GerrysBookshelf Could Use a Few More Books in 2021

Hi, I'm Gerry and this is year 7 with the 75 books group.
I usually follow the Non Fiction Challenge and the Reading Through Time Challenge as well as keeping track of my Global Reading.
In addition, this year I plan on doing a personal Shakespeare challenge.

Nonfiction Challenge

January: Prize Nominees/Winners
Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser

February: Minority Lives Matter
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama

March: Comfort Reading
Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Iconic Poet by Marta McDowell
Earth’s Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World by Kathleen Dean Moore

April: The Ancient World
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland

May: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
The Hidden World of the Fox by Adele Brand
Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer

June: Discoveries
The Day We Found the Universe by Marcia Bartusiak
The Double Helix by James D. Watson

July: Cities
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz

August: Transportation
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough

September: Creativity
Hawthorne: A Life by Brenda Wineapple

October: Heroes and Villains
American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans by Eve LaPlante

November: Business, the Economy and Big Policy
December: Go Anywhere!
Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium by Helen Humphreys

Global Reading

Dominica: The Orchid House by Phyllis Shand Allfrey
Egypt: A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology by Toby Wilkinson
Martinique: School Days by Patrick Chamoiseau
South Africa: The Syringa Tree by Pamela Gien
Japan: Some Prefer Nettles by Junichiro Tanizaki
Norway: Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
Burma (Myanmar): The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
Poland: The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
Germany: Daughter of the Reich by Louise Fein
India: A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
Japan: Silence by Shusaku Endo
Spain Nada by Carmen Laforet
Germany: The Dancing Bear: Berlin de Profundis by Frances Faviell
Norway: Babette’s Feast by Isak Dinesen
Poland: The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman by Andrzej Szczypiorski
South Africa: Youth by J. M. Coetzee
France: The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
China: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Congo: Memoirs of a Porcupine by Alain Mabanckou
Nigeria: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Sweden: An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed by Helene Tursten

Reading Through Time

Quarterly

January-March 2021 – Renaissance/16th Century
Brunelleschi's Dome by Ross King

April-June 2021 – 17th Century
Nathaniel’s Nutmeg by Giles Milton

July-September 2021 – 18th Century
The Rebellion of Jane Clarke by Sally Gunning
Pamela by Samuel Richardson
Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding
1774: The Long Year of Revolution by Mary Beth Norton

October-December 2021 – Napoleonic Era
Mary Anne by Daphne du Maurier

Monthly

January: Shakespeare’s Children
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
Dunbar by Edward St. Aubyn

February: Fashion
Fashion Victims by Alison Matthews David
Fashion in the Time of William Shakespeare by Sarah Jane Downing

March: Arghh, Matey
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists and In an Adventure with Ahab by Gideon Defoe

April: The Sun Never Sets
The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster

May: Meet the Press
Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist by Brooke Kroeger

June: Rewriting the Past
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

July: Now We Are Free
1774: The Long Year of Revolution by Mary Beth Norton

August: Food
Babette’s Feast by Isak Dinesen
The Food Explorer by Daniel Stone

September: Time Travel – Prehistory
The Gift of Stones by Jim Crace

October: Supernatural
High Spirits by Robertson Davies
Murther & Walking Spirits by Robertson Davies
Cold Earth by Sarah Moss

November: Reader’s Choice
Matrix by Lauren Groff

December: Brrrr Cold!
The Children’s Blizzard by David Laskin

Shakespeare Challenge

Plays
King Lear
The Tempest
Othello
Hamlet

Modern versions
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (King Lear)
Dunbar by Edward St. Aubyn (King Lear)
Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood (The Tempest)
I, Iago by Nicole Galland (Othello)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard (Hamlet)

Other
Fashion in the Time of William Shakespeare by Sarah Jane Downing
Shakespeare: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
A Visitor’s Guide to Shakespeare’s London by David Thomas
A Shakespearean Botanical by Margaret Willes
Tempest-Tost by Robertson Davies

January

1. A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
2. Queen Lucia by E. F. Benson
3. Dunbar by Edward St. Aubyn
4. The Orchid House by Phyllis Shand Allfrey
5. Gone to Earth by Mary Webb
6. Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser
7. The Sleeping Beauty by Elizabeth Taylor
8. Brunelleschi's Dome by Ross King
9. The Care and Management of Lies by Jacqueline Winspear
10. Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding by Daniel Lieberman
11. View With a Grain of Sand by Wislawa Szymborska
12. Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present by Alison Matthews David

February

13. A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology by Toby Wilkinson
14. School Days by Patrick Chamoiseau
15. Dear Miss Kopp by Amy Stewart
16. Shakespeare: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
17. The Syringa Tree by Pamela Gien
18. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
19. Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
20. Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy by Rumer Godden
21. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
22. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
23. Black Narcissus by Rumer Godden
24. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

March

25. The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists and In an Adventure with Ahab by Gideon Defoe
26. Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Iconic Poet by Marta McDowell
27. The Coral Thief by Rebecca Stott
28. Breakfast with the Nikolides by Rumer Godden
29. The River by Rumer Godden
30. Earth’s Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World by Kathleen Dean Moore
31. Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright
32. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert
33. Some Prefer Nettles by Junichiro Tanizaki
34. The Doctors Blackwell by Janice P. Nimura
35. Long Life: Essays and Other Writings by Mary Oliver
36. The Life of Emily Dickinson by Richard B. Sewall

April

37. Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
38. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
39. The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
40. The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
41. The American Agent by Jacqueline Winspear
42. The Last Garden in England by Julia Kelly
43. Daughter of the Reich by Louise Fein
44. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
45. Silence by Shusaku Endo
46. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
47. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
48. Nathaniel’s Nutmeg by Giles Milton
49. Revery: A Year of Bees by Jenna Butler
50. Fortune’s Many Houses by Simon Welfare
51. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
52. Bee People and the Bugs They Love by Frank Mortimer

May

53. The Kitchen Front by Jennifer Ryan
54. Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist by Brooke Kroeger
55. Nada by Carmen Laforet
56. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
57. The Consequences of Fear by Jacqueline Winspear
58. The Bookshop of Second Chances by Jackie Fraser
59. The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
60. The Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin
61. Buzz Words: Poems About Insects by Kimiko Hahn
62. The Hidden World of the Fox by Adele Brand
63. Death Bee Comes Her by Nancy Coco
64. I, Iago by Nicole Galland
65. Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer

June

66. A Matter of Hive and Death by Nancy Coco
67. A Visitor’s Guide to Shakespeare’s London by David Thomas
68. Where Nests the Water Hen by Gabrielle Roy
69. Miss Carter and the Ifrit by Susan Alice Kerby
70. The Day We Found the Universe by Marcia Bartusiak
71. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
72. The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton
73. Islands of Abandonment : Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn
74. Mr. Flood’s Last Resort by Jess Kidd
75. Miss Plum and Miss Penny by Dorothy Evelyn Smith
76. The Double Helix by James D. Watson
77. A Visit From the Goon Squad Squad by Jennifer Egan
78. Miss Mole by E.H. Young
79. Beloved by Toni Morrison

July

80. Fanfare for Tin Trumpets by Margery Sharp
81. The Rebellion of Jane Clarke by Sally Gunning
82. The Stone of Chastity by Margery Sharp
83. Pamela by Samuel Richardson
84. Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding
85. 1774: The Long Year of Revolution by Mary Beth Norton
86. Henry by Elizabeth Eliot
87. The Dancing Bear: Berlin de Profundis by Frances Faviell
88. I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven
89. Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz
90. Every Thing That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O’Connor
91. Poems of Healing by Karl Kirchwey
92. A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson
93. A House in the Country by Ruth Adam
94. Babette’s Feast by Isak Dinesen

August

95. The Cider Shop Rules by Julie Anne Lindsey
96. In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming
97. Horoscopes for the Dead by Billy Collins
98. The Food Explorer by Daniel Stone
99. Homicide in Hardcover by Kate Carlisle
100. If Books Could Kill by Kate Carlisle
101. The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
102. All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
103. Table Two by Marjorie Wilenski
104. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
105. The Conjurer's Bird by Martin Davies
106. The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman by Andrzej Szczypiorski
107. Youth by J. M. Coetzee

September

108. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
109. Apples of Uncommon Character: Heirlooms, Modern Classics, and Little-Known Wonders by Rowan Jacobsen
110. The Gift of Stones by Jim Crace
111. Hawthorne: A Life by Brenda Wineapple
112. A Tale of Two Kitties by Sofie Kelly
113. Twice-told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
114. A Shakespearean Botanical by Margaret Willes
115. The Afternoon Tea Club by Jane Gilley
116. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
117. Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

October

118. High Spirits by Robertson Davies
119. Murther & Walking Spirits by Robertson Davies
120. The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman
121. American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans by Eve LaPlante
122. Tempest-Tost by Robertson Davies
123. Mary Anne by Daphne du Maurier
124. Cold Earth by Sarah Moss
125. Memoirs of a Porcupine by Alain Mabanckou
126. Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit by Lyanda Lynn Haupt

November

127. Matrix by Lauren Groff
128. Fight Night by Miriam Toews
129. Leaven of Malice by Robertson Davies
130. Bewilderment by Richard Powers
131. The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
132. A Mixture of Frailties by Robertson Davies
133. The Cats Came Back by Sofie Kelly
134. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
135. An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed by Helene Tursten
136. The Sea by John Banville
137. A Night’s Tail by Sofie Kelly

December

138. A Case of Cat and Mouse by Sofie Kelly
139. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
140. Hetty Dorval by Ethel Wilson
141. The Children’s Blizzard by David Laskin
142. The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
143. Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium by Helen Humphreys
144. Loch Down Abbey by Beth Cowan-Erskine
145. Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O’Nan
146. Crimson Snow: Winter Mysteries by Martin Edwards
147. The Santa Klaus Murder by Mavis Doriel Hay
148. Love and Salt Water by Ethel Wilson
149. Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper by Harriet Scott Chessman
150. The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin
151. Medieval Women by Eileen Power

Favorite Books in 2021

Fiction
Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy by Rumer Godden
The Last Garden in England by Julia Kelly
The Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin
Where Nests the Water Hen by Gabrielle Roy
I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Bewilderment by Richard Powers

Non-Fiction
Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding by Daniel Lieberman
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert
The Doctors Blackwell by Janice P. Nimura
The Life of Emily Dickinson by Richard B. Sewall
The Day We Found the Universe by Marcia Bartusiak
Islands of Abandonment : Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn
Apples of Uncommon Character: Heirlooms, Modern Classics, and Little-Known Wonders by Rowan Jacobsen
Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit by Lyanda Lynn Haupt

Welcome back!

Nice to see you back Gerry. Lovely illustrations for your monthly reading.

Love the cat and the other illustrations. Enjoy your reading!

Best wishes for a better 2021!

Happy reading in 2021, Gerry!

And keep up with my friends here, Gerry. Have a great 2021.

Lovely monthly illustrations. Happy 2021.