What are your top reads of the year, by whatever ways you deem appropriate? General Fiction The Orchard - David Hopen Bear Town - Fredrick Backman Us Against You - Fredrick Backman Black Buck - Mateo Askaripour Razorblade Tears - SA Cosby Tears of the Dark Water - Corban Addison The Vanishing Half - Britt Bennett The Guide - Peter Heller Sci-fi Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir Space between Worlds - Miciah Johnson The Last Watch - JS Dewes The Exiled Fleet - JS Dewes Machinehood - SB Divya Fantasy Lies of Locke Lamorra Series Jade Legacy - Fonda Lee Non Fiction The Assassination of Fred Hampton - Jeffrey Haas Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe Politics The Sum of Us - Heather McGhee Kill Switch - Rise of the Modern Senate and Crippling of Democracy - Adam Jentleson Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump - Spencer Ackerman History The Fate of Rome: Climate Disease and the End of an Empire - Kyle Harper War on the Border: Villa, Pershing, the Texas Rangers, and an American Invasion - Jeff Guinn The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World - Patrick Wyman Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution - Mike Duncan
Didn't get to read much at all this year, but here goes: Fiction Iron Gold and Dark Age (Books 4 & 5 of Red Rising Saga) - Pierce Brown The Drop - Dennis Lehane Non-Fiction Humans of New York Stories - Brandon Stanton D-Day - Stephen E Ambrose Last Plane in the Sky - Garrett Graff
Three that stood out pretty far above the others for me this year: Killers of the Flower Moon: Osage Murders and the Creation of the FBI Stamped from the Beginning: Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Tree of Smoke — Novel
Top books of 2021 for me, in order Project Hail Mary Jade War The Lies of Locke Lamora Rhythm of War Pillars of the Earth Educated The Midnight Library The House on the Cerulean Sea The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue The Coddling of the American Mind
I'd c/p, but this has a shit ton of different lists: https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2021/dec/08/the-best-books-of-2021
* Us Against You - Fredrik Backman (sequel to Beartown) *** * The Body: A Guide for Occupants - Bill Bryson ***** * The Bomber Mafia - Malcolm Gladwell *** * Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir**** * the Poppy War - R.F. Kuang *** * Shoe Dog - Phil Knight **** * Sapiens: Brief History of Humankind - Noah Harari *** * Rhythm of War - Brandon Sanderson - haven't finished but trending to ***
2021. Staying on theme for the threads questions. Those were the books I read in 2021. The question posed was not what were the best reads published in the year of 2021. I could read Gatsby and it could still qualify for this thread.
Is this weeks late and pedantic? Yes But that’s 4 & 5 6 is the one I get angry about every time Pierce posts a social media picture of his dog instead of a book update. Sorry.
lol 100% right, don't know what I was thinking about. And yeah, I'm frustrated waiting for #6 too, I remember reading at some point he had written half the book and then scrapped it