Laurel Cleary
What I Read in 2021
JANUARY
The Art of the Wasted Day Patricia Hampl
American Dirt Jeanine Cummins
The Great Fire Shirley Hazzard
FEBRUARY
A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding
Jackie Copleton
A Separation Katie Kitamura
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse Louise Erdrich
MARCH
The Maytrees Annie Dillard
The Unconsoled * Kazuo Ishiguro
Survival is a Style: Poems Christian Wiman
Normal People Sally Rooney
APRIL
Missing Person Patrick Modiano
The Overstory Richard Powers
61 Hours Lee Child
Abide with Me Elizabeth Strout
MAY
Zama Antonio Di Benedetto
Among the Living and the Dead Inara Verzemnieks
Mirror Shoulder Signal Dorthe Nors
Monterey Bay Lindsay Hatton
My Bright Abyss Christian Wiman
Reputations Juan Gabriel Vasquez
The Liar's Wife: Four Novellas Mary Gordon
JUNE
Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
JULY
Inland Tea Obreht
The Abundance Annie Dillard
News of the World Paulette Jiles
The Best Place on Earth Ayelet Tsabari
AUGUST
The Nightingale Kristin Hannah
Georgia Dawn Tripp
The Road from Coorain Jill Ker Conway
The Weight of a Piano Chris Cander
SEPTEMBER
Take This Man Brando Skyhorse
OCTOBER
The Goldfinch Donna Tartt
Still Here Lara Vapnyar
The Odd Woman and the City Vivian Gornick
NOVEMBER
The Year of the Runaways Sunjeev Sahota
How To Be Both Ali Smith
Essays of E.B. White E.B. White
DECEMBER
This Is Why I Came Mary Rakow
Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer *
Richard Holmes
Zeitoun Dave Eggers
Horrible Words Rebecca Gowers
Bark Lorrie Moore
