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!