2021 Reading

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1. Malibu Rising | Taylor Jenkins Reid | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

2. Luster | Raven Leilani | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

3. The Office of Historical Corrections | Danielle Evans | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

4. The Midnight Library | Matt Haig | Amazon | Bookshop

5. If I Disappear | Eliza Jane Brazier | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

6. Friends and Strangers | J. Courtney Sullivan | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

7. The Fortunate Ones | Ed Tarkington | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

8. Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now | Evan Osnos | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

9. The Kindest Lie | Nancy Johnson | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

10. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey | Kamala Harris | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

11. Good Neighbors | Sarah Langan | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

12. The Push | Ashley Audrain | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

13. Do No Harm | Christina McDonald | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

14. Sula | Toni Morrison | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

15. I’m Not Dying With You Tonight | Kimberly Jones | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

16. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

17. The Orchard | David Hopen | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

18. Seven Days in June | Tia Williams | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

19. Concrete Rose | Angie Thomas | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

20. The Hate U Give | Angie Thomas | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

21. The Wreckage of My Presence: Essays | Casey Rose Wilson | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

22. Too Good to Be True | Carola Lovering | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

23. A Very Punchable Face | Colin Jost | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

24. When I Ran Away | Ilona Bannister | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

25. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

26. Ties That Tether | Jane Igharo |Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

27. You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories About Racism | Amber Ruffin | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

28. Temper | Layne Fargo | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

29. The Final Revival of Opal and Nev | Dawnie Walton | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

30. You Love Me | Caroline Kepnes | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

31. The Plot | Jean Hanff Korelitz | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

32. Majesty | Katharine McGee | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

33. The Therapist | B.A. Paris | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

34. Arsenic and Adobo | Mia P. Manasala | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

35. Eat a Peach | David Chang | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

36. The Good Sister | Sally Hepworth | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

37. Good Company | Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

38. Beach Read | Emily Henry | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

39. Finding Freedom: A Cook’s Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch | Erin French | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

40. Everybody Has a Podcast (Except You): A How-to Guide from the First Family of Podcasting | Justin McElroy | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

41. One Last Stop | Casey McQuiston | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

42. Hairpin Bridge | Taylor Adams | Amazon | Bookshop

43. If I Had Your Face | Frances Cha | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

44. Where the Grass is Green and the Girls are Pretty | Lauren Weissberger | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

45. The Maidens | Alex Michaelides | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

46. The Housewives: The Real Story Behind the Real Housewives | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

47. Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man | Emmanuel Acho | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

48. The Last Thing He Told Me | Laura Dave | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

49. The First Day of Spring | Nancy Tucker | Amazon | Bookshop | IG Review

40 Before 40 List

Book Riot Read Harder 2021

1. Read a book you’ve been intimidated to read | Luster, Raven Leilani

2. Read a nonfiction book about anti-racism | Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man, Emmanuel Acho

3. Read a non-European novel in translation

4. Read an LGBTQ+ history book

5. Read a genre novel by an Indigenous, First Nations, or Native American author

6. Read a fanfic

7. Read a fat-positive romance

8. Read a romance by a trans or nonbinary author | One Last Stop, Casey McQuiston

9. Read a middle grade mystery

10. Read an SFF anthology edited by a person of color

11. Read a food memoir by an author of color

12. Read a work of investigative nonfiction by an author of color

13. Read a book with a cover you don’t like

14. Read a realistic YA book not set in the U.S., UK, or Canada

15. Read a memoir by a Latinx author

16. Read an own voices book about disability

17. Read an own voices YA book with a Black main character that isn’t about Black pain

18. Read a book by/about a non-Western world leader

19. Read a historical fiction with a POC or LGBTQ+ protagonist

20. Read a book of nature poems

21. Read a children’s book that centers a disabled character but not their disability

22. Read a book set in the Midwest- Temper, Layne Fargo

23. Read a book that demystifies a common mental illness

24. Read a book featuring a beloved pet where the pet doesn’t die

#DiverseSpines by Spines and Vines

January- A Knock at Midnight, Brittany K. Barnett
February- Yellow Wife, Sadeqa Johnson
March- Against the Loveless World, Susan Abulhawa
April- Chorine Sky, Mahogany Browne
May- The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan