january 2021

• the winged histories by sofia samatar ★★★★★
• spinning by tillie walden ★★★.5
• the language of food: a linguist reads the menu by dan jurafsky ★★★
• a city inside by tillie walden ★★★.5
• little fires everywhere by celeste ng ★★★★.5
• crooked kingdom [six of crows #2] by leigh bardugo ★★★★
• i love this part by tillie walden ★★.5
• are you listening? by tillie walden ★★★★
• the list of things that will not change by rebecca stead ★★★★.5
• the end of summer by tillie walden ★.5
• everything i never told you by celeste ng ★★★★★
• check, please! book 1: # hockey by ngozi ukazu ★★★.5
• the three-body problem [remembrance of earth's past #1] by cixin liu (translated by ken liu) ★★★.5
• stargazing by jen wang ★★★★
• picture us in the light by kelly loy gilbert ★★★★

february 2021

• bloom by savanna ganucheau, kevin panetta ★★★
• this is how you lose the time war by max gladstone, amal el-mohtar ★★★★
• in the dream house by carmen maria machado ★★★★★
• excellent sheep: the miseducation of the american elite and the way to a meaningful life by william deresiewicz ★★★.5
• the little prince by antoine de saint-exupéry ★★★★
• averno by louise glück
• friday black by nana kwame adjei-brenyah ★★★★
• check, please! book 2: sticks & scones by ngozi ukazu ★★★.5
• never let me go by kazuo ishiguro ★★★★.5
• on the come up by angie thomas ★★★★.5
• goodbye stranger by rebecca stead ★★★★
• good talk: a memoir in conversations by mira jacob ★★★★★
• cat's cradle by kurt vonnegut ★★
• the handmaid's tale by margaret atwood ★★★★.5
• first light by rebecca stead ★★★.5
• clap when you land by elizabeth acevedo ★★★★★

march 2021

• how we fight for our lives by saeed jones ★★★★
• the fire never goes out: a memoir in pictures by noelle stevenson ★★★
• we are okay by nina lacour ★★★
• atonement by ian mcewan ★★★★★
• bird by bird: some instructions on writing and life by anne lamott ★★★★.5
• i wish you all the best by mason deaver ★★★★.5
• dreyer's english: an utterly correct guide to clarity and style by benjamin dreyer ★★★★★
• the elements of eloquence: how to turn the perfect english phrase by mark forsyth ★★★
• sadie by courtney summers ★★★★★
• heads of the colored people by nafissa thompson-spires ★★★★
• between the world and me by ta-nehisi coates ★★★★.5

april 2021

• george by alex gino ★★★★.5
• skim by jillian tamaki, mariko tamaki ★★★
• heartstopper: volume one by alice oseman ★★★★
• the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor jenkins reid ★★★★.5
• pachinko by min jin lee ★★★★.5

may 2021

• crier's war by nina varela ★★★.5
• interpreter of maladies by jhumpa lahiri ★★★★★
• my lesbian experience with loneliness by kabi nagata ★★★★
• long live the tribe of fatherless girls by t kira madden ★★★★★
• all the rage by courtney summers ★★★★
• radio silence by alice oseman ★★★★.5
• annie on my mind by nancy garden ★★★★★
• last night at the telegraph club by malinda lo ★★★★

june 2021

• crying in h mart by michelle zauner ★★★★
• enter title here by rahul kanakia ★★.5
• my most excellent year by steve kluger ★★★.5
• the namesake by jhumpa lahiri ★★★
• the song of achilles by madeline miller ★★★.5

july 2021

• breasts and eggs by mieko kawakami ★★★★
• the magic fish by trung le nguyen ★★★★.5
• heaven by mieko kawakami ★★★★.5
• craft in the real world: rethinking fiction writing and workshopping ★★★★.5
• one last stop by casey mcquiston ★★★★

august 2021

• educated by tara westover ★★★★
• this one summer by jillian tamaki, mariko tamaki ★★★.5
• how we fall apart by katie zhao ★★★
• tokyo ever after by emiko jean ★★
• the poet x by elizabeth acevedo ★★★★.5

october 2021

• concrete rose by angie thomas ★★★★

november 2021

• seek you: a journey through american loneliness by kristen radke ★★★★★

december 2021

• my body by emily ratajkowski ★★★.5
• laura dean keeps breaking up with me by mariko tamaki, rosemary valero-o'connell ★★★★.5
• almost american girl by robin ha ★★★★