Top 5 Favourite Books (2021)

tragic lemons
Dec 25, 2021
2 min read

I am only counting books I have read for the first time this year. I obviously cannot recommend books I keep re-reading, because they would probably appear year after year as a favourite. I have read a wider range of books this year, I believe. Last year, I mainly read books which are a part of a book series (riordanverse), so there wasn't much of a diversity in thinking. If that makes sense. I prefer this year better in terms of my overall experience with reading.

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Categories:

Overall Favourite

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Honeytrap (Aster Glenn Gray)
Pachinko (Min Jin Lee)
The Death of Vivek Oji (Akwaeke Emezi)

In Terms of Learning

The Anthropocene Reviewed
Educated (Tara Westover)
Great Thinkers (by The School of Life)
Where We Go From Here
Dark and Deepest Red

Instant Karma

In Terms of Writing

Indelicacy (Amina Cain)
Honeytrap (Aster Glenn Gray)
What I Was (by Meg Rossoff)
Memorial (by Bryan Washington)
Winter in Sokcho (Elisa Shua Dusapin)

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

In Terms of Plot

Pachinko (Min Jin Lee)
The Death of Vivek Oji
There Goes Sunday School (Alexander Eberhart)
Ariadne
Darius The Great Is Not Okay

In Terms of Happy Feelings

All The Better Part Of Me
Portrait Of A Scotsman
Aristotle and Dante Dive into The Waters of The World
The Love Hypothesis
The Anthropocene Reviewed

In Terms of Sad Feelings

Wayward Son (Rainbow Rowell)
Go For It Nakamura (Syundei)
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
The Love Interest (Cale Dietrich)
The Death of Vivek Oji

Had a Lot of Potential

Riding With Brighton (Haven Francis)

I marked obscure titles or lesser known books with their authors for your easy reference. I didn't read much during my December holidays simply because I did not have the mental capacity to do so. I hope next year gets to be a better reading experience for me, and that I get to meet more great books overall.