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These are the books I read in 2021.
*=Recommended
HERE ARE SOME OF MY FAVORITES FROM 2021
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A Promised
Land Barak Obama
Cary Grant:
A Brilliant Disguise Scott Eyman
*Bread and Wine
Ignazio Silone
The Lying
Life of Adults Elena Ferrante
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48616787-the-lying-life-of-adults
*Mozart
Reign of Love Jan Swafford
Stamped:
Racism, Antiracism, and You Jason Reynolds Abram X, Kendo
Eleanor
(Roosevelt) David Michalis
Memorial
Bryan Washington
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48902303-memorial
Group: How
One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
by
Christie Tate
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50891570-group
V2: A novel
of WW II Robert Harris
The Duke’s Children
Anthony Trollope (Palliser VI)
MORE FAVORITES FROM 2021:
The Order
Daniel Silva
*The Ancient
Hours Michael Bible
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/647236/the-ancient-hours-by-michael-bible/
Catching the
Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour 1932-1976 by Neal Gabler
Trio by
William Boyd
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/24/trio-by-william-boyd-review-superbly-wry-and-wise
Black
Narcissus Rumer Godden
Sergeant Salinger
Jerome Charyn
Ticking
Clock: Behind the Scenes at 60 Minutes Ira Rosen
*Foregone Russell Banks
Wonder Boys
Michael Chabon
Fire Shut Up
in my Bones Charles Blow
*Klara and
the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klara_and_the_Sun
*Landslide
by Susan Conley
http://www.susanconley.com/landslide
*The Truth
at the Heart of the Lie: How the Catholic Church Lost its Soul James Carroll
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/635408/the-truth-at-the-heart-of-the-lie-by-james-carroll/
Elizabeth
and Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor sisters by Andrew Morton
*The Fourth
Child by Jessica Winter
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/09/books/review/the-fourth-child-jessia-winter.html
Everything
was Possible: The Birth of the Musical Follies by Ted Chapin
Singular
Sensation: The Triumph of Broadway Michael Riedel
Concrete
Rose by Angie Thomas
https://angiethomas.com/concrete-rose/
Beautiful
Things by Hunter Biden
Lady Bird
Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight by Julia Sweig
My Heart by
Semezdin Mehemedinovic
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/09/books/review/semezdin-mehmedinovic-my-heart.html
April
Morning by Howard Fast
Lolly
Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolly_Willowes
Razzle
Dazzle: The Battle for Broadway by Michael Riedel
Philip Roth
by Blake Bailey
I Married a
Communist by Philip Roth
Mother
Teresa Behind the Image by Anne Sebba
*As I Am by
Cicely Tyson
Little
Dorritt by Charles Dickens
*Remote
Sympathy by Catherine Chidgery
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53362504-remote-sympathy
Ethel
Rosenberg: An American Tragedy by Anne Sebba
*Counterpoint:
A Memoir of Bach and Mourning by Philip Kennicott
*Morningside
Heights by Joshua Henkin
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48822627-morningside-heights
Silver Girl
by Erin Hildebrand
*Veritas: A
Harvard Professor, A Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife by Ariel Sabar
Antony and Cleopatra
Shakespeare
The Plot by
Jean Hanff Korelitz
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jean-hanff-korelitz/the-plot-korelitz/
Monkey Boy
Francisco Goldman
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55825854-monkey-boy
Prima Donna:
The Psychology of Maria Callas by Paul Wink
Macbeth
Shakespeare
*Rainbow
Milk by Paul Mendez
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55573130-rainbow-milk
The Hour of
the Witch by Chris Bohjalian
https://chrisbohjalian.com/hour-of-the-witch/
While
Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/books/review/while-justice-sleeps-stacey-abrams.html
Mercury
Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy and the New Battleground of the Cold War by
Jeff Shesol
The Ceely
Rose Murders at Malabar Farm by Mark Sebastian Jordan
Winter
Counts by David Heska Wanbi Weiben
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48678117-winter-counts
King
Richard: Nixon and Watergate an American Tragedy by Michael Dobbs
Hamlet
Shakespeare
Project Hail
Mary by Andy Weir
*Home
Stretch by Graham Norton
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55919304-home-stretch
Every Minute
is a Day: A Doctor, an Emergency Room and a City Under Siege by Robert Meyer,
MD and Dan Koeppel
The Plague
Year: America in the Time of Covid by
Laurence Wright
The Master
by Colm Toibin (Henry James)
Sooley by
John Grisham
https://www.jgrisham.com/books/sooley/
The Vixen by
Francine prose (Ethel Rosenberg)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55507033-the-vixen
An American
Marriage: The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln by Michael
Burlingame
***********A
Book of Hours: Music, Literature and Life, A Memoir by Father M. Owen Lee
The Great
Mistake by Jonathan Lee
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55502632-the-great-mistake
The End of
October by Lawrence Wright
*Agatha of
Little Neon by Claire Luchette
https://www.harvard.com/book/agatha_of_little_neon/
*A Farewell
to Gabo and Mercedes by Rodrigo Garcia (Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mercedes
Baracha)
*The
Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108620.The_Beginning_of_Spring
A Keeper by
Graham Norton
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40934989-a-keeper
*Three-Martini
Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton by Gail
Crowder
**Ramadan
Ramsey by Louis Edwards
***We’re Not
Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation by Eric Garcia
*Little
Cruelties by Liz Nugent
https://molib2go.overdrive.com/media/5274546
Putting It
Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created Sunday in the Park with George by
James Lapine
Finding
Freedom: Meghan and Harry and the Making of a Modern Royal Family
Festival
Days (essays) JoAnn Beard
*The Fourth
State of Matter (essay) JoAnn Beard
**The
Magician Colm Toibin (Thomas Mann)
Stolen: A
Memoir Elizabeth Gilpin
The Ninth
Hour Alice McDermott
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33931059-the-ninth-hour
All the
Frequent Troubles of our Days: The True Story of an American Woman at the Heart
of German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner (Mildred Harnack)
Apples Never
Fall by Lianne Moriarty
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56143578-apples-never-fall
Mrs. March
by Virginia Feito
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/10/books/review/mrs-march-virginia-feito.html
*Crossroads
by Jonathan Franzen
https://jonathanfranzen.com/project/crossroads/
American
Estrangement: Stories by Said Sayrafiezadeh
https://www.sayrafiezadeh.com/american-estrangement
*Lying in
Wait by Liz Nugent
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36373425-lying-in-wait
*Matrix by
Lauren Groff
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/06/1031907772/matrix-lauren-groff-book-review
**When We
Cease To understand the World Benjamin Labatut
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/24/books/review/benjamin-labatut-cease-understand-world.html
Lean Fall
Stand by Jon McGregor
*The War for
Gloria by Atticus Lish
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/552619/the-war-for-gloria-by-atticus-lish/
Oh, William
by Elizabeth Strout
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/56294820-oh-william
*Mr.
Beethoven by Paul Griffiths
https://www.nyrb.com/products/mr-beethoven?variant=37889862893736
*Lawn Boy by
Jonathan Evison
The
Tobacconist
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34838346-the-tobacconist
Call the
Midwife by Jennifer Worth
We are the Brennans by Tracey Lange
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55169040-we-are-the-brennans
Peril by Bob
Woodward and Bob Costa
*Lawn Boy by
Jonathan Evison
The Boys by
Ron Howard and Clint Howard
*The Lincoln
Highway by Amor Towles
https://www.amortowles.com/the-lincoln-highway-about-the-book/
FAVORITES:
**The Power
of the Dog by Thomas Savage
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128073.The_Power_of_the_Dog
Arctic
Summer by Damon Galgut (E. M. Forster)
https://books.google.com/books/about/Arctic_Summer.html?id=LRVE0nG9oNkC&source=kp_book_description
Going There
by Katie Couric
Hell of a
Book by Jason Mott
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/670375/hell-of-a-book-by-jason-mott/
*Bewilderment
by Richard Powers
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/21/1039090479/richard-powers-bewilderment-review
Tess of the
D’Urbervilles by Thomas Handy
Never by Ken
Follett (nuclear war thriller)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57747930-never
*Small
Things Like These by Claire Keegan
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58662236-small-things-like-these
Jackie and
Maria by Gill Paul
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/48896281-jackie-and-maria
Both/And by
Huma Abedin
*Harlem Shuffle
by Colson Whitehead
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54626223-harlem-shuffle
Vanderbilt
The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe
Garbo by
Robert Gottlieb
The Final
Case David Guterson
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