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!