I didn’t get through as many novels in 2021 as I did in 2020 (33 novels this year vs. 54 last year). I got distracted by pop-culture gossip on YouTube starting in February after Disney fired Gina Carano, the actress who played Cara Dune in The Mandalorian. I also spent more time listening to podcasts. In fact, I had five Audible credits remaining before they disappeared from my account at the end of my 12-month billing period. For some reason I forgot the credits would expire and didn’t pay attention to when my billing period would end. Anyway, here are all the books I read in 2021. My favorites are listed at the end.

January
The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis
The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis
Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney


February
The House by Danielle Steel
Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson
The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
American Appetites by Joyce Carol Oates
March
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth

April
Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini
Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews
May
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
June
Lock In by John Scalzi
The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
Doing Time by Jodi Taylor
The Little Shop of Found Things by Paula Brackston
July
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
In the Woods by Tana French
August
The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa

September
Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig
Palace of Treason by Jason Matthews

October
How to Survive Everything by Ewan Morrison
Billy Summers by Stephen King
November
The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
Dune by Frank Herbert. I read this book three times: 1st when I was a teenager; the 2nd last year before the movie came out, and a 3rd time after watching the movie.
December
The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend
The Circus of Stolen Dreams by Lorelei Savaryn
My Favorites of 2021
The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis
Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney
Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews
Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig
Billy Summers by Stephen King