What I read in 2021

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  1. The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
  2. Honeybee by Craig Silvey
  3. Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden
  4. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
  5. Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
  6. The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
  7. Space Opera by Katherynne M. Valente
  8. The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
  9. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
  10. A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
  11. The War of the Flowers by Tad Williams
  12. Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
  13. The Lost Man by Jane Harper
  14. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by She Who Shall Not Be Named
  15. The Galaxy and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
  16. Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
  17. Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
  18. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by She Who Shall Not Be Named
  19. The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox
  20. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
  21. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
  22. Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson
  23. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
  24. The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
  25. Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
  26. Victories Greater than Death by Charlie Jane Anders
  27. Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell
  28. The Cruel Stars by John Birmingham
  29. Your Brain at Work by David Rock
  30. The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
  31. Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  32. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
  33. Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky
  34. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
  35. Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
  36. Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
  37. Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
  38. Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters 
  39. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
  40. Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian
  41. The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
  42. Leviathan Falls by James S.A. Corey
  43. Friends of Thunder: Folktales of the Oklahoma Cherokee by John F. Kilpatrick and Anna G. Kilpatrick
  44. The Survivors by Jane Harper
  45. Stalking Claremont: Inside the Hunt for a Serial Killer by Bret Christian



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