2021 Books

My annual list of books I read. This year was a little off for me in reading, as is evident in some of the months. I ended the year with 45 books read, plus 2 manuscripts written by friends that will hopefully soon be published. I also started but didn’t finish 2 books.

January

5 stars A Promised Land by Barack Obama

3 stars Hard Rain by Irma Venter

5 stars The Ordeal of the Haunted Room: A Short Story (The Chronicles of St. Mary’s 11.5) by Jodi Taylor

5 stars Doing Time (Time Police #1) by Jodi Taylor

February

5 stars Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

5 stars The Truths We Hold by Kamala Harris

4 stars Life by Lu Yao

3 stars If You Tell by Gregg Olsen

4 stars Talking While Female & Other Dangerous Acts created by Teatro Luna (an Audible Original)

March

5 stars A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum

5 stars Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson

5 stars The Kaiser’s Web (Cotton Malone #16) by Steve Berry

April

5 stars The Effort by Claire Holroyde

May

5 stars The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

4 stars The First Mrs. Rothschild: A Novel by Sara Aharoni

June

2 stars The Girl in the Tree by Sebnem Isiguzel

July

5 stars Hard Time (The Time Police #2) by Jodi Taylor

August

4 stars The Man Who Played with Fire: Steig Larsson’s Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin by Jan Stocklassa

4 stars Underground Airlines by Ben H Winters

3 stars Your Perfect Year by Charlotte Lucas

4 stars The Attention Merchants by Tim Wu

September

5 stars Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende

4 stars In the Shadow of the Valley: A Memoir by Bobi Conn

4 stars So Happiness to Meet You: Foolishly, Blissfully Stranded in Vietnam by Karin Esterhammer

October

5 stars Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark by Cassandra Peterson

5 stars About the Night by Amat Talshir

5 stars The Pecan Man by Cassie Dandridge Selleck

3 stars Tapestry by Beth Duke

5 stars The End of Forever: A Cassiopeia Vitt Adventure by Steve Berry & MJ Rose

November

5 stars Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Zoukhadar

4 stars The Couscous Chronicles: A Peace Corps Memoir by Richard Wallace

3 stars Memories from Baghdad: Memos from Iraq by Ramzi Jawad

5 stars The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantu

4 stars The Cellist of Sarajevo by Stephen Galloway

3 stars Return to the Enchanted Island by Johary Ravaloson

5 stars The Ardent Swarm by Yamen Manai

5 stars The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict

5 stars Horseshoes vs. Chess: A Practical Guide for Chamber of Commerce Leaders by Dave Adkisson

December

5 stars Southernmost by Silas House

5 stars To Shake the Sleeping Self by Jedidiah Jenkins

1 star The Lending Library by Aliza Fogelson

5 stars Another Time, Another Place (The Chronicles of St Mary’s #12) by Jodi Taylor

5 stars Bold New You: 6 Breakthroughs to Playing Bigger in Leadership, Business and Life by Justin Patton

5 stars Saving Time (The Time Police #3) by Jodi Taylor

5 stars The Toast of Time (The Chronicles of St Mary’s #12.5) by Jodi Taylor