2021 books

Best of 2021

Fiction 

  1. This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel

  2. Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell 

  3. Sorrow & Bliss by Meg Mason 

  4. The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner 

  5. Betty by Tiffany MacDaniel 

  6. The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennet 

  7. Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney 

  8. Animal by Lisa Taddeo

  9. Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan

Non Fiction 

  1. The Choice by Edith Eger 

  2. The Hungover Games by Sophie Heawood

  3. Growing Goats & Girls by Rosanne Hodin

  4. Inner Engineering by Sadhguru 

  5. Dark, Salt, Clear by Lamorna Ash 

Other

  1. Where To Begin by Cleo Wade

Full List

1. Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride

2. Coming Undone by Terri White

3. Motherwell: A Girlhood by Deborah Orr 

4. Luster by Raven Leilani

5. We Are All Birds of Uganda by Hafsa Zayyan

6. The Weekend by Charlotte Wood

7. The Mothers by Britt Bennett 

8. This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel *f

9. Once Upon The South Downs Way by Julia Doherty

10. Failosophy: A Handbook For When Things Go Wrong by Elizabeth Day 

11. Writers & Lovers by Lily King 

12. To Shake The Sleeping Self by Jedidiah Jenkins

13. Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan

14. The Girl Aquarium by Jem Campbell 

15. Inner Engineering by Sadhguru *nf

16. City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

17. The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett *f

18. Where to Begin by Cleo Wade *sm

19. The Tidal Zone by Sarah Moss

20. The Push by Ashley Audrain 

21. Hamnet by Maggie O Farrell *f

22. The Choice by Edith Eger *nf

23. The Binding by Bridget Collins uf

24. Nomadland by Jessica Bruder 

25. Dark, Salt, Clear by Lamorna Ash *nf 

26. At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop

27. Sorrow + Bliss by Meg Mason *f

28. The Hungover Games by Sophie Heawood *nf

29. The End of Men by Christina Sweeney-Baird

30. The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner *f

31. When All Is Said by Anne Griffin 

32. Love After Love by Ingrid Persuad

33. How Do We Know We Are Doing It Right by Pandora Sykes uf

34. The Harpy by Megan Hunter

35. Growing Goats & Girls by Rosanne Hodin *nf

36. Sunset by Jessie Cave

37. Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller

38. Beautiful World, Where Are You? By Sally Rooney *f

39. The Guest List by Lucy Foley

40. The Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende

41. What I Learnt From Falling by Claire Nelson

42. The Island Home Libby Page

43. The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner

44. The Salt Path by Raynor Winn

45. One, Two, Three by Laurie Frankel 

46. Magpie by Elizabeth Day

47. No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

48. The Distance Between Us by Maggie O'Farrell

49. Animal by Lisa Taddeo *f

50. Betty by Tiffany McDaniel *f

51. H Is For Hawk by Helen McDonald

52. Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan *nf

(*f = favourite fiction)
(*nf = favourite non fiction)
(sm = favourite special mention eg art or poetry)
(uf = unfinished)

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