Anticipated 2021 Reads

1

The Other Black Girl

by Zakiya Dalila Harris

1,276 members

66 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

6,115 members

348 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: Storeetllr, gypsysmom, kara.shamy

3

Libertie

by Kaitlyn Greenidge

681 members

34 reviews

½ 3.5

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

4

The Lincoln Highway

by Amor Towles

3,426 members

172 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

414 members

9 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Storeetllr, kara.shamy

6

Harlem Shuffle

by Colson Whitehead

2,206 members

104 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

1,263 members

38 reviews

½ 4.4

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

8

Whereabouts

by Jhumpa Lahiri

719 members

48 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

113 members

3 reviews

4.1

2 Members: kara.shamy, djlib

10

Summerwater

by Sarah Moss

506 members

41 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

738 members

15 reviews

4

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

12

Five Tuesdays in Winter

by Lily King

349 members

23 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

683 members

29 reviews

3.8

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

14

Hummingbird Salamander

by Jeff VanderMeer

733 members

29 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: gypsysmom, kara.shamy

15

Infinite Country

by Patricia Engel

663 members

34 reviews

3.8

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

16

Great Circle

by Maggie Shipstead

1,383 members

68 reviews

4

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

17

Consent

by Annabel Lyon

114 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

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

18

Heaven

by Mieko Kawakami

577 members

27 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

19

Assembly

by Natasha Brown

439 members

25 reviews

3.8

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

20

Animal: A Novel

by Lisa Taddeo

421 members

8 reviews

3.8

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

21

Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy

by Anne Sebba

165 members

11 reviews

3.9

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

22

Detransition, Baby

by Torrey Peters

1,121 members

44 reviews

3.9

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

1,972 members

136 reviews

4.2

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

24

A Passage North

by Anuk Arudpragasam

327 members

8 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

25

Beautiful Country: A Memoir

by Qian Julie Wang

595 members

36 reviews

4

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

26

Black Buck

by Mateo Askaripour

510 members

40 reviews

½ 3.5

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

27

How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House

by Cherie Jones

369 members

15 reviews

½ 3.5

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

28

Matrix

by Lauren Groff

1,668 members

91 reviews

3.9

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

29

How Beautiful We Were

by Imbolo Mbue

647 members

29 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

2,159 members

44 reviews

4.2

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

31

The Souvenir Museum: Stories

by Elizabeth McCracken

197 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

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

32

Outlawed

by Anna North

1,000 members

42 reviews

½ 3.6

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

33

A Theatre for Dreamers

by Polly Samson

133 members

7 reviews

½ 3.4

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

34

The Portrait of a Mirror

by A. Natasha Joukovsky

109 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

35

Gold Diggers

by Sanjena Sathian

367 members

10 reviews

½ 3.5

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

36

Fake Accounts

by Lauren Oyler

316 members

15 reviews

2.9

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

37

No One Is Talking About This

by Patricia Lockwood

1,144 members

60 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

885 members

27 reviews

3.9

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

39

The Kingdoms

by Natasha Pulley

480 members

24 reviews

3.8

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

40

The Heron's Cry

by Ann Cleeves

682 members

40 reviews

3.8

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

41

Face: One Square Foot of Skin

by Justine Bateman

44 members

12 reviews

2.9

Member: kara.shamy

42

The Inseparables

by Simone de Beauvoir

293 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

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

43

Open Water

by Caleb Azumah Nelson

490 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

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

44

The Man Who Lived Underground

by Richard Wright

261 members

13 reviews

4.1

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

45

The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano

by Donna Freitas

110 members

6 reviews

½ 3.6

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

46

Lies We Bury

by Elle Marr

71 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

47

Wayward

by Dana Spiotta

241 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

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

48

The Promise

by Damon Galgut

1,100 members

59 reviews

4

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

49

Second Place

by Rachel Cusk

516 members

33 reviews

3.9

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

50

This One Sky Day

by Leone Ross

233 members

6 reviews

3.9

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

51

Black Coral

by Andrew Mayne

96 members

5 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

52

Things We Lost to the Water

by Eric Nguyen

332 members

10 reviews

3.8

Member: gypsysmom

53

Negative Space

by Lilly Dancyger

44 members

1 review

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

54

Northern Spy

by Flynn Berry

437 members

18 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: gypsysmom

55

Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training

by Adam Stern

58 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: kara.shamy

56

Yellow Wife

by Sadeqa Johnson

629 members

35 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: gypsysmom

57

Sharpe's Assassin

by Bernard Cornwell

247 members

7 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

58

The Night Always Comes

by Willy Vlautin

207 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

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

59

The Ardent Swarm

by Yamen Manai

261 members

12 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

60

Olympus, Texas

by Stacey Swann

228 members

10 reviews

3.8

Member: gypsysmom

61

The Fall of Koli

by M. R. Carey

182 members

11 reviews

4.2

Member: gypsysmom

62

Razorblade Tears

by S.A. Cosby

1,457 members

76 reviews

4.1

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

63

The Wrong End of the Telescope

by Rabih Alameddine

166 members

8 reviews

4.2

Member: kara.shamy

64

Of Women and Salt

by Gabriela Garcia

655 members

20 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

30 members

3 reviews

3.1

Member: kara.shamy

66

The Sentence

by Louise Erdrich

1,916 members

101 reviews

4.1

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Netgalley. finished 11.12.21

67

100 Boyfriends

by Brontez Purnell

180 members

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

68

The Stills

by Jess Montgomery

30 members

3 reviews

3.9

Member: gypsysmom

69

The Island of Missing Trees

by Elif Shafak

1,125 members

53 reviews

4

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Netgalley - read 2021

70

African Europeans: An Untold History

by Olivette Otele

199 members

4 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: kara.shamy

71

Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

by Rafia Zakaria

191 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

72

These Precious Days: Essays

by Ann Patchett

902 members

62 reviews

½ 4.4

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

73

Agatha of Little Neon

by Claire Luchette

164 members

7 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

74

Orwell's Roses

by Rebecca Solnit

410 members

13 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

126 members

9 reviews

3.8

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

77

Among the Beautiful Beasts

by Lori McMullen

7 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

78

The Transcendentalists and Their World

by Robert A. Gross

99 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: kara.shamy

79

All's Well

by Mona Awad

560 members

23 reviews

½ 3.6

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

80

Zorrie

by Laird Hunt

305 members

26 reviews

3.9

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

81

Appleseed

by Matt Bell

270 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

82

The Country of Others

by Leïla Slimani

391 members

15 reviews

3.8

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

83

The Arsonists' City

by Hala Alyan

177 members

11 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

84

The Art of Losing: A Novel

by Alice Zeniter

248 members

14 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

85

The Atmospherians

by Alex McElroy

120 members

9 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

244 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Bought April 2020

89

Bending the Arc: My Journey from Prison to Politics

by Keeda J. Haynes

12 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

90

The Mission House

by Carys Davies

105 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Bought April 2021

91

The Blizzard Party

by Jack Livings

42 members

1 review

½ 2.3

Member: kara.shamy

92

Crying in H Mart: A Memoir

by Michelle Zauner

2,671 members

97 reviews

4

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

93

Body of Stars

by Laura Maylene Walter

78 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

94

Build Your House Around My Body

by Violet Kupersmith

345 members

12 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

114 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

96

A Calling for Charlie Barnes

by Joshua Ferris

179 members

10 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

97

We Run the Tides

by Vendela Vida

281 members

21 reviews

3.9

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Kindle TBR May 2021

98

Cathedral

by Ben Hopkins

163 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

99

Caul Baby

by Morgan Jerkins

176 members

8 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

100

The Slaughterman's Daughter

by Yaniv Iczkovits

131 members

4 reviews

4.1

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Netgalley TBR

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