Anticipated 2021 Reads

1

The Other Black Girl

by Zakiya Dalila Harris

1,730 members

74 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: elkiedee, gypsysmom, ahef1963
Explanations: elkiedee: Library loan 30 June 2021, bought 9 August 2021 - Read August 2021

2

Project Hail Mary

by Andy Weir

12,484 members

551 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: Storeetllr, gypsysmom, kara.shamy

3

Libertie

by Kaitlyn Greenidge

917 members

39 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: elkiedee, gypsysmom, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Netgalley - read August 2021

4

The Lincoln Highway

by Amor Towles

4,406 members

204 reviews

4.1

3 Members: elkiedee, gypsysmom, djlib
Explanations: elkiedee: Netgalley - read September/October 2021

5

The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

599 members

13 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Storeetllr, kara.shamy

6

Harlem Shuffle

by Colson Whitehead

3,127 members

126 reviews

3.9

3 Members: elkiedee, gypsysmom, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Read September 2021

7

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

by George Saunders

1,963 members

56 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: elkiedee, Bookerly
Explanations: elkiedee: Bought June 2021

8

Whereabouts

by Jhumpa Lahiri

957 members

55 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: elkiedee, gypsysmom, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Bought August 2021

9

The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us

by Meg Lowman

158 members

3 reviews

4

2 Members: kara.shamy, djlib

10

Summerwater

by Sarah Moss

602 members

45 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Borrowed from Library, read May 2021

11

The Women of Troy

by Pat Barker

1,109 members

21 reviews

4

2 Members: elkiedee, gypsysmom
Explanations: elkiedee: Netgalley - read September 2021, to review

12

Five Tuesdays in Winter

by Lily King

482 members

30 reviews

4

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Read 11-28 February 2023; Library ebook/Netgalley; to review

13

The Final Revival of Opal and Nev

by Dawnie Walton

936 members

43 reviews

3.8

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Netgalley TBR, bought July 2021 - read August 2021

14

Hummingbird Salamander

by Jeff VanderMeer

1,075 members

33 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: gypsysmom, kara.shamy

15

Infinite Country

by Patricia Engel

905 members

37 reviews

3.9

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Library eloan, read September 2021

16

Great Circle

by Maggie Shipstead

2,036 members

84 reviews

4

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Read 6 September - 17 October 2021; Booker longlist

17

Consent

by Annabel Lyon

134 members

8 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: elkiedee, gypsysmom
Explanations: elkiedee: Kindle TBR

18

Heaven

by Mieko Kawakami

1,051 members

36 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

19

Assembly

by Natasha Brown

677 members

39 reviews

3.8

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Netgalley, read July 2021

20

Animal

by Lisa Taddeo

683 members

13 reviews

3.8

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Bought September 2021

21

Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy

by Anne Sebba

230 members

14 reviews

4

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Read February 2022

22

Agatha of Little Neon

by Claire Luchette

235 members

12 reviews

4

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Currently reading from April 2026; paperback

23

Detransition, Baby

by Torrey Peters

1,645 members

57 reviews

3.9

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Netgalley TBR, Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist 2021, Bought August 2021

24

Small Things Like These

by Claire Keegan

4,275 members

234 reviews

4.2

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Read 3 January 2022; library ebook

25

A Passage North

by Anuk Arudpragasam

448 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Kindle TBR, read from 17 January - 28 February 2022, reading group book January 2022

26

Beautiful Country: A Memoir

by Qian Julie Wang

826 members

41 reviews

4.1

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Kindle TBR

27

Black Buck

by Mateo Askaripour

662 members

43 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Netgalley TBR

28

How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House

by Cherie Jones

537 members

19 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Netgalley TBR, Women's Prize Shortlist 2021, bought August 2021

29

Matrix

by Lauren Groff

2,278 members

111 reviews

3.8

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Read January - 4 February 2023

30

How Beautiful We Were

by Imbolo Mbue

831 members

33 reviews

3.9

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Bought June 2021

31

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

by David Graeber

3,410 members

64 reviews

4.2

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Library loan/reservation

32

The Souvenir Museum: Stories

by Elizabeth McCracken

236 members

11 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Read January 2023; Library ebook

33

Outlawed

by Anna North

1,417 members

53 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Bought 2021

34

A Theatre for Dreamers

by Polly Samson

189 members

12 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Kindle TBR - 2022 list

35

The Portrait of a Mirror

by A. Natasha Joukovsky

149 members

3 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

36

Gold Diggers

by Sanjena Sathian

467 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Kindle TBR; bought April 2023

37

Fake Accounts

by Lauren Oyler

426 members

18 reviews

2.8

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Hardback TBR

38

No One Is Talking About This

by Patricia Lockwood

1,641 members

71 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Kindle TBR; Women's Prize shortlist; Bought June 2021

39

Seven Days in June

by Tia Williams

1,585 members

39 reviews

4

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Netgalley TBR, Bought June 2021

40

The Kingdoms

by Natasha Pulley

651 members

34 reviews

3.9

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Bought September 2021

41

The Heron's Cry

by Ann Cleeves

924 members

51 reviews

3.8

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Netgalley, read August 2021, bought 2022

42

Face: One Square Foot of Skin

by Justine Bateman

57 members

14 reviews

2.9

Member: kara.shamy

43

The Inseparables

by Simone de Beauvoir

471 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Kindle TBR; bought May 2023

44

Open Water

by Caleb Azumah Nelson

865 members

19 reviews

3.8

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Kindle TBR, Costa best first novel

45

The Man Who Lived Underground

by Richard Wright

352 members

15 reviews

4.1

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Kindle TBR; bought April 2023

46

The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano

by Donna Freitas

181 members

7 reviews

3.8

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Kindle TBR August 2022

47

Lies We Bury

by Elle Marr

93 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

48

Wayward

by Dana Spiotta

304 members

18 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Netgalley TBR

49

The Promise

by Damon Galgut

1,481 members

76 reviews

4

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Read 2-29 May 2023, Kindle, Library reading group May 2023; Booker Prize 2021

50

Second Place

by Rachel Cusk

759 members

38 reviews

3.8

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Kindle TBR

51

This One Sky Day

by Leone Ross

313 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: KindleTBR

52

Black Coral

by Andrew Mayne

128 members

6 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

53

Things We Lost to the Water

by Eric Nguyen

489 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: gypsysmom

54

Negative Space

by Lilly Dancyger

60 members

1 review

4

Member: kara.shamy

55

Northern Spy

by Flynn Berry

657 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: gypsysmom

56

Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training

by Adam Stern

83 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

57

Yellow Wife

by Sadeqa Johnson

966 members

49 reviews

4.2

Member: gypsysmom

58

Sharpe's Assassin

by Bernard Cornwell

366 members

8 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

59

The Night Always Comes

by Willy Vlautin

276 members

15 reviews

3.8

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Library ebook loan, read September-October 2021

60

Olympus, Texas

by Stacey Swann

347 members

13 reviews

3.8

Member: gypsysmom

61

The Ardent Swarm

by Yamen Manai

337 members

13 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

62

The Fall of Koli

by M. R. Carey

260 members

14 reviews

4.2

Member: gypsysmom

63

Razorblade Tears

by S. A. Cosby

2,542 members

98 reviews

4.1

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Read November 2021; Netgalley; to review

64

The Wrong End of the Telescope

by Rabih Alameddine

245 members

10 reviews

4.2

Member: kara.shamy

65

Of Women and Salt

by Gabriela Garcia

916 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Read November-December 2021; Library ebook

66

They Called Us "Lucky": The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War's Hardest Hit Unit

by Ruben Gallego

38 members

2 reviews

3.1

Member: kara.shamy

67

The Sentence

by Louise Erdrich

2,913 members

132 reviews

4.1

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Netgalley. finished 11.12.21

68

100 Boyfriends

by Brontez Purnell

251 members

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

69

The Stills

by Jess Montgomery

43 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: gypsysmom

70

The Island of Missing Trees

by Elif Shafak

1,933 members

77 reviews

4

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Netgalley - read 2021

71

African Europeans: An Untold History

by Olivette Otele

269 members

3 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: kara.shamy

72

Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

by Rafia Zakaria

303 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

73

These Precious Days

by Ann Patchett

1,263 members

75 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Read January 2022; Library ebook

74

Orwell's Roses

by Rebecca Solnit

600 members

18 reviews

4.1

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Netgalley TBR, Library loan, read February-April 2022

75

Almost Innocent: From Searching to Saved in America's Criminal Justice System

by Shanti Brien

2 members

Member: kara.shamy

76

That Old Country Music

by Kevin Barry

180 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Read 25 January - 15 February 2022

77

Among the Beautiful Beasts

by Lori McMullen

14 members

3 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

78

The Transcendentalists and Their World

by Robert A. Gross

147 members

2 reviews

4.2

Member: kara.shamy

79

All's Well

by Mona Awad

935 members

24 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Read April 2022; Netgalley

80

Zorrie

by Laird Hunt

411 members

31 reviews

3.9

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Netgalley TBR - read July 2022

81

Appleseed

by Matt Bell

360 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

82

In the Country of Others

by Leïla Slimani

553 members

18 reviews

3.8

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Read January 2023 - Library ebook

83

The Arsonists' City

by Hala Alyan

247 members

11 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

84

The Art of Losing

by Alice Zeniter

339 members

15 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

85

The Atmospherians

by Alex McElroy

158 members

10 reviews

3

Member: kara.shamy

86

Baby Out of Wedlock: Co-Parenting Basics from Pregnancy to Custody

by Jim and Jessica Braz

3 members

Member: kara.shamy

87

The Begonia Killer

by Jeff Bond

2 members

Member: kara.shamy

88

Voices in the Evening

by Natalia Ginzburg

326 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Bought April 2020

89

Bending the Arc: My Journey from Prison to Politics

by Keeda J. Haynes

14 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

90

The Mission House

by Carys Davies

146 members

11 reviews

3.9

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Bought April 2021

91

The Blizzard Party

by Jack Livings

56 members

1 review

½ 2.3

Member: kara.shamy

92

Crying in H Mart: A Memoir

by Michelle Zauner

4,703 members

152 reviews

4

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Netgalley/Kindle TBR December 2021

93

Body of Stars

by Laura Maylene Walter

102 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

94

Build Your House Around My Body

by Violet Kupersmith

474 members

13 reviews

4

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Netgalley/Kindle TBR

95

The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with recipes)

by Kate Lebo

164 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

96

A Calling for Charlie Barnes

by Joshua Ferris

217 members

12 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

97

We Run the Tides

by Vendela Vida

355 members

25 reviews

3.8

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Kindle TBR May 2021

98

Cathedral

by Ben Hopkins

207 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

99

Caul Baby

by Morgan Jerkins

240 members

9 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

100

The Slaughterman's Daughter

by Yaniv Iczkovits

173 members

7 reviews

4

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Netgalley TBR

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