Books Read in 2021

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Gather at the River: Twenty-Five Authors on Fishing
by David Joy
19 members
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Global Rank 264
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Homeland Elegies
by Ayad Akhtar
844 members
40 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 57
3 Members
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Shuggie Bain
by Douglas Stuart
2,494 members
128 reviews
4.2
Global Rank 1
15 Members
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
by George Saunders
1,248 members
38 reviews
½ 4.4
Global Rank 109
2 Members
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Wine Reads: A Literary Anthology of Wine Writing
by Jay McInerney
19 members
1 review
4
Global Rank 788
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If I Had Two Wings: Stories
by Randall Kenan
75 members
4 reviews
4.2
Global Rank 844
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The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories
by Danielle Evans
714 members
24 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 150
2 Members
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Memorial
by Bryan Washington
807 members
41 reviews
½ 3.6
Global Rank 958
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My Year Abroad
by Chang-Rae Lee
332 members
15 reviews
½ 3.4
Global Rank 1,022
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Understanding Chang-Rae Lee
by Amanda M. Page
5 members
3
Global Rank 1,102
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Time Done Been Won't Be No More
by William Gay
27 members
½ 4.3
Global Rank 1,151
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Foregone
by Russell Banks
136 members
15 reviews
½ 3.4
Global Rank 1,191
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A Children's Bible
by Lydia Millet
878 members
45 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 20
5 Members
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Philip Roth: A Counterlife
by Ira Nadel
15 members
½ 4.3
Global Rank 1,305
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The Night Watchman
by Louise Erdrich
2,017 members
89 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 145
3 Members
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Voyager: Travel Writings
by Russell Banks
64 members
4 reviews
3.2
Global Rank 1,418
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The Last Days of California
by Mary Miller
234 members
19 reviews
½ 3.6
Global Rank 1,459
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First Person Singular: Stories
by Haruki Murakami
921 members
35 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 1,490
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Philip Roth: The Biography
by Blake Bailey
213 members
6 reviews
4.2
Global Rank 1,552
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Telling Stories: The Craft of Narrative and the Writing Life
by Lee Martin
9 members
Global Rank 1,612
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A Tidewater Morning: Three Tales from Youth
by William Styron
616 members
10 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 1,632
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Gone the Hard Road: A Memoir
by Lee Martin
4 members
5
Global Rank 1,702
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Traps
by Lee Martin
2 members
4
Global Rank 1,741
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A Time for Mercy
by John Grisham
1,638 members
50 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 276
2 Members
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The Paperhanger, the Doctor's Wife, and the Child Who Went Into the Abstract
by William Gay
2 members
5
Global Rank 1,836
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The Poet of Tolstoy Park
by Sonny Brewer
194 members
7 reviews
4
Global Rank 1,869
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Fugitives of the Heart
by William Gay
14 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
Global Rank 1,928
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The Mysteries
by Marisa Silver
27 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
Global Rank 1,967
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Ghostly Demarcations: Stories
by Joe Taylor
3 members
3
Global Rank 2,018
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The Souvenir Museum: Stories
by Elizabeth McCracken
197 members
8 reviews
½ 3.6
Global Rank 2,040
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How Beautiful We Were
by Imbolo Mbue
630 members
29 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 2,085
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Wittgenstein's Lolita and The Iceman
by William Gay
39 members
1 review
4.1
Global Rank 2,182
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The Drowning and Other Stories
by Edward J. Delaney
2 members
½ 4.5
Global Rank 2,223
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You Have Arrived at Your Destination
by Amor Towles
325 members
24 reviews
½ 3.3
Global Rank 2,244
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Morningside Heights
by Joshua Henkin
162 members
11 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 2,284
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Whereabouts
by Jhumpa Lahiri
713 members
47 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 2,308
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Rovers
by Richard Lange
32 members
½ 4.5
Global Rank 2,373
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The Alumni Grill: Anthology of Southern Writers
by William Gay
12 members
4
Global Rank 2,413
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The Lincoln Highway
by Amor Towles
3,405 members
172 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 94
4 Members
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Bewilderment: A Novel
by Richard Powers
1,523 members
78 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 2,477
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Late City
by Robert Olen Butler
53 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
Global Rank 2,541
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The Book of Form and Emptiness
by Ruth Ozeki
1,010 members
37 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 586
2 Members
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Crossroads
by Jonathan Franzen
1,363 members
62 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 194
3 Members
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Oh William!
by Elizabeth Strout
1,466 members
101 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 2,628
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Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
by Paul Auster
144 members
4 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 463
2 Members
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I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness
by Claire Vaye Watkins
234 members
11 reviews
3
Global Rank 274
2 Members
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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
1,062 members
31 reviews
½ 4.3
Global Rank 2,737
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Steel
by Kathleen Novak
2 members
1 review
5
Global Rank 2,798
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We Always Had Nixon
by Kathleen Novak
1 member
4
Global Rank 2,834
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The Sentence
by Louise Erdrich
1,903 members
100 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 793
2 Members
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Cloud Cuckoo Land
by Anthony Doerr
3,793 members
173 reviews
4.2
Global Rank 735
2 Members
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Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love
by Haruki Murakami
137 members
9 reviews
½ 3.5
Global Rank 2,928
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Hell of a Book
by Jason Mott
589 members
40 reviews
4
Global Rank 579
2 Members
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The Shop Dogs of Parnassus
by Ann Patchett
2 members
4
Global Rank 3,008
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These Precious Days: Essays
by Ann Patchett
898 members
62 reviews
½ 4.4
Global Rank 590
2 Members
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The Five Wounds
by Kirstin Valdez Quade
437 members
23 reviews
4
Global Rank 3,051
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The World Without You
by Joshua Henkin
340 members
36 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 3,088
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Swimming across the Hudson
by Joshua Henkin
48 members
1 review
3.1
Global Rank 3,131
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My Monticello: Fiction
by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
355 members
16 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 141
3 Members
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The Secret World of Mr. & Mrs. Santa Claus
by K.C. Mckinnon
3 members
½ 4.3
Global Rank 3,192
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Matrimony
by Joshua Henkin
338 members
53 reviews
½ 3.4
Global Rank 3,209
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