2021 Book Club and Favorites Lists

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 2021 Book Club and Favorites Lists

Jenna Bush Hager’s 2021 Book Club

Jan.      Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour

Feb.      The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

Feb.      Send for Me by Lauren Fox

March  What's Mine & Yours by Naima Coster

April     Good Company by Cynthia Sweeney

May      Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

June     Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

July      Hell of a Book by Jason Mott (National Book Award Winner)

Aug.     The Turnout by Megan Abbot

Sept.    Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang

Oct.      Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles (Same author as A Gentleman in Moscow)

Nov.     The Family by Naomi Krupitsky

Dec.     Bright Burning Things by Lisa Harding

Reese Witherspoon’s 2021 Book Club

Jan.      Outlawed by Anna North

Feb.      The Sanitorium by Sarah Pearse

March  Infinite Country by Patricia Engel

April     Northern Sky by Flynn Barry

May     The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave

June     Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

July      Paper Palace by Miranda Heller

Aug.     We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz

Sept.    L.A. Weather by Maria Amparo Escandon

Oct.      Sankofa by Chibundo Onuzo

Nov.     Island of the Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

Dec.      Lucky by Marissa Stapley


Annette’s 2021 Book Club (mostly still Zoom meetings)

Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce 

Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys  

Chicken Sisters by KJ Dell’Antonia 

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn (Same author of The Rose Code)

The Orphan Collector by Ellen Marie Wiseman

Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley 

The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix 

Where the Crawdads Sing  by Delia Owens

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman 


Barak Obama’s Favorite Books of 2021


Matrix by Lauren Groff

How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith

The Top Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles (Same author as A Gentleman in Moscow)

Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott

Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (Same author as All the Light We Cannot See) 

These Precious Days by Ann Patchett

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu

Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang

At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop

Land of Big Numbers by Te-Ping Chen

Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Same author as The Martian) 

When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert

Things We Lost in the Water by Eric Nguyen

Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

Klara and the Sun by Kazuio Ishiguro

The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris

Intimacies by Katie Kitamura


GoodReads 2021 Choice Awards


Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney (Fiction)

The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave (Mystery/Thriller)

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Historical Fiction)

A Court of Silver Flames by Sara Maas (Fantasy)

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry (Romance)

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Sci-fi)  (Same author as The Martian) 

The Final Support Group by Grady Hendrix (Horror)

Broken by Jenny Lawson (Humor)


Well-Read Moose Bookstore 2021 Gems 


Good Company by Cynthia Sweeney

One Two Three by Laurie Frankel

The Forest of Vanishing Stars by Kirstin Harmel

Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

Lincoln Highway Amor Towles

The Sentence by Louise Erdrich


Comments

Marianne said…
What a wonderful list. The books by Amor Towles and Anthony Doerr are on my wishlist for next year, I loved their previous ones.

My favourite books 2021 are in my Statistics.
December 31, 2021 at 5:26 AM
Marianne said…
Sorry, wrong link.

My favourite books 2021 are in my Statistics.
December 31, 2021 at 5:42 AM
Reading in the Garden said…
Love your statistics! Interesting to see your picks for funniest, saddest (Snow Flower and the Secret Fan was a great book), longest, shortest, etc. Fun to see the breakdown.
January 4, 2022 at 6:56 AM
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