Anticipated 2021 Reads

1

The Other Black Girl

by Zakiya Dalila Harris

977 members

51 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

4,308 members

262 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: Storeetllr, gypsysmom, kara.shamy

3

Libertie

by Kaitlyn Greenidge

555 members

33 reviews

½ 3.6

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

4

The Lincoln Highway

by Amor Towles

2,600 members

136 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

326 members

9 reviews

4

2 Members: Storeetllr, kara.shamy

6

Harlem Shuffle

by Colson Whitehead

1,644 members

85 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

971 members

28 reviews

½ 4.5

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

8

Whereabouts

by Jhumpa Lahiri

573 members

43 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

82 members

1 review

4.1

2 Members: kara.shamy, djlib

10

Summerwater

by Sarah Moss

420 members

33 reviews

3.8

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

11

The Women of Troy

by Pat Barker

536 members

13 reviews

4

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

12

Five Tuesdays in Winter

by Lily King

266 members

21 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 & Nev

by Dawnie Walton

553 members

23 reviews

3.8

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

14

Hummingbird Salamander

by Jeff VanderMeer

590 members

26 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: gypsysmom, kara.shamy

15

Infinite Country

by Patricia Engel

548 members

30 reviews

3.9

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

16

Great Circle

by Maggie Shipstead

1,125 members

55 reviews

4

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

17

Consent

by Annabel Lyon

98 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

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

18

Heaven

by Mieko Kawakami

364 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

19

Assembly

by Natasha Brown

324 members

19 reviews

3.9

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

20

Animal

by Lisa Taddeo

279 members

6 reviews

3.9

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

21

Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy

by Anne Sebba

137 members

11 reviews

4

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

22

Detransition, Baby

by Torrey Peters

840 members

33 reviews

4

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

23

Small Things Like These

by Claire Keegan

1,174 members

79 reviews

4.2

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

24

A Passage North

by Anuk Arudpragasam

270 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Kindle TBR, current read from January 2022, reading group book January 2022

25

Beautiful Country: A Memoir

by Qian Julie Wang

435 members

30 reviews

4.1

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

26

Black Buck

by Mateo Askaripour

443 members

35 reviews

½ 3.6

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

27

How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House

by Cherie Jones

314 members

13 reviews

½ 3.6

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

28

Matrix

by Lauren Groff

1,253 members

70 reviews

3.9

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

29

How Beautiful We Were

by Imbolo Mbue

506 members

26 reviews

3.8

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

30

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

by David Graeber

1,499 members

36 reviews

4.2

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

31

The Souvenir Museum: Stories

by Elizabeth McCracken

175 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

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

32

Outlawed

by Anna North

774 members

36 reviews

½ 3.6

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

33

A Theatre for Dreamers

by Polly Samson

123 members

7 reviews

½ 3.3

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

34

The Portrait of a Mirror

by A. Natasha Joukovsky

66 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

35

Gold Diggers

by Sanjena Sathian

324 members

10 reviews

½ 3.5

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

36

Fake Accounts

by Lauren Oyler

270 members

11 reviews

3

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Library ebook TBR

37

No One Is Talking About This

by Patricia Lockwood

911 members

46 reviews

½ 3.5

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

38

Seven Days in June

by Tia Williams

565 members

21 reviews

3.9

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

39

The Kingdoms

by Natasha Pulley

374 members

24 reviews

3.9

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

40

The Heron's Cry

by Ann Cleeves

505 members

37 reviews

3.9

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

41

Face: One Square Foot of Skin

by Justine Bateman

32 members

12 reviews

2.8

Member: kara.shamy

42

The Inseparables

by Simone de Beauvoir

218 members

6 reviews

3.8

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

43

Open Water

by Caleb Azumah Nelson

320 members

9 reviews

3.9

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

44

The Man Who Lived Underground

by Richard Wright

205 members

11 reviews

4.2

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

45

The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano

by Donna Freitas

92 members

6 reviews

½ 3.6

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

46

Lies We Bury

by Elle Marr

60 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

47

Wayward

by Dana Spiotta

207 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

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

48

The Promise

by Damon Galgut

863 members

45 reviews

4

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy
Explanations: elkiedee: Current reading from 2 May 2023, Kindle TBR, Library reading group May 2023; Booker Prize 2021

49

Second Place

by Rachel Cusk

400 members

24 reviews

3.9

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

50

This One Sky Day

by Leone Ross

182 members

5 reviews

4

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

51

Black Coral

by Andrew Mayne

79 members

4 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

52

Things We Lost to the Water

by Eric Nguyen

262 members

9 reviews

3.8

Member: gypsysmom

53

Negative Space

by Lilly Dancyger

35 members

1 review

4

Member: kara.shamy

54

Northern Spy

by Flynn Berry

318 members

15 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: gypsysmom

55

Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training

by Adam Stern

48 members

½ 3.5

Member: kara.shamy

56

Yellow Wife

by Sadeqa Johnson

457 members

32 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: gypsysmom

57

Sharpe's Assassin

by Bernard Cornwell

184 members

5 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

58

The Night Always Comes

by Willy Vlautin

170 members

10 reviews

½ 3.6

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

59

The Ardent Swarm

by Yamen Manai

220 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

60

Olympus, Texas

by Stacey Swann

184 members

9 reviews

3.8

Member: gypsysmom

61

The Fall of Koli

by M. R. Carey

142 members

10 reviews

4.2

Member: gypsysmom

62

Razorblade Tears

by S.A. Cosby

1,052 members

55 reviews

4.1

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

63

The Wrong End of the Telescope

by Rabih Alameddine

132 members

6 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

64

Of Women and Salt

by Gabriela Garcia

540 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

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

65

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

by Ruben Gallego

26 members

2 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: kara.shamy

66

The Sentence

by Louise Erdrich

1,433 members

76 reviews

4.1

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Netgalley. finished 11.12.21

67

100 Boyfriends

by Brontez Purnell

132 members

½ 3.3

Member: kara.shamy

68

The Stills

by Jess Montgomery

26 members

3 reviews

4

Member: gypsysmom

69

The Island of Missing Trees

by Elif Shafak

744 members

42 reviews

4

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Netgalley - read 2021

70

African Europeans: An Untold History

by Olivette Otele

141 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kara.shamy

71

Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

by Rafia Zakaria

131 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

72

These Precious Days: Essays

by Ann Patchett

674 members

49 reviews

½ 4.4

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

73

Agatha of Little Neon

by Claire Luchette

129 members

5 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

74

Orwell's Roses

by Rebecca Solnit

324 members

8 reviews

4.1

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

75

Agent Sniper: The Cold War Super Agent and the Ruthless Head of the CIA

by Tim Tate

6 members

4

Member: kara.shamy

76

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

by Shanti Brien

2 members

Member: kara.shamy

77

That Old Country Music

by Kevin Barry

96 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

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

78

Among the Beautiful Beasts

by Lori McMullen

5 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

79

Analysis of Elementary Functions

by Robert A. Gross

79 members

1 review

½ 4.7

Member: kara.shamy

80

All's Well

by Mona Awad

362 members

16 reviews

½ 3.6

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

81

Zorrie

by Laird Hunt

221 members

21 reviews

4

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

82

Appleseed

by Matt Bell

210 members

7 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

83

The Country of Others

by Leïla Slimani

269 members

10 reviews

3.9

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

84

The Arsonists' City

by Hala Alyan

143 members

11 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

85

The Art of Losing

by Alice Zeniter

220 members

14 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

86

The Atmospherians

by Alex McElroy

101 members

9 reviews

3

Member: kara.shamy

87

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

by Jim and Jessica Braz

3 members

Member: kara.shamy

88

The Begonia Killer

by Jeff Bond

2 members

Member: kara.shamy

89

Voices in the Evening

by Natalia Ginzburg

205 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Bought April 2020

90

Bending the Arc: My Journey from Prison to Politics

by Keeda J. Haynes

10 members

2 reviews

5

Member: kara.shamy

91

The Mission House

by Carys Davies

92 members

9 reviews

3.8

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Bought April 2021

92

The Blizzard Party

by Jack Livings

40 members

1 review

½ 2.3

Member: kara.shamy

93

Crying in H Mart: A Memoir

by Michelle Zauner

1,747 members

71 reviews

4

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

94

Body of Stars

by Laura Maylene Walter

71 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

95

Build Your House Around My Body

by Violet Kupersmith

258 members

8 reviews

4

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Netgalley/Kindle TBR

96

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

by Kate Lebo

91 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

97

A Calling for Charlie Barnes

by Joshua Ferris

155 members

8 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

98

We Run the Tides

by Vendela Vida

249 members

21 reviews

3.9

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Kindle TBR May 2021

99

Cathedral

by Ben Hopkins

154 members

6 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

100

Caul Baby

by Morgan Jerkins

147 members

8 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

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