun Stuff Out of the History Books?

Martin Dugard
– Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone

Matthew Kneale
– Rome: A History in Seven Sackings

Michael Capuzzo
– Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916

Michael Wallis
– The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny

Michelle McNamara
– I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

Monte Reel
– Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer and the African Adventure that Took the Victorian World by Storm

Nathaniel Philbrick
– In The Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

Nicholas J. Saunders
– Alexander’s Tomb: The Two-Thousand Year Obsession to Find the Lost Conquerer

Norman F. Cantor
– Antiquity: From the Birth of Sumerian Civilization to the Fall of the Roman Empire

Pamela D. Toler
– Women Warriors: An Unexpected History

Peter Daughtrey
– Atlantis and the Silver City

Randall Munroe
– What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

Richard L. Currier
– Unbound: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human and Brought Our World to the Brink 

Sarah Weinman
Unspeakable Acts: Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession

Simon Baatz
For The Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago

Simon LeVay
When Science Goes Wrong: Twelve Tales from the Dark Side of Discovery

Simon Winchester
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

Stephen Clarke
1,000 Years of Annoying the French

Steve Turner
The Band that Played On: The Extraordinary Story of the 8 Musicians Who Went Down with the Titanic

Susan Fair
American Witches: A Broomstick Tour through Four Centuries

Therese O’Neill
Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady’s Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners 

Tim Rayborn
Beethoven’s Skull: Dark, Strange, and Fascinating Tales from the World of Classical Music and Beyond

Walter Lord
A Night to Remember: The Sinking of the Titanic
The Night Lives On: The Untold Stories and Secrets Behind the Sinking of the “Unsinkable” Ship —Titanic


Drama, Poetry, & More

Ashley Craft
T- he Unofficial Disney Parks Cookbook
Culinary

e. e. cummings
– Selected Poems
Poetry

Ilya Kaminsky
– Deaf Republic
Poetry


I recommend most of these works – no point in wasting time reading a bad book. But some I tried and tried and could not power through… any questions about if I think something’s worth the time, just ask!